Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

A Washington dispatch says: “The House Committee on Elections unanimously confirmed the decision of tho sub-committee in favor of Gen. Bost’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 Hlinois, 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 cast for both parties to the contest, but after giving Mr. Worthington the benefit of all doubts the net result of tho sifting was about fiftynine majority for Gen. Post

In the United Supreme Court, on last Monday, Attorney General Garland presented the resolutions adopted by the bar and officers of the court on the occasion of the death of Chief Justice Waite, and extolled in eloquent language the services of the dead jurist Justice Miller replied for the court, also paying tribute to the learning, research, energy, and patience of the Chief Justice. The resolutions <ere ordered spread upon the records,

and announcement was made that the arguments wonl > cease on the 4th of May, and that the courf would adjourn for the term on the 14th of May. The President has appointed the following as Indian agents: John Blair, of Kansas, Pottawattamie and Great Nemaha Agency; Claude M. Johnson, of Kentucky, of the Pima Agency, in Arizona; Elmer A. Howard, of lowa, of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, in Indian Territory; Thomas P. Smith, of Arizona, of the Osage Agency, Indian Territory. The right to buy ships in the markets of the world and sail them under the American flag without the payment of duties is granted in a bill agreed upon by the majority of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. It is also contemplated that no duty shall be paid upon materials entering into the construction of vessels built in the United States. Ihe legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill, as agreed upon in the House Committee, makes a total appropriation of $20,472,394, which is $937,606 less than the estimates, and $209,246 less than the current appropriations for the same services.