Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-07-14
NATIONAL CApITAI

The President has sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Fitz John Porter, late
rolonel of the Fifteenth Infantry, to be
colonel in the army of the United States, and
Captain Theodore Schwan. Eleventh In
fantry, to be assistant adjutant general, with
the rank of major.
The House committee on public lands has
made favorable report on the bill which
permits homeSteaders who entered less than
100 acres of land to fill out their right to the
full 100, by entering the deficiency ut any
place where the land is subject to entry.
1t is said that charges have been filed with
the President by members of the Grand
Army, against the civil service commission
and Generals Black and Rosecrans the latter
for making and the former for aiding in
appointments contrary TO the civil service
laws.
A favorable report has been ordered by
the ways and means committee on the bill
to admit free of duty articles intended for
exposition at the American Botters Protec-
tive Association in Boston next October.
In executive session of the Senate, Cover
nor Hugh Thompson of South Carolina was
unanimously confirmed as assistant secretary
Of the treasury.
W. II. Bliss, United States district attor-
ney at st. Louis will tender his resignation
to the attorney general. Mr. BaShaw, Of
Missouri, the probable successor of Mr. Bliss,
Is in this city.
a number of capitalists in Washington are
trying to get Congress to incorporate a stock
company for the purpose of building ST.
00J,0DO hotel here. The proposed plan is for
a white marble building, with an interior
court yard, ornamented with fountains and
flowers a suite of rooms for the President
elect to occupy when he comes to Washing
ton for his inauguration AMI other splendid
features.
Senator Stanford has received from San
Francisco, to be delivered to the president,
an invitation from the Grand Army of the
Republic of California, to attend the nation
al encampment, 10 be ED there next month.
The invitation is no doubt the most elaborate
and beautiful device of that nature ever seen
in this country. The message is engraved
uron plate of solid gold decorated with a
Grand Army badge and other patriotic EN-
blems.
The President has sent these nominations
to the senate: Postmasters, William i. Har-
mon at Great Falls N. H. Albert A. Upton,
at West Gardiner, Mass.
The Pre- sident has allowed the act author
izing the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf
Railroad company to construct and operate
railway through the Indian Territory to
become "A law without his signature under the
10days' limit.
Lieutenant Colonel George H. Elliot, Of the
engineer corps, has been ordered from New
port, R. l., to Dutch Island, r. l., on public
business.
SIS it true that General Butler is going to
run for Congress" was asked of Representa-
tive Whiting of Massachusetts the other day.
Mr.. Whiting replied: II hear that he in
tends to run, but hardly think it true. Mr..
Allen who now represents the Lowell dis
Urlct, Is SVod friand of tho generals, and
that is why the latter will not make race
against him. AS for General Buffers run
ming for governor, that, | think, is out of the
question. He has no such intention.
A member of the Senate committe on pen
sions has said that what purports to be re-
port of that committee assailjng the Presi
dent was the production OF Senator Blair
alone; that it was never submitted to the
committee, and that some of the members in
tend to call public attention to the matter
and protest against document being given
out as a report which has no right to be
called such.
1t has been reported that the vessels of the
European squadron were being detained In
the Mediterranean sea and would be kept all
summer in the cholera infested ports, causing
much apprehension among the friends of
those on board. Commodore Walker, chief
of the bureau Of navigation, says there is nc
truth in the rumor Admiral Franklin
has no orders and is free to order
his vessels anywhere on his station at his dis
erection. The Quinnebaug is in English
waters, and when last heard from was at
Gravesend. The Kearsarge was, at latest
alvices at Constantinople and the Pensacola
at Smyrna The admiral is at present in
the Kearsarge, his flagship, the Pensacola,
being too large to pass under the treaty to
Constantinople."
j. V. Wright of Tennessee, has been ap-
pointed commissioner for certain negotia-
lions with Indians in Minnesota, Montana,
Dakota and Washington and Idaho terrific
ries, concerning their reservations etc.
The president has issued the commission Of
Hugh S. Thompson to be assistant secretary
of the treasury.
The bill 10 establish a forest reservation on
the head waters of the Missouri river, which
was passed by the Senate recently, was in.
troduced by Mr.. Edmunds. 1t sets aside a
reservation in Montana as a national forest
reserve for the preservation Of natural for
ests, protecting the head waters and tributa-
ries Of the Columbia and Missouri rivers. Ii
is made unlawful for any person to enter the
reservation to cut timber, settle, or for any
private purpose.