The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-18
WASHINGTON MATTERS.
Civil Service Examinations-Ths Indian
Appropriation Bill, Etc.


Thursday, -; Memphis, Saturday,
Il; Little Rock, Tuesday. Il; Jackson, Miss.
Friday, 20; New Orleans. Monday, %. These
examinations Will be for departmental ser
vice in Washington. The Commission has
an inadequate number of names on its eli
gible register for the States of Arkansas,
Mississippi and Louisiana, and persons from
these States who pass examinations will,
therefore, have a better prospect OF an early
appoint tment than those from other States,
having a larger number on the register.
The President has, by executive order,
opened 10 public settlement attsr May 10,
1885, all the lands within tie Niobrara. or
6antee Sioux. Indian reservation, in Ne
bIasks, remaining unallotted to and un-
selected by the Indians. except such as are
occupien for agency, school and missionary
purposes.
The Treasury Department has notified the
Collectors of Customs at ports on the north
frontier that, as the services OF a Deputy
Collector OF Customs at Fremont, o., has
been discontinued, vessels with csrgoes
which are destined to Fremont will have to
enter and clear at Sandusky.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
will report fayorabIy the bill providing for
an increase of pension to the widow of Gen.
eIal George II. Thomas to $4,000 year.
The Indian Appropriation bill as reported
TO the Senate, increases the House bill to
Sl52, 600 The committee has struck out all
the provisions for the payment Of private
claims growing out of Indian depredations,
but has substituted general provision re-
quiriDg the Secretary Of the Interior to re-
port at the Dext session all claims of this
nature, together with such information re-
gsrding them as may have
been gathered by the agents
of the Department. The bill contains
q new provision, as follows: ITO supply
food and other necessities of life in cases of
distress among Indians not having treaty
funds, arising from emergencies net foreseen
or otherwise provided for, to be used at the
discretion OF the President; S25.000." The
provision for the Indian school at Santa Fe
is stricken out and a new provision is in
serted for rtheestablishmento Of school in Col.
orado for the Utes, and $4,000 is appropri-
ated for the construction OF an Indian school
at Albuquerque, ". Mex. The feature Of the
House bill, prohibiting under heavy penal
ties the sale of firearms to the Indians that
of ameDding the statutes and the resolution
against selling spirituous LIQUORS to the In
dians; that authorizing the President to
open negotiations with the Creeks, SeminoIes
and Cherokees for the purpose OF opening to
settlement the Oklahoma country, and that
which subjects Indians charged with the
commission of crimes against person or
property to the laws OF the Territory where
the act is alleged 10 have been committed
are struck out.
rhe Acting Postmaster General trans.
mitted to Congress letter to himself from
the Attorney General setting forth the desira-
bility of securing the postal records OF the
COME deracy for use in the settlement of
claims presented by parties who carried the
mail in the South in anti-war times, and
whose accounts had not been adjusted at the
outbreak of hostilities
The Secretary of the Interior disbarred
from practice as attorney John Mclean, of
RoosstoD, Ill.
venezulea :Awards-suit to Prevent the
Publication of the Letters of
Andrew jackson.
WAsHINeToE, Feb. 16.-At e meeting of
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, a
report was adopted affirming the action of
the last Congress in vithdrawing the awards
of the Venezuelan Commissioner tainted
with fraud, and recommending the adoption
Of the resolutions providing for the appoint
ment OF new Commissioner. A resolution
was also adopted asking the President to
urge in every proper way the settlement
OF the claim of William ]. Hale against
the Argentine Republic. The claim arises
out of the alleged ill-treatment OF Hale and
family while in the Republic
Representative Deuster was instructed to
favorably report his joint resolution intro
duced st the beginning OF the first session OF
the present Congress, requesting the Presi-
dent 10 take the necessary steps toward me-
gotlating treaty with the German Empire
to secure more liberal and Just provisions in
reference to the respective rights of citizens,
nQtiua horn nr nafnroli1oH nf tha TInifad
States and the German Empire.
Representative Buckner to-day intro
duced bill to prevent the fraudulent
mutilation of the paper circulation of the
United States. 1t provides that persons
guilty of mutilatiDg notes with fraudulent
intent shall. on conviction, be fined not
more than 81, 900 or be imprisoned not more
than three years, or both, in the discretion
of the Court.
An effort made to day to verify the state
ment that Senator Pendleton had written q
letter to the Presidentelect strongly favor
ing Judge Thurman for the Cabinet, re-
suited in the discovery that no such letter
had been written and none contemplated.
SIR. Randall signifed his intention in try
ing to pass, under a suspension of the rules,
during the last six days of the session, the
Edmunds bill passed by the Senate for the
retirement Of General Grant, which gives the
President authority to place general OF the
armv on the retired list without specifying
names. This is the bill the President desires
TO have passed.
Colonel Andrew Jackson, q grandson Of
the late President, and Reverend Jackson,
who resides at the Hermitage, to-day took
out letters OF administration on the estate OF
MS grandfsther, and Immediately through
MS sollc1tSSIs, John Paul Jones and Robert
D. Ines, entered q bill OF equity, setting
forth that the widow of the late Hon.
Montgomery Blair and her son, Woodbury.
Blair, now have possession of and claim to
own large number of very valuable pa
pers relating to the public and private life
of General Jackson, and praying an inlunc'
tion against defendants to prevent them
from disposing of or Publishing any of said
papers. 1t is stated these papers were placed
in the hands of Amos Kendall in 1S43 with
view to the publication of biography OF
General Jackson, which he (Kendall) had
undertaken to write. The papers were
by Colonel ". G. Sswell, OF
Kentucky, in 1879, subsequent to
the death of Kendall, when they were
placed in the hands of Nc ntgomery Blair
'for safe keeping" as Colonel Jackson al
leges in his bill. Representative Blair, how.
ever, claims the papers were given to Fran.
cis Z. oialr, Sr., oy General Jacksoo, aud II
is upon this question that the suit just insti-
tuted will probably turn. The bill also
prays for the appointment of Receiver
pending litigation. Colonel Jackson has re.
tanned Senators Harris, OF Tennessee, and