Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-05-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
News of General interest from
the Nations Capital.
Organization of the Civil-service Conn
INSTRUMENTATION to he Pardoned-
New On1ciais Take Hold-Sev-
eral Appointments.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
WASHINGTON, May lathe Civil-service
Commission organized Monday by electing
| Commissioner Lyman president of the
commission. All the commissioners were
present, Commissioner Roosevelt quality
| Ing Monday.
WASHINGTON, May l4.-Judge Matthews,
| WHO succeeds Judge Durham as First Comp
| troller of the Treasury; Mr.. Huston who
succeeds Mr.. Hyatt as Treasurer of the
| United States, and Frank W. Palmer, who
succeeds Mr. Benedict as Public Printer,
entered upon their new duties yesterday.
| WASHINGTON, May lathe United States
| Supreme Court has affirmed the validity of
| the law excluding Chinese labor, known as
the Scott Exclusion act
| WASHINGTON, May lathe United States
Supreme Court yesterday awarded the ex-
ecators of the will of Myra Clark Gaines the
sum of s576 600 This decision ends one of
the most famous cases on record, which has
been in the courts since 1884.
! WASHINGTON, May 15-The General Land
Office clerks who have returned from Okla
homa say that up to last Friday 800 entries
had been made at Kingfsher and 1000 at
Guthrie. The total number Of quarter sec,
tons In the Territory open to settlement is
! 10000; hence, less than one-fifth of the
whole has been filed upon. Good order
! prevailed
| WASHINGTON, May l5--The United States
| Supreme Court has adjourned until October
next
| WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE President has
made the following appointments: Solo
mon Hirsch, of Oregon, to be Minister to
| Turkey; Clark L. Carr, of Illinois, to be
Minister resident and Consul General to
| Denmark; Henry W. Severance, of Califor-
/ It. Ax n zl.,l,.
John Jarrett of Pennsylvania, to be United
States Consul at Birmingham; Thomas $.
| Sherman, of the District Of Columbia, to
! be United States Consul at Liverpool
WASHINGTON, May 1S-Bolivia will be
represented at the conference of South
American nations to be held here next
autumn She will also send a Minister to
| Washington and make the United States
first-class mission
WASHINGTON, May 1s-The Inter State
| Commerce Commission has issued circular
letter address to the labor organizations of
the country soliciting information and dis
cussion upon the question of Federal regu-
lation of safety appliances on railroads
WILMINGTON, Del, May 1S-Every Even
ing confirms the rumored engagement of
ex-Secretary Bayard to Miss Clymer,
daughter of DR., Clymer, U. s. n, of Wash
| ington. The wedding Will occur early in
the summer and the wedding pair will pass
a few months in Europe.
WASHINGTON, May 20.--During the past
week the Treasury Department has dis
bursed S1l, $50, 600 on account OF pensions,
thereby exhausting the appropriation for
the current fiscal year, amounting to $751;
! 100000
WASHINGTON, May 20.--In an interview
Representative Perkins of Kansas, ex-
pressed the opinion that the next Congress
would pass bill for the regulation of Con-
| gressional elections. This measure, he
said, would be aimed at the South, but its
provisions would of course, apply equally
to all sections Of the country.