Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1891 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Quay announces that he favor* Blaine’s nomination in 1893. An extra session of Congress it is believed will be almost imperative next month. ‘ It is announced that a reciprocity agreement has been entered into by the United. Statesand Brazil. A delegation from the Farmers’ Alliv ance called on the House Coinage Coms mittee and demanded in vigorous terms the free coinage es silver. Ingalls made a speech in the Senate o* the sth, defining his position on the closw ure and the federal election bills. He said the closure rule had never met his epprovw al, but he favored the election bill. Reduction of the public debt during the month of January, as shown by the statement, amounted to *15,835,496, and for the seven months of the current fiscal yearor since July 1, 1890, amounted to *4l, 580,127.

After this week the session of Congress will bepractically continuous to the c)ose j at noon on March 4. The Senate prill >m» mediately begin night sessions, and it £ expected that the House will follow the example. During the last week of the see* Sion the work will be continuous, unless Ifreyoj* greater facility given the worirtnan heretofore. It has been customary to hold the session of the last week right through Sunday and during all of the days and nights without intermission of more than a few minutes each day for ad* journment, in order to make the journa l show legislative days. The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the House Tuesday. It make* provisions for Indiana as follows: For the purchase of a site and construction of a public building at Madison, *50,000; far the completion of the buildlngunder courseoe construction at Lafayette, *55,000; for purchase of site and construction of build*' ing at South Bend, *75,000. For the In« dianapOlis arsenal a total of *30,110 is ap ? preprinted as follows: Repair of main storehouse, *20,810; iron fence on Michigan street front, *6,120: removing present wooden fences on east boundry line and repairing the same, *1,500; repair and exs tension of main and branch sewers north ofmagizine, *1,600. Total appropriations for the National So'diors’ Home at Marion *2,447,093.95. The bill carries total appro priations of *34,242,970. There is an ins creased appropriationof $4,743,115f0r pnbv lie buildings, as compared with the appro priation for the current fiscal year. > Men who are in any way connected with the Federal government can not be too careful about their personal habits. It in wonderful what little things in this con* nection defeat the objects of justice. The Senate committee on military affairs the other day refused to report favorably a bill giving an honorable discharge from the army of the rebellion to Captain Pren s i tkse Holmes, of the Now York Volunteers, on the ground that ho was proven to have a want of self-respect, because be played cards with enlisted meh, and hadnore* gard for his personal appearance. A Western man was recently dismissed from an Indian school superintendency because he had the air of an indolent man, and his ' personal movements were demoralizing to the students who were being taught indue, try. Another man has been dismissed from the employment of an Indian school because he quarreled with his associato A < about religion. He wanted everybody to* be Methodists. The little things after all make up character, and the foxes axe the animals that kill the grapevines—speaking from a federal service view point.