Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-23
BOOMERS MADE HAPPY.
Oklahoma to be Opened at Once
 for Settlement.
RETURN OF OLD BATTLE FLAGS.

frmation-Corp. Tanner Nominated for
 Commissioner of Pen.ions-Other Fa-
 tional Capital Topics of Interest.
 WASHINGTON, March 23-The proclama- tion opening up the Oklahoma territory to settlement will be issued to-day by President Harrison. It will embrace about 1,S0o,O0o acres of land The country affected by the proclamation is bounded on the south by the Canadian river, to a point below Fort Reno, thence north to the Cimarron river, along that river in Q northwestern direction for some distance, and thence due east to a point near the Pawnee reservation, thence south to the Cimarron river again, along that river due west 10 the Indian meridian; thence due south along that meridian until the Canadian river, the starting point reached.
 Mai. John NJ. Carson has received letter rom his son, Lieut.. Carson, who is in com mand of the United States troops at Okla homa station. The letter bears date of March r, the day prior to that on which conflict is reported to have occurred between Lieut.. Carson's forces and the Oklahoma boomers Lieut. Carson says be left Fort Reno on Friday morning, the 18th, with twenty men and six Indian scouts, for a twelve days scout through Oklahoma. He had orders to remove all intrulers and to take them to the Kansas line. Most of the boomers, as soon as they heard of the arrival of the troops, fled in all directions, and those who remained were old men who showed no very great disposition to resist the rder to pack up and go. Some of them were taken away in wagons provided by Lieut.. Carson. The lieutenant says all these boomers are peaceable, law abiding citizens.
 RETURN OF BATTLE FLAGS.
 Three days ago Senator Wade Hampton (S. O. addressed q letter to Senator Quay (Pa) asking him to transmit to the surviving members of the Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer cavalry two flags captured from that regi- ment during the late waH. Senator Hampton said in his letter: 1.-The country has now but one flag but the men who bore those which l now send to you will be glad to see again the banners which they bore in the civil war" Senator Quay replied: II undertake, with much satisfaction, to transmit the colors to the former proprietors, and assure you they will be received by the survivors of the regi- ment ill the kindly spirit in which you deliver them, and will be tenderly treasured for the sake of old association, and one of the multiplying evidences that the issues and animosities of the civil war are faded" OPPOSING FRED GRANTS CONFIRMATION.
 Gen. Adam Badeau, whose controversy with the family of Gen. Grant over the authorsh p of the "Grant Memoirs attracted so much attention last year, is in the city opp sing the nomination of Col. Fred Grant | to be minister to Austria. Col. Grants friends | say that his efforts will be of no avail, and | that the nomination would have been con | firmed if the senate had remained ill session | or transacted any business.
 EFFICIENCY THE FIRST QUALIFICATION. Secretary Tracy has decided in the case of | a discharged clerk i'll the yard, and docks office at the Navy Yard, who made an appli- | cation fer reinstatement upon the grounds | of possessing a good soldiers record, that | whie a odier's record is good recommenda- | tion for appointment to and retention in office yet the question of efficiency must be paramount to all others. In this case the | clerk was discharged for lnetficiency and the l secretary refuses to reinState him.
 | NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT.
 Secretary Tracy said that among the nomi- nations sent to the senate yesterday, but not delivered, was that of Corp Tanner, to be commissioner of pensions. Among the other l nominations sent i'll was said to be that of | William H. Calkins, ex-congressman from | Indiana, to be commissioner Of the general land office. The presidents messenger reached l tue uoOl ol lue SSbdlt WILL IueSe anu OtueI' nomnations just as Vice President Morton declared the senate adjourned.
 IMPORTANT TO SOLDIERS.
 Fer the information of the army Adjt Gen. Drum has issued d circular, based on a recent legal opinion, to the effect that a minor so.dier of the army ill confinement un- der a charge of assertion will not be dis charged from military service by the court until he has been released from such confine- ment. A minors contract of enlistment is not void but voidabe. It seenis that f he be over 16 years of age he can only be d.s- charged upon the application of his parent or guardian; otherwise, if he be under It or if
 he were insane or intoxicated at the time of
 his enlistment.
 Senator Washburn, who has for several
 days been quite Ill and confined to his rooms
 at the Arlington ho.e., Is much better and hopes to be able to be out today.
 Leading senators have not yet come t. any definite conciuslon as to when the senate will adjourn, but there seems to be senti- ment favorable to getting away about the
 end of next week. or at the la lest by Wednas-
 day, April 3.
 At the department of agriculture tt is re- 5 garded as settled that Professor Hngarde, oi the Agricuitural college of California, will | . aumber of promising candidates have stepped on one side for hls benefit, and the Pacific coast people satisfied that he is the man. The receiving ship Franklin, which wa: sent to Yorktown at the centennial ceiebra ton ill 1851, will be sent to the centennia
 celebration in New York next week. Hel length is 2G6 feet She has a battery o twenty-eight guns. She is to represent the old navy in striking contrast to the new stee
 cruisers Boston and Chicago.
 Chaplain Hibher, of the navy, has beer
 granted thirty days leave He has for some time been engaged in preparing an officia F history of the Washington navy yard. Hi report will present historical facts of interest as the Washington navy yard was 0 promi s nent point in tine war of 1872, especially D when the capitol was captured The frs part of the report has been completed ant sent in.
 The appointment of Fred Brackett, a chief clerk of the treasury department ha
 been decided on and will be made within tn