Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-06-15

Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has approved d the
act for the distribution of the Geneva
award.
FRIENDS OF the Hennepin Canal project
feel encouraged over a test vote in The
house.
SENATOR HoAR introduced in the SEN
ate bill to establish q uniform system
| of bankruptcy. 1t is substantially the
amended Lowell bill as reported to the
house.
HERE is a rumor about that Marshal
| Henry, of the District Of Columbia, will
be removed, owing to the manner in
which the star-route jury were drawn.
PosToFFICE officials assert that the SUR
plus of receipts over expenditures of the
department for the past year will reach
nearly 81 100000.
The report which comes again from
Maine, that Blaine will run for Governor,
is discredited here. Last week Mr..
Blaine told a correspondent that he
was out of politics; that he was coal
merchant.
THE commissioner of pensions asks the
approximation of 81 ,197 900 for clerk hire,
with which amount he proposes to finish
every claim within three years. The gov
ernment has already paid over $500,000,-
Geo for pensions to the soldiers of the late
war, and the amount required for some
| years to come will be greater than the in
terest on the public debt.
The bill introduced by Representative
Butterworth to authorize the consolida-
tion of the Southern Atlantic and Pacific
railway companies