Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The President has approved an application from the Secretary of the Interior to the War Department for a detail of a troop of cavalry to be stationed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, to aid the civil authorities in enforcing the proclamation of the President forbidding tho fencing of the public domain and directing the removal of such unlawful fencing. The request was made upon the representation that parties in Wyoming had neglected and refused to comply with the terms of the President’s proclamation. The wife of United States Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, died at Washington. The Secretary of tho Treasury has issued a call lor all tho 3 per cent United States bonds still outstanding, about $17,000,000. The select committee of the Senate appointed to investigate alleged abuses in the appointment and removal of Indian traders has returned to Washington. Senator Platt, the Chairman, says tho committee discovered a bad state of affairs, and the committee will unanimously recommend that Indian traderships be no longer bestowed as rewards for political services. The President has issued an order changing and consolidating internal revenue disti-icts, by which twenty-two collecting districts are abolished, saving the Government $103,000 annually.