Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1893 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President Cleveland has announced that lie. will appoint none but competent business men to foreign consulships. The President has refused to interfere in ttar ease of Howard J, Schneider, the murderer of his wife, and brother-in-law. I The free gold in the National Treasury continues to increase through theofferings of Western banks and In the ordinary course of business, and now aggregates over $5,000,000. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, was not recognized by tho Republican Senatorial caucus, and he was deposed from the appropriations committee of which he has so long been a member. Secretary Carlisle has made a ruling to the effect that he will in no case disturb the official positions of men in the lifesaving and light-house service because of their political opinions. The question of a Hawaiin commission was considered at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday, It is expected that the commission, which will be headed by ex-Con-gressman Blount, will be sent at an early day. During tho last session of Congress $37.000 was appropriated with which to pay employes of tho bureau of engraving and printing, and to meet incidental expenses during tho fiscal year. It has just boon discovered that the engrossed bill signed by the President carried the sum of $37.