Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Senator Hanna has recovered from the illness from which he has been suffering for several days. The funeral of the late Gardiner G. Hubbard was held in the Church' of the Covenant in Washington. War on the President’s Cuban policy and the currency plan of Secretary Gage was declared by the Democrats of the House of Representatives in caucus at Washington. Marshal Blanco has cabled to Senor de Lome, Spanish minister at Washington, a request that he tender Blanco’s condolence to President McKinley on the death of the President’s mother. The Agricultural Department at Washington issues the following: “The special wheat investigation instituted by the Department of Agriculture indicates a crop of 530,000,000 bushels. These figures are subject to slight modification in the final report.” Secretary Alger of the War Department at Washington says it was not true that his order to have the reprimand recently administered to Captain Lovering read at all at army posts was the result of information that the officers at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, intended to ignore the matter as far as possible. He said it was suggested to him that some effort might be made to suppress the reprimand, and, as he felt very anxious that the widest possible’ publicity be given to the fact that a reprimand had been administered in the case, he thought it best to issue a general order, directing that the document be read in full to the commissioned and non-commissioned officers and private soldiers not only at Fort Sheridan, but at every army post in the United States. As a result of Gen. Alger’s order on the subject, Captain Lovering’s offense and the proceedings of the court martial which tried him will be published from one end of the country to the other. The reprimand will be discussed at every garrison and at every club where army officials are in the habit of assembling. From this time forward Captain Lovering will be a marked man in the army. He has not only been severely reprimanded by the commander-in-chief, but his conduct has been ventilated more thoroughly than has any case before brought within the jurisdiction of a military tribune.