Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is stated that both President Cleveland and Secretary Lamar arc in favor of appointing a commission at an early date to investigate the Oklahoma question. Dispatches from Oklahoma report that there is imminent danger of a collision. A band of settlers is said to have already entered the disputed territory. Capt. Brown, of Indiana, was urged by Vice President Hendricks for Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, but the President nominated-Capt. Harmon, of Pennsylvania. The United States Senate confirmed the following nominations: Samuel S. Cox, to be Minister to Turkey; Henry L. Muldrow, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; and William A. J. Sparks, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Senators at Washington have decided that it will be desirable to retrench the expenditures of the upper house. There are over 30'J persons now on the Senate rolls who draw salaries aggregating $350,000 annually. The use of the Butler mansion for committee rooms is to be discontinued. Solely upon their records, the President will appoint Col. W’illlam J. Volkmar, of Gen. Sheridan’s staff, Assistant Adjutant Genera], and Capt. George H. Burton Assistant Inspector General. A memorial was presented to President Cleveland by the Oklahoma settlers through their representatives at Washington, requesting that a commission be appointed at once to confer with the Indians as to their supposed rights in Oklahoma. The memorial embodied an eloquent appeal for justice. A Washington dispatch states exPresident Soto is organizing a revolt against Barrios in Honduras, and an alliance with Nicaraugua, Costa Rica, and San Salvador. It is said that Barrios has a force of 20,000 men, and forty pieces of artillery. Secretary Bayard received a dispatch stating that the Central American cable had been cut by a Colombian gun boat at the mouth of the Bnenaventura River. The company ask that instructions be sent to the United States naval vessel at Panama.