Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Commissioner of Pensions Black announces that hereafter no application for a pension is to be briefed up, not oyer two letters are to be written in connection with any one case, and the credibility of a witness shall not bo inquired into through postmaster's. 'Herefore it has been the custom to have all the testimony of each case digested by competent clerks in brief, and tho credibility of the various applicants looked up and reported on by postmasters living in the same towns. Secretary Lamar has requested the Attorney General to bring suits against cattlemen in forty additional cases for fencing public lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Washington telegram: “Western Senators are receiving letters in great numbers urging them to oppose the confirmation of Land Commissioner Sparks because of his recent rulings. Mr. Sparks was confirmed by tho Senate as Commissioner of tho General Land Oftico on the 25th of last March.”