Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-30
WASHINGTON.

The secretary of the treasury has ap-
pointed ?. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisi-
ana, a special agent of the treasury de-
partment.
A TIE vote on the question of trans
ferring the Indian bureau from the in
terror to the war department occurred
in the joint committee considering that
question, when the final action was
taken.
| ROBERT LINCOLN, attorney for the
owners has made a demand upon the
government for rent upon the recently
burned Honore block IN Chicago until
next July at the rate of $4,000 per
year.
SECRETARY SHERMAN estimates that
the carrying out of the provisions of the
pension bin just passed will require the
expenditure ofabout $150,000,0O This
is three times the sum estimated by the
commissioner of pensions.
OWING to a difference of opinion re-
garding the transaction Of certain bust
ness in the Indian Office, VIM. Leeds,
chief clerk of that office, has been sus-
pended for thirty days during which
time there will be an investigation into
existing difficulties.
THE new bill just passed by congress
to facilitate the funding of the national
debt, provides for the issuing Of certifi-
Gates of deposit in exchange for lawful
money, the certificates to bear three
per cent. interest and be convertible at
any time into four per cent. bonds.
GEN. SHERMAN is investigating the
condition of the abandoned military
posts and neglected property of the
| United States in Florida and at Atlanta.
with Il view to ascertaining the meas
ures necessary to secure the interests
of the United States.
The secretary Of the treasury has ad-
! dressed a communication to the COM
mittee on commerce Of the senate and
| the committee on ways and means of
the house, requesting the petition to
congress from New York, that investi-
cation be made into the kid glove trade
be granted, and that investigation be
made as soon as practicable.
REPRESENTATIVE FINLEY has submit
ted to the committee on public expen-
ditures his report with reference to the
investigation of the government printing
office. After charging general extrav-
agance, the report recommends the
abolishment of the printing office, and
the letting of the printing to the lowest
bidder. The report proposes that only
the Congressional Record, and the bills
| offered in either house, be printed in
Washington.
THE principal items in the post-office
appropriation bill, reported in the house
from the committee on appropriations,
are as follows: For compensation of
postmasters, 81, $4,000; for clerks in
post-offices, So, 100000; for payment of
letter carriers, $1,900,0O0; for mail
transportation on star routes, $780,
633; for transportation by rail
road, $8,715,310; for transportation by
steamboat routes, $750,000: for trans
portation by postal cars, 81, ,250,000; for
compensation for railway postal clerks,
$135, 5,000 route agents, $1,075, 900; for
transportation of foreign mails, $780,
900. 1t is provided that if the revenues
of the department shall be insufficient
to meet the appropriations made by
this act, the sum of 81, ,291, ,319 or so
much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby appropriated to supply deficienc-
les in revenue of the post office depart
ment for the year ending June 80,
1880. The sum recommended by the
bill is $34, $780, ,343. Total estimates
upon the bill are placed at $36 ,571 300.
Appropriations for the year ending June
80, 1879, were $685., ,562.73.