Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — In the National Capital. [ARTICLE]

In the National Capital.

Tlie President has sent to the Senate the nomination of George E. Anderson of Illinois to be consul at Amoy, China. President Roosevelt has signed the measure providing for the construction and, maintenance of roads and schools a,ml Hie care of insane persons in Alaska. 'The House committee on the judiciary, by a vote of 8 to 5, ordered a favorable report on the Clayton bill repealing the bankruptcy laws. Sir Chon Tung Liang Cheng, the Chinese ’in in inter, has received a cablegram from his government stating that absolute peace prevails in China and that there is no sign of anti-foreign agitation. President Roosevelt intends to give Gen. Thomas L. Rosser of Virginia a federal appointment, probably either the postmastership of Charlottesville or the Internal revenue collcctorship of the second Virginia district.