Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

IFJ3. Barrows, of Michigan, one of the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee, said that rioce the debat) on the tariff bill commenced the question has frequently been asked why th. Republicans do not offer a substitute to ths pending bill, if they regard it as such a vicious measure. Gen. Burrows said: “If we would ifitroduce our bill now it would, as a matter of course, be referred to the Ways and Means Committee, and the majority of that committee might not report it t) the House for some weeks to come. Consequently, it would be all folly for us to introduce the bill now. After the Mills bill has been discussed under the five-minute rule for amendments, and when it has been reported back from committee of the whole to the House, co that a vote may be taken, we shall offer our bill as a substitute and it will be vct)d on first. If it be defeated, the motion will then be on the passage of the Mills bill, but, of course, if our substitute be adopted, that ends everything.” In the Government printing investigation Thursday, M. Leisbnrg, of New York, testified that he was a bidder, a year ago, under Public Printer Benedict, and that although he was the lowest responsible bidder be was not awarded the contract; that when he went to Mr. Benedict for an explanation, the latter replied that he was going to stand by hisfrineds. In urging upon the House the passage of the measure to protect free labor from the injurious effect of free competition, the committee on labor call attention to the fact that in the annual production of convict ma de goods Indiana stands third in rank, with a product of the value of $1,570,901.07, being surpassed by New York and Illinois alone, in the order named. F. E. Nash, General Superintendent es Railway Mail Service, has tendered the Postmaster GeneraTfiis "resignation, o take effect when his successor is appointed. He proposes to devote his attention to his private business at his nome in Wisconsin, which he left at the solicitation of Mr’ Vilas, who was then Postmaster General. The Chinese treaty has been reatified by the Senate.