Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Frank C. Partridge has been nominated by the President to be minister to Venezuela. The nomination of E. W. Halford to be paymaster'in the army has been confirmed by the Senate. Both Houses of Congress adjourned, Wednesday, as a mark of respect for Justice Lamar, arid numerous eulogistic speeches were made. The Republican Senatorial caucus decided to favor the admission of Oklahoma, Utah and New Nexico as States, but are against the admission of Arizona. The statement of the Secretary of the Treasury sent to the Ways and Means committee, Tuesday, shows that over 89,000,000 have been authorized for public buildings not yet begun. Senator Gorman is afraid the Democrats won’t be able to capture the Montana senatorship. He is confident, however, that the Senate will be Democratic after March 4. Our minister to Spain has informed tho State Department that the Spanish govermrient has accepted the invitation of the United States to be represented fa the naval review in April. Senator Turpie,Monday,presented apetition signed by a la?gedumber of citizens of Columbia City against the repeal of the Sherman act, providing for the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion. Mr. Sawyer, from the Senate committee on pensions, reported a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Pensions to accept as proof of citizenship of an applicant for a pension under the act of July 27, 1890, the fact that at the date of his application ho was an actual and bona fide resident of the United States, and it was passed. Secretary Noble says that in his opinion tho federal service requires the continuance of the Cherokee commission. There are, he says, several of the Indian tribes on the land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Outlet with whom negotiations should still be carried on for the purchase of their surplus lands.

The House Committee on Banking and Currency has ordered a favorable report on Representative Outhwaite’s bill for the frequent redemption and exchange of Treasury and national bank notes for new notes. This Is tho bill Mr. Outhwaite introduced as the result of an investigation which showed that soiled greenbacks were breeding places for disease germs. The committee also agreed to report favorably Chairman Bacon’s bill to make It a criminal act to omit an entry of any kind from the books of a national bank. The present law by inadvertence contains no criminal clause.

The sub-committee anpointed to investigate the elecion methods of John L Davenport reported on Friday, finding that all the charges of corrupt nracticeS made against Davenport and his deputies are substantially true on the testimony of forty-six credible witnesses. The investigation will also show that the Federal election laws now on the statute books have been placed there through the efforts of Davenport, and that he as a matter of fact has written nearly every one of tho laws, and their amendments that have been made from time to time.