Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Hon. Samuel J. Randall is slowly recovering. The Senate, Tuesday, passed the bill to place John C. Fremont on the retired ist of the army as Major General. Senator Platt, is authorized ! by the Senate committee on Inter-State commerce to report back (with verbal amendments) the Spoqner bill subjecting the telegraph companies to the jurisdiction of the Inter-State commerce (commission and regulating their operations in much the same way as the interstate law regulates the affairs of railroads.,, Secretary Fairchild received a telegram, Friday, from the Governor of Florida, asking the assistance of the Government in suppressing the yellow fever, which, he sayß, threatens to become epidemic at Tampa and Manatee. The Secretary had a conference with Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital bureau, on the subject, and instructed him to render all possible assistance. He also informed the Governor of Florida by telegraph that the necessary steps would be taken by the. proper federal officers to aid the local authorities. The Senate Friday by a vote qf 41 to 20 confirmed the nomination of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United States. The ten Republicans who voted for the nomination of Fuller were Messrs. Cameron, Cullom, Davis, Farwell, Frye, Hale, Jones of Nevada, Mitchell, Quay and Riddleberger. All of the Democrats present voted for confirmation. They were Messrs. Bate, Beck, Blackburn, Blodgett, Brown, Butler, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Hearst, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson, Morgan, Reagan, Pasco, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Turpie, Yance, Test, Yoorhees, Walthall, and AVilson of Maryland—a total of thirty-one Democrats. Those voting in the negative were all Republicans, and were as follows: Messrs. Blair, Bowen, Chandler, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls, Manderson, Palmer, Platt, Sabin, Sawyer, Sherman, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, and AVilson of lowa, making in all twenty voting in the negative, and sixty-one altogether voting on the snbject, leaving fifteen absent or paired.