Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

EliH. Murray has been renominated as Governor of Utah, and John W. Meldrum as Surveyor General of Wyoming.. . .The Comptroller of the Currency has called for a statement of the condition of the national banks at the close of business on the 20th of July. Cod. Gilbert A. Pierce, a Chicago journalist, has been nominated for Governor of Dakota by the President. Gov. Ordway was a candidate for renomination, but his claims were not considered sufficiently strong... .John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, has‘been nominated for Governor of Alaska. The President has signed the bill organizing a National Bureau of Labor. Under tbe bill this bureau becomes adjunct of the Interior Department, An appropriation of $25,000 is given. The appointments to be made are a Commissioner by the President and a Chief Clerk by the Secretary. All other work will bo that of experts, and they are to be chosen by the Secretary on the recommendation of the Commissioner. The comparatively small appropriation will render it impossible this year to do any large amount of investiga tion, as there will be room-rent, printing, correspondence, copyist, etc., to pay for. The bureau is authorized to inquire into matffrs relating to wages, hours, woman and child labor, imported contract labor, such as that of the Italians, Slavonians, Hungarians, and Chinese, now brought here in gangs.