Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is urged in behalf of the proposition to remove the Government money from the Sub-Treasur.es to the banks that the cash would be more secure and the expense of taking care of it would be greatly lessened. The use of the Government deposits would be an ample equivalent to the banks for taking care of -the money., f. The question having arisen whether an alien coming into this country and paying his "head money ” shal 1 in future be exempt from all further tax of the kind. Secretary Manning referred the matter to Attorney General Garland. The Attorney General holds that the capitation tax levied under the immigration act must be collected every time an alien passenger comes into the United States. Under tie act of Aug. 8, 1882, the tax has heretofore been levied only on the first coming in of alien passengers. In a report to Secretary Lamar, Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, recommends the vigorous prosecution of suits to set aside the patents issued under the famous Maxwell land grant in New Mexico... .The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of exports of domestic breadstuff's from the. United Stites during the month of MayP 1885, and during the five and eleven months ended May 31, 1885, as compared with similar exports during the corresponding months of the preceding year, were as follows: 1885 1884 May...-411,-848’986 $11,463455 Five months ended . May 31 67,581,303 56,542,247 Eleven months ended May 31.'..146,431,965 144,556,873 The Government Entomologist at Washington calls attention to the” fact that the periodical cicadre, or locusts, are due this year in not less than twenty of the States of the Union. Among the localities indicated for their reapperance are Jackson, Union, and Macoupin Counties in Dlinois; St Louis and Boone Counties in Missouri; Phillips County in Kansas; Green. Franklin, Columbiana, Pike, and Miami Counties in Ohio; Tippecanoe, Delaware, Vigo, Switzerland, Hendricks. Marion, Dearborn, Wayne, Floyd, Jefferson, and Richmon4 Counties in- Indiana; the southeastern portion of Michigan; and the vicinity of Toledo. The visitation in the two first-named States will be of the thirteen-year locusts, and in the rest those of the seventeen-year period are expected to appear... .Secretary Manning denies that he is contemplating the abolition of the Sub-Treasuries, as reported. ' * .