Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles has been appointed geneial in command of the army to succeed Gen. Schofield, retired. Gen. Ruger gets command of the department of the East. Rev. Dr. Itooker, the private secretary of Mgr. Satolli, has been appointed to the chair of ethics iu the department of philosophy at the Roman Catholic University at Washington. The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows coinage during the month of September as follows: Gold, $7,543,572; silver, $473,160; minor coins, $61,414; total coinage, $8,078,653. Secretary Olney positively refuses to say anything touching any correspondence he has had or intends to have rela* five to the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary dispute, so jt cannot be positively ascertained whether he has taken any steps recently to induce Great Britain to submit the matter to arbitration. It can be stated, ■fcjwewr, Chat sliwe Secretary. Gresham's death and up to a very recent date the department had not made a single move in that direction. But inasmuch as Congress by resolution directed the executive to use its best efforts to bring the dispute to arbitration, it is very probable that, having in mind the near approach of the assembling of Congress, Secretary Olney has been giving the subject the attention it demands and is formulating his views to be communicated to Ambassador Bayard upon the return of the latter from his vacation in Scotland. The Hon. S. W. Lamoreux, Commissioner of the General Land Office, has made his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. The decline of the landoffice business, as noted in the last report, still continues. Compared with 1594 there has been a decrease in land entries 19,095 and of 6,016,685 acres entered upon; a decrease of final entries to the number of 6,584 and 356,059 acres entered upon, and a decrease of cash receipts of $734,370. The business of the office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1895, was as follows: Cash sales, 417.87 S acres; homestead entries, 5,009,491 acres; State selections, 626,169 acres; railroad selections, 1,967,479 acres; swamp land patents, 244,774 acres; Indian allotments, 85,455 acres; Indian lands sold, 42,548 acres; total cash receipts, $2,033,454; patented or certified with the effect of patenting to railroad companies, 8,184,336 acres; surveys accepted by the land office, 11 10,123,653 acres.