Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Cuuprt, is confined to his bed with a severe eoldT ' The monthly treasury staTemonf of The public debt shows that on Noy. -JO, 1805, llie debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $948,477;6T1, an increase for the month of ’■53,046,508, which is accounted for by the decrease of $”.544,011 in the cash in the treasury. This amount,, however, does not include $583,087,673' in certificates and treasury-notes which are* offset by ail equal amount of cash in tile treasury. William Washington, a Washington negro, has been arrested for complicity in the treasury caheeled-stamp steal and has made a confession which shows that the thefts had gone on for months. Th s o stamps, he says, were Hot taken from the documents at the treasury building, but ihe papers were-, taken away in sin ail quantities to different houses where young girls, employed at Trbm 40 to 50 cents a da.v, removed such of the stumps and signatures as seemed valuable, and then burned the papers. It is estimated that Washington and Edwards, who was arrested some .days ago, have obtained from the fileroom of the treasury about KVeutv-tive thousand old papers and destroyed a considerable -i iiiuuluji > 'of tli<>m~ Jifter removing the stumps, About eiglitecir thousand of Ihe stamps liavli been recovered by the department. 4 Washington dispatch: The eagle bird of" freedom is preparing to do some screaming. The provocation is varied. •Three resolutions of inflammatory tenor are already before the Senate upon Which discussion has already commenced, and the steamship Britannia brings additional ammunition in the shape of' a reply to Secretary Olaey's note to Lord Salisbury touching the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The British Government qnesti'ms the right of llie United States to mix in anj flatly refuses to arbitrate upon the title to the disputed territory least of the ’'Scbomburg line,” holding to the precedent that the ni;ea specified is part and parcel of the British possessions, and therefore solidly British beyond’ peradventure. This is the reply that has been expected; but it will nevertheless be the occasion of a fuss nnd future demonstrations of seeming great consequence.