Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

| The President, accompanied by KecreI tones Bayard and Whitney and Private Secretary Lnmont, went to Albany last : week to participate in the bicentennial celebration of the founding of that city. Hon. Wu.UaM Hunter, Second Assistant Secretary of State, died at his reside ueh in Washington, last week, of old age and general debility. He Was hi years old. and had served continuously in the State Department foijfifty-one years, having been appointed by President Jackson. Joseph S. Miller, Commissioner of Internal. Revenue, in bis report of the operation of the bureau for the year ending June 30. 188(5, shows that the total collections for the year were $11(5.902,845. The total collections for the previous fiscal year were $112,421.121. an increase of $4.48],724... .President Cleveland inclosed to the Sennte a report by . Secretary Bayard that two eminent lawyers of Philadelphia and Portland were engaged bv the Government last May to take charge of the suits brought by the Canadian authorities nuniust American fishing vessels. ... The Treasury Department has decided that cannon ar • dutiable a} the rate of 4-5 per cent, ad valorem ns manufactures of metal, and not at the rate of 25 per cent, ad valorem under the provision for muskets, rifles, and other firearms Secretary Lamar will visit some of the Indian reservations and land districts in the Northwest next month, in order to gain by personal observation an idea of the manner in which land and Indian matteis are conducted.