Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

During the last fiscal year there were issued 112,840 pension certificates. Of! this number 55,194 were original cases; i 8,4, r 5 were Mexican-war claims, 10.030 were “amputation” casts, and 32.107 were increase cases. The remainder were “re- i issue.” The President has granted pardons to John W. Tankisley, convicted in Kentucky j of violating interest revenue laws, and E. | Backering convicted in Tennessee of pass- t ing counterfeit money. • During Jr. le 2,516,093 standard dollars were coined. , A Washington Special says: The statement of Dr. McGiynn that the cabinet was sounded on the subject of-receiving an I ambassador from the church of Rome is discredited; ■ • — — —4 Chief Engineer Henry Lee Synder, . United States navy, died suddenly at j Washington. ~ . i Ao Washington special says: “Senator ! M. C. Butler of South Carolina is quoted i as saying he believes Secretary Lamar will be appointed to the vacancy on the Su-.| preme bench and that Senator Colquitt of Georgia will probably succeed Mr. ! Lamar as (secretary of the Interior. The r Georgia Senator denies that he has been offered the place, but it. seems to be un- ‘ derstood among his friends that he can | have it if he desires it- Senator Colquitt j has been stnongly identified with the tern- ' penance movement in Georgia, and some doubt has been expressed as to the ad- ■ visability of the President's inviting him into the cabinet on that account.” The general land office has adopted a new code of regulations governing the ! entry of desert lands, prevent the frauds which have heretofore been practiced on such an extensive scale in i claims of this character. A long-standing claim of the State of ; Kansas against the general government . for $43,790, based upon certain stipulations of the Kansas ad mission act of 1861, has been rejected by tne secretary of the interior. General O. O. Howard telegraphs to the War Department that the hostile Apaches in Armona have been driven back into their reservation and are now under the control of the military.