Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House Appropriations Committee has begun the consideration of Mr. Morrison’s bill to abolish all permanent and, indefinite appropriations except those relating to interest on tne public debt, the sinking fund, the refunding of the public debt, the Smithsonian fund, the repayment of customs and internal revenue taxes levied in excess of the- lawful amounts, drawbacks on dutiable goods, the fund for soldiers’ homes, and the naVy pension fund, and a few others of minor importance. In the United Staten Supreme Court the other day, in a case regarding a patent for a woman’s dress-protector, Gen. B. F. Butler created amusement among the auditors by a peculiar manipulation of elegantljdressed dolls, which were attired in a manner to show the advantages of the protector. A delegation from the southern harbor improvement convention called upon President Cleveland, who expressed himself as deeply impressed with the importance of developing the natural waterway’s of the country by. the use of public money’.... Among thehnatters settled in committee last week, says a Washington dispatch, was one by the Senate Committee on Territories which decided to report favorably the bill for the admission of Washington Territory as a State; first, however, amending it so that the will take in the narrow neck of Idaho between the eastern line of W ashington and the Bitter Root Mountains. ' Clara Morhis had her usual fainting spell at Washington during a performance of “Camille.”... .Joseph Rankin, a member pf Congress from Wisconsin, died ib Wash- ' iugton, aged 52 years.