Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A Washington dispatch says : “ The President's messago on the civil service, which will bo ready to send to Congress soon after the holidays, will show that the President does not intend tp surrender any position which he has assumed in his controversy with the Senate. It will set forth the President’s views with respect to patronage, and will call attention to the fact that, by the action of tho Republican National Convention and by State Conventions, Congress as well as the President has been instructed to enforce the civil-service policy, and that he, the President, is simply endeavoring to carry out to the letter the instructions given him in advance by those who elected him. In this message the President will take very strong ground as to the constitutional right of the Executive to originate all nominations. The message will set forth in clearer light than before what the President’s intentions are upon civil-service reform.” The President has pardoned Joyce, the St. Louis whisky crook. A Washington telegram of the 20th says: “ The administration news from El Paso confirms tho reports that the difficulty there had no international significance. Dispatches from army officers say that the Mexicans were, in fact, Texans, and did not cross tho Rio Grande. From careful inquiry to-day, it can be stated that tho President sees no reason or occasion for war with Mexico.”