Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Miller has received reports from Marshal Weeks, of the North era District of Florida, that he has arrested in Leon county three men, two for violation of election laws, and one for conspiracy. He says that affairs in that State are improving, and that the President’s letter in regard to the enforcement of the laws is gradually causing a change of sentiment among the people. A delegation representing the Farmers’ Alliance appeared before the ways and means committee on the 13th to advocate the passage of the Pickier bill to create sub->treasuries in different parts of the country for the reception of staple crops produced by farmers. The spokesman was C. W. Macune, chairman of the legislative committee of the Alliance and editor of the National Economist. He said they did not ask the enactment of any unconstitutional measure, but as the great debtor class, as the men who had gone out in the West after the war and laid the soil under contribution with borrowed money, they protested against-the contraption of the currency at a time when their debts became due, and asked that the conditions be restored to what they were when the money Was borrowed. They asked justice, pure and simple.

A report will be made to the committee on elections in favor of declaring vacant the seat now occupied by Clifton R. Breckinridge, of the Second District of Arkansas. The report wijl be based upon the recent investigation made by the subcommittee which visited Arkansas and examined over one thousand witnesses in relation to the assassination of John M. Clayton, the Republican who ran against Mr. Breckinridge. The testimony which was taken by the sub-committee will be used in favor of the adoption of a Federal election bill. „ A National university is proposed by a bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Edmunds . Major Steele’s nomination to be Governor of Oklahoma was confirmed Thursday by the Senate.

President Harrison Friday afternoon signed tbe bill introduced by Mr. Cheadle, appropriating 180,000 for a public building at Lafayette. This is the first money ever appropriated by the federal governs ment for expenditure in the Ninth Congressial District of Indiana. Mr. Cheadle secured the introductian of the bill in the last Congrass, giving Lafayette SOO,OOO for a public building, but President Cleveland vetoed it. The Senate passed the bill over the veto, but the House refused ..to follow the action. There are but five federal buildings in Indiana—at Indians apolis. Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, New Albany aud Evansville.