Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

D. F. Murphy has been official reporter of the United States Senate for thirtyfour years. Jeff Davis, Hannibal Hamlin, and Freeman Smith are the only surviving members of the body m which he entered upon his duties. The House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report a bill forfeiting the grant to the Northern Pacific Road between Wallula and Portland. The company is to be required to construct each year one hundred miles of road, and equip the whole line to Wallula by July 4, 1886. Adam Badeau has sent to Secretary Frelinghuysen a cablegram tendering his resignation as Consul General at Havana. A committee of stockholders of the wrecked Pacific National Bank of Boston has forwarded to WashingAn a series of fourteen charges against Comptroller Knox, supported by evidence, and threatens to institute criminal proceedings. Knox says he will not resign until these charges are thoroughly Investigated.