Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

All Washington dealers in silverware jhave been notified by the manufacturers [that prices have been increased 15 per cent., owing to thq rise in silver bullion, occasioned by the adoption of the silver coinage bill. Further notice has been given by toe manufacturers that a still greater increase In prices is anticipated ‘and they have been advised to give orders ‘for future delivery. It is stated at the Treasury Department that the price of silver bullion is expected to go to $1.15 pe» ounce within a few weeks. It is understood that President Harrison is not disposed to let tbe matter of legislation against the transmission of mail matter for lotteries rest in its present state. ■ls there should be no indication of any in- | tention on the part of the House to act jupou the bill reported last week from tne I committee on postpfflces and post roads, ■the probabilities are. that the President jwill send a message to Congress Calling 'attention to the necessity for such legislation, and the general public demand thereiforwarded as expected, will contain a large amount of informationrespectiaag the voLume of the matter which is transmitted to and from the lottery through the medium of the mails. This is now being prepared at the Postoffice Department under the 'immediate direction of Postmaster-general Wanamaker. A Washington man c laims to have invented an electrical contrivance whereby the time of making the roll-calls in Congress can be reduced from a half hour to ■five minutes. In speaking of one of the Senate amend ments to the sundry civil bill, Mr. Struble, lof lowa, made a bitter attack upon Speaker Reed for his action towards gentlemen j having interest in public building bills. 'He contrasted the courteous manner of Speaker Carlisle toward all gentlemen re- ■ questing recognition with the almost sneering manner in which the present Speaker * treated such requests. The Speaker treated (the members as though they were boys. Struble did not propose to stand ttair sort 'of treatment any longer without protest; Should the members, he asked, continue to submit longer, like - cowards, to the dictation of the Speaker! Should they not rather combine together in an honest attempt to have recognition? He was for rebelling against the rulings of the Speaker ;in regard to public building bills. Mr. Struble’s remarks were vigorously applauded by the Democrats. The conferees on the “original package” bill, on tbe 80th, agreed upon a report. By a vote of 5 to 1 they agreed to recommend that the House recede from its amendment and agree to the Senate bill. The member iof the conference who voted against the proposition was Mr. Oates, of Alabama. There will be a hot fight over the report in the House and the hill may be sent into conference again. Mr. Sandford, of New York, introduced in the House to day a joint resolution declaring that it is the sense of the Congress jof the United States that legislation upon )the subject of the duties on sugar and imolasses should be postponed until the jnext session of Congress. The resolution ■requests the President to cause negotiations to be entered into with the government of Spain and the republics of South and Central America in regard to the consummation of the reciprocal arrangements of trade hereinbefore mentioned, and to institute such investigations as to him may appear proper, in order that he may be prepared to furnish to Congress at its next session such information and conclusions as will enable it to legislate upon the subject without delay. Ths President will attend the National G. A. R. encampment at Boston. Speaker Reed and Chairman McKinley announce that they cannot accept invitations to make speeches during the coming campaign, that if they find time from their Congressional duties to go upon the stump they will devote their efforts to their own districts. Major McKinley has a Democratic majority of 1,000 to overcome in his district and he says it will make him hustle to achieve success. In the Senate on the IstMr. Blair offered a resolution looking to the limiting of debate. Objection was made on the Democratic side and the resolution went over. The tariff bill was discussed. The surprise was the speech of Plumb, (Rep.) of Kqmm*, against the measure. The House resumed consideration of the civil sundry appropriation bill. The monthly debt statement for July was issued from the Treasury Depart, ment Friday in a new form and shows a net reduction in the public debt during the past month amounting to $395,257. The bonded indebtedness, according to the new form of statement, amounts to $700,799,860, l)Faffdcreaseofslo,slS,7sffaartngtoepißr and first month of the fiscal year. Tbe total debt Aug. 1, less cash is the Treasury, is placed at $878,289,113. The Treasury surplus, or available cash balance, shown by tbe statement, aggregates $127,214,119. This amount includes s22,s4l,7l9fractional silver currency and minor coin and $54,207,975 national bank redemption fund placed in the Treasury cash under the sixth section of the silver act, which became law last month, and which, of course, did not appear as cash in the debt statement heretofore issued. Russell B. Harrison, in speaking to a reporter on Thursday about the Cape May cottage, said that when the parties visited Washington with the deed of the cottage tbe President declined to accept tbe gift, but told the would-be donors that as they had prepared tae cottage for the family he would arrange for them to go there and would determine later whether to rent or buy the' cottage. Mrs. Harrison was so pleased with the cottage after occupying it that the President decided to buy it and did so.