Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-11-22
THE EVENING STAR.
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Washington News and Gossip.

w dou1uSUOA NOWo oAu NVSSAp
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, $40, ,792.54; customs, s457, ,sss.9I.
THE PRESIDENT signed, this morning, the COM
mission of John Hay as Assistant Secretary o.
State.
FIRST LIEUTENANT w. S. SCHENCK, Z. S. NJ. c.
is detached from the Portsmouth, n. H., bar
racks, on the 2Sth instant, and ordered to 1e-
port at the barracks here for duty,
DURING THE WEEK ended to-day s796, 900 in ma
tional bank notes were received for redemption,
against g, ,21S 600 for the corresponding week OF
last year.
UNITED STATES BONDS deposited by national
banks for circulation to-day for the week ended
to-day, s5S5,OOO: United States bonds held for
circulation withdrawn for the week ended to-
day, s915,O00
THE FOLLOWING CHANGES IN THE STATIONS OF
officers of the pay department of the L. S. army
are made: Major C. ]. Sprague from duty in the
department of the Platte and Will report for
duty to the paymaster general in this city.
Major I. II. Stanton, now on duty in the de-
partment of the Platte, VIII report for duty as
chief paymaSter of that department. Major c.
W. Wingard is relieved from duty in this city
and Will report for duty in the department OF
the Platte. Second Lieut.. L. ii. Strother, 1St in
fantry. is relieved from duty at Columbus bar
racks, Ohio, and will proceed TO join his COM
pany.
THE TRooPs AT BUFFALO PROTECTING GOVERN
MENT PROPERTY.-The statement made that the
e. S. troops ordered out at Buffalo were to pro-
tect private property Is incorrect. They were
ordered out to protect government property
upon the request Of the Chief of engineers, who
has charge of the property.
MORMON EMIGRATIoN.-Mr. Birney, minister to
the Netherlands, in his dispatch to the Depart
ment Of state, dated october 80, 1s79 states that
the number of Mormon emigrantS from Holland
is very small. He addS:-''HiS eXcellency. the
minister of foreign affairs, assures me that the
commissioners at Rotterdam have undertaken
to do all in their power to discourage the emf
grafton of Mormons 10 Utah by pointing out to
them the severe penalties prescribed by the
laws of the United States against polygamy."
NAVAL ORDEEs.-Lieut. Herbert Winslow from
the Marion, and ordered to the Powhattan;
Master Jacob j. Hunker to duty on board The
torpedo steamer Alarm; Assistant Surgeon E. Fl.
MarSteller to the receiving ship Colorado, reiiev-
ing Assistant Surgeon CIV. Bush, who Is ordered
to the Marion Passed Assistant Surgeon j. II.
Hall from the Marion, and ordered to duty on
the coast survey.
NOTICE SERVED ON AMBITIOUS GOVERNMENT
EMPLoYEs.-Thc Secretary of the Interior and
the Commissioner of Patents have issued the
following order: 'In order TO prevent further
opportunities for promotion, In which a few OF
the employees of the Patent Office have indulged
in spite of the well known rules of the depart
ment, notice is given that applications for pro-
motion made by The employees themselves, or
at their instigat1on, will not only be absolutely
fuitless, but, If persisted in regardless Of this
order, will be calculated to imperil their posi-
ton in the Office. The Secretary and Commis-
sioner have ample means of ascertaining the
title OF employees to promotion without re-
course to their own testimony or that of persons
unconnected with the Patent Office and ignorant
Of its business
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF
PENsIoNs.-Hon. j. A. Bentley, Commissioner OF
Pensions has completed his annual report to
the Secretary of the Interior. 1t shows that on
the 39th of June last there were 247, ,755 persons
in the United states receiving pensions from the
government. The pension list Is now larger
than at any previous time. The present list Is
composed of 125, $50 army invalid pensioners;
s1.114 army widows, children, and dependent
relatives; ,Sl4 navy invalid, 1,7l2 navy widows,
&C.; II ,621 surviving soldiers of the war of 1912,
and 21.194 widows Of deceased soldiers Of that
war. During the year 81 ,346 new names were
added to the list, and 9OS names which had pre-
viously been dropped were restored and Il. .497
were, for various reasons, dropped. The aggre-
gate amount OF one years pension to all the
actual annual payment exceeds that sum by
several million dollars on account Of first pay
ments: The first payments to pensioners of the
war OF 1912 will rapidly fall of, While material
increase may be expected in the army and navy
cases for several years, owing to the removal Of
the limitation upon the commencement OF pen
D.,
1879, on account of which there will be a de-
ticiency in the pension appropriation for the
current year, as follows: S5,0OO,00O army pen
SiCnS, and $50, 600 navy pensions, which should
be provided for in order that the pensions fer
the June quarter may be promptly paid There
were on the 3Oth of June. as shown by the
record. 136,645 unsettled claims, exclusive of
claims for arrears, an increase over last year Of
16,25S. To them are to be added about 4O. 900 ole
claims, which were revived by the arrears act.
