Crawford avalanche., 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 BIN was adopted,
directing the President to enter into negoti-
ations the Indians with view TO opening
| Oklahoma 10 settlement. The question az TO
whether these negotiations shall be opened
through the agency OF a commission or not is
loft 10 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, tho former
TO confer with the colonlsts assembling there
and the latter to station his troops to pre-
vent the contemplated movement toward
Oklahoma"
At high noon on Saturday, the 7th
of March, Messrs. Bayard, whitney, Garland
and Endicott 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 Chandler's
room, whore Mr.. Whitney was sworn
in as Secretary of the Navy. In Sec
retary Lincoln's Office, where Gen. Sheridan
and staff and other army officers were
assembled, the oath was administered TO Mr..
sworn into Office at the Department of JUS
tice. From the Department of Justice the
party went to the United States Treasury
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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 bade the chiefs and clerks who had served
under them eood-by, and complimented them
upon their services.
Miss Cleveland held her first recep-
tion at the White House in Washington on
Saturday, March :. She was assisted by her
sisters, Mrs. Hoyt and Mrs. Bacon, and her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Cleveland. Over 1000
visitors were received. 'The latter were
waiting outside of tho house long be-
fore 3 o'clock, the hour for the recep.
ton to begin, and a system having to be
CATIONS or these ihrec days the policeman and
ushers formed the visitors In a long line.
Each arrival had to take his place at the end
of the queue, ana demo cratic principles and
equality were carried out In this way. Those
who drove in under the portico with -four
ish had 10 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 dlsperses 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 hall window to
the outside walk
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
tho Chicago Times is authority for the state
ment that "the Senators and new Congress-
men from Alabama, after agreeing upon a
scheme for the distribution of Federal
patronage in their state, went TO the
White House and laid it before President
Cleveland. He smiingly remarked that they
seemed TO have forgotten the civil-service
law, and assured them that he would send a
nrinte1 conv IN each of tham