Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Interior has confirmed the action of the Commissioner of the Land Office in restoring to the public domain the tract of land in Southern California at the intersection of the Texas Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad grants. The Secretary, in his decision, holds that the Southern Pacific grant included only such lands as were not covered by other railroad grants, and therefore could not include the tract in question, which formed part of the forfeited Texas Pacific grant. The case had come up to the Secretary on appeal by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company from the Commissioner’s decision.... The United States Treasurer’s statement for the last day of October shows an increase in the net surplus in the Treasury of $44,559,267, as compared with March 31 last. This gain is made up of $16,545,333 in gold, $26j425.357 in silver, and $7,077,053 in United States notes.... Senator Cullom, Chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, has a new bill prepared on the subject, which he will introduce soon after the opening of Congress. ....The registered bonds of the United States amount to $1,071,000,000, of which less than $12,000,000 are held in foreign countries. Secretary Manning has ordered a suspension of operations in the mint at Carson City, Nevada. This mint has for some time been conducted as an assay office, and the deposits have been insignificant; Rear Admiral Jouett recently submitted to Secretary Whitney a plan for a grand squadron drill off the coast of Florida. He has now been ordered to repair to Aspinwall with the Tennessee and protect the inhabitants of the isthmus against outbreaks .... Orders were sent out from Washington for the suppression of the “moonshiners” in the South Who have recently been murdering revenue officers. Col. Chapman has been assigned to the work.