Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has appointed a commission to destroy the counterfeit money and other material which has accumulated in office of the chief of the secretservice division of the Treasury. This commission will meet at once for the purpose for which it was appointed. It will have to destroy counterfeit coin the face value of which is between $300,000 and $400,000, less half as mnch bogus paper money. Thera is stored on the top floor of the Treasury Department upward of $2,000,000 in counterfeit bills and bonds, but the greater part of this will be kept. The vanlts and closets of the secret-service division are so filled np with this “queer” money that there is no room to keep the records and books. It is for this reason that the commis3ion was appointed. Saturday was the one-hundredth day of the present session of Congress. Tne total number of bills snd resolutions introduced in the Senate and Honse np to this date is 12,568, exceeding by more than 2,000 the number presented in the first 100 days of the Jaet Congress. So far the Hotue has passed 425 bills and Senate 831, and 185 Honse bills and twenty-four Senate bills have been sent to the President for his approvaL The President has vetoed the acts granting pensions to Hannah R. Longdon, Betsy Mansfield and Laura A. Wright on the ground that the deathß did not result from injuries received during the war, or sickness incident to army service, and until it is established 88 pe’icy that all soldiers’ widows Bha l be pensioned, iti* unfair and unjust to make exceptions in faverof only such as procure tbe paesage of special acts. Democratic Senators canonised Monday on the fisheries treaty, and decided to support it to a man. If Republicans desire to delay ratification action, it will be suggested that fishermen be given an opportnnit y to teit the new provisions in actual practice neder the protocol. - Mr. Anderson (Kansas) has introduced a bill in the House providing for the Govirnment’s purchase of the Pacific Roads’ first mortgage bonds to secure its first mortgage. Then the mortgage is to be foreclosed snd tracks used as a public highway ©p?n to any carrier of freight upon payment of a uniform toll. At a caucns of Democratic members of the House on the tarifl bill, Wednesday night, no definite course was determined on, bnt a free exchange of opinion was had. It was generally felt that Repnblicaos should be allowed all the time they want for debate within reason. The President has vetoed the bill for relief of Major Bash, paymaster, United Slates army, who was robbed in Wyoming of $7,350 Government money. He says: “I cannot satisfy myself that the negligence made apparent in this case should be overlooked.” A sen of Colonel Dick Bright, of Indiana, has been appointed secretary to the American Commissioner to the paniih Exhibition at Parcelona, which opens On May 6. Young Mr. Bright graduated from college at Bacine, Wis., in 1884> 4f —- Mr. Page, oi Rhode Island, war seated as a member of Congress on contest,and wanted two years’ silary tor one week’s ieiv.'ee." The' United States'lSffpreme . Court decided that he was entitled to pay for ona weektonly. The war department has decided to place the new major-general, Crook, in charge of the Missouri divisions, witn headquartersa‘.Chicago. Howard will remain at Sin Francisco. It is laid the Mills biile lacks seven vo’ei es enongh to pass it. The Benate Commutes will report the fisheries treaty advent ely. '