Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — THE HATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE HATIONAL CAPITAL.

The river and haroor bill, as completed and reported to the House, makes an aggregate appropriation of $19,432,783. and is the largest bill of the kind ever brought in. That of 1882, which was the largest up to that time, appropriated $18,123,000. The largest appropriations for Western water-ways and harbors are as follows: New Orleans, $200,000; Arkansas Pass, SIOO,000; Galveston, $500,000; Sabine Pass, $250,000; Cleveland, »75,0o0; Toledo, $150,000; Chicago, $200,000; Duluth, $80,000; Humboldt, Cal., sleu.000; Oakland. Cal., $175,000; Wilmington, Cal, $90,000; Yauquina Bay, $120,000; Erie harbor and lor purchase of Presque Island, $83,000; Galveston Bay, $100,000; Sandusky City, Ohio, $40,000; Michigan City, Ind., $95,u00; Sand Beach harbor of refuge. $70,000; Milwaukee, $80,000; Superior and St. Louis Bays, Wis., $50,000; Ashland, $60,000; Greenville, Miss., $75,000; Vicksburg, $150,000; Ashtabula, Ohio, $50,000; Muskingum, Ohio (ice harbor). $60,000; Calumet harbor, Illinois, $20,501; Grand Haven, Mich., $25,000; Grand Marais. Mich., $50,000; Ludington, Mich., $60,000; Muskegon, Mich., $45.000: Hickman, Ky., $50,000; Columbus, Ky., $25,000. The larger appropriations for rivers in the bill are:

The Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf, $3,300,000; St. Mary’s River at the falls and Hay Lake channel, $1,500,000; Missouri River, $625,000; Ohio River, $515,000; Columbia, $635,000; Tennessee River, $265,000; Cumberland River, $210,000; St John’s River, $150,000; Detroit River, $130,500; Red River (Louisiana and Arkansas), $100,000; Black Warrior River, $100,000; Arkansas River, $175,000; Cape Fear River, $luO.OOO; Great Kanawha River, $300,000. President Cleveland has sent the following nominations to the Senate. J. H.' Woolworth, to be Register of the Land Office at Menasha, Wis.; E. Nelson Fitch, to bo Receiver of Public Moneys at Grayling, Mich. Also these postmasters: Illinois, Nicholas Morper, South Evanston; Ohio, Allen G. Sprankle, Millersburg; William F. Jones, Eaton; Michigan, PaulW. Grierson, Calumet; Wisconsin, James Tiernan, Fort Howard; Minnesota, James C. Frost, Anoka; Amos Cogswell, Owatonna; lowa, John H. Andrick, McGregor; Nebraska, James D. Hubble, Fairbury; Missouri, Barton J. Morrow, Neosho; Kansas, William E. Huttmann, Ellinwood. The funeral of the late Chief Justice Waite, in the House of Representatives, at Washington, called together as distinguished an audience of men and women as &ould be gathered in any city of the world. Every man of note in Washington was present, and the galleries of the House of Representatives were filled with the wives of officials, statesmen, diplomates, and the social leaders of the city. The services were of an impressive nature. The nation’s respect for the memory of its highest judicial officer and its sorrow for his death were expressed in the presence of the President and his Cabinet, the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the General of the Army, the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the members of the House and Senate. There was no address delivered, the exercises being wholly made up of the reading of the beautiful burial service of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Paret. The remains were placed upon a special train and taken to Toledo, accompanied by members of the Supreme Court and committees from the Senate and House.

Pbesident Cleveland has sent a letter to the Civil-Service Commission recommending an extension of the limits of the classified service. Ho says; Non-competitive examinations are the exceptions to the plan of the act. and the rules permitting the same should be strictly construed. Tho cases arising under the exception above recited should be very few, and when presented they should precisely meet all tho requirements specified and should bo supported by facts which will develop the basis and reason of the application of the appointing officer, and which will commend them to the judgment of the commission and the President. The sole purpose of the provision is to benefit the public service, and it should never be permitted to operate as an evasion of the main feature of the law which is competitive examinations. As these cases will first be presented to the committee for recommendation, I have to request that you will formulate a plan bv which their merits can be tested. This will naturally involve a statement of all the facts deemed necessary for the determination of such applications, including the kind of work which has been done by the person proposed for promotil n, and the considerations upon which the allegations of the faithlulness, efficiency, and qualifications mentioned in the rule are predicated

A Washington spec al to the Indianapolis Journal (Rep.) says: “That President Cleveland has expressed a preference for Governor Gray to be on the ticket with him, there can be no doubt I have the information from two sources verbally, and a third source in the President’s own hand-writing.”