Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Nearly all of the annual report of Commander W. T. Sampson, -Superjntendcint of the United States Naval Academe, is davoted to an argument in support of a' proposed change in the academic course. That change, which he gives various reasons in favor of, is that cadets should be assigned to the diflerents branches of the service at the end of four years, instead of six. aooling the two-years course at sea before graduation as useless, The police scandal at Washington culminated in the resignation of Superintendent Walker and the dismissal of Lieutenant Arnold . Commissioners sent from Washington io make an allotment of lands in severalty to-the Crow Indians o£ Montana, succeeded in placing 131 families on tracts of the regulation size, but they report that Sitting Bull and others from Standing Bock sought to defeattheir plans, and succeeded in infiueiic.ng a majority of the tribe. A Washington special to the Chicago Daily Neva says: Secretary Bay nrd is greatly distressed at the conduct of Minister Manning at Mexco and cannot trust himself to talk about it. ’ A mild form of d<nial has been furnished from Stat- Department, but the story is believed, paritcuhulylliy those jghakhby record of the Minist.r. Mr. Bayard lays the Llame on

Senator Glb«on and other Southern men. whe gave the vorv higbeat tonimoula.l" to.Mnnnina'i ability and obaraoter, and ’ aaya that ruch indoraemente oould not be rejected, coniimi an they did from honorable mm But Lomslrma people here any that Manning's habit of going on a spree semt-occMionally is no secret J. in that State, and must have Iwen known to the Senators who recotnmendod him. There is i:o u io--, tion th nA bn is one of the ableat men in Lou'slant,' stands high at the bur, and la * member of the most aristocratic social circle, but has hiul this unfortunate habtfrall his life. If Manning ishot recalled at once or d.oes pot reaiim, the t'enatu" will 11 nd<>»l>lo.T7V reject him. tit. John, the Prohibitionist eauffidate for President, verma to be the only available man to succeed Manning, and he may not be able to stand the intoxicating taflueticea of the Mexican climate. The Soldiers’ Home at Washington has 849 regular inmates, The cottage formerly occupied by the President as a summer residence has been assigned to the veterans.