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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered to the Pres
ident his resignation as Secretary Of the In
terror, and il has been accepted by the Presi-
dent Mr.. Lamars letter is datei Jan z, and
closes as follows:
In terminating my relations to you as a men,
Der Of your official family, desire to express
my grateful sense OF the obligation am under
to you personally Tor the consideration and
kindness which have always characterized your
treatment Of me, and for the generous conf
dence and support which you have steadily
given me in the trying and arduous admins
tration Of this department. shall always be
proud to have been associated with the honor
able record you will leave upon the page Of
your countrys history.
The President in accepting the resignation.
says:
lam sure TINT the close confidence and the
relations OF positive affection which have grown
up between us need no expression or interpre-
tation. And yet find IL utterly impossible for
that the things which have characterized your
conduct and bearing in the position from which
you now retire-all your devotion to your coun-
and solicitude for public interests all the ben
mt which your official service has conferred
upon your fellow-countrymen, and all the affec-
ton and kindness you have 30 often exhibited
toward me personally-I shall constantly re-
member with tenderness and gratitude.
Mr. SPRINGER, Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Territories, in an interview at Wash
ington the other day, said:
Very probably enabling acts will be passed
for some Of the Territories; that is we may pass
an act enabling some of the Territories to adopt
State constitutions, and to construct the ma
chinery of State government preparatory to re-
cognition as States. The admission of a new
State Is a very important matter and cannot be
done ON a mere application or ON any mere
arithmetcal basis, somehow an impression has
got abroad that territory must havo q certain
population to qualify IL for admission. There
is no law and no custom about IL. The admis-
sion OF new state is entirely n matter of
Legislative discretion. IL is within the power
State and admit it TO the Union. The State Of
Illinois was admitted when she had less than
1000 people Dakota has over 600, 900 The
Congress, in its discretion may exclude Dakota
and may admit mo Mans Land"
WASHINGTON special says. she announce
ment made, apparently on authority, that Mr.
Randall would oppose reduction of the duty
on sugar was great relief to the representa-
tives Of the Louisiana sugar industry They
have been apprehensive, since the agitation
for the reduction Of the surplus began, that
the Republican programme to take of at least
half Of the duty on sugar would prove at
tractive to great many Democrats as well as
Republicans, and that the protection Demo-
Gratis might be disposed to cooperate with the
Republicans on this point The Louisiana
Democrats, of course, il sugar can be pro-
tected, will cooperate with the other Demo-
Gratis for the reduction Of the surplus through
the tariff"
The annual report Of the board OF managers
of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers has been laid before Congress The
average number OF inmates present during
the last fiscal year, was 9,7ls, an increase in
five years Of 2, $50 or A per cent The exist
ng branches are now filed TO their utmost cap
acity, and in the opinion of the board only ono
or at most two Of them should be further en-
IarOed