Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is believed at Washington that Judge Gresham will be a member of- Cleveland cabinet. An item of~sll,ooo has been reported in the sundry civil service bill for the arsenal at Indianapolis. — Upon the recommendation of Third Auditor Hart, another letter carrier at S6OO a year was allowed to Frankfort, Ind., making the fourth one for that city. Senator Voorhees has introduced a bill to increase the pension of Wm. G. Smith, of Company C, Thirty-fourth Indiana, to S3O per month. Senator Voorhees has reintroduced the bill of many years standing to reimburse the Miami Indians of Indiana for money improperly withheld from them. Senator Frye has introduced a bill fora commission to investigate the results ol repressive legislation on social vice and Its relation to labor, wages, marriage, di vorcc, pauperism and crime. The House committee on Territories, without a division, ordered favorably reported the bill enabling Utah to form a constitution and State government and to be admitted to the Union. Representative Scott (Ill.) is the father of a proposition to increase the whisky tax to $1.25 a gallon. He disclaims any intention to benefit the whisky trust. Tho bill on the basis of the collections of the past year would give about $35,000,000 of additional revenue. STbeNavy Department has practfcally outlined Its plans for the great naval review in New York harbor. Preliminary steps have been taken by the issuance of an order, signed by Secretary Traey, placing Rear Admiral Bancroft Gberardi in command. 5 President Harrison has issued a proclamation ordering all public buildings at Washington to he draped in mourning out-of-regard for the dead ex-President and all public Business will bo suspended on the day of the funeral. The President will be unable to attend the funeral ser vices, but will be represented by a majority of the Cabinet. iTho usual monotony of the Senate proceedings was broken, Friday, by VicePresident Morton innocently addressing Senator Brice as “the Senator from New York.” After a hearty laugh the Senate settled down to business and passed Senator Sherman’s bill to extend to the North Pacific ocean the protection for seals. The Postoffice Department lias received information that the two ships, tho City of Now York and the City of Paris, belonging to tho Inman Line, have about completed the necessary arrangements for Hie accommodation of sea postoffices, and will bp ready to make their first trip 3 under the American flag about the middle of February. Messrs. Coombs and Patterson have practically completed their report to tho spcciai committee on tho investigation into tho Reading anthracite coal combination. The report will assert tho aim of the combination is to drive out independent coal operators and obtain a complete control of the anthracite coal Industry. A backwoods statesman at Washington wants to sell the stock in tho National Zoological Garden consisting of one unhealthy elephant, a few decrepit monkeys, and otner animals, and apply the proceeds on the National debt. Mr. Holman does not consider the scheme practicable. President Harrison will send to Congress within a few days a special message, which may havo an important bearing upon the possiblo annexation of Canada to the United States. The message Itself, while dealing with a mere detail of commerce across tho border, involves such vast commercial interests that, In the opinion of members of the committee on foreign affairs of the House and of the committeo on foreign relations of the Senate, it caunot fail to make an immediate impression upon the growing sentiment In British America in favor of extending the northern boundary of tho United States to the frozen limits of the continent. Theodore Tilton rs seldom heard of these later years, but his name appears in the list of callers at President Carnot’s reception in Paris on New Year’s day. General Troohu, the defender of Paris in the closing ofays of'the Franeo-Prusstan war, Ls a decendant of Racine. He was invited to attends recent histromc ceremony in honor of the eminent dramatist, but so busy is the. old soldier with his memoirs that he could not spare the time to ace ept. President Diaz, of Mexico, is one of the hardest-worked mop in the Republic. Ho is sixty-two years old but his , life has been so temperate that he looks much younger. His daily routine is one of Democratic simplicity and he frequently rides in the street cars. When he does make use of a carriage it is one of tli^ filaincst in the capital and the driver s not in livery.