Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Senate of the United States has Grant relative to the removal of the remains of her distinguished husband from, his burial place in New York to Washngton. The President has approved the origins package bill. More than 230,000 applications have already been filed under the dependent pension bill, which became a law June 27 little more than a month ago. At this rate the Treasury will soon be able to make a pretty close estimate of how much the bill will cost it, for all the disabled: veterans will be heard from in a very short time. The President and Mr. Blaine witnessed a thrilling struggle for life, at Cape May, on the 4th. A large party were in bathing. They were amusing themselves by diving from a large raft. The tide turned and a large wave swept overboard, and one lady rescued after a very serious struggle by Mr. A. W. Buch, who was so exhausted when ho reached the beach that he fainted. The President has sent to Congress the following resume of a letter recently received by him from Gov. Steele, of Oklahoma: “Information received by me from other sources leads me to believe Gov. Steele is altogether right in his impression that there will be, unless relief is afforded either by public appropriation or by organized individual effort, widespread suffering among the settlers in‘Oklahoma. Many of these people expended in travel and in providing shelter for their families all of their accumulated means. The crop prospects for this year are, by reason of drought, unfavorable, and the ability of the teiritory Itself to provide relief must be inadequate dnring this year. I am advised that theca is an unexpended balance of about $45,000 of the fund appropriated for the relief of the sufferers by flood on the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be given to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of the poerest people in Oklahoma. Steps have been taken to more particularly learn the condition of the people throughout the territory, and if a larger relief should seem to be neeessary the facts will be submitted to Congress.”