Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Morton denies the report that he contemplates raising the quarantine against Canadian cattle. The patent office is hearing arguments as to the ownership of a patent for a cigarette making*machine that is warranfed to make five miles pf cigarettes per day. The. tobacco is spun out in an end'less rope and fitted into an endless roll of paper, and is then cut into the pro* per lengths. Secretary Gresham is a sick man. He has not taken any nourishment for three days. He has lost his voice and is in a bad way. Several visitors were admitted during Thursday afternoon in violation of the physician’s orders,-and they persisted in discussing pending diplomatic qomplicatjons and left him in a fevefisl), semidelirious state during the night. The ailment, neuralgia of the stomach, it is -learned, is one- of .nearly a year’s standing and twice before in three months has compelled thelSecretary to take to his bed. The Department of Agriculture has received no official confirmation of the report from Paris that seventeen soldiers at Vitrie died from eating American tinned meat. Dr. Salmon said that the cause of poisoning from eating canned goods was not well understood. It did not necessarily follow that the meat was diseased. Some chemical change, due to the presence of solder and tin. sometimes took place, which produced the poisonous effects. A report will probably be received in due time from the United States consul general. Secretary Hoke Smith, of the Interior ..Department, in an financial question, divided the people into three classes—gold_.monp.metallists,'silver monometallists tftid bimetallists. He did not think' the gold monometallists strong enough to become a factor in the campaign, but that the issue would be for and against silver monometallism. He thought that the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio by this country alone would mean nothing more or less than silver monometallism, for if. under that system, the price of silver bullion did not materially advance, no other metal .would be presented at the mints for coinage.