Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Sewell will probably be made Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, of which Gen. Logan was the head for many years... .The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for $10,000,0(10 of 0 per cent, bonds. The call will mature Feb. 1,1887.. ..A board of army oftict rs has been appointed to meet at the War Department Jan. 3 for the purpose of reviewing and condensing the army regulations and preparing a new edition of the same... .The fiver and harbor bill, as prepared by the If or. so committee. subject to some further revision, gives Michigan City, lnd., $30,000; Galamot harbor, $3,000; Chicago harbor, $60,000; Charlevoix, Mich., $75,000; Waukegan, $10,000; Cheboygan, $50,00,0;' Frank-' tort, $6,000; Grand Haven, $15,000; Grand Marais, $25,000; Lndingtou, $30,000; Manistee, $7,500; Monroe, $1,000; Muskegon, $7,500; Ontonagon, $0,000; Pentwater. $•1,000; Portage Lake, $15,600; tjand lieach, $40,000; St. Joseph, $4,000; South Haven, $5,00(1; White lliver, $6,000; Ahuapee, Wis., $5,000; Green Bay,„ $3,500; Kenosha,s2,soo; Kewaunee,s7,soo; Manitowoc, $4,000; Menominee, $2,000; • Oconto, $5,000; Milwaukee, $40,000; I’ort Washington, $2*500; Racine, $3,000; Superior Bay, $10,000; Sheboygan, $7,500; Sturgeon Bay, $3,660; Duluth. $20,000; Mavais, Minn,, $5,000; Detroit lliver, $35,000; St. Clair Ship Canal. $18,750; St. Mary’s lliver, for a new lock and dam, $100,00’.); Hay Lake I channel, $100,000; Saginaw River, $20,000; Chippewa, $27,000; Fox River, Wis., $50,000; St. Croix, SS,(HK); Wabnsh River, $25,000; Illinois River. 190.000: Calumet lliver, $12,500—; about one-half at Hnmmoud, lnd. The hill appropriates $7,500,000. The Dead-Letter Office gives an evidence of the carelessness of the public in addressing correspondence in a list of sixty-four letters addressed to Pittsburg, 0., when Pittsburg, Pa.; was'intended. Chicago, N. Y., is often written for Chicago, 111. The Commissioner of Agriculture has sent to the Governor of Illinois a scorching protest against the action of the Live Stock Commission in regard to pleuropneumonia at Chicago. He charges the Illinois Board with arrogating the light to decide (Questions of the utmost importance to the country without consulting the Department of Agriculture. He states that the worst infected place in Chicago, owned by a wealthy distilling company, has been tilled with .fresh cattle.... F. B; silvn. a Brazilian. roTdVed the residence-of the Chilian Minister at Washington of a snm of money and S7.OuQ worth of jewelry and valuables. The thief was arrested while boarding a train, and tbo valuables were recovered.’