Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Noble has .written to Mayor Great, of New York, refusing the request for a census recount of that city. The President op the Bth issued the annual Thanksgiving Proclamation, fixing Thursday November 27th as the day. "Postmaster General Wanamaker on the 6th, in, reply to an inquiry, said that there was no probability of an extra session of Congress. While, he said, only the President could speak authoritatively upon the subject, he, Mr. Wannamaker, did not bes lieve that the President had any thought of calling Congress together before the regular session. Two other members of the Cabinet, who were unwilling to be quoted by name, said, in response to similar inquiries: “There will be no extra session.” A statement having appeared recently to the effect that the Mexican government had placed an import duty on cattle from the United States, the Secretary of Agri culture immediately called the attention of the Department of State to this mat to *, with a r&juest that the real facts be ascertained, He is now in receipt of a communication from the Department of State, inclosing a telegram from the United States Consul General at Nuevo Laredo, in reply to one from the State Department, instructing him to make inquiries on the subject, in which that official states that no such duty has, to his knowledge, been imposed by the Mexican government, but that Jhat government is now preparing a tariff bill none of the details of which have been so far made public.