Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says: “The House Committee on Elections unanimously confirmed the decision of the sub-committee in favor of Gen. Post’s title to the seat as Representative of the Tenth District of Illinois. Before beginning the tedious examination of

the ninety pages of printed record it was agreed by the sub-committee that their guide upon disputed points of law should be the statutes of Illinois, as construed by the Supreme Court of the State. The disputed votes were taken up one by one, and it was found that irregular and illegal votes had been cut for both parties to the contest, but after giving Mr. Worthington the benefit of all doubts the net result of the sifting was about fiftynine majority for Gen. Post The Public Linds Committee of the House has decided to report bills forfeiting about 40,000,000 acres of the Northern and Southern Pacific Railroad land grants and the Ontonogan grant The President has made the following appointments: George J. Denis, United States Attorney for the Southern Dis trict of California; Ezekiel E. Smith, of North Carolina, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Liberia. A mild protest is entered by Secretary Bayard against Germany’s high-handed proceedings in the Samoan Islands. Minister Pendleton is authorized to convey to Prince Bismarck the impression that the United States Government is quite put out about the matter. To find a man who doesn’t want an office has astonished President Cleveland enormously. He hid sent to the Senate the nomination of J. Marion Brooks as District Attorney for the Southern District of California, but before the nomination could be acted upon along came a letter from Mr. Brooks stating that since being tendered the appointment he has made over a million dollars in real estate and doesn’t care for the office now. Accordingly another man was nominated.