Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-12
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The electoral votes of all the States have now
been received by both mail and messenger
It is said that the majority of the house will
favor a proper reapportionment bill, not Spring.
ers if reported by the census committee, and
that the subject will not be treated as partisan
question by either party as body.
Senator Window has introduced bill in the
senate for new government building at Min
neapolis for the accommodation Of the post
Office, internal revenue and other government
Offices in that city, at cost not to exceed $685.
900.
Col. Corbin, secretary of the Inauguration
committee, is fairly deluged with correspond
ence in relation to that event. There will be
military companies present from every State in
be %, 900 men in line, and the procession will
be the largest and finest seen in Washington
since the review of Sherman's army.
The movement to place Gen. Ord on the re-
tired list'as major general seems to find favor
with both parties. The people of the Southwest
say they owe him much for his able and skill
full management Of affairs on the border. It is
delicate an attitude that an ill-advised act
would have brought on war with Mexico.
Gen. T. G. Moore, late of Memphis, Tenn
has been appointed acting secretary and treas
| urer Of the National Soldiers home near Mil
waukee, by Commandant Sharpe, on the re-
| commentator of Gen. Franklin, president of
| the board of managers. Gen. Wood succeeds
Gen. John Macauly of Indianapolis, who was
recently appointed but was unable to serve,
owing to Illness
Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia, was nom
mated by the president as secretary Of the navy
Gen Golf is less than forty years of age, and is
q resident of Clarksburg. He served through
out the war on the Union side, and rose to tho
rank of brigadier general. In 1872 he was
appointed to be United States district attorney
for West Virginia. an Office which he still
holds The nomination of Gen. Golf was con-
irmed by the Senate.
The New York Tribune prints an editorial,
which purpOrts to have been authorized by Gen.
Garfield, to the effect that the incoming admin
istration is not to be used as make-weight for
against anybody in coming senatorial contests,
but that it will see to it that men from New
York and from other States, who had the courage
at Chicago to obey the wishes of their districts
in balloting for president and who thus final
ly voted for Garfield, shall not suffer for it nor
lose by it.
The senate confirmed Matthew D. Barr COL
lector Of customs at Erie, Pa; VIM. A. Storrs,
United States district attorney for the western
district of Pennsylvania; VIM. H. Stillwell, New
York, associate justice of the supreme court of
Arizona; John Hall, United States marshal for
the western district of Pennsylvania; Washing
ton F. Padurick, secretary to the French Ameri-
can claims commission. To be United States
consuls: Joseph T. Dubois, Pennsylvania, at
vania at Munich; W. J. Crouch, Pennsylvania,
st. Helena; G. Henry Hartsman, Pennsylvania,
at Nuremberg; George w. Roosevelt, Pennsylva-
MIA, at Matanzas. Postmasters: Henry II. Huidi-
koper, Philadelphia; John NJ. McLelland, Mari
on, Ind