Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Whitney authorizes the statement that he has no intention of resigning from the Cabinet, and that he never owned a dollar in the Standard Oil Trust no. had any relation to it. The Senate Monday refused to reconsider the vote by which it passed the Chinese instruction bill, and it goes to the President for his signature or veto. The whole matter is now ip his hands. In the Senate Monday Mr. Sherman introduced a resolution directing the Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire into the relations between the United States and Great Britain and Canada, and to report at next session of Congress. This is interpreted to mean that no action will be taken by the Senate at this session relative to the retaliation bill.