Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Comptroller Durham, of the Treasury, announces that his decision holding up requisitions for the payment of officers and employes of the Alabama claims court is final. This ends the controversy so far as the executive branch of the Government is is concerned. Controller Durham has directed the Solicitor of the Treasury te bring suit against ex-Commissioner of Agriculture Loring to collect $30,000 alleged to have been expended improperly by him. The Irish-American citizens of the national capital, in mass-meeting assembled, unanimously adopted resolutions indorsing Parnell's programme. Worthington C. Ford, of Brooklyn, has been appointed Chief of the Statistical Division of the State Department, vloe Michael Scanlan, of Chicago, who remains in the bureau as a fourth-class clerk.

The Treasury Department has issued orders for the inspection of all vessels coming from ports infeoted with small-pox. A formal order has been made for tho immediate removal of all of the illegal fences on tho public domain in the Western States and Territories.