Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House and Senate conferrees on the Post-Office Appropriation bill were unable to agree as to the compensation to be paid letter-carriers, also as to the amounts to be paid railroad companies for carrying the mails. On all other points they agreed. The record of the Swaim Court of Inquiry, which was laid before the President, sets forth that the evidence discloses “a series of transactions discreditable to any officer of the army.” The President has decided to order a court-martial for the trial of Brigadier-General Swaim. Herr von Eisendecker, the German Minister to the United States, has presented his letters of recall to the President. The remains of Noah Swayne, an ex-Justice of the United States Supreme Court, were interred at Oak Hill Cemetery. Maj. Jared A. Smith, of the United States Corps of Engineers, has been ordered to report for duty as Engineer of the Fifth and Sixth Lighthouse Districts, vice Gen. O. E. Babcock, deceased.

Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, in a letter to the Springer Investigating Committee, denies the truth of- 8. W. Dorsey's statement that he (Spencer) had implied to Dorsey that by payment of $12,000 he would be granted immunity from prosecution for star-route irregularities. The necessary papers to secure the extradition of John C. Eno were made out at Washington, a*d officials left with them for Canada.