Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Albert A. Wilson, of Washington, has been appointed United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. He will not be called on to act as Grand Chamberlain at the White House. The President has also made the following appointments: Frank L. Phillips, of New York, to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Greenport. N.Y:, and August Alers, of California, SpecialExaminer of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals in the District of San Francisco, Cal. Mb. Tilden has written a letter to Mr. Carlisle, making a suggestion as to the use of the surplus revenue of the Government. He holds that seacoast defenses should be provided for, instead of i educing the revenue or applying the surplus on the public debt. The matter is discussed at some length in the letter, and a number of points of interest in connection with the subject are considered.... The caucus of Republican Senators at Washington, Dec. 4, at the suggestion of Mr. Edmunds, unanimously nominated Mr. Logan for President pro tempore. The latter returned his sincere thanks for the honor, but positively declined it, because he thought he could be more 1 useful on the floor and in the committee-rooms.