Omaha daily bee., 1882-11-14
The Supreme Court Abolishes
the Rich Perqoisites Of
the Clerk.
The Rush for Land in Dakota
Sketched by an Officer.
The Postofice Department About
to Close on Marriage As
sociations.
Postal Savings Banks-The Potomac
Flats and other Matters.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Special Dispatch to THB BER.

Special Dispatch to THR BER.
A WISE REFORM.
WASHINGTON, November 13.-An
amendment was made in the rules of
the supreme court to-day which will
deprive Clerk Mckinney of probably
one-fourth of his income. Chief Jus.
tice Waite, in announcing the changes
in the rules, said the statute regu.
lating the clerks fees was passed In
1899 and that the practice as it now
exists is in all national respects what
1t had been for more than fifty years.
There is an apparent conflict, added
Judge Waite, between the rules and
practice under them, which ought not
to exist. 1t is also evident that what
fifty years ago was nc more than rea-
sonable compensation is now, under
the operation of the rules as then
constructed, larger than it ought to
be.
Several cases Of some Importance
were decided to-day. In that of E.
D. Pritchard VS.. Norton, it was held
that where q bond was executed in
New York to be enforced in New Or
leans, the laws of Louisiana must
govern, the judgment of the United
States circuit court of Louisiana being
reversed. In the case of the Equator
Mining and Smelling Co. vs.. Geo. w.
Hall, the judgment of the circuit
court of Colorado was reversed and a
new trial ordered, the court holding
that under the code of that state each
party to the suit is entitled to a new
trial without alleging cause or pay
ment of costs.
; The case of the county of San
Mateo va. Southern Pacific railroad,
was advanced on the calendar, pro-
vided day is fixed this year. This is
the tax case. Senator Edmunds re-
quested an early hearing.
The second amended rule orders the
destruction of models left by litigants
every month if not called for. Ad-
journed.
oPENIN1NG A LAND OFFICE.
Inspector Holcombe, in his report
to the general land office, gives an in |
teresting account of the establishment
of the land office of Huron, Dakota
territory, October 8. Monday was
tho day set for the office to open, and
at 3 O'Clock that morning over 500 at
torneys assembled in front of the |
Office in readiness for business. At 9
o'clock, when the doors were opened,
there was such a rush that the doors
and windows were broken, and sew
o~oI avhS. ooor,~aI - kh1 .~oo,oon.
to file application first that the re-
ceiver was compelled to make the an
nouncement that all applications
would be regarded as having been filed
simultaneously. Over nine thousand
dollars worth of land was sold for cash
the first day; loo, 900 acres were en-
tered, and that, with protest and ap-
p%lications, was the largest days work
perhaps ever done at any land Office in
the country.
MARRIAGE ASSOCIATIONS.
Assistant Attorney General Free.
man, for the postoffice department,
has sent the first official notice to the
st. Elmo Marriage Insurance com-
pany, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to
show cause why it should not be
debarred from receiving money orders
and registered letters, because of its
alleged fraudulent character. An an
swer is expected within a week. This
will be a test case. It is stated that
the southern mails are 30 loaded down
with marriage association circulars
that the distribution Of mail is several
days behind, and that In Texas alone
these associations have received in
fees over so, 000, 900.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.
Postmaster General Howe has been
debating the propriety of recommend
ing in his annual report the establish
ment of a ~postofice savings bank in
connection with the money order sys-
TEN OF the postoffice department., and
has finally come to. the conclusion not
to make such recommendation, but to
leave the matter to congress. For the
past few years each successive post
master general from Creswell down to
Maynard have recommended postal
savings banks, but congress has
took kindly to it.
Such banks, in the opinion of the
p~ostofice officials who have strongly
advocated them, as nowthe past postal
bank system, presupposes a perma-
nent national debt; that the savings
deposited may find an investment for
which tho government is responsible.
In fifteen years, at the present rate of
paying off the debt, there will be no
government bonds in the market and
hence no basis upon which to build a
postal saving bank system.
CHANGE OF NAIL.
The superintendent of the railway
mail service to-day decided that the
postal car on the 8 p. m. train must
be transferred to the 3 q, m, train
from Baltimore via Washington TO
Chicago. This will make mails FIVE
hours earlier cart OF Cumberland,
INDIAN SUPPLIES.
Clerks sent out to the Pacific coast
by the Indian office to purchase and
award Indian supplies, have returned,
Supplies to the weight OF 4o6, o7S
pounds and costing over $50, 600 were
purchased, being an increase over last
year in weight OF "a 475 pounds Inc
quality of supplies was fully up 70
last years standard, while the eos''