Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1882 — FROM WASHINGTON [ARTICLE]

FROM WASHINGTON

Guiteau is to be allowed hereafter to see no one but his relatives and the guard, who is to be with him constantly. His meals are to be prepared under the closest official scrutiny and every precaution is to be taken to prevent his “removal” of himself. Secretary Hunt received the following cable dispatch from James Gerdau Bennett, at Paris, this morning: “Your dispatch reoeived. Since you have decided Jo send officers I defer to your judgment. Will you kindly let me know their names, whether junior or senior to Danenhour in rank, by what steamer they sailed, and when they will arrive in Paris, as I may.be ot service in forwarding them to their destination? The steamer Lena, which by SibenakofTs kindness has been tendered me, is, of course, at' their disposal. My correspondent,'who is almost at Irkutsk, will know that the expedition is to be in charge of officers .of the United States navy, and will go simply as a Herald correspondent.” Secretary Hunt also received the following cable dispatches from Acting Minister Hoff than at St. Petersburg this morning: “Dauenhouer acknowledges orders. Will proceed*” The latter is in reply to the dispatch, ordering Dauenhouer to proceed home with the invalids. 1 The House Committee on Publio Buildings and Grounds, authorized favorable reports to be made on the pending bill providing for the construor tion of public buildings as follows: Denver, Col., $200,000, reduced from $300,000, and Peoria, 111., $226,000, reduced from $400,000. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Col. Daniel H. Rucker, Assistant Quartermaster General, to be Quartermaster General, vice General Meigs retired; Maj. William B. ’ Rochester, Pay- > master, vice General Brown retired. Brevt. Maj.-Gen. Meigs, (Quartermaster General, >*and Brig.-Geu. Latnam W. Brown, Paymaster Geueral, wili be placed upon the retired list to-day* ; •. ~ < f- i In the Senate Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported favorably, with amendments, the bill granting the right of way over public lands in Alabama, and to grant lands in aid of the Gulf and Chicago Air Line Railway Company. « Bills were introduced: By Mr. Garlahd-r-Authorizing the erection of public buildings at the Hot Springs, Ark., for the use of the United States. By Mr. Hawley—For the retirement of Brevt-Maj-Geu.:.. Meigs, with the rank and pay of Msjor General. Mr Williams, to whom the floor* was specially assigned, then proceeded to make a speech oh tariff, the Morrill tariff commission bill being taken Up for this purpose. He avowed fils oppositionto the meihire, and favored 1 tariff revision by a '/bint com’mftfee of the two houses./ „ , . ’ , < . In.tfr^£byfiq^Mr.. I B*lmopt offered si resolution'calling upoij.Jhe President, in further court pliapfowJtlVHotise lution of the 24th ult;, to s furnish tiie House’ Vith a'transfcipt of the l&ttersdf dacob R. Shipherd,.‘Of New York, dated June 2d, Aughst 9th, September 2kth and November 15th, 1881, and (he replies thereto, now on the ; files of the State Department, and also eppies of

other letters alreadv communicated from which the names of ; persons And firm.* have been .omitted, and requesting t-fie Pres’dent to inform the Hbuse what measures have been taken to recover the letters declared to be missing from |he files the department. Adopted. Mr. Springe* Introduced*a resolution calling on the President for information as to the right or authority uuder which *the republics of North alid South America were invited to send Commissioners to the Peace Congress to be held at Washington in November, 1882. Adopted. Mr. Cobb introduced a resolution'calling on the Secretary of the Interior for all information concerning land grant roads, the names of such roads, number of acres granted, how much Ijas been granted to companies which have not completed the roads within |he time provided by law. Referred. By Mr. Hoar —For the appointment of an Inter-Oceanic Commission to determine the best plan and route for %immuuication between the Atlantic apd Pacific. By Mr. Hill—To increase the duty On iron ores.