Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

There was a huge sensation in the House committee on agriculture Friday. W. G. Bar tie, a St. Louis pork packer, testified that hogs which were affected with hog cholera were often cat up and packed in slaughtering houses. He had often done it himself and had no donbt every pork packer of the country nad done so. He' did not know that any harm came of it. At any rate,there was no use denying or attempting to conceal the fact. His testimony created a great sensation, and the committee are making vigorous efforts to suppress it, as they fear its effect on foreign countries. The Interior Department officials disposed of a pension claim, Friday, that for years has been a veritable cause celebra. It was the claim of Cyphert P. Gallette, of What Cheer, Keokuk county, lowa, for total blindness. The amount which Gallette will receive is $16,000 in arrears as well as a monthly pension of $72. Speaker Carlisle is not confident tha the Mills bill will pass the House as now constructed. He expeets some reductions in the tariff schedules before Congress adjourns. The Texas election outrages and the alleged mutilation of Rebellion recci-ds are being investigated. Secretary Bayard and Judge Niblack are Banned in connection with the