Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed General Joseph It. Bartlett, of New York City, to be Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, in place of Lewis C. Bartlett, resigned, on account of ill-health; William R. Morgan, of Nashville, Tenn., to be member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, in place of Orange Judd, resigned; and John G. Lee, of Philadelphia, to be Secretary of Legation at Constantinople. Dr. Lee is a friend of Minister Cox, and is understood to have been appointed on his personal solicitation. He is familiar with the modern languages and is said to be peculiarly fitted for the place.

Mr. J. Hippie Mitchell was chosen United States Senator on the third ballot by the Oregon Legislature. He secured seventeen Democratic votes by promising to support Cleveland’s administration. W. W. Wheaton, ex-Mayor of Detroit, has made his appearance at Washington as a candidate for Sergeant-at-Arms, solidly backed by the Michigan delegation. Eugene Higgins, the renowned Treasury clerk, says he has been urged to labor for the caucus nomination. A strong effort is to be made in Washington to get General Logan on both Military and Appropriations Committees in the United Stat as Senate, which positions he lost while the Senatorial struggle was in progress at Springfield. Senators Mahone and Sewell, who succeeded him on the committees, are both to step down, and the friends of Fitz John Porter are anxious to keep General Logan off the Military Committee.