Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Gen. John C. Fremont, the first Republican candidate for the. Presidency, has been initiated as a member of the Kit Carson PoSt, G. A. R. He selected this post out oi respect to the memory of Kit Carson, who was for many years his intimate cominiuiun nuu ii.riiti. A large meeting of representative men was held in Washington to discuss the means for increasing the merchant marine, and a resolution wißpassed to urge those

interested in merit .me interests to form a league for the p> /poee of bringing to bear upon Congress ne nA-essary legislation for the suoces* o’, the-object. Thp t ouse Committee on Labor has -•'reed to report favorably a bill authorize f ing the incorporation of trades-unions in the Territories and the District of Columbia. The bill is the work of ('ongressman O'Neill. The measure is asked for in the platform of the Knights of Labor, and by the federation of the trades-unions. Ah identical bill is w]>on 1 hgj Senate calendar - awaiting action. The Senate Public Lands Committee has finally agreed to report on the Anderson adjustment bill, which makes it the duty of»the Attorney-General to tiegin proceedings th recover from the land-grant corporations lands overefrtified’or wrongly certified them. . .Internal revenue collections for the ten months of the fiscal year were $95,303,0416--an "increase of $3,135,78*2 over the receipts during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.