Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Thomas O. Osborn, Minister ot.tho Argentine Republic, has furnished the Department of State with a detailed history of the struggle in that country between cnurch and state for the control of the normal schools. A procession of one thousand leading ladies of Buenos Ayres marched to the Senate Chamber with a petition favoring religions instruction in the schools, and carried their point by one vote. The Attorney General has been directed to bring suit against several timber depredators along the Mobile and Girard Kailroad in Alabama to test the question of title to about 200,000,000 acres of land granted the company in 1868 to aid in constructing its ‘ line.... President Cleveland has announced his determination to protect the Chinese from personal violence, but at the same time said he would exact the rigid enforcement of the law prohibiting their immigration... .The Comptroller has 'decided that soldiers honorably discharged for disability are entitled to the bounty provided for in the act of July 22, 1861.