Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Friends of John W. Parrott, sentenced to the gallows for a murder in Indian Territory, have secure i from President Cleveland a commutation of sentence to imprisonment for five years. The Comptroller of the Currency feels compelled to take action upon the of called bonds owned by the national banks, as he has $3,998,430, of matured 3 per cents deposited to secure circulat on. The House Committee on CivilService Reform instructed Chairman Cox to report favorably the Senate bill to repeal the tenure-of-office act The Secretary of the Treasury lias appointed Herbert F. Beecher to be a special agent of the Treasury. He is a son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and was formerly Collector of Customs at Port Totvnsend, Washington Territory. Frank B. McDonald, son of ex-Sen-ator McDonald of Indiana, died in Washington last week. The second day’s session of the Indiana Legislature was attended by a series of partisan wrangles. The Democratic Senate declined to meet the Republican House in joint session to hear the Governor’s message, it having come to their ears that the Republican managers had planned a coup d’etat to be sprung upon the Senate. In consequence, the Governor did not deliver his message orally, as u-ua , but sent printed copies of it to each branch of the General Assembly. The Senate adopted a resolution declaring that that body recognized no vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor prior to the last election, and refusing to join in the canvass of the vote for the candidacy for the office. The Republican majority of the House, in retaliation for the rules adopted by the Senate, adopted a bet of regulations fully as arbitrary as those of the upper body. The effect in either house will be that the majority can summarily and quickly unseat any member of the minority, wrightfully or wrongfully. The conference of the Congressional committeos on the electoral count bill has resulted iu an agreement