Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

■ The pension bill reported to Congress carries an appropriation of $141,325,820. A bill has been introduced in the United States Seuqte to revive. ta«Lgri|de.<tLllmu tenant . general in the interest of Gen. Miles. An echo of the Associated Press- dispatches from Venezuela was heard in the House of Represeutafives Thursday. As soon as the journal had been read Mr. Livingston (Dym.) of Georgia sent to the cldrk’s desk and had read the following resolution: “Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, .Ahe . Senate- concurring, that the President of the United States is. hereby requested to forthwith ascertain whether Great Britain is advancing her outposts on the territory 7 in dispute between her colony of British Guiana and the republic of Venezuela, or is reinforcing posts heretofore established with troops, police or ordnance; and should the President‘‘become cognizant of the filet that British military or police force is advancing to Invade qrreinforce, or since the 17th of December last, has invaded or reinforced posts formerly occupied within said disputed territory, he. deinand the immediate withdrawal of ' said soldiers and- the reduction of the policeforcc in said territory to'nbt a greaY er number than were dccwpying the British outposts on the aforesaid 17th of December, 1895.” Mr. Livingston-asked for unanimous consent to make a brief explanation of the resolution, but Mr. Boutelle (Rep'») of Maine objected and. the resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The three territorial delegates—Messrs. Flynn ms Oklahoma, Murphy of Arizona ami Catron of New Mexico—are waging a vigorous campaign in Congress to secure favorable action upon their bills for the admission of the territories represented by them to statehood. Each delegate considers the achievement of statehood the chief mission of his congressional career and his energies are bent'upon securing it. They are anxious to have the bills before the territories committee reported to the House and disposed of in some way, and having made a canvass of the committee, believe that more than two-thirds of will veto for favorable reports. The bills for the' admission of Arizona and’New Mexico before this Congress are enabling acts modeled upon the act by which Utah was elevated to statehood, with certain modifications demanded by local conditions. Arizona's bill stipulates for immediate statehood on a constitution which has already been formed by the people, but there is doubt concerning the legal standing of the convention, Mr. Flynn's new Oklahoma bill differs from the former one in giving authority to Congress to attach any or all of the Indian territory to Oklahoma when the lands have been allotted and made subject to taxation. Ex-Gov. Murphy,.of. Arizona, who is now the territorial delegate. says he finds a strong sentiment for the abolition of the territorifri system, but there is much opposition to the admission of Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma, on the part, of Western members who object to increasing the free sHveri-strcngrh of the: Senate.