Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

COSGBBBS has been recommended by the Controller of the Currency to appropriate the $956,000 necessary to liquidate the claims of the depositors against the Frcedmeu's Bank. It is estimated that dot more tfaau one-tenth of the claims against the bank are still held by the original depositors, ,y An effort is to be made to secure the passage of a Mil through Congress requiring fire collie trails of the West and SouthWjsst to be kept open. Cattle-raisers compkUn that the fencing-in of large tracts of

land has blocked the trails over which cattle are drive non their way to Eastern market.... It is probable that no further attempt will be made to reconcile tho differences between the two houses of Congress on tho electoral count hill.