Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Commodore Matthews, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy, in his annual report,estimates $2,124,149 as needed for new work. The ram Katahdin, the latest addition to the new navy, was given an official trial Thursday. The result of the* trial is not announced, but it is said the required seventeen knots an hour were more than maintained under unfavorable conditions. The report that Capt. Isaac Bassett, the veteran doorkeeper of the Senate, is dying at Washington is not confirmed. He Is suffering from stomach trouble, but his physician says he is not dangerously ill. Capt. Bassett is 76 years of age,-however, and quite feeble, and the physician does not think he will be able to perform his duties much longer. The treasury statement of receipts and disbursements for October and the first four months of the current fiscal year affords some comparisons which will interest business men. The October deficit was whittled down during the last ten days from $10,500,000t0 $6,161,000,. which reduces the total shortage for tho four months to $16,045,000, or $4,000,000, which is tho almost exact average monthly deficit during the thirty-two ''months of the Cleveland regime. The October receipts footed up $28,000,000 and the disbursements $34,000,000. The governmental income and outgo for ths first four months of 1895-1896, as compared with the corresponding, period of last year, is set forth with some detail in the following tabulation: 7 RECEIPTS. This Last fiscal year. fiscal year. Customs $ 58,143,034.06 $ 47,759,361.40 Internal revenue....... 50,547.102.11 65,438,364.44 Mlscel 4,783,664.63 3,789,668.70

Total r’cpt5.5113,473,820.80 $116,987,414.54 EXPENDITURES. Civil and miscellaneous .$ 32.300,671.41 $ 35,508.886.97 War .. 22,101,974.05 20.435,651.36 Navy 8,900,383.21 11,079443.01 1ndian#3,971,975.91 2,995,951.60 Pensions .... 47,656,374.50 47.880,195.03 Interest ...,, 14,588,164.38 13,441,446.22 Total expen.5129,519,543.46 $131,341,273.29 Excess expenditures over _ receipts j. .. .$ 16,045,722.66 $ 14,353,858.65 The October receipts, however, are $9,000,000 greater than for th 6 corresponding month of 1894. Internal revenue receipts are now running $200,000 or $300,000 a day heavier and customs receipts a very little heavier than last year. It was Spanish weather at Washington Thursday night, but the sympathizers \ftth the Cubag patriots who gathered in Metzerott’s Hall made the old building shake as they cheered to the (echo every declaration of the eloquent speakers In behalf of Cuban liberty, and the granting by the government of tho United Stated of belligerent rights to the patriots who are fighting the tyranny of Spain. The first hard storm of the season had but little effect upon the enthusiastic/ crowd which gathered at the hall in reg|K>nse to thejnvitations’issued by tbs Citizens’ Committee. The speeches were full of eloquent pleadings for the cause of the Cuban patriots, Imt it was a pArticularlvznoticeable (fact there was not the Brightest exhibition of intemperate zeal. The managers of the meeting were distinctly informed the Spanish Minister had entered an informal protest against the gathering, claiming a meeting of this kind at the capital of the United State© would be misunderstood abroad, and might possibly be taken a© representing the official sentiment of the government. It was also understood the Washington

meeting would certainly be quoted abroad in any event, and for this reason those in charge of the gathering made their arrangements so the declarations were it dignified protest against Spanish, tyranny, and a no less dignified but emphatic demand for this country to recognizo the Cuban insurgents as belligerents and not as guerrillas or pirates.