Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The President has nominated John E. Carlaud, of Dakota, Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of Dakota; M. J. Liddell, of Lou-slana, Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of Montana; L B. Nash, of Washington Territory, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory; and Mary F. Ballantine, Postmistress at Syracuse. Neb. The Senate Committee on Public Lands has substantially, though not formally, agreed upon a public land bill (to repeal the timber culture and pre-emption laws, Amend the Homestead law, eta), similar in general features to the Senate bill of last session. The Chairman of tho Ways and Moans Committee, on the Ist inst., submitted to the full committee the tariff bill upon which the Democratic members have been at work for several months. The free-list section is to take effect July 1, 18S8. A Washington dispatch says the Republicans and Randallites are dissatisfied with the bill, and that the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee will frame another one.