Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

P. S. Palmer, of Vermont, has been nominated as Associate Jußtice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. Before an investigating committee at Washington, ex-Speakor Kelfer testified that he was corruptly approached by Gen. Boynton last March, and that he took no public action at the time because the offender had for many years been a friend. Ten millions of 3 per cent, bonds have been called In by the Treasury, the interest ceasing May 1. At the annual meeting of the Washington Monument Society at Washington, a committee was appointed to arrange a programme for the celebration of the monument, which is expected to take place in D© cember. The Senate Committee on Territories has decided to report favorably on the admission of the southern portion of Dakota as a State. While leaving the northern portion its Territorial rights, they have not yet decided what name it shall bear,but ore unalterably opposed to the title Ncrth Dakota. The suppressed papers in the starroute cases have been furnished to the Postoffice Committee of the House of Representatives. They show that Btephen B. Elkins, of New Mexico, shared the profits of the Kerens combination: that E. J. Ellis, a Congress, man from Louisiana, was paid dividends and received a fee for his influence with the Postoffice Department, and that Delegate Kidder, of Montana, sold himself to the Dorsey combinatlon. Senators Plumb and Maxey are Involved by documents connected with the Las Vegas and Las Cruces routes. A. M. Gibson, a special counsel of the Department of Justice, is charged with accepting $2,500 for services rendered the accused.