Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1902 — Washington Notes. [ARTICLE]

Washington Notes.

Last of Spanish war reveuue taxes will end July 1; beer tax will return to $1 a barrel; tea tax stands till Jan. 1. Proposition of Gov. Tsft for purchase of frianf lands, says William E. Curtis, probably will he accepted by the Vatican. The Corliss Pacific cable bill has been killed by the House. 116, to 77; argument made that appropriations already exceed revenues by $51,000,000. Venezuela is said to have declared blockade ol Orinoco river; warship may be sent to protect American interests; ttatus of river is like Mississippi.