Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Seceetary Manning has dismissed a clerk because he was impertinent to a stranger who called to inauire about the business of the office, and this prompt action will have a good effect upon all the departments... .Reports received at the Treasury Department indicate a growing scarcity of 10-cent silver pieces in all parts of the country. In accordance with instructions froin the Treasury Department about $40,000 in dimes were coined at the Philadelphia Mint about a week ago. These, however, were found insufficient to supply the demand, and the Superintendent of the Mint lias since been instructed to coin into dimes all the uncurrent subsidiary silver coin there may be at the mint... .A Washington telegram of Nov. 25 says: “There was a full attendance at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. The session lasted about three hours, and was devoted almost entirely to the consideration of the President’s message to Congress. The document is in an advanced and will be completed several days before the meeting of Congress. One of the questions discussed to-day was the order in which certain topics should be considered. The President favored the custom adopted by a majority of his predecessors as to the order of precedence, with a few exceptions, and was sustained in his views by all the other members of the Cabinet.” A Washington special says: It is probable that the President’s recommendations on the tariff question will be much less radical than has been supposed. One of the principal Treasury assistants says that the President’s policy will be “slow but- sure.” It is known from various conferences which have been held that, while Mr. Cleveland believes in “tariff for revenue only,” he is very reluctant to enter into a contest with the protected interests, or do anything Which they will regard as an attack upon business. For this reason it may be expected that the President's tariff recommendations will be conservative, if not timid.