Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Four notices of contest have already been received By the Clerk of the House of Representatives. These contests are in lowa, Indiana, Rhode Island and Ohio. Protests have also been received from citizens of California against seating the delegation from that State on the ground that they were not legally elected from the districts to which they were credited. The member who holds a certificate from the First California District is declared in one protest not to be a citizen of the United States. I Civil, war is still raging in Peru, and is likely to continue for some time. Engineer Menooae has submitted a report to the Secretary of the Navy as to the Nicaraguan Canal, estimating that the canal will be completed in six years at a cost of $04,000,000... .An official denial is made by the Department of State that the United States is one of the movers in a diplomatic .project to secure the neutrality of the islands of the Pacific which are now occupied by continental powers.... The report of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury shows that nearly $14,000,000 was expended for*’railroad transportation Of mails, $5,500,000 to stage coaches, nearly $600,000 for internal transportation by steamboats, but only $325,000 for the encouragement of foreign commerce. Commissioner Abkins has returned from a visit to nearly all the Indian tribes in the Southwest, which he found in good circumstances.