Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1881 — EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION. [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SENATORIAL SESSION.

On the opening of the Senate, on Saturday, Oct 29, Mr. Hill, of Georgia, offered a resolution that appointments to Federal offices ought not to be made for the purpose of influencing elections in the States, but objection was made to its consideration. In executive session, several Senators who had ' been arrested for absenting themselves were arraigned and reprimanded. Messrs. Sherman and Bayard were appointed to wait on the President and learn if he had any further business to place before the Senate. On their return fronj the Executive Mansion Mr. Bayard offered a resolution of thanks to President pro tern. Davis, which passed unanimously, and an adjournment sine die took place; Mr. Davis acknowledged the. compliment in a few words. The Senate confirmed John L. Beveridge as United States Assistant Treasurer at Chicago; Sydney H. Ritch, as Surveyor of Customs at Port Jefferson, N. Y.; Frederick Knefler. Penslon Agent at Indianapolis; M. C. Eltster, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana; Chales Payson, of Massachusetts. Charge d’Affaires in Denmark. Consuls General—Ferdinand Vogler, of Ohio, at Frankfort; Simo u Wolf, of the District of Columbia, at Cairo. Consuls—Silas P. Hubbell, of New York, at St. Johnjs, Quebec; George W. Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux ; Jesse H. Moore, of Illinois, at Callao ; Charles Kahlo, of Indiana, at Sydney ; J. A. Leonard, of Minnesota, at Leith, John 8. Robeson, of Tennessee, at Tripoli; Volney W. Smith, of Ai kansas, at St. Thomas; William P. Pierce, of Georgia, at Cienfuegos Collectors of Customs—John A. Tibbits, District of New London, Ct.; Charles T. Osborn. District of Superior, Mich. Surveyors General —Jacques A. Gia, of Louisiana; John 8. Harns, of Montana, Register of Wills, Diitriol oi

Columbia—Hiram J. Ramsdell. Postmasters— John M. Patton, at Villisca, Iowa; Mrs. Jane Baldwin, at Council Bluffs; E. R. Hastings, at Carroll City. lowa.