The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CAPITAL CHATTER.

Washington, 6.-DuIing the week en-
ding November 4th, ,032 900 STANDARD
silver dollars were put in circulation by
the United States mints. During the
same period last year but 1850, 400 were
circulated. Most all the annual reports
OF the treasury departments are ready for
the secretary; generally speaking, tho re-
port is comparatively unimportant.
Very little business is bsing done in
the executive department, every one haV-
ing q legal residence outside the district
of Columbia having gone home to vote.
colOred men from here have been i'm
ported into Virginia to vote against the
''straight Iouts."
The following self-explanatory letter,
of general interest,hs been sent to sugar
firms of New York by Acting Secretary
French, of the treasury department.:
"This department is in receipt of your
petition of the Both ult., with an inclosure
in relation to the admission of sugar
from the Sandwich Islands, and request
ing that some other tribunal than that of
the collector of customs at San Francisco
decide as to what sugar be imported free
of duty under the treaty with the Hs-
wAiian government. In reply, haYe to
state that report upon the subject has
been eeuested troca the collector of Gus
toms at San francisco, but that he now
is authorized by law or instructions from
this department to decide whether sugar
to which you refer as imported at New
York shall be treated as covered by the
provisions of the treaty, and decision
will be made by the department after the
facts in regard to the matter have been
asctrtained.n
The rumor of Postmaster General
Howe's intention to resign is again re-
vived. Persons claiming to know say
that the resignation of his son Frank, az
chief clerk in the department, is evil
Cence that the old gentleman contem-
plates to follow.
The attorney:genersl has decided in
regard to the Office of assistant surgeon
general Of the army, made vacant by the
appointment OF Colonel Crane as sur
geon-general. that none of the officers in
rank below have an inchoste right to it,
but that the senior surgeon who now
holds the rank of lieutenant colonel, 10
entitled TO the rank of colonel, and any
surgeons of the rank of colonel may. be
! designated to act as assistant surgeon
| general.
The Jeanette board has began the ex-
animation of Melville this morning. He
believed the vessel entirely seaWorthy
and fully capable Of making the voyage.
Referring to Belongs discipline, he in.
dicated that it was very severe He re-
lated incidents of the cruise up 70 the
date when the Jeanette became block
AIDED in ice.
EMrs. Soteldo has written letter TO
District Attorney Corkhill, praying that
any further proceedings against her
brother-in-lsw, who was accused of muir
der on Friday last, be abandoned and
that the matter which has enshrouded
their lives in grief be no longer kept be-
fore the public.
As intimAted in the dispatches yes'er-
day, a charge against Clerk Mckinney
hrs been fled with the chief justice. They
are made by George r. Simmons. an ex'
under clerk, who states that In 1880
Mckinney made SIS. 900 by charging fol-
manuscript copies Of bills for the printer
when in fact no copies were made, the
original bills being sent to the prioter,
contrary to law.