Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The name of Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, the Assistant Secretary of State, has been mentioned prominently in the Washington gossip iii .regard to the appointment to the Ambassadorship at Berlin. His intimate knowledge,of all matters under diplomatic consideration with Germany jvould make his appointment eminently desirable. Judges Field, Harlan, Brewer and Brown, of the Supreme Court, rendered their decision in the Northern Pacific receivership case, holding all the courts along the line of the road to be ancillary to Judge Jenkins’ court at Milwaukee. This decision gives the Milwaukee court jurisdiction over the entire system in the matter of receiverships. A measure of the greatest iuterest to pensioners was put through the House of Representatives Thursday when that body adopted the report made by the Committee on Invalid Pensions. It was recommended by the committee that in all eases of pension claims the unexplained absence for seven years of the soldier would he all that was necessary to pyove .that he was dead. It.was said this was in conformity with common law, and would answer all practical purposes and materially assist lugreat many applicants for pensions. Puder the rule now iu force at the Pension Bureau, although a soldier may not have beeu heard from since the war dosed, this cannot be considered a proof of his death, and hundreds of cases are held up in the Pension Office awaiting sip-h proofs. The statement of the Government reand expenditures for January Show the aggregate receipts to have beeu approximately $29,287,070. and the expenditures $32,090,830, lea ving the deficit for the month about $3,459,100, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year about $1.8,853>507. The receipts from customs during the month of January will amount to about $10,380,790: from internal revenue, ,$11,041|401, and from miscellaneous sources about $1,815,472. This is a decrease of about $1,000,000 in the receipts from custoriis as compared with 'January. 1895 and an increase of about $2,000,000 in the receipts from internal revenue. As compared with last month, there is an increase of over $4,000,000 iu the receipts from customs and a decrease Of nearly $1,750,000 in the receipts from customs and a decrease of nearly $1,750,■OOO in the receipts from internal revenue. The pension payments last monih amount to about $9,980,000, a decrease from December of about $1,380,000.