Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Affairs In Washington. [ARTICLE]

Affairs In Washington.

Senator Jones has been re-elected chairman of the Democratic congressional caucus. Capt. G. W. Kirkman, Twelfth infantry, was arrested at Manila for not paying his hills. President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained British ambassador and others at the White House recently. Cols. C. C. Hood, Sixteenth infantry, and Theodore J. Wint, Sixth cavalry, are likely to be made brigadier generals. Speaker Henderson resigned from pie Metropolitan Club because his attention was called to the rules in an abrupt way. Nomination of John C. Ames for United States marshal for the northern district of Illinois has been sent to the Senate. The State Department is planning to send young men to China to study the language and act as interpreters for consuls. Senator Mason of Illinois, in reporting a pure food bill, took occasion to explain how his postal frank was used by a wine manufacturer. Illinois fares better (han any other State in securing important chairmanships in the division of the House committees. Reappointment of United States Marshal Ames, Collector Nixon and Assistant Treasurer Williams at Chicago has bees decided upon by the President. Representative Brownlow has reintroduced in the House the bill of the last Congress for the creation of a park in the Southern Apalachian mountains. The bill provides that the park shall be called McKinley National Park and shall contain 4,000,000 acres.