The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-07-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Discrimination against American hams has
been withdrawn in Switzerland, after invcsti-
CATION of the complaint.
1t is said that Senator Logan and others in
the Senate are preparing to make u vigorous
fight against the reduction of the tobacco
tax.
A bust of Garfield, from the photograph used
on the five-cent postage stamp, has been COM
pleted by Preston Powers, of Florence, Italy,
and is pronounced by the widow and mother
of the president beyond criticism.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has decided
to affirm the assessment of duty mt 2h cents
per pound on axle forgings imported at To-
ledo, Ohio. This decision is against the i'm
porters.
William Williamson, formerly chief clerk in
the Department of Justice, is under arrest for
stealing autograph letters from the archives
and selling them. The documents include let
tiers from thirteen Presidents.
Colonel ID. II. Anthony and other leading
citizens OF Leavenworth are hard at work
here i'm the endeavor to secure appropriations
of 500, 900 for postoflice and $4,000 to recon-
struct the buildings burned at the fort.
President Arthur has nominated william
Hale, of Iowa to be governor of Wyoming; j.
Schuyler Crosby, of New York, for governor
of Montana, and w. w. Hoover, of California,
to be associate justice of the supreme court of
Arizona.
The United States fish commission has made
q special report to congress, which Will be the
most exhaustive work on food fishes ever
printed. 1t will make three quarto volumes
of eight hundred pages, each, and be profuse-
ly illustrated.
Congressman Townshend, of Illinois pre-
diets a long discussion in the senate over the
revenue bill, and consequently prolonged
session of congress- He hardly believes suf-
ficient number of members will be present to
warrant the taking up of the contested cleo
ton cases.
Mr.. Anthony from the committee on print
ing, has reported bill to provide for the pub
LEGATION of reports on the tenth census. The
bill provides for printing ten thousand copies
of complete series of the separate reports,
twenty thousand copies of the report on popu-
lation, twenty thousand copies of the report
on agriculture, and ten thousand copies of
the report on manufactures and mechanics,
and appropriates 1885, 46l for this purpose.
Owing to insufficient appropriations, the
national board OF health will close the stations
on the line of emigrant travel to the west.
This action will involve the suspension of in
land inspection of foreign Immigrants for
the discovery and prevention of the transmits
sion of smallpox at ten stations distributed
on the trunk-line railways I'm the north, and
the inspection of infected vessels arriving at
our ports from yellow fever points abroad.
The Judge advocate general has submitted
to the secretary of war his report on the petit
ton for the release OF Sergt. Mason on the
ground that he is illegally confined. General
Swain merely reviews from the military law
standpoint the legal points raised In the petit
ton, and makes no recommendation. He adj
heres strictly to the views expressed In his
original report on the case, that the proceed
ings of the court-martial were irregular and
illegal. The case will not be reported to the
president until after the return Of Secretary
Lincoln.
The pension appropriation bill, as passed by
the senate, makes no change In the amount
appropriated by the house, which remains ut
Sl00,OO0,000. No amendments, except those
recommended by the senate committee on APP
preparations, were adopted, outside of the
mere verbal changes. The amendments au-
thorize tho commissioner of pensions to APP
point surgeons to make such examination of
pensioners and applicants rs he shall require,
and to organize boards of surgeons, to consist
of three members each, mt such points IN each
state as he shall deem necessary to conduct
such examinations, subject to the revision OF
a special board of three surgeons, to be APP
pointed when the exigencies of the service
require It. The fee for such examinations
shall DO 81 for each member OF the board. An
amendment was also adopted prohibiting the
payment OF double pensions.