Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The gold reserve in the United States Treasury is $129,000,000, or about $15,000,000 more than it was two weeks ago. W. Q. Gresham has designed the Postmaster Generalship and entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Coon, one of the assistant secretaries,-was designated as next in authority. Frank Hatton becomes acting Postmaster General for ten days. It is still asserted that either Hugh McCulloch or —George S. Boutwell wall shortly take the Treasury portfolio, and that Gresham will be appointed to the Circuit bench at Chicago, Jeaving Hatton to be Postmaster General. It is reported that Judge Gresham will succeed Justice Bradley on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States in a few months.