Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Whitney last week transmitted to Attorney General Garland the reportof the Board appointed to examine the new dispatch-boat Dolphin, with a request for an opinion as to his duties and powers in the premises. The Secretary declares that the Dolphin Is not what Congress stipulated for and what should have Keen obtained,.and wishes to know whether the Government has on its hands a broken contract, or merely a bad bargain. In pursuance of .the policy adopted by Mannings of cutting down “expenses in the various bureaus of the Treasury Department wherever possible without detriment to the public business,: 300 persons employed as storekeepers, gaugers, etc., in the internal revenue service have been removed since March 20. The average per diem pay of these employes was $4... .A bulletin upon the sugar industry of the United States, prepared by Harvey W. Wiley, chemist of the Department of Agriculture, has been issued in pamphlet form by the Commissioner of Agriculture. It deals exhaustively with cane, beet, sorghum, and maple sugars, giving statistics of manufacture, consumption, chemical analysis, methods of manufacture, and modem improvements. According to Washington dispatches, the report that the Austrian Government is unwilling to receive Mr. Keiley as Minister is generally credited in diplomatic Circles there. It is not thought, however, that the administration is particularly concerned about the matter. The President, it is stated, regarded Mr. Keiley as a blunder, but chose to commission him for personal and political reasons. If Austria refuses to receive him, no international complications are likely to ensue, our own Government having exercised the same right in move than one instance.