Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland has rescinded the order for the return of the rebel flags. He now expresses doubts of its legality, and intimates that if such apian is carried out in future it can only be done by the direction of Congress. The board of examiners appointed by Secretary Whitney at Washington, to decide which of the designs for cruisers and gunboats, submitted by naval experts in response to a circular from the navy department; are the best adapted to the purposes intended, have finished their work, reported their conclusions to the secretary. The prize for the best design for each.type of vessel is $15,000, and the successful competitors will be made known in a few days. The President has appointed Vincent Lamantie of Lousiana to be United States consul at Catania, Italy. A petition for a writ of quo warranto against John N. Oliver has been filed in the District Court in the name of the United States at Washington, calling upon him to show by what right he continues to exercise the functions of justice of the peace. President Cleveland has approved the recommendation Of the War Department that all flags held by the department be returned to the authorities of the States in which the regiments that boro them were organized.