Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-20
WASHINGTON.


Service-New Postonices Established.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-In the Jeanette
board of inquiry Lieut.. Danenhower was
recalled and asked the following ques-
hon:
aDo you know of anything in the man
agement of the Jeanette which subse-
quent experience proved prejudicial, and
which could have been avoided?" His re-
ply was:
sit is question of judgment which is
called for by the court, and when l en-
barked on the expedition was to abide by
the Judgment of the commander, and do
not wish to oppose my judgment to that of
the commander or others. unless it IS abso-
lutely required of me-" The court was
then cleared for consultation.
After half an hours conference the doors
were reopened, and the witness was asked:
care there any material facts relating to
the management of the Jeanette coming
within your own knowledge which you have
not stated" .sz--.44
Answer-HNo, sir.'
Witness stated that the canned goods
were generally bad, and had been de-
stroyed from time to time.
Chief Engineer Melville sent in his re-
port yesterday to the secretary of the navy.
It is a graphic narrative of the Jeannette
expedition from the time when, after a
parting dinner, the crew separated into
three sections. This report, therefore.
supplements the ships log and Belongs
own minutes, all of which were preserved,
and thus completes the history of the i'll
fated expedition. The report is accom-
panied by a carefully drawn chart, which
shows in detail the wandering of the ex-
plorers. The story of the events of July
IL and 13 attendant upon the loss of the
Jeanette was then commenced by the wit
nesses, but before proceeding far with the
narrative the court adjourned
1.-THE secretary of war has Submitted to
| the Judge advocate general for opinion the
question whether the persistent refusal on
the part of an officer of the army to pay
| Just debts does not make him liable to
| trial by court-martial upon charges of con-
duct unbecoming an officer and gentle
man.
June so, 1882, there were in operation
769 railway postofices conducted in S42
whole cars and 1852 apartments in cars,
and were run over 81, ,865 miles of railroad,
making 1874, ,438 miles of annual service.
There were employed on these lines 1922
railway postal clerks, in addition to which
162 clerks were detailed as transfer clerks,
formerly known as local agents, and 2S6
we're detailed as chief clerks and for other
clerical duties in connection with the SER
vice at offices of general and
division superintendent and other
prominent points when received, AMI
were employed upon the steamboats,, max
ing total of $3.50 postal clerks in the SER
vice with salaries aggregating $3,4S6,779.
or an average annual salary of 1916. Dur
ing the year railroad postal clerks handled
and distributed 2,153,2 $50 letters and
postal cards and 1,27S, ,176,6OO pieces OF
, other mail matter, or total of all classes
of all ordinary mail matter of 8, ,433 800.
48O, besides Il, ,234 80 registered packages
and 57O,4S3 through registered pouches
There were eighty three casualties, in which
three railway postal clerks lost their lives
sixteen were seriously and twenty slightly
wounded. Superintendent Thompson recon-
, mends that congress authorize the widow
or guardians of minor children of railwa,
. post clerks killed while on duty, to be pait
sum equal to two years salary. He add
. that this need not involve an additiona
D appropriation, as deductions from pay TO
: failure to perform service, absence withou
: leave, absence without pay and violation
: of regulations could be constituted per
manent appropriation for the purpose
t Last year these deductions amount
. ed to nearly $4,000, which reverts int
the treasury. The estimates for mex
0 year are: For railway postal clerks, So,
d ! 957, ,712, an increase of 7.2O per cent. owe
: the appropriation for the present year; 70
0 postofice cars, 81, ,626, 900, an increase o
100000 over this year, and for specia
i facilities, 100000, the same as the pres
: ent year. ~
3 The treasury department has purchase
I l 424 900 ounces of fine silver for the Sa
Francisco, Philadelphia and New Orlean
mints. IS.
J.w. whelpy, cashier, and J. G. Burnett
chief of the national bank division of tn
treasury department., and Dun
can Thompson, of the department o
. the interior, have been ordered to Mash
? vile, as witnesses on the part of the gov
ernment in the suit of the United State
Q against the Nashville, Chattanooga and 81
: Louis Railroad company, for past due in
terest on certain Indian trust fund bonds
payment of which went by default durin,
the war.
New postofices established -Meserole
;. La Plata county, Colorado, Perley Mason
postmaster; Tennyson, Warrick county, In
diana, Joel Shelton, postmaster; Reserve
Brown county Massachusetts, Joseph Bear
postmaster; Epescoben, Emmett county
s Michigan, VIM. D. Punches, postmaster
: Strongville, Chippewa county Michigan
: Judson o. Smith, postmaster; Maltese, 81
Louis county, Missouri, Frederick Schwaat
postmaster; Rex, Miami county Ohio, Johl
G. Mitchell, postmaster.
The board appointed to consider an,
q audit various claims arising out of the i'll
ness and death of President Garfield, to
Q day received from DR.. Hamilton, of Ne,
Q York, claim of $25, 900 for professions
, services.
. James Moore, the submarine diver a
Memphis, offers to recover the sunkel
: quarantine steam launch Pickett and pa
the government $500 for her machinery.
pt Owing to repairs making in the Whit
Q house, . cottage is being prepared for tn
q president 1T the White house.
The Chiistians.