The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-23
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Washington, 22.-Secretary Kirk
wood has approved the decision of
the commissioner of the land Office,
that the lands embraced in the old
Cherokee Reservation so called, near
! Dardanell, Arkansas, are not sub
iect to entry and are not included
in the grant to the Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railroad Company.
Congressional legislation to eXtin
guish the reservation is suggested
also, prior to the ascertainment of
any valid Indian claims, and that
actual oettlors on the reservation be
protected in their homestead rights.
The question relative to this reser-
walton has been pending before the
interior department since 182S(O.
The semi-official announcement
| that no final decision was reached
at the cabinet meeting to-day, in re-
gard to the extra session question,
! is regarded as a strong indication
that no call will be issued. The
various arguments outlined in last
nights dispatches aYerSe to the isSu-
ance of a call have evidently, to-day,
gained great currency among re-
publican senator's and representa-
tives, for many who have hereto
fore advocated an extra session for
the purpose of enacting a funding
law are now convinced that no
measure satisfactory to their party
would have any assured chance of
passage at present, and while the
| pressure in favor of an extra
session has about exhausted its
force. the opposition is hourly be-
looming more powerful. Protests,
directly or indirectly, addressed to
President Garfield are pouring in
from representatives Of the business
interests of all the principal cities.
All the republican members of the
senate finance committee, together
with Senators Bayard and McPher-
son, two of the democratic members,
have unitedly advised the President
against the issuance of the proposed
call for refunding purposes this
lSummeT, and Secretary Window has
expressed a decided opinion that the
treasury department will be abund-
antlY able to take care of the
maturing debt for the remainder of
the calendar year, without any adj
IdItiOnal authority from Congress to
as great an extent and with as salts
factory saving of expenditures for
interest as could reasonably be hoped
for if Congress was convened in
May. On the whole, the outlook
tonight indicates that the idea of |
cOnYening in extra session this
spring will be abandoned, and that
if Congress be convened III advance |
of its regular session, the date will |
be fixed for about the middle of Oc-
tober.
\ fresh installment of office-Seek-
erS have put in an appearance at |
this port within the past twenty
four hours, taking the places of dis
heartened ones who are now walk
ing home. Indiana and Kentucky |
seekers" are especially numerous.
A rumOr is abroad that the Pres
ident intends to shake up the gen.
eTal offices in Indiana. There are |
from six to fifteen applicants for
each place. The Kentuckians who
are here are clamoring for the dis
trict attorneyship. This office has
been vacant, by reason of resigna-
ton, for two weeks. Meanwhile,
the applicants hang around the
White House and bother the Pres
ident to distraction. Pennsyl-
vania officeseekers are also conspicu-
Gus. There are three good
fat offices i'll Pittsburg, for which
there are twenty ravenous appi-
cants. In Philadelphia there is a
SurveyOrship of theport to be filled,
with dozen anxious patriots wait
ing it. For small offices, such as a
clerkship, the candi-
dates are beyond calculation. Every
has all the way from a
dozen to fifty to care for. Mean
while, the worry is beginning to
tell on President Garfield. He COM
plains that his appetite is failing
him; that his sleep at night is dis
and his general health is
breaking up. Under the advice of
his friends, he began, yesterday, tax
ing outdoor exercise on horseback.
At o'clock he left the White House,
accompanied by his private secre-
Jary, mounted on a spirited horse,
and rode into the country. He
looked jaded and worn. The Presi-
lent sits a horse well. From the
start he went off at full gallon.
looking neither to the right nor to :
the left. After the experience he
has had for more than three
weeks with applicants for Office he
S in a condition of mind, no doubt,
20 prepare the message he fore
'hadowed in his inaugural, recon-
nending the passage of a law to
insure fiXity in the terms and tenure l
f all public officers.
The nominations sent in TODAY. | :
or the various New York marshall :
hips and district attorneyships are L
IL pronounced to be Conkling men.
nd, with one exception, are all re-
of officers whose ap- l. !,
were originally procured
Y him, and whom President HAYES :
endeavored TO displace Z
y the nominations of Foster, Shep- 7
I'd, Jacobs and others, which ex- 7
ired without action with the last {
congress. p
The republican Senators in eau u
us decided TO offer q resolution in ! L
he Senate providing for a new v
lection OF Senate officers. The fol- {,
owing were agreed upon unani- q
lously: Secretary of Senate, Geo. C. u
California; sergeant-at- A
rms, Henry Riddelbarger, Vir- II
mia; principal executive clerk. 81
as. X. Young, Pennsylvania. The q
were selected by ballot: tC
hief legislative clerk, Charles w. tC
Minnesota; chaplain, Rev. "
T. Byron Sunderland, Washington. n
is a warm personal II
nd political friend of Senator Ma
one. He was colonel in the Con- OF
,derate army. Mr.. Johnson was al
Ominated at the instance of Sena- b,
II McMillen. il
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