Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Cardinal Gibbons, Monday, conveyed to President Cleveland a letter from the Pope expressing the writer’s thanks for the President’s jnbilee gift. ——: The Senate on the 11th confirmed the nomination of Jared L. Rothbone to be Consol General to Pans. A vigorous fight was made against him. The latest report is that the President has decided to nominate Senator Gray, of Delaware, as Cnief Justice Waite’s successor. ' *«