Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

— ; .'i "Z . gjjl ’ odj ’ President Cleveland lyas issued a warn-' ing .proclamation concerning Cuba, ,H<Says neutrality laws shall'norbe violated y'the citizeim Sf fbc- ITiflted'States lithe chief executive can prevent II. )LV He calls on all to help the government maintain peace with Spain. Consul General Tree's report was unfavorable to the insurgents. Nfc answer has been received by - the Stats Department at Washington from Edward P. T. Hammond, United States

“ctfnsul at Budapest, who has been asked to resign. State Department officials decline to discuss the published statements that charges have been filed against the consul, but merely say that his resignation has been asked for because “he was . Aor accepfable to the Austrian government.” Friends have intervened Hammond’s b'ehglf. but the dephrtiyient recognizes the right of foreign governments to insist on the w ithdrawal of officials be pbnox,iqgs jo them. The Commissioner p.f InternAl Revenue has just submitted, to Secretary Carlisle a preliminary report th the operations of his bureau for the fiscal year ended June 30, It shows.that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregaj<»d $14(5.830,615, an increase of $3,584,537 over, the receipts of the preceding fiscal year. The'expense approximated $4,044,351 and the percentage of cost of collection will be 2.70; a r’diluction of .18, as compared with the precedihg fiscal year. The exact cost cannot be definitely stated "until the accounts have been received.