Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Congh-ssman Dingley of Maine introduced in the House Thursday a bill designed to increase revenues $-10,000,000 per-year, by a horizontal (inerease of 15 per cent, upon the present tariff schedule and the adding of wool and lumber tvj the dutiable list. The House Thursday passed a tariff bill, the operation of which is limited to two and'a half years, and -Which is designed to raise s4o,* >OO,OOO. 1 The vote on the passage of the bill was much confused. and no debate was permitted. Tlio Tote stood 227 to SI. An order issued by the Secretary of War Thursday reminding, army officers that it is extremely impolitic to publicly discuss the possibilities of war is construed by the friends of Major 'General Miles as a roundabout; thrust at that officer. (Jem ral Miles has recently written an article over his signature regarding the |Missibility of war with Knglaud as result stf the Vi-mwiielmi affaic ; Some excitement was caused in Washington by the discovery that the navy department had decided to let contracts for large quantities of projectiles for which no appropriation has been made by Congress. Small contracts aggregating SIOO,000 have been awarded within the past two days to the Carpenter Steel Company and to the Wheeler-Sterling Steel Company, and these will ik* followed by others,

which Is | expected to bring the total amount up to something like SOOO,OOO. The department has observed some scCbecy about the matter, the eontracts’aireadv let havihg heeo awariled without the usi’til publltj advertisement. - .