Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — WASHINGTON NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NOTES.

An organization has been formed among the members of the House of Representatives at Washington, composed of members of both political parties, the object of which is indicated by the following resolution, passed at its first meeting: Re.nolved, That the purpose of the organization now about to be made shall be confined to the remonetization of the silver dollar and the repeal of the Resumption act. The holders of bonds of the District of Columbia, a large quantity of which are supposed to have been issued without legal warrant during the reign of the Washington ring, are laboring with a strong lobby to procure a Congressional guarantee of the interest on the paper. Representatives of the syndicate have asked the Treasury Department to release them from the contract under which they are bound to take some millions more of the 4 per cent, bonds. The President has determined hereafter, in making appointments for Pension Agents for cities where the old incumbents are not retained, to select soldiers who had meritorious records in the Union army. It is thought, as Pension Agents have to do With disabled soldiers only, there is a singular propriety in such selections. The House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice has agreed to report favorably a bill limiting the annual salary of United States Marshals to $5,000, and Deputy Marshals to $5 per day. President Hayes has positively refused to grant a pardon to the Chicago whisky crooks, and the counsel who have been so persistently pushing the matter have left the capital, breathing the direst vengeance against the Executive, Attorney General Devens, Secretary Sherman, and everybody else connected with the “blarsted” administration. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate : Frank Leland, Wisconsin, Consul of the United States at Hamilton, Ontario; Thomas C. Sbopleigh, of Minnesota, Register of the Land Office, Detroit; Adam Underwood, Surveyor of Customs District of Boston and Charlestown, Mass. Assistant Secretary French, of the Treasury Department, has written an opinion sharply crijicising the action of District Attorney Bangs, of Chicago, in Indorsing the applications of the whisky crooks, Roelie, Yunkor and B. M. Ford, for pardon.