Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Hoar will make another attempt to pass the force bill. ■ r— 'X™. ■ SOS*; ™ Senior Officer Reiter, of the Hunger and Thetis, has been censured by Secretary Tracy and relieved of his command for failing to protect Gen. Barundia, while a passenger on board the steamship Acapulco, during the South American troubles. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin giving the population and other information of the various Indian tribes, exclusive of Alaska, The bulletin shows the tota; Indian population of the United States to be 244,701. This makes the total population 1 of the country, including Alaska —estimated at 37,100—almost 63,010,000. A correspondentdeclares that the action of the Senate on thq federal election bill has destroyed any possibility of the free coinage measure .becoming a law; that Speaker Reed and other members of the House who are opposed to free coinage, in retaliation will not permit the silver bill to be considered in the House under any .cir cumstances.

A bill which will be introduced in the House early in the session will have for its object the abolishment of the State Board of Agriculture and the establishment, in its place of a State Agricultural aud Industrial Board of fifteen members, to be elected by the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Auditor of State. This Board is to have not more than eight members of any one political party, and its membership is to be composed of three members each from the general departments of agriculture, industrial arts, mechanics.commerce and livestock breeding. J A compromise on the silver coinage question is probable. The advocates of unlims ited free coinage now acknowledge that if they continue upon the line they are following they will forever strangle their proposition, and they are considering a compromise. Speaker Reed will never permit unlimited free coinage to come before the House, even though it could get out of committee, and ho will not suffer consideration of any financial question which could be amended under the iffilesby the acceptance of a free coinage feature, unless he has assuranee that no flank movement like that which side-tracked the elections'bill is attempted. He will take no chances. One of the leading free coinage advocates said to a correspondent on the floor of the ! Senate:“Wa may compromises on free coinage for American silver.” Others hinted at a similar contemplation. „