Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-12
MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.

MILITARY PROV oTIoNS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Senate military
affairs committee have agreed upon the
nominations of Capt. Francis S. Dodge, Ninth
cavalry. to be paymaster with the rank of ma or.
He is to fill the first vacancy in the pay corps.
Capt Isaac ID. De Ru-sy First infantry, will be
confirmed major of Fourth infantry.
]. Heller, recently restored to the
army, is to be confirmed for
assignment as colonel of the Twenty Third in
fantry, 10 fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Jefferson G. Davis. Lieutenant Col. r. B.
Ayers, Third artillery, will be colonel of
the Second artillery. Other nomina-
tions to be favorably reported include Major
James NJ. Whittemore, TO be Lieut.. Colonel
of the ordnance department, vice
Treadwell, deceased; Major Joseph Stewart,
Fourth artillery, to be lieut.. colo eel Third ar
tillery; Major G.. a. De Russy to be lieut..
colonel Third artillery; Major Geo. l.. Frebl-
ger, paymaster, to be deputy paymaster-gener-
al with the rank of lieut., colonel, vice Prince,
retired Capt. Joseph G.. G. Lee, assistant
qaartermaster, to be quartermaster with the
rank of major, vice James, retired; Capt. Chas.
W. Howell, to be ma jOr of engineers; Capt.
Clifton Comfy to be major in the ordnance de-
partment; Capt. Eugene b. Beaumont, to be ma
sior of the Fourth cavalry; Capt Richard Loder,
Fourth artillery, to be maj or of the Third artll-
lery; FIRST Lieut.. u ~ Wneeler, flrSI ARTILLERY.
to be assistant quartermaster with the rank of
captain.
PAY OF MARSHALs.
MIR. McMahon, of OHIO, who is chairman of
the subcommittee Of committee on appropria-
tions, having in charge the marshals appropria-
ton BILL says that nothing will be done by the
committee in the direction of preparing the
bill until after the marshals' accounts are re-
ceved from California. He says that they
will help to give some idea of just how much
money is wanted for election purposes, and
that of course the committee will not allow for
adehciency to this extent.
WOODS REFUNDISG scHEME.
Fernando Wood has fully matured his
scheme for the refunding of the outstanding
6 per cent. bonds. The reasoning of Secre-
tary Sherman as to the iInpracticability of ne
gotiating 81 per cent. bond at par was, Mr..
Wood said to the GLOBE correspondent to
night, fallacious. II is true that under or
binary circumstances the per cent. bonds
would have to sell at 81 06 before the 80 per
cent. could bring par, but the per cents sold
in New York to-day at Sl.04, and with the in
creasing demand tor Investment securities,
there is reason to believe the market will go
even higher. The secretary does not make due
allowance for the difference between business
capital aud the rates ofinterest it demands and
permanent Investment. The United States
must have its securities hold high place in
the markets of the world until it shows reso-
lutte confidence in them itself and proper
esteem for its own credit. Mr. Wood believes
that there will be no difficulty in
negotiating the sum he indicates IN
his bill at 80 per cent. The saving
effected by this scheme over that of Secretary
Sherman's per cent. plan, it is estimated,
would be more than Is, 900, 600 annually. One
feature of MIR. Woods plan on which he de-
ponds to make his 80 per cent. banks negoti
ate, is the long time they will have to run. A
fifty year bond at 81 per cent. ought, he says,
to be easily negotiable when per cent. bond,
redeemabie in twenty-seven years, fetches
I04. Mr.. Wood looks with great confidence
to the West to support his scheme, which is
now imperiled by the strenuous opposition of
the old syndicate and treasury influences gen.
orally 10 any cutting down in the funding
operations.
CENSUS sUPE RINTESDENr.
The superintendent of the census will prob
ably have the list of supervisors ready to be re-
ported to the Senate on Wednesday. Although
much has been said about Democrats being ap-
pointed ID these Offices, it is believed that no
Democrat will be appointed in any Northern
State.
NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE annual report of
the national board OF health, containing an
account of operations of the past year, will
probably be transmitted to Congress to-mor-
row. The work of collecting information and
advice from the principal sanitary organiza-
tions and sanitarans of the United States as to
the best plan for Il national public health or
ganization, including the subject of quaran-
tine both maritime and inland. is reported
having been quste successful. and after care
fully examining the data thus collected, the
board is of opinion that the conclusions hereto
fore published by the American Public Health
association at the meeting of that body at
Nashville, November 10, 1879, may
be taken as fairly representing
the opinions of the leading sanitarians aud
most important sanitary organizations of this
country. 1t has been decided by the board
that for the present complete quarantine
Establishments only needed at Boston. New
York, Philadelphia, near the mouth of Chesa-
peake Bay, Charleston, Savannah, near Bruins
wick, Ga, Fernandina, Fla, near Ship
Island, Miss, and at some points on the Texas
coast. The total expense of establishing quar-
antine stations at Chesapeake Bay, the one near
Brunswick and the one at Ship Island, which
are considered the most i'm portant, is estimated
at 10000, and as each of them is for the pro-
lection of several States, it is considered TO be
em1nently proper ana desirable tnat tney
should be equipped and maintained by the
United States
1t is the opinion of the board that if during
the present winter at all points where fever
has prevailed during the past summer, care be
taken to obtain thorough ventilation ard expos
ure to cold of all houses and enclosed spaces,
and all bedding, clothing, ETC., and if local sani
tation be vigorously and properly carried out,
there will be little danger of epidemic yellow
fever next year from causes now existing in the
country.
1t is believed inspection stations for steam
boats should be established on the Mississippi
river at New Orleans, Yicksburg. just below
Memphis, and at Cairo, at which all boats
should be examined by competent inspectors
and certificates as to the sanitary condition of
boat given. The cost of establishing these sta
tions is estimated at S35 900. Expenditures of
the board from date of organization to De-
cember 81, 1879, were Ssh 900. Estimates for
defraying future expenses of the board sub
mitted are as follows: From January l to
June 80. 1880. 1884 $50; from July /,
1880, to June so, 1881, S202060. 1t is
also advised that an appropriation of about say
500 coo be made 70 hold in reserve for emer-
gency of the occurrence of such an epidemic
as that of 1879 and to be used solely for the
purpose of inland quarantine in case of such