Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland and his bride returned to Washington from. Deer Park on the 9th inst Asa substitute to Senator Blair's pension bill the measure introduced by Representative Ellsbeny of Ohio, provides for a uniform pension of pej month for all soldiers and sailors who nre absolutely disabled and unable to maintain themselves, and makes no distinction as to rank, will be reported to the House.... The fight over the oleomargarine bill in the Senate, says a Washington dispatch, will be more stubborn and prolonged than it was in the House, with a greater chance for success for the opposition. There will be no delay on the -part of the friends of the measure in getting action upon it, and the Agricultural Committee will hasten its consideration as much as possible. But the indications are very clear that the opponents of the bill will endeavor to kill it with tariff amendments, and several have already been introduced for that purpose. Mr. Beck has proposed the Morrison bill entire, and propositions to reduce the duty on wool, salt, sugar, lumber, and other articles have also been made. Frederick Ellison, of Indiana, re cently appointed United States consul at Ascension, Paraguay, has tendered his resignation, and it has been accepted. Air. Ellison explains his action by saying he has understood that Ascension is a veryunhealthy place, and that he would probably not live over two or three weeks if he went there. The Secretary of State recently received a cable message from Minister Cox, at Constantinople, saying that the Sultan of Turkey desired to send a wedding present to Mrs. Cleveland, anß asking that it be received. The President, while appreciating the motives of the Sultan, felt that its acceptance would be in violation of the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution, and accordingly telegraphed his declination of the proposed compliment. - The Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture estimates the winter wheat crop at 11,000,000. tbushelg, or forty per cent of a five years’ average... .Near New Straiteville, Ohio, United States officials made a descent upon a suspected house and captured two expert counterfeiters, with their dies and tools, and one hundred bogus dollars that had just been finished. The prisoners are J. A. Brown, aged 76, and Georee Miller, 45 years of age.

President Cleveland and wife have arranged for a tour of the lakes during the summer, in a steamer tendered them at Buffalo. They will start after the adjournment of Congress, and the promise is that Chicago will l>e among the places visited. .... President Cleveland has accepted the Honorary Presidency of the American Exhibition in London. He will open the exhibition from the White House, and start the machinery by the telegraph land lines and the cable. A-committee of over one thousand prominent men in Great Britain has been selected to give a hearty welcome to the American exhibitors.