These, with new claims since the close of the
in excess of tDp number settled added
the number shown by the record, will aggregate
fully 100000. Since the passage OF the arrears
act, new invalid widows, minor children and de-
pendent relatives claims have been filed at an
unprecedented rate. 1t is estimated that at the
close OF the year there will be not less than 25o-
600 unsettled cases before the Office.
LOTTERY LETTERS SToPPED.-Postmaster Gen
eral Key has issued orders forbidding the de-
livery of registered letters or the payment OF
money orders to Morris Richmond at Coying-
ton, KY. and Murray Frances & Co., or Sim
mons Dickson at Louisville KY.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF FIFTH AUDITOR Ella
OF the Treasury department, for the fiscal year
ended June 30th last has been printed. The ex-
penses OF foreign missions, as shown by ac-
counts adjusted for the year were as follows
salaries, S2sl ,Sl5o So: contingencies, S55,4s7.O4
loss by exchange, 81, ,592.91: total S33S 395. 81.
This does not include the account of the Chinese
mission, which is marked ''suspended' in the
report. The salary of the minister to Boil
reported. The total amount received during
the year by all the consuls as consular
fees for official services was S6S2 901.1S. or this
sum the salaries and emOluments to consular
offices took $54S, 665.05; loss by exchange ON
drafts for salary g. S3921 excess of fees received
over salaries and loss by exchange, S131, 1862.
The sum Of S53 501.4S was expended by consular
Officers for the relief seamen; expended for loss
IN exchange on relief drafts, Sss7.1s; paid by
treasury for passage OF seamen to United States,
S3,s 61.35; total paid out for seamen $685. 25O OF.
There was received by consular officers for extra
wages ETC., Sl2, ,S525 53 leaving an excess of dis
Dursemens FOR sailors over receipts OF S25 397 4S
The contingent expenses OF L. S. consulates lex
cept the last quarter OF year ending June 30 1879
Whlch was not made up,) amounted to $113 9I9. 25;
allowance Tor clerks at conSulateS, S39, ,O36.67.
The statement OF compensation of collectors
OF internal revenue, with their miscellaneous
and ofhce expenses, etc, aggregates as follows:-
Ioiai salaries for collectors, $40 s32 %; compen-
satlon by salary and commissions. S47.3 994:
expenses. 81 ,3s1 ,1T262; stationery and blank
books, 81 Is41.49; portage and survey OF distfI-
leries, 81 ,O35.ls express and depositing money.
$lS99s advertising, 81 ,04s. II; total expense OF
collecting, 81 SO, ,lO561; expenses OF administer-
ing Office, s., ,022, ,265.21: revenue Stamps and
assessment lists S127 $50, ,540s5; cash deposited,
S10I ,422 301.3I; compensation OF storekeepers'
1881, I2S &C. Paid revenue agents = Salaries
$50 1s3; expenses, s45 6O4.21; stationery S1S3s4-
total, 1925 9I1.05.
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