Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Gan. Hazen insists on an investigation. Representative Beltzhoover has prepared a resolution requesting the Secretary of War to cause General Hazen to be tried by courtmartiaL General Hazen has written to Secretary Linooln requesting that an investigation of his administration of the Signal Office be made. Unless the new treaty With Mexico is adopted by this Congress a special session of the Senate will doubtless be called for its consideration. The snb-oommittee whioh has charge of the postoffioe bill has retained the clause providing for a reduction of letter postage to two oentsper half ounce. Th« District of Columbia appropriation bill reported provides for an aggregate appropriation of $3,370,000. The aggregate of the bill is $115,000 less than the bill of last year. The report of the Jeannette board has been submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, who approved it as a whole. The report will probably be transmitted to Congress. It is generally believed in Washington that both Brady and Dorsey will go on the witness stand for the contradiction of Rerdell’s etatments. Attorney Blisß says the government will rest its case being satisfied that they have given evidence sufficient to convict all the defendants. Mrs. DeLong will soon give to the oountry, through the|publishing house of Houghton & Co., what will doubtless prove a very interesting book, consisting of the ship and ice journals of her husband, his letters addressed to her from the Jeannette, and a biographical sketch of the ill fated Arctic commander. General Hazen asks to have his administration of th« Signal Service Bureau inquired into by a committee of Senators. As we understand it, the ohargss made against the General affect the methods employed whereby he • became the administrator of the bureau. It is not the method of his administration that is in question, but his methods of becoming ths administrator.

Colonel Tom Ochiltree avers he is only nominally a defaulter. It was his deputies, not himself, who created a deficit in his aooounts while he was United States Marshall for Texas. This is the ground on which he asks a settlement by payment of 3500. The gallant Colonel gave an entertainment the other day which probably oost some hundreds of dollars. He is in the habit of doing similar things. The request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to be allowed to expend 31384,000j0n !4680 Sioux families,the male members of whom were active sympathizers of Sitting Bull during his war against the whites, is liable tc give rise to a row. This money is a part of the appropriation which was withheld from the Indians because of the aid they gave Sitting Bull, but as thsy have been peaceable for several years the Indian Commissioner feels like encouraging them. The proposition is to give the Indians stores and .farming supplies, which will absorb the amount named. The Indians are ruiming sljbrt of fire-arms and scalping knives.