Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary McCulloch has prepared a circular lu relation to the importation of old rags from infected ports, which modifies existing orders on tbatsubject so as to continue the embargo until further notice and to declare all French and Mediterranean ports to be infected. Secretary McCulloch is busily engaged in the preparatiou of his annual report to Congress. It is intimated he will make some important recommendations in regard to the revision--of the tariff, upon which BubJeotvhC is understood to have very decided views. In tho meantime, Assistant Secretary Coon is acting Secretary on all routine matters. The Secretary has requested the Comptroller of tho Currency and tho Treasurer of the United States to withhold their annual reports from publication until after the meeting of Congress. The President has promoted P. <jr. Clarke from First Assistant Commissioner to the position of Commissioner of Pensions, to succeed Col. Dudley, resigned. Secretary Teller has placed on filet the complaint against Col. Allen’s exhibition of Sitting Bull through the country, believing that the traveling will do the old Indian no harm, physical pr mental. Pension payments for November amount to $18,000,000. The State Department has instructed the Consuls at London and Paris to appoint medical examiners to inspectall vessels leaving English or French ports for this country, with a view to preventing the spreading of oholera. Secretary McCulloch has refused Gen. Adam Badeau’s application asking for an arbitrament by the Court of Claims of the Government’s claim against him for $12,000 in notarial fees, alleged to have been illegally retained, and the Solicitor of the Treasury has been instructed to begin proceedings to recover the amount in dispute.