Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — WASHINGTON GOSSIP [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The Committee on Site and Design for the SIOO,OOO monument for the victims of the Maine disaster has selected three designs. The military reservation at St. Michael, Alaska, has been reduced by the War Department to a circular plat of ten miles on all sides of the flag-staff. Gossip is in circulation in army circles regarding the prospect of the return from the Philippines of Maj. Gen. Arthur Mac•Vrthnr Governor General; Maj. Gen. J. C Bates and Brig. Gen. F. D. Grant, all of whom have been there since the beginning of the rebellion. The War Department has drawn up its plan for the reorganization of the regular army. It * 8 to consist of 85,000 men. There are to be thirty infantry regiments, twelve cavalry regiments and a corps of nrtillery equivalent to twelve regiments. This plan will be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of War. According to a close personal and political friend of Pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans, he is to be the next Postmuster General of the United States, ' Postmaster General Smith will, In his annual report, call attention to the abuses of second-class mail matter privileges, and ask for the general extehsion of the rural free delivery system. The State Department has instructed United States Consul Gunnere, at Tangiera, to demand the immediate payment by Morocco of the indemnity for th« murder of Marcus Essagin, an American,