Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-07-01
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WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT GARFIELD and his family
have gone to Long Branch.
The treasury will disburse az interest
payments, on or before July /, abont $780,
100000.
FoRTY-Two million dollars worth of )
per cent. bonds have been 30 far received
by the treasury for continuance at 81 per
cent.
SECRETARY KIRKwooD will not only call
to account the Central Pacific speculator
Auditor French, but will compass his re-
moval. General Jere Rusk, of Wiscon-
sin, who hasn't been able to pick out any
thing TO suit him. stands in the doorway.
The presidents personal movements
are somewhat uncertain, but he will prob
ably devote his attention during the heat
ed term to Mrs. Garfeld's health, and SO
preserve his own from the annoyance of
importuning delegations.
MARK HOPKINS will entertain President
Garfield at the Williams college COM
mencement; Secretary Blaine will be the
guest IF President Chadburne, and rooms
| for nearly all the members Of the cabinet
have been secured at hotel.
CHAs. III. HOWARD, brother Of Gener-
al.O. q. Howard, has been appointed to
an Indian inspectorship. William III
Turner, clerk in the postoffce depart
meat having charge Of star-route contracts,
has been removed.
UProN, the assistant secretary of the
treasury, has been ordered to London, to
take charge of the work of extending
bonds held abroad. Whether this will be
the last of his public career is a disputed
question.
PRIVATE dispatches announce the sud-
den death. in Washington, of George w
Jones, Jr., recently appointed paymaster
in the navy. He was son of Gorge w.
Jones, of Cincinnati. The family were
expecting him home. until the dispatch
came announcing his death.
CHARLES A. ANCmlsI, a well-known en-
bezzler, formerly Of the secret service of
the treasury department, has been recap
tured in San Francisco. In addition to a
package of important papers he had
counterfeit national bank notes of five
denominations and a bad $50 greenback.
GEohGE TAYLOR, the Washington law
yer involved in the cotton claim fraud,
wants it known that Clarence A. Seward
of New York, was the attorney of record,
associated with two lawyers who are dead.
Mr.. Taylor represents over 81 100000 of
the claims now before the Franco-Ame
can commission, and has taken an appeal
to the supreme court.
lT is understood that Custodian Pitney,
OF the treasury department, in whose
office several irregularities have been dis
covered, will be retired at the end of this
month. He will be succeeded by Gen E.
w. Whitaker. OF Washington, who was
Al m h.,, NH faf aFu iaG ~
ter, and who at one time took a promi-
nent part in Kansas politics
w. n. DUDLEY, United States Marshal
Of Indiana, has been appointed commits
sioner Of pensions. in place Of J. A.
BENTLEY, resigned Judge Noah G. Me
Farland, Of Topeka, Kansas, was ap-
pointed commissioner Of the general land
office in place Of Gen. Williamson, re-
signed. 1t is believed Mr.. Dudley will
not long remain at the head of the pen
sion bureau. but that he will in time be
made commissioner of patents
UNDER Instructions from the secretary
of the interior, Colonel Edwards, agent of
the Winnebago and Omaha tribes, has
partly negotiated the sale of reservation
of twenty thousand acres by those tribes
to make home for the Poncas, who num-
Der 20 souls. While Uncle Sam peddles
out land at $l.25 per acre, the 0mahas
think 80 would be a modest figure for
conveyance.
The Hon. J. A. Bentlv, VINO has been
commissioner of pensions for the past
five ycars, has resigned that office at the
request Of the president No other rea-
son is assigned than that such a change is
desirable. There were no charges against
him, and his administration Of affairs has
been such as to give him high reputa-
tion as an executive and judicial officer.
1t is learned from private sources that he
will make his home in Chicago and prac-
tice law.
A ALAwYER of Washington, named George
Taylor, formerly member of congress
from New York, is said to have acquired
an immense fortune in a few years by
corrupt methods, and is believed to hold
nearly S6,000000 of the claims made be-
fore the Franco-American commission.
which board he was largely instrumental
in creating. A decision Just made by the
United States court of claims brands Tay-
lor as guilty of subornation OF perjury, and
as having manufactured a claim upon
which he was paid nearly 100000.