Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Manning was seized with vertigo while ascending the slops in the Treasury D«* artmont He fell an 1 was taken homo in a c image. The Secretary of the Interior has (locido: I that the Atlantic ami Pacific Road has n<. .'('gal claim to 2,-151,300 acres of land along itn track between »San Francisco and San Buenaventura, and its restoration to the public domain is ordered. “Secretary Manning is a very sick anan, and will not bo upon his feet again for

many weeks,” says a Washington special of March 30. "His physicians tell reporters that his condition is in nowise critical, qut in private they express the greatest concern tor Lis ultimate recovery. It is said that the Secretary informed Colonel Laniont this morning that it would he weeks before he would be able to resume tho duties of his office, and that he intimated an intention of tendering his resignation. Tlvs Colonel communicated this intention to the President, who immediately sent word to Mr. Manning that he could not spare him from tho Cabinet. The President suggested to tho Secretary to take a long vacation. ” Ward Hunt, a retired Justice of tbe United States Supreme Court, died in Washington. “Senator Biddleberger of Virginia, was assaulted in the east corridor of the Senate Chamber by A W. Jones, one of his constituents.” says a Washington special. “Jones was heard to ask Senator Riddleberger for money. The Senator refused, and Jones attempted to strike him. The Senator warded off tho blow, whereupon Joness put his hand on his pistol pocket. Senator Riddleberger grasped and firmly held Jones’ hand until a couple of Senate employes came up and carried Jones off Senator Riddleberger said that this was simply one of several attempts of certain people to make him do or say something which would warrant his expulsion from the Senate. ‘But,’ he said, ‘I am on my guard, and will not be drawn into any such indiscretion. ’ The Senator feels very bitterly toward Senator Mahone. ” Ex-Congressman Casey Young testified, March 25, m tho telephone investigation at Washington, that tho Attorney General never told him that he knew of or that ho would bring suit against the Bell Telephone Company. Witness never spoke to Solicitor General Goode about the Attorney General’s departure, and, until lie had seen it in the papers, he had not heard that the Attorney General was to leave town in order that Goodo might bring the suit Witness had, at Van Betliuysen’s request, -written a letter to the President appealing from the action of tho Attorney General in refusing to have anything to do with a telephone suit, but before it was delivered Solicitor General Goode had brought suit.