The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-18
Gnnornl and Personal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Dec. IZ.-There have been a
good many compliments passed upon General
Harrisons mastery management of the Dakota
bill in the Senate yesterday. His workon the bill
in committee was admirably performed, and his
speeches on the floor of the Senate showed great
familiarity with the subject, and members of the
House say that if he had had control of the bill
years ago, Dakota would have been a State ere
this.
Henry S. Foster, of indianapolis, is at the
Riggs
Mr.. Price, of Greencastle, who came here to
have his military record in the War Department
corrected, has succeeded in having the correction
made.
There has been considerable trouble over the
appointment of Postmaster Sailor, at Thorn
town. The citizens entered a protest against
his confirmation, and at their request the Post
Office Department has sent an inspector to Thorn
town to investigate Sailors official and private
career,
Aquilla Jones and Eb Henderson will start to
their homes To- morrow night. Mr.. Nye, who
came here as messenger for the Indiana Demo
cratic electoral college, will accompany them.
Judge Ambrose B. Carleton, of Terre Haute,
member of the Utah commission, is here.
Will English expects to spend the holidays at
his home in indianapolis.
Mrs. Steele will return here will her husband
the first week in January, and spend the winter.
Russell B. Harrison has gone West.
By direction of the Secretary of War, John
Clouds, private in the United States army, will
be released from confinement under sentence of
court martial in the L~eavenworth, Kan, mill
tary prison. He is a son of Rev. George G.
Clouds, of Laurel, Ind.
Mr.. Shively successor to Major Calkins, has
become the subject of a good deal Of ridicule in
the House. He tells most men whom he is in
troduced to that he is the youngest member
only twenty-six-but thathe got his little speech
in the other day, just the same.
1t is reported here that Representative Lamb
will be married next fall, when he is fully Into
the harness of the district a~ttorneyship.
Postmaster of the House Dalton will be a can
didate for reelection. He will be supported by
the solid Indiana delegation.
Senator Voorhees, returned here this morning.
Major NJ. M. Warner, of Kansas City, rendered
the President his resignation as United States
Attorney for the Western district Of Missouri,
and recommended that his assistant, Mr..
McGufin, be appointed. Major Warner has
been elected to Congress from the Fifth Missouri
district.
A bill was introduced to-day by Mr.. Skinner.
providing for the grading and classification of
the salaries of clerks in all frst-class postoffices.
1t provides that all clerks, except assistant post
masters, cashiers, superintendent, assistant
superintendents and money order clerks, shall
be divided into five classes. The first class shall
receive $500; second, $780,; third, $1,000; fourth,
81, 200; and fifth, 81 500.
The Secretary of the Treasury having re-
ceived information that the Swiss government
has pardoned a convict on condition that he
would go to the United States, has notified the
collectors of the principal ports to prevent his
landing, and send him back to the port from
whence he came.
w. w. Ker, ex-government counsel in the
star route cases said to Il reporter to night that
it is not true that he stated in a letter to Mr.,
Randall that the Juries in the Kilbourne Thomp-
son suit were fixed" A man volunteered in
formation that such was the case, and he (Ker)
merely wrote Mr.. Randall what he had heard.