The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-03-12
LATER NEWS ITEMS.


The action taken by Congress in its
closing hours with regard to the Oklahoma
question was briefly this: The Western
Representatives defeated the Dawes bill
which had passed the Senate, and the Ryan
amendment to the Indian bill was adopted,
directing the President to enter into negoti-
atoms with the Indians with view TO opening
oklahoma to settlement. The question ne to
whether these negotiations shall be opened
through the agency of n commission or not is
left to the Presidents discretion. Ryan and
other friends OF the settlers think that the
negotiations will result in the opening of the
lands to colonists.--A dispatch from the
West states that "Capt Couch and Gen.
Hatch have both left Wichita, Kan. for the
border of Indian Territory, the former
TO confer with the colonists assembling there
and the latter to station his troops to pre-
vent the contemplated movement toward
Oklahoma
At high noon on Saturday, the 9TH
of March. Messrs. Bayard, Whitney. Garland
and Endiqo entered the Office Of the secre-
tary of State at Washington, where Mr..
Bayard took the oath as Secretary OF State.
The party then went to Secretary Chandeliers
in as Secretary OF the Navy. In Sec
rotary Lincoln's Office. where Gen. Sheridan
and staff and other army officers were
assembled, the oath was administered to Mr..
Endicott. Attorney General Garland was
sworn into Office at the Department Of JUS
tice. From tho Department OF Justice the
party went TO the United States Treasury
Department, where Secretary Manning took
the oath. Soon after Secretary Manning had
qualified all the bureau officers and chiefs of
division visited his office and paid their re-
spects. Secretary Lamar and Postmaster
General Villas were also sworn into Office. In
the various departments the retiring Secreta-
ries babe the chiefs and clerks who had served
under them eood-by. and complimented them
upon their services.
Miss Cleveland held her first recep-
ton at the White House in Washington on
Saturday, March Z. She was assisted by her
sisters. Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Bacon, and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Cleveland. Over 200
visitors were received. 1.-THE latter were
waiting outside OF the house long be-
fore 3 o'clock, the hour for the recep.
ton to begin, and a system having to he @ u
ployed in disposing of the crowds and dele
cations of these three days the policeman and
ushers formed the visitors in n long line.
Each arrival had to take his place at the erd
of the queue, and demo cratic principles and
equality were carried out in this way. Those
who drove i'm under the portico with -four
ish had TO take their places at the end of the
procession with the commoners who came on
foot. The new President has reduced hand
shaking and delegation encounters to
science, and when the crowd in the man
sion gets too great TO be managed he comes
down, shakes five hundred hands in half an
hour, and disperses the multitude more
quickly than the policeman and doorkeepers
can when put together. For his convenience
in discharging this duty canvas has been laid
over the carpet of the broad inside corridor
leading to the middle door OF the east room,
and over the half of that room that the
crowds occupy in their brief passage to the
temporary exit built from a hall window to
the outside walk
Three of the convicts who escaped
from the Michigan State Prison were tracked
through the snow from Mosherville TO Jones'
vile, jaded and hungry, and sent back to
serve out their sentences.
The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Times is authority for the state
ment that 1.-THE Senator's and new Congress
men from Alabama. after agreeing upon
scheme for the distribution OF Federal
patronage in their state, went to the
White House and laid IL before President
Cleveland. He smilingly remarked that they
seemed to have forgotten the civil-service
law, and assured them that he would send a
printed copy to each Of them