Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has nllowed tire legntee of Walter Grayson. a Creek Indian. $32,000 for money stolen from him in Indian Territory by three white men.... Secretary Manning, in reply to a Senate resolution of .inquiry, stntes that at the beginning of ibis year the Several Pacific Railroad companies owed the Government $19,302,1N1 for interest alone,/and at the maturity of the thirty-year bonds the total indebtedness will be $157*372,61.5... .The House Committee on Invalid Pensions, by a strict par.y vote, derided to make nn adverse report on the bills to pension Mrs.-Logan and Mrs. Blair. The ground of opposition is the fact that these ladies did not die from injuries received in the service. Congressman Floyd King, of Louisiana, publishes a cnid in the Washington papers regarding the insults offered to Mm by Cuthbert Join s in the barber’s shop of Willard's Hotel. King says:

While I was being shaved Cuthbert It. .Tones, accompanied by nnian whom I took to be liis brother, esrue into Stewait s shop and soon bopan convi rsation with each Other in a loud tone of voice about my defeat for a re nomination to t'onßreßs, To this I mndeno response. Wheii T bad been shaved and arose from my position ( utbliert Jones pot up from a cliair eight or ten feet distant, on the arm of which bn was Sitting. and, looking at me, uttered for some moments the most offensive and brutal language, such ns a would-be assassin would employ when seeking an opportunity to commit murder under the.disgnise of the law, h.< end nis friend mean-while-occupying advantageous positions some twelve i f fifteen feet apart. Discovering that I could not be caught in the villainous trap they bad laid for mo they retired I kept my eye all the time ou both. Iu the height of his frenzy Jones held his stick iu his left hand and threw his right on his hip, or possibly into his hip-pocket. Under theso circumstances, being menaced by such deadly purpose, had X been armed I should have felt justified in destroying, him. He was at no time nearer.thou eight or ten feet from me. lam a law-abiding man, but the law imposes no restraint in protecting myself. Jones' hostility to me is due solely to my opposition t to bis appointment to a consular position. That opposition was because Iw as informed by most reputable and distinguished men acquainted with the facts that lio was a fugitive from justice on aeeOuE-J of the assassins-* tiun of (Jen Liddell of my district by Jones' father, his elder brother,.and himself, the two termer being lynched for their crime, and the latter flying for hi- life. He has never yet ventured to return. Not long ago he had his life insured, mid by the payment of an extra premium had the exemption about suicide and death by violence .stricken out, telling the agent with great frankness that he expected to die with liis boots ou. He alwayk-goes armed, and has repeatedly .rted to provoke King into assaulting him. He has challenged him to a duel several times, but' the Congressman will take no notice of lon. It is believed by the friends of Jones that ling’s card will result in a culmination of the long leud by the death of one or the other of them. It is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of collecting the customs revenues for th© uex t fiscal year will be $6,310,873.. . Mrs. Voorhees, the wife of Senator Voorhees, Of Indiana, died in Wash ngton last week. Congressman Morrison is mentioned for lire position of member of the Interstate Commission, as are nlso Senator Conger and a sou of Senator Thurman. The pay is $7,500 a year. . . .A bond cull amounting to $13,887,000 has been issued. The uncalled 3 per cents, now aggregate $40,000,000.