Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — FROM WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON

The indications are that the proposed reduction of the tax on cigars may be allowed. The President is very anxious for Congress to suppress polygamy this session. The bill to prevent Chineses immigration will meet vigorous opposition, and is not likely to pass. South Dakota is likely to be admitted, and a new Territory formed north. The House Committee on the Census has virtually agreed to increase the number ot representatives from the State of Illinois from twenty to twen-ty.-one, wnich will make the total number of representatives 320 instead of 319, as proposed by the McCord bill. There is little prospect of Burbridge getting an important mission. Kentucky has little claim on the administration.

Secretary Folger is to busy with applicants for office that he couldn’t attend the Cabinet meeting yesterday. The apportionment bill has been amended by the committee, giving Illinois two new members. The bill introduced in the House by Mr. Smith, of the Bloomington district, requiring the Surgeon General to furnish pure vaccine virus to the public at cost, has also been introduced in the Senate by General Logan. It is said that Captain Eads will obtain British aid for his ship railway if refused by Congress. He has assurance that the money can be raised in England in sixty days. It is said at the Postoffice Department to-day that the nomination of George Bryant, to be Postmaster at Madison, Wis., has been determined upon.

The indications are that the new Apportionment bill will become a law. The Mormons propose to show the private record of some of the Congressmen, if the question of polygamy is pushed. They have detectives working on the personal record of the members who are, the loudest against polygamy, and claim that they have become possessed of most damaging facts. John Boach, by sending to France for four steamers for the proposed Brazil line, seems confident of Government aid. The, anti-Camerons, of Pennsylvania. say that Butler’s gubernatorial candidacy trick will hold the counties for Beaver. The Pennsylvania Legislature will probable redistrict the State soon, on the basis of one additional member. It is safer for the present Legislature to act than to take the chance of the next being Bepublican.