Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Ex-Secretary Whitney will be pushed for the Democratic nomination for President. \ Sbme time ago Treasurer Huston caused an experiment to be made. He secured the services of a man to commit amateur burglary. In seventeen seconds the man drilled a hole in the vault containing the $250,009,000 of paper money, and in exactly sixteen minutes he had a hole made large enough to admit his body. This exhibit scared the appropriations committee, and in about five minutes a bill drafted by Huston, making an appropriation for the building of new vaults, was approved.

| The tariff bill was reported to the House on the 16th, and referred to the Committee of the Whole. Again hides have been iplaeed on the free list and so has sugar, but in the latter case the committee has adopted a provision looking to othe payment of a bounty of two cents per pound on the domestic product. These changes have been communicated to the Democratic minority members, and oas -corrections (are necessary in the report the document, lit is said, will be delayed in their presentation to the House until late Thursday {afternoon. It is understood that the sugar [men have little confidence in the continuity of the bounty, and they therefore proJtest against the change. The duty on sugars above and including 16 cent t duties standard, it is said, is fixed at two-fifths of a cent a pound; grades below that are td be admitted free; This satisfies neither the sugar cane nor beet-sugar producing States. Representative Martin, of Indiana, on behalf of the minority of the committee on {invalid pensions, submitted a report on the {Morrill pension bill on the 16th. The report (Criticises the age qualification of the bill, as being neither responsive to public de mand nor in compliance with the requests ■of the veterans. It seems, says the report, that the bill is simply the outgrowth of •some real or supposed necessity to give iwhat is not asked by the survivors of the jwar, instead of granting them what they have asked for and expect. The minority urges that the bill be amended to conform to the popular wishes of the-Union veterans ; that the age qualification be eliminated iand the limit of service be made not to jexceed sixty days. Senator Cameron has introduced a service pension bill which {has been approved by the Pennsylvania Service Pension Association. It provides, that all persons who served in the late war ishail receive a service pension of $8 a 1 month, and in addition a per diem pension of 1 cent for every day’s service. Widows! of these persons shall be entitled to a pen- : sion of sl2 a month. !

The Senate and House Conference Committees could not agree on how silver certificates shall be redeemed. It is more than probable that two bills will be reported. The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors, Thursday, completed the river and harbor appropriation bill. The total appropriation is a little over $20,000,000. Among the items for harbors are Michigan City, Ind., $50,000; Calumet, HI., $20,000; Chicago, $100,000; Waukegan, Hi., $35,000. For the Ohio river, $20,000 may be used for the harbor at Madison, Ind.; for the futu of the Ohio river, $60,000, and for the Indi ana chute, $15,000; Wabash river, below Vincennes, continuing work on lock and dam at Grand Rapids, near ML Carmel 111., $60,000; Calumet river, $50,000; Illinois j river, $190,000; Kaskasia river, SIO,OOO. For the construction of the Illinois and Mississippi canal, to connect the Ilfi. nois river at a print near the town of Hennepin, with the Mississippi river at the mouth of Rock river, together with a branch canal, or feeder, from said Rock river to the main line of said canal, to be constructed on the route located by the Secretary of War, and to be eighty feet wide at the water line and seven feet deep, the locks 170 feet in length and thirty feet in width, and to have a capacity for vessels of at least 2,800 tons’ burden.