The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-13
WASHINGTON.

President Arthur's last official act was
the signing of the bill Regulating appeals
from the Territorial Supreme Courts"
Secretary Lamar has retained Z. p. Han
ma as his private secretary. Mr.. Hanna has
occupied this position under four successive
Secretaries.
Gen. Edward C. Walthall has been ten
dered and has accepted the appointment OF
United States Senator from Mississippi, to
succeed Secretary Lamar.
O. l.. Pruden, who has been bearer Of
presidential communications to Congress
since the days of Grant, will be retained by
the new administration.
President Cleveland on Monday nominal
ed Charles s. Fairchild, of New York, to be
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury and
John G. Black, of Illinois, to be Commits
sioner of Pensions.
President Cleveland was beset with visit
ors at the White House Thursday. Many
distinguished persons and organizations,
military and civic, paid their respects, and
from to o'clock in the afternoon the
doors were thrown open to the crowd.
The members of the new cabinet, who
were unanimously confirmed by the Senate
Friday, entered upon the discharge of their
graphed to Chicago an offer of the pension
commissionship to Gen. John @. Black, and
1t met with prompt acceptance.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch said Monday that
he supposed Mr.. Manning shared the views
of President Cleveland regarding the finan-
cial question, and. as the views Of the Pres
ident on the subject were In accord with his
own, he did not anticipate any change in
the present policy OF the Government.
Charles f. Adams, Jr., president of the
Union Pacific road, has written to Senator
Hoar that his company would not be able to
ment at the rate Of $780, COO to 80, 500, cooper
year for sixty years. AS to the scheme Of
equalized payments of $1,S.0.000 per an
mum, he thinks there is a fair prospect that
complains that through federal legislation
the company has been rendered unable to
meet competitors on equal terms and he
desires the public to know that he Is not q
fgurehead put forward by Jay Gould.
The action taken by Congress in its clos
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 nego-
tiations with the Indians with q view to OPP
ening Oklahoma to settlement. The ques-
ton as to whether these negotiations Shall
be opened through the agency of commits
sion or not Is left to the Presidents discre-
ton. Ryan and other friends of the settlers
think that the negotiations will result In the
opening of the lands to cOl0niStS.
For the foreign missions there is some
talk in favor of ex-senator Thurman to sue
coed Mr.. Lowell in England. Gen. Nee ell
Ian, who had been named by the jgossips for
the Italian mission, is now spoken of for
Germany. AS Mr.. Stockton's friends are
naming him for Russia, and as both he and
Gen. Mcclellan come from New Jersey,
conflict may arise which will make it neces-
sar, to drop both. There are many candi-
dates for First Assistant Postmaster-G ener-
al. The newest is Nicholas M. Bell, of st.
II lie, AI... rl.A aIlr E,.A
tary of the Democratic National Conven-
ton. Mr.. Money, of Mississippi, is named
as q candidate, and so is eX-Representative
Charles M. Shelly, of Alabama, but it is
said that Col. Villas choice for that place Is
likely to be n ex,Represenntative A; II. Steph-
tive Fred Talbot, of Maryland, will be sec
ond assistant by the grace of German.
1t is estimated that $4,000 people assem-
bled at z o'clock Wednesday evening i'm the
public reservations and streets surrounding
the Washington Monument to witness the
display of fireworks given under the aus
pices of the inaugural committee. The dis
play commenced promptly at the appointed
hour and proved the most brilliant and inn
posing ever witnessed in this city. The
displays of rockets and other devices were
o s Ws%iHggon ans Whe
House, and Capitol with colored lights was
novel and beautiful, and the set pieces rep
resenting portraits of Cleveland and Hen
bricks, national coats of arms, and patriotic
legends, etc, were the most elaborate and
striking ever attempted here. The display
was thoroughly effective throughout and
was enthusiastically received by the vast
crowds. -
An Important precedent was established
in the Senate on Tuesday by the admission
of Mr.. Blair, of New Hampshire, upon the
certificate OF the Governor by a vote of 36
yeas to 20 nays. The Senate has thus de-
cided that there shall be two Senators from
every State upon its floor whenever it Is
possible, and that the existing Legislature
of New Hampshire Is the one which was
elected in November and will convene in
June. The Senate is now committed to the
doubts as to whether Legislature has ex-
PRED, certificate from Governor which
undertakes to fill an actual vacancy Is to be
recognized. 1t is certain that the precedent
thus established will be recognized when
the Gov rnor of Oregon shall fill the vacan-
cy caused by the expiration of the commits
sion of Slater, and it may possibly be ap-
shall fail to elect the certificate of Gov. Og-
lesby must now be recOgn Zed.
A DILEMMA.
A plan is under consideration to remove
the difficulty arising from the sentence of
the Swain court-martial which prevents the
filling of the office held by Swain, and so
leaves the army without Judge-Advocate-
General for twelve years. 1t is regarded
as important to the interests of the service
that this office should be filled If a way can
be found to do it. The proposition is to
have the President remit so much of the
sentence as only suspends Gen. Swain
from his duties and put him at once OH the
retired list, where he would be by the oper-
alton of the law by the time he has served
out his sentence. IL this Is done the posi-
ton Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will then
be filed. Near friends of the President,
who seem to be acquainted with what sgo-
ing on in this matter, are inclined to believe
that Gen. Horatio King, Jr., of Brooklyn,
will be nominated to the position.
CABINET COURTEsIES.
At noon Saturday Messrs. Bayard, Whit
ney, Garland, and Endicott entered the Of
flee of the Secretary of State at Washing
ton, where Mr.. Bayard took the oath rs
Secretary of State. The party then went 10
Secretary Chandeliers room, where Mr..
Whitney was sworn in as Secretary of the
Navy. In Secretary Lincoln's Office, where
Gen. Sheridan and staff and other army Of
ficers were assembled, the oath was admin
istered to Mr.. Endicott Acknowledgement
Garland was sworn into Office at the De-