Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Henry A. Newman, formerly Chief of the Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been appointed Special Agentof the National Labor Bureau. Francis Wharton, an eminent Rhode Island lawyer, has been selected by Secretary Bayard and Attorney Genera! Gafland to be law officer of the State Department at $3,500, vice Judge O’Connor, resigned. It is reported that the authorities of Mexico, San Salvador, and Nicaragua have posted guards at the cable landings of the Central and South American Telegraph Company. Secretary Bayard has telegraphed to the United States Legation at Guatemala stating that that Government will be held responsible for injuries to tt-e cables or other interests of United States citizens in Central America. It is said that the revolution at Panama is ended. The new President was 48 years of age March 18, on which occasion he received a bouquet of violets from a child to whom he has shown considerable attention. William H. Vanderbilt was among those who called at the White House. Some one entered the lobby of the reporters’ gallery of the Senate at night and cut the wires of the United Press, Associated Press, and Western Union and Baltimore and Ohio companies. The damage done was slight and soon repaired. One of the last acts of Commissioner Evans was the acceptance of $2,030 from the Chicago Distilling Company to compromise the offense of putting twenty-four ounces of burnt sugar into barrels about to be filled with spirits. It is said that the Administration has determined to compel all cattle to be removed from Oklahoma and all other public lands; also to require the removal of all fencing on lands of the Government. It Is further stared that all leasee of Indian lands will be annulled, and the lands restored to the Indians, alter which offers will be made to purchase such lands as the Indians do not need, to be added to the public domain. Postmaster General Vilas has asked for the resignation of twenty Postoffice Inspectors. Six have already tendered their resignations. An examination of the books of the Treasury Department has been going on in a very quiet manner for some days. It is not improbable that the investigation will go back eighteen or twenty years. Army officers and their friends have been given to understand by Secretary Endicott that personal appeals and political influence will not be considered in making assignments to easy duty in Washington or elsewhere.