Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

A Washington dispatch says the President celebrated his 49th birthday on the night of March 18 by attending a performance of the “Mikado” with Misses Cleveland and Van Vechten and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont. The party was warmly applauded as it entered its box.

The Ways and Means Committee has adopted a substitute for the Morrison tariff bill, which subjects the wooden articles placed on the free list to an import duty when the country from which they are imported levies an export duty. The provision is aimed at the export duty now levied upon Canadian logs sent into the United States. The free list was then adopted as it stands in the bill, except that Indian corn, hay, and oats were stricken off.

The President nominated Gen. O. O. lloward to be a Major General, vice Gen. Pope, retired. In view of the fact that Maj. Gen. Schofield has expressed a preference for the command of the Division of the Atlantic, it is now thought likely that Maj. Gen. Terry will be assigned to the command of the division flf the Pacific. Cols. Huger and Merritt are said to have been selected for promotion to Brigadier Generalships.

Dr. Bogers testified in the telephone investigation, at Washington, March 19, that among those who took stock of the Pan-Elec-tric Company were Gen. Frank Armstrong (then of the Indian office), Gen. Thomas Crittenden, Gen. A. B. Upshaw (now of the Indian office), Col. Boudinot, R. C. Wintersmith, A. D. Coke, and the liepublic and Chronicle (Washington newspapers). Witness paid the newspapers for advertising in stock. He thought it possible that ho had given American Postal stock to Messrs. Money and Manning. Witness had expressly contemplated legislation for the American Postal Company, and it was so stated in the pamphlets, but the bill was never introduced He saw no impropriety in giving stock to members of Congress. “Congressmeil do not take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience,” said the witness. “I went upon that principle,” ho added to the amusement of the spectators.

Ex-Congressman Casey Young, of Tennessee, testified before the telephone investigating committee at Washington that not a word had ever- been said about the associates in the Pan-Electric Company using their official influence or taking advantage of their official position to accomplish anything for the company. No man had ever said a word that could be construed into an intention to do anything corrupt or improper. Van Benthuysen had asked witness why he did not get Garland to bring sv.it against the Bell Company. Witness replied that Garland was a member of his company, its counsel, and witness would not do it. Mr. Young referred to Dr. Rogers’ statement of the conversation in which witness was reported as saying that Attorney General Garland had consented to bring suit against the Bell Company. He asserted that the Doctor had been in error as to the conversation. “I am positive that I never told Rogers that Attorney General Garland had agreed to bring suit against the Bell Company to annul their pat'lit,” said Mr. Young, emphatically.