Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1881 — EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION. [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION.

The session of the Senate was very brief on the 15th inst. The President sent in tbo nominations of Septimus J. Hanna to bo Register of the Land Office at Leadville, and D. Newton Thompson to be Attorney for the. Western District of Louisiana. A Democratic caucus wns caljcd to consider the election of a Secretary. The S-. nltc confirmed the nominations of Noah C. McFarland, of Kansas, for Commissioner of the General Land Office; W. Silver, of Indiana, United States Consul at Capo Town, and a large number of Postmasters, among them E. T. Langley, Traer, Iowa: John M. Miller, Clarinda, Iowa; Albert G. Siegel, Girard, III.; Joseph W. Maddux, Carlisle, III.; William J. Nannice, Cambridge, Ill.; Theodore M. King, Paxton, Ill.; Joseph N. Patton, Pana, III.; Thomas B. Tait, Knoxville, Ill.; Gratt C. Wildy, Galena, Kan.; Simeon Donaldson, Ca'dwell, Kan.; Francis Bower, Marion, Kan. In the Senate, on the 17th inst., Mr. Sherman insisted upon being favored with a copy of the report of the treasury commission. The President prp term announced appointments to til' vacancies ofi'the committees: and the names were placed at the foot of the list. Among the n< ruinations sent in were those of Frank M. Eastman, of Washington, to be Attorney for Montana ; Charles H. Gould, of Nebraska, to bo Deceiver of "Public Moneys at Miles City; Ebtn W. Cottrell to be Receiver of Public Mom ya at Dctro t; Charles W. Tierce, Register of the Land Office at Lincoln, Neb. The Senate then adjourned to Friday in honor of the Yorktown celebration. The Senate reassembled at noon of Friday Oct. 21, with quite a full attendance. Mr. Shermat. secured the passage of the resolution calling for the suppressed treasury report. Mr. McPherson presented a petition from members of the New York Legislature affecting the titles of the new Senators from that State. A. 8. Alexander, of Indiana, was confirmed as Fifth Auditor of the Treasury.