Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Joseph B. Jackson, a dangerous crank from Meriden, Conn., was arrested at the White House door. He carried a revolver and it was feared he intended to kill President McKinley. “If the President does not take some action favorable to Cuba by December we, the members of Congress, will recognize Cuba’s independence, and that, too, at the beginning of the session.” Representative Livingston of Georgia who Spoke the above, is a Democrat and a member of the minority, but, a Washington correspondent says, he voices the sentiment of the majority in the lower house. The monetary commission appointed under the authority of the Indianapolis sound-money convention held its opening session at the Arlington Hotel in Washington, D. C., Wednesday. L. Carroll Root of New York and Parker Willis of Chicago, were appointed to collate in proper form the suggestions that have been received for reference to the appropriate committees. The appointment of three general committees will also be recommended—viz.: On gold and currency, on United States currency and on the banking question, to which the suggestions received will be referred. The necessity of increasing the personnel of the navy will be presented to Congress in the forthcoming reports of bureau chiefs of the Navy Department. Both officers and men are needed to man the large number of ships now in commission. Capt. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau of navigation, in order to find officers for vessels is compelled to search the service with a fine rake. The tour of shore duty of line officers, with the exception of those in common grades, has been cut down in many cases and hereafter the younger officers will have considerably less time on shore. So far as the engineer corps is concerned, it is understood that Engineer in Chief Melville proposes to recommend that one hundred officers be added to the corps as soon as possible. The lack of enlisted men has been apparent for some time.