Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The treasury department has reduced its estimate of the probable amount required for the payment of, the sugar bounties. The original estimate was $lO,000,000. It is now $8,000,000. President Harrison expects to leave Washington within an hour or two after the inauguration of his successor, and arrive at Indianapolis Monday, March 6. He will spend the intervening Sunday at Pittsburg. Mr. Turpie, in the Senate, Tuesday, offered a resolution making political crimes a non-extraditable offense. It was laid on the table. A debate arose over the ratification of the Russian treaty, the clause making an attempt to murder any member of tho Russian royal family a 'lionpolitical offense, and extraditable. Mr. Turpie defended the right of asylum for such offenders. The treaty was ratified by a two-thirds vote. In the whisky trust investigation, Weddesday, Thomas Dewar, a guager, testified that he was approached by Mr. Gibson, and requested to assist in destroying tlic Shufeldt distillery. Was told that I could make SIO,OOO by assisting him, and $25,000 if the matter went right. At a subsequent conversation Gibson stated that he could give witness something to put a can under a tank oF alcohol in the cistern room of the Shufeldt distillery. Witness was to receive SIO,OOO for this.