The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-22
From Washington.

On the 18th the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing at Washington made the last
delivery of one and two dollar notes war
ranted by the appropriations, and it was
said there would be determined opposition
i'll Congress to providing for any more
small bills.
THE death of Colonel Edward Simms,
aged ninety years, one of the defenders of
the capital from the British in 1914, oc-
Cured at Washington few nights ago.
He had lived there since the foundation of
the city.
THE National Union League has sum-
moned a National Council to meet at Wash
ington March 6.
DURING January, 1884, exports of bread
stuffs were valued at $12,2S4 ,7S1, against
Sl5,S35,57 for the same time in 1883; for
the seven months ended Jan. 81, 1884, $780,
256,207; for the same time last year, $780,
$50, 1873.
CONGRESS on the 14th had bills before it
asking the appropriation of $4,000, 900 for
the erection Of eighty-nine public build
ings.
The President has ordered the pro.
motion of Lieutenant Rhodes, of the
revenue cutter Dexter, for heroic work at
the wreck of the steamer City of Column
bus.
The House Committee ON Appropria-
tions, after conference on the 14th with
Secretary Lincoln, decided to report a bill
for an additional sum of 100000 for the
flood sufferers.
THROUGHOUT the United States and Can
ada the business failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered 800 against
260 the previous week. The distribution was
as follows: New England States, "a; Mid
die, 81; Western, So; Southern, 45; Pacific
States and Territories, 81; Canada and
the Provinces, GO.
The President on the 18th accepted the
resignation of John C. New, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, to take effect
Immediately.
ON the 10th an additional appropriation
OF $2OO0 making the total amount $780,
900, for the relief of the flood sufferers,
passed both houses of Congress and was
signed by the President
A DELEGATION from Congress visited
Baltimore on the 10th to inquire into the
advantages of a proposed canal across the
peninsula, which would require the ex-
penditure of $30,000,0O0
THE House of Representatives on the
10th of January last adopted the following
resolution:
ReSolUed, That this House has heard with
deep regret of the death of the eminent Ger
man statesman Eduard Lasker; that his loss
is not alone to be mourned by the people OF
ms native land, where his firm and constant
exposition of and devotion to free and liberal
Ideas have materially advanced the social
political and economic condition of those
peoples, but by the lovers of liberty through
out the world that a copy of these reso.
buttons be forwarded to the family Of the
deceased as well as to the Minister OF the
United States resident at the Capital of the
German Empire, to be by him communicated
through the legitimate channel to the presid.
ing officer ofthe legislative body of which he
was member
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Times on the 10Th inst. stated that "Prince
Bismarck-has returned to Herr Won Elsen.
decker, the German Minister at Washing
ton, the resolution of coincidence on Herr
Lasker's death passed by Congress, with a
counter request that he return the reso-
luton to the House of Representa- tives, as
the position of Lasker in Germany was not
such as to justify the resolution"
On the 18th Commander w. S. Schley
was selected to take charge Of the Greedy
relief expedition.
1T has been decided by the Court of
Claims that the term of service of an army
officer includes the time spent in study at
West Point.