Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Washington telegram: “Senator Pendleton is the only Senator who declines to avail himself of a clerk, under the resolution passed by tie Senate last winter to allow each Senator a SI,OOO clerk. He says he can not do so consistently with his views of the civil service.” Albany special to Chicago Times: “The Democrats of Connecticut believe their State ought to be represented in President Cleveland’s Cabinet. One faction insists that Gov. Waller should be called into the councils of the new President, while another faction declares that William H. Barnum, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, should receive from the man he did so much to elect to the Presidency one of the Cabinet portfolios. A delegation of Mr. Barnum's Connecticut friends came to Albany and called on Gov. Cleveland. The Governor stood while the spokesman of the delegation rehearsed the services of Mr. Barnum in the cause of the Democratic party of Connecticut and the nation. The President-elect gave the delegation no reason to believe that he would call Mr. Barnum or any other Connecticut Democrat into his Cabinet. The Connecticut men, after the conference, expressed gratification at the cordiality of their reception by Goy. Cleveland, and admiration of the manner in which he listened to all they had to say in the interest of their friend.” An extra session of Congress is thought not unlikely, In view of the fact that the business before it can hardly be finished before the end of the present session. If, as seems likely, the two houses disagree irreconcilably on the naval appropriation bill an extra session will be unavoidable.