Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Both houses of the Minnesota Legislature passed an amended railroad bill last week. The bill provides for the appointment of two Commissioners, who shall, With toe present Commissioner, constitute a Board of Grain and Warehouse Commissioners. They are granted the right of looking into the affairs of railroad corporations. Corporations are required to grant free rental of land for elevators, and are to provide side-track facilities and grain cars without discrimination. No discrimination in freight rates is permitted. Representatives Bayne, His cock, and Millard called upon President Cleveland, at Washington, and had a long talk with him. They told the President they approved the attitude he had taken in his inaugural, and in carrying out the policy therein declared he would have their hearty support In this they spoke as Republicans, and said they believed they spoke for s large majority of their party. The President received their advances in the best possible spirit, and thanked them with

much feeling and earnestness for theii promises. Gen. John C. Black, of Danville, HL, went to Chicago the other day to attend a reunion of his old comrades of the Thirtyseventh Illinois Volunteers. Shortly after his arrival he received a telegram from Washington reading as follows: The President thinks yonr official connection with fais administration will contribute to his success, and desires me to ascertain if yon will assume the duties of Commissioner of Pensions. I cordially Join in the request. * . Ij. Q. C. I,AMAB. After a short consideration the General replied as follows: To L. Q. O. Lam AS: I thank President Cleveland and yourself. If my wpointment will contribute to the success of the administration I will accept the position. Telegraph when I should arrive In Washington. J. C. Black. Gen. Edward C. Walthall has been tendered and has accepted the appointment of United States Senator from Mississippi, to succeed Secretary Lamar.... The Kansas Legislature passed a resolution of sympathy with General Grant... .An extra session of the Indiana Legislature will be necessary to pass appropriation bills.

AT high noon on Saturday, the 7th of March, Messrs. Bayard, Whitney, Garland and Endicott entered the office of the Secjretary of State at Washington, where M r - Bayard took the oath as Secretary of State. The party then went to Secretary Chandler’s room, where Mr. Whitney was sworn in as Secretary of the Navy. In Secretary Lincoln’s office, where Gen. Sheridan and staff and other army officers were assembled, the oath was administered to Mr. Endicott Attorney General Garland was sworn into office at the Department of Justice. From the Department of Justice the party went to the United States Treasury Department, where Secretary Manning took the oath. Soon after Secretary Manning had qualified all the bureau, officers and chiefs of division visited his office and paid their respects. Secretary Lamar and Pos- master - General Vilas were also sworn into office. In the various departments the retiring Secretaries bade the chiefs and clerks who had served under them good-by, and complimented them upon their services. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times is authority for the statement that “the Senators and the new Congressmen from Alabama, after agreeing upon a scheme for the distribution of Federal patronage in their State, went to the White House and laid it before President Cleveland. He smilingly remarked that they seemed to have forgotten the civil-service law, and assured them that he would send a printed copy to each of them.”