The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-14
WASHINGTON MATTERS.
Civil Service Examinations-The Indian
Appropriation Bill, Etc.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-Civil service ex.
aminations will be held in the Southwest
and South during March as follows At
Nashville, Thursday, -; Memphis, Saturday,
14 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 It's eli.
gible register for the States of Arkansas
Mississippi and Louisiana, and persons from
those States who pass examinations Will,
therefore, have better prospect of an earl ?
appointment than those from other States,
having larger number on the register.
The President has, by executive order,
opened to public settlement sitter May 10,
1880, sll the lands within the NiobrarR or
Santee Sioux. Indian reservation, in Ne.
bIasks, remaining unsllotted TO and IN
selected by the Indians. except such as are
occupien for sgency, school and missionary
purposes.
The Treasury Department has notified the
Collectors of Customs at ports on the north
frontier that, as the services OF q Deputy
Collector of Customs at Fremont, o, has
been discontinued, vessels with csrgoes
which are destip ed to Fremont will have to
enter and clear az SsndUsky.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
will report favorably the bill providing for
an increase of pension to the widow of Cen
eral George II. Thomas to So COO year.
The Indian Appropriation bill as reported
TO the Senate, increases the House bill to
Sl52, 900. 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 rs-
EssD BssD gatbeTed fag9 sS by ths hsy agsnts nags
OF the Department The bill contains
q new provision, as follows: ITO suppl.
food and other necessities of life in cases
distress among Indians not having treatg
funds, arising from emergencies not foreseet
or otherwise provided for, to be used at th
discretion of the President S25 O00." Tb.
provision for the Indian school st Santa +.
is ftricken out and new provision is IL
serted for the establishment of school in Col
oTado for the Utes, and $40. 600 is apprnpri
ated for the construction of an Indian schoo
at Albuquerque, N. Mex. The fsa ure OF the
House bill, prohibiting under heavy penal
ties the sale of firearms to the Indians; that
of amending the statutes and the resolution
against selling spirituous LIQUORS to the In
dians; that authorizing the President 10
open negotiations with the Creeks. Seminoles
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.
The Acting Postmaster General trans
mittsd to Congress a letter to himself from
the Attorney General setting forth the desira
bility of securing the postal records of the
confederacy for use in the settlement o.
claims presented by parties who carried tn
neil in the South in ant-war times, and
y hose accounts had not been ad usted at the
outbreak Of hostilities.
The Secretary of the Interior disbsrred
from practice as attorney John Mclean, OF
ROokston, III.