Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House an the 27th by a vote of 117 ICS passed the bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the World’s Faln_ The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Georg* Sbiras, Jr., to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The President will leave Washington to sspend; August at Loon Lako with Mrs. Harrison as soon as Congress adjourns. On September 1. he expects to go to Cape May Point, where he will establish the “summer Capital” the same as last year. In the Senate Monday Mr. Vest introduced a joint resolution, authorizing the President to proffer to Great Britain, Germany and France, as an inducement to to enter ipUran international-' agreement for free coinage of silver, a reduction of 25 per cent, in tariff duties on the textiles, hardware, earthenware and glass. This was laid on the table. The anti-option bill was then taken up, and Mr. Georgo addressed the Senate.

Mr. John W. Mason, Commissioner of Internal Bevenue, has made a preliminary report of the operations of that service, for the fiscal year ended June 30,1892. The total collections from all sources of internal revenue for the fiscal year juSt ended were $153,857,543. For the fiscal year ended June 30,1891, $146,035,415, an increase of $7,822,128. This result, the Commissioner says, is most gratifying, and especially when taken in connection with the fact that there was a decrease in the receipts from the tax on snuff,-tobacco- and the special taxes relating to tobacco of $1,759,. 777, as compared with the receipts from -the same sources for the previous fiscal year.

Secretary Noble has directed the Commissioner of the General Laud Officeto take steps for the immediate survey of the ceded lands of the Colville Ihdlan reservation, in the State of Washington, with the view of their being opened to public settlement at the earliest possible date. The ceded lands comprisethe northern part of the reservation, and aggregate. 1,590,000 acres. It is stated that the trespassers are already crowding into the reservation, making selections of mineral and agricultural land, and that trouble is feared. As soon as the surveys aro complofM it is expected that tho President will issue a proclamation declaring tho lands opened to settlement under the homestead laws upon the.payment to the government of $1.50 per acre.