The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-11
Washington Gossip.

John A. Logan has been twelve years In
the senate.
James w. Porch OF missouri was appoint
60 consul general at Mexico.
Timothy p. Murphy was appointed
United States attorney for Northern Iowa.
Samuel j. Tilden has written Speaker
Carlisle, urging that the sea Oast defenses
be strengthened.
The new street car line in Washington is
to have cars run by electric motors, after
the Baltimore fashion.
w. B. Roberts, Of Minnesota, has been
promoted from fourth to third assistant
examiner in the patent office.
Senator Sherman is the oldest member
OF the senate as to continuous service.
He ranks Edmunds by two years.
Senator Stanford, Of California, his wife
and two maids arrived at Washington in
a special carfrom across the continent.
The president has appointed to good
positions Col. Parker, OF the Philadelphia
Times, and Col. Burke, Of the Philadelphia
Record.
Senator and Mrs. Sawyer and Mrs.
White of Syracuse, their daughter, are in
the house which they have Occupiedfor sew
eral years.
lC ECSlCldID Vi hbI oils NOuSlSSo Nv
tention to an alleged violation OF law in
the building OF the Robert street bridge at
st. Paul.
The adiutant general OF the army has re-
ceived the following telegram: Chicago,
Dec. 5.-Gen. Miles telegraphs that Ma
ior Sumner reports from Fort Reno that
the instructions regarding Oklahoma have
been carried out, and that all the intrud-
ers have been removed, and that cattle
men with their herds are on the move. J..
NJ. ~SCHoFIELD, Maj. Gen. Commanding.
Washington special For several months
there has been a vacancy in the postoffice
at Wells, the home of ex-senator Wilkin-
son. Gen. Bragg of Wisconsin secured the
appointment ofJoseph Policy. The papers
had in some way been ~pigeonholed and the
case overlooked. Policy formerly lived at
La Crosse, and was lieutenant colonel OF
the Twenty-third Wisconsin.
The state department is advised that
within the last few weeks Minister PenGle-
ton, at Berlin, has interviewed In the mat
ter OF the expulsion Of twelve German
Americans. The Intervention has been for
the purpose of obtaining information for
future action. A distinction is made be-
tween the term intervention" and ''pro-
test" Minister Pendleton is understood, as
yet, not to have filed protests on I'M case.
On the first bin day in the senate Senator
Dawes will introduce a bill to open the Big
Sioux reservation. 1t is substantially the
same as the bill he introduced in the first
session OF the Forty-eighth congress, which
passed the senate April 16, 1884, and was
never brought to a vote in the house.
Some amendments have been made in the
bill to be introduced this session, but they
are material. The proposition is to open
to settlement the region lying between the
Cheyenne and White rivers, and reduces
the reservation around the Cheyenne
agency. In all, about Is, 600 square miles
are embraced in the tract proposed to be
opened.
The presidential succession bill which the
republican caucus senators decided to in
troduce in the senate, is that known as the
Hoar bill OF the last congress. 1t confers
the succession to the president aud vice
president upon the secretary OF state, or, if
that Office is vacant, then upon the secre-
tary OF the treasury, the succession passes
to the other members OF the cabinet in
turn in cases OF vacancy. The electoral
count bill also to be reintroduced by ORDER
OF the republican caucus. is that known as
the Edmunds bill of the last congress. It's
pivotal feature is a provision that each
state may by it's own tribunals determine
controversies with regard to its electoral
vote.