Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The existing labor troubles were a topic of diseussipn at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, in the course of which the riots in Chicago nnd Milwaukee and elsewhere were referred to. with a view of- taking such J precautionary measures for the protection of Government property as may be found necessary. , The House Committee on Commerce has agreed to report favorably the resolution introduced by RepresentativeTJorsey instructing the,committee to investigate the charge that the present system of transpdrting live stock by railroad companies is barbarous and destructive. SEItAToK Fate, of Nevada, has written to Secretary Lamar suggesting that the Government purchase the island of Santa Catalina. situated in the Pacific Ocean, some some twenty-five miles southwest iif Los Angeles, California, us a place of permanent abode for the Apache Indians. Pension Office people whisper that Comm'issione'r Black is soon to be trails- ~ ferred to auotber post -possibly the Austrian mission.