Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — Notes of National Capital. [ARTICLE]

Notes of National Capital.

Henry E. Palmer will be appointed ns postmaster ut Omaha, Neb. lie was pressed for the appointment by Senator Millard. The Senate committee on foreign relations authorized a favorable report on the Cuban treaty, including the Platt amendment. The treaty hag been ratified by the Cuban Senate. Secretary’ llay and Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister, signed a protocol extending for six months the period allowed for the exchange of ratifications of tho Cuban general treaty embodying the Platt amendment. * Charges have been filed at"the Interior Department against Bird 8. McGuire, the delegate in the House from Oklahoma, charging that in violation of the law he has been prosecuting claims iu Ijehnlf of Indians and accepting fees therefor while serving qs a delegate iu Congress. Navy Department has commended Gunner Ben Donnelly for rescuing Randolph M.vSherwood, an apprentice, who fell overboard from tho Minneapolis. Representative Spalding of Nortji Dakota introduced bills appropriating SH)O,000 each •for monuments to William McKinley nnd Alexander Hamilton, iu the District of Columbia. The President* has approved the sentence of the courts-martinl iu the cases of Knud Knudson, Seventh infantry, nnd Hector R. Roblchon, Thirteenth infantry, and they have been dismissed front the service.