Show 1 Washington f 3 l Washington2 Today the Prepi l dent appointed John Kelly of Oregon 1 Ore-gon William B Dean of Minnesota Isaac Brandt of Iowa commissioners If J 1 commission-ers to examine the twentyfive Ik l miles of railroad constructed by the t Northern Pacfic Railroad Company 1 in Montana He also appointed Aaron H Cragin of New York Albert Ordway of Washington D l f C and Pomeroy Keese of New t a York commissioners for another section of Ufty miles of the same railroad in Montana t 1 Dr Lcring commissioner of agriculture t agri-culture says the statement made an H al t many of the northwestern papers 1 < that he opposed the bill for the protection t pro-tection 05 cattle against contageous A diseases before the last Congress trGi Con-gress is entirely unfounded He lki i strongly advocated the Hatch bill i making ample provision for this tJ 4 K work by establishing a veterinary < 1 division in the agricultural department depart-ment and was greatly disappointed a at its failure The opinion of the attorney general upon the question ques-tion whether the postmaster general gen-eral by a temporary appointment for a longer period than ten days is said at the White House to be substantialy identical with tbe f j I opinion of Attorney Gegeral Dev 4 Jens J-ens in the case where the office of = Secretary of the navy became vacant Jii4 1 va-cant in 1880 In that opinion Mr il f Devens held that the period for l which a vacancy can be filled by J i designations is limited to ten days j rt t The secretary of the treasury J rf I r r today issued a warrant for the payment pay-ment of 2051 to A H Garland 1f trT i Little Rock This is the firs payment pay-ment made under the appropriation 1j of 100000 made at the last session H of Congress for the return surplus ir proceeds of lands sold for direct i taxes |