Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-02


Forty three postmasters of presidential Of
fees have failed to render their quarterly re-
ports to the postofice department for the
quarter ending June 80, 1881, which they are
required to do within one month after the
expiration of the quarter. The failing post
masters and sureties are liable to be compelled
to forfeit double the amount of the receipts OF
the office during the quarter unaccOunted for.
The following Offices are among those report
ed delinquent Elpaso, Ills; Fairmont, Neb.;
Fremont, O.; HutchisoD, Kan; IrOntOn, o.;
jacksonville, ILL.,; Keokuk, Ia; Lanesborough.
Mimi; Marshall, Mich; Misha, Wis;
Neenah, Wis; Newton, Kan; Rochester, Ind ;
Sheboygan Falls, Wis; Waukegon, Ill.
POSTAL DECISION.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Attorney General
MacVeagh has, at the request OF the post
master general, given an opinion as to whether,
under the act of Congress of April, 1878, and
1850, the allowance for expedition in carrying
mails is so per cent. of the original contract.
The attorney general holds that the law spe-
cially makes this limitation, and that it cannot
be exceeded. A postmaster cannot 60 beyond
this limit, and the expedited service must pro-
vide an increase of force and material en-
ployed to correspond with the Increase OF pay,
as con pared with the original contract. This
opinion is an official condemnation OF the sys-
tenn followed by Brady on Star route matters,
of increasing the pay of expedited routes out
of all proportion to the original service con-
tracted for, and to the increase OF material and
men actually employed to carry out expedited
service. The department. VIII follow this
opinion, and stick to the 50 per cent. imita-
tion of increase.
CAPITAL NOTES.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The State depart
ment has paid to the owners of twenty-five
vessels interested in the Fortune Bay award
the full value of their outlay, with 5 per cent,
but has disallowed the claim for the probable
profits of their voyage, had it been successful.
The postmaster general has issued an order
that all accounts for salary allowances of
postofice inspectors and superintendent of
the railway mail service must be adjusted and
presented for his approval by the chief of
postoffice inspectors. All expenditures and
charges will be rigidly scrutinized, and must
be in strict conformity with law.
Rear Admiral Fairfax, who is to relieve.
Rear Admiral Howell of the command of the
European station, will sail for the conttEent
in the Lancaster about the 1st of September.
The Lancaster will take the place OF the Tren.
ton as flagship of the station. Rear Admiral
Howell will start for home about the LIST of
September.
1t has been suggested as the proper thing
to do when Congress meets In December to
pass bill appropriating sum sufficient to
pay the bills incurred during the illness Of the
President. 1t is not believed that the latter's
salary, Sd, 1861 per month, can by any means
meet the heavy expenses for doctors bills,
telegraph bills, etc.
Mrs. Garfield is said to have more faith in
DR.. Reyburn than any other Of the President's
physicians. DR.. Reyburn is mlld-mannered
man, with auburn hair, an old army surgeon,
and Scotchman by birth.
The "Sumner tree" the large and wide
spreading maple in the capitol grounds, under
which the Massachusetts, Senator was SO fon
of sitting, and which was one OF the few re-
naming trees that survived the transplanting
made necessary by the new grading of the
capitol grounds, has died, and an order has
been issued to haYe it cut down.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marine
hospital, is preparing his annual report. 1t
will show, among other things, that the num-
ber of patients treated at the hospitals of the
service during the year was 32,70O, of which
456 died. They were all seameH Of our mer-
chant marine.
Judge Laurence is considering complex
question respecting the disbursement of the
fund for artificial limbs for ex-solders, which
amounts to some $50, ,000 a year. The surgeon
general and the commissioner of pensions
claim it. 1t involves the construction of two
or three badly worded acts of Congress. IT
will probably 60 to the commissioner of pen
siOns.
Assistant Secretary Upton has resumed his
duties at the Treasury.
Secretary Lincoln has taken his family to
Rice Beach. He. will return to his desk
Wednesday.