Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1887 — MASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

MASHINGTON.

President Cleveland the other dav received a call from a young man whom he recently pardoned from a penitentiary, who desired to express his gratitude and offer assurances of future good conduct. He was treated with courtesy and given encouragement The contract with the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, for the construction of the naval cruiser Charleston, has been executed by Secretary Whitney. The President has commuted to five years’ imprisonment the sentence of JohnW. Parsons, of Arkansas, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 14. The United States Board of Engineers in charge of the survey and improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers recommend to the Secretary of War that work on the Wisconsin River be abandoned, and only so much of that upon the Fox River be completed as will finish the enterprise already begun. In twenty years $1,816,794 has been expended upon the Fox, and $590,175 upon the Wisconsin,The Committee on Revision of Laws of Congress has reported favorably on a bill prohibiting Congressional committees attending funerals at public expense, and limiting the expense of such funerals ..to the actual cost of burial.... The Postmaster General has recommended the repayment of $15,335 to the Postmaster at Minneapolis, being the amount stolen from his office The President has issued an order by which the pensioners in Montana and Wyoming will hereafter be paid at San Francisco instead of Milwaukee as heretofore. _____