Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — WACHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WACHINGTON.

' . {•-■■ ■■ &x-Senator McDonald has written a letter to Congressman Wheeler, in which he inserts a constitutional argument against the Lodge bill. He calls the bill an uns warranted usurpation, and asks, if Congress has the right to enact such a law,' how long will it be until Congress will be interfering with the manner of electing United States Senators, and virtually take elections out of the hands of the State authorities! Land C ommissioner Gross has reduced the number of cases, which had been left over from previous administrations, from 295,000 to 108,000, The Census office to-day announced the result of the count of the population of a number of cities, as follows: Milwaukee 203,970, ahd increase In ten years of 88,392; Allegheny City, 104,967. an increase of 28,285; Seattle, Was, 43,914, an increase of 40,881 ; Tacoma, Wash., 35,858, an increase 34,760 : Emporia, Kan., 7,550, an increase of 2,919; Arkansas City, Kan., 8,354, an increase of 7,842 Fort Scott, Kan, 11,837, an increase of 7,465. President Harrison has been invited to visit California on the occasion of the celebration of the admittance of the State into the Union.

United States Sub-treasurer Walters, at Philadelphia, has not yet signed the re. ceipt which his predecessor, S. Davis Page, must hold before be can be relieved of his heavy bonds. The reason is the discovery of a considerable amount of counterfeit silver dollars in the govern* ment vaults here. Soon after Captain Walters entered upon the duties of his office he made preparations to have the government experts count the money in his charge, which includes over $7,000,000 in silver dollars. Great was their surprise to find thirty counterfeit silver dollars among the first 1,000 pieces counted.

Every Republican Senator now in the city was represented at a conference held Thursday evening at the residence of Sen ator McMillan, of Vermont avenue, either in person or by proxy. Friends of the election bill presented the claims of that measure for consideration and action at this session of Congress. Senator Moody advocated the adoption of a previous question rule, which was received with applause. After the presentation of various views, the duty of arranging an order of business to be substituted for the Quay resolution and the other pending propositions was assigned to a committee, with Senator Hoar as chairman, and comprising in its membership Senators Allison, Spooner and Hale. This committee, It is understood, will prepare a resolution, to be offered in plaee of the Quay resolution, the order to include a vote on Ihe tariff bill and upon certain other measures named in the Quay resolution. The election bill will go over until the next session, and will be the first measure considered when Congress reassembles in December. The committee appointed at the Republican Senatorial Conference Thursday night to formulate a compromise agreement have prepared an order of business which contemplates the disposition of the tariff bill in general debate by the end of this month and its conclusion under the five-minute rule during the first four or five dayo of September, the adoption of the anti-lottery, the river and harbor, and two or three general appropriation, and a few other important bills before the adjournment. It will, among Republicans only, fix the day upon which Congress will reconvene in December as the time when the election bill shall be taken up for con* Bideration, with the previous question ordered not later than the 28th of that month. The compromise agreement as to the election bill is to be presented to the Republican Senators for signature, and it is to be considered binding whenever forty, three of them—a majority of the entire Senate, have attached theirsignaturestoit. This will insure agreed action uDon the bill at the time named, and will, it is believed enable Congress to adjourn by the Ist of October. Secretary Noble has instructed the Com*, missioner of Pensions to make special and thus expedite all claims fer pensions by parties now living in Oklahoma. This action is taken in order to relieve, as far as possible, the destitute condition of many laimanta in that territory.