Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Six hundred thousand ounces of silver were purchased last week by the Secretary of the Treasury for coinage into standard silver dollars. Treasurer Jordan does not think that the Secretary will necessarily continue to buy silver at weekly intervals. He thinks that the purchases should be stopped. Secretary Manning is, however, of the opinion that the law is mandatory and that the purchases must be made. Secretary Bayard has received applications from 200 persons for the Consul Generalship at Paris..... An amusing letter was received at the Postoffice Department the other day from Sergeant Bates. He wants a place under the new administration in the Postoffice Department. The letter is ingeniously biographical, and relates that the Sergeant has walked 48,000 miles, made 2,600 lectures, and all the while carried the United States flag, and advocated the notion that sectional hatreds, engendered by, the war, should be forgotteh. The Sergeant says that he would rather have a place adapted to his ability than to be elevated to a position yhere the honor might be greater and his capacities be inadequate to the duties. Atty. Gen. Garland has decided that an Indian is not eligible for a Postmastership. It has heretofore been tbe custom to appoint Indians to postoffices in Indian Territory. The practice will henceforth bo discontinued.. ... Secretary Manning has called for the resignation of Maj. S. Willard Saxton, of Massachusetts, chief of a division of the First Comptroller’s office It is stated that Mr. Saxton w 11 refuse to resign on the ground that there are no charges aga nst him, either of inefficiency or of o tausive paitisanship.. It is understood that he will be given until June 15 to comply .with tho request, Maj.

Saxton was an officer in the army during the war, .and is a brother of Gen. Rufus i Saxton, United States army.