Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Nearly all the heads of the bureaus of the War Department, with Gen. Huger, have approved the new regimental flag designed by Assistant Secretary of War Doe. The flag will be adopted for the army. It is smaller in size, but longer in proportion than that now usled. At Washington, the Howgate jury brought in a verdict of guilty on each indictment, one indictment being for forgery and one for falsification of accounts. The jury added a recommendation to mercy. An appeal on a bill of exceptions has been taken to the district court of appeals and probably will come up in September. Captain Henry Howgate was charged with forgery and embezzlement from the Government while in the signal service bureau. A Washington dispatch says: The State Department has taken steps .according to the forms of diplomatic intercourse to exact from Spain the payment of the longstanding Mora claim, a claim admitted by Spain in 1888 to be entitled to payment, and which Spain promised to pay in December of that year, $1,500,000. Minister Taylor has been informed by telegraph of the insistence of the United States upon prompt payment of the indemnity and has boon directed to press for settlement and immediate payment. The expectation is that there will be a prompt and satisfactory settlement and payment at once. Extreme measures will follow delay.