Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Mr. E. S. Lacey, Controller of the Currency, has resigned. N % Thomas H, Sherman, United States Consul at Liverpool, has tendered his resignation to the President. Congressman Shively, of Indiana, made * a speech in the House, ou the 15th favoring his bill reducing the duty on tin plate to one cent a pound. _ ....... -• Representative Davis, of Kansas, on the 15th, introduced In the House a bill, providing that United States Treasury notes, _ commonly known as greenbacks, standard lilver dollars and gold coins of the United States shall hereafter be full and lega ‘ fender in payment of all debts, and declaring void any Instrument stipulating payment in any particular kind of -■■ All the gnver ~~ cither formally or informally accepted the Invitation issued by the President to participate iu A -i^etaJV T time and place been settled. While thecenfreeson the part of the United States hdve not been announced, it is generally accepted that Mr. H. H. Cannon aud Senator Jones of tferada will be appointed. The President and the Secretary of the Treasury will confer netft week on the subject of the meeting. President Harrison has sent the follow* ing message to his Indiana supporters at Minneapolis: “Ills quite impossible for me to acknowledge individually aad in writing the warm congratulatory messages » of my Indiana friends. If this great company of friends were before me I could not express my feelings in speech. I have tried that once and failed. Itls not the renomination for the Presidency which you did so much to bring about, but just your great and unfailing respect and love that moves me. My’ gratitude would not haye been less if your discreet and friendly efforts had been wholly unavailing.”