Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The propriety of recommending legislation to indemnify Chinamen for losses sustained by recent outbreaks in tho Territories was discussed by the . Cabinet ..the other day. Claims for " damages resulting from the affair at Bock Springs have already bean filed with the Secretary of State.... Land Commissioner Sparks has sent papers to Secretary Laindr in regard to timber depredations by Daniel Chaplin. of La Grande, Ore..- and .recommended that both criminal and civil suits be begun against him. Chaplin contracted with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company to supply timber and ties for the construction of the road- from Meaeham Creek to Union. Chaplin built nine saw-mills along the lino and cut 8,698,200 feet of timber on Government land and on the Umatilla Reservation. The report to Lamar states that in the process of cutting the timber 892,000 feet were wasted. Sparks recommends that Chaplin. Stcinaker & Co., at Weston, and the Officers of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company be indicted and prosecuted civilly. j The House of Representatives has passed the bill to protect homestead settlers within railway limits. It provides that all such settlers restricted to loss than 160 acres who make sin additional entry under, the acts of March aud July, 1879. shall lie entitled to jiave the lands covered by the .additional entry patented without any further cost or proof of settlement and cultivation. The House Public Lands Committee will modify the bill granting the light of way across tho northern border of the Yellowstone National Park to .a railroad company so that the favored corporation shall nave no claim on minerals 1 along the route und Congress shall have control of charges for transportation, as well as the right to alter -or repeal the act. m*

The House Committee on postoffices find post-roads has agreed to report favorably a bill of importance to business meu in the country and especially to publishers of newspapers. It provides that postal-notes, instead of being on sale only at money order offices, shall be issued at any postoffice designated for that purpose by the Postmaster General, and instead of being payable only at tlie office ou which they are drawn they shall be payable, at any moneyorder office. Under the operation' of this bill a person residing at a country postoffice too uiumpbitant to be a money-order office and desiring to make a remittance could purchase a postal-note (hat would be pay-able-at any city or other money-order station to which lie chose to send it. Tin: Woman’s Suffrage Natiourff Convention. in session at Washington last week, adapted resolutions reaffirming confidence in the national methpd of securing the ballot to women through an amendment to the Federal Constitution: calling on Congress to submit to the States at once the question of the right -of women to vote; protesting against the admission (o the Union of any Territory where the elective franchise is denied to women; declaring the National Woman's Suffrage Association to be non-partisan in politics, “and protesting against the passage in its present shape of the bill now pending in Congress to suppress polygamy as discriminating unjustly against gentile and nonpolygamous Mormon women for crimes never committed by them. ; - ' ; -1

Gens. Howard and Terry will get the vacant Major Generalships.... A call has been made for the retirement of $10,000,000 worth of 3 per cent. Government bonds, the principal and interest of which will be pdid April 1. _>■- /