Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — WASHINGTON GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The National Wool Growets’ Association unanimously adopted a resolution favoring an extra session of Congress. A bill was introduced by Representative Bull of Rhode fslnnd, appropriating $50,000 for the erection in Washington of a monument to Jaaie* G. Blaine. “Gen." J. S. Coxey, of Commonweal army'’fame, is in Washington to resume nl* effort to secure Congressional action on hjs-schemes, for good roads and non--Interest bearing bonds. Members of the i House Way* and Means Commitse* say that the reports from’ Washington outlining an elaborate scheme for a duty ’on silver In tho new tariff bill ie merely a fiction ij /