Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

< 1 Secretary Mannino, while entering the Treasury building, was attacked with vertigo, and partly He was immediately removed" to bis residence ip a carriage. A Washington telegram says: “The doctors in attendance upon Secretary Manning still -Very much fear another apoplectic attack, and till that comes c-r.the symptoms grow more favorable they will not venture to make any predictions. At best, a long period of absolute rest and consequent retirement from public life will be necessary." Representative Reagan, Of Texas, states that the bill for a national cattle trail reserves from sale or settlement for ten years the public lands in fractional range No. 41,- in the State of Colorado, 150 miles’ long and two miles or less in width, containing about’ 210,000 acres. . . . There is a hitch over the proposed Illinois Central bridge across the Ohio at or near Cairo. The bill before Congress as drawn does not meet the requirementeef the Government. The War Department thinks a Board of Engineers should examine and report just what is necessary in order to protect the Government. If such a board is sent if will be weeks before a report can be had, and it would lie well on toward the close of the session before a bill could be gotten through either branch. The House Committee on Foreign Affaire has postponed consideration of the MorrowChinese bill, and will give precedence to the President’s message recommending the payment of indemnity to China for outrages perpetrated on that country’s subjects in the United States. 1

Ex-Congressman Casey Y’oung testified, March 25, in the telephone investigation at Washington, that the Attorney General never told him that he knew of ■or that he would bring suit against the Bell Telephone Company. Witness never spoke to Solicitor General Goode about the Attorney General's departure, and, until he had seen it in the papers, he had hot heard that the Attorney General was to leave town in order that Goode might luing-the suit. Wit--ness had, at Van Bethuysen’s request, written a letter to the President appealing from the action of the Attorney General in refusing to have anything to do with a telephone suit, but before it was delivered Solicitor General Goode had brought suit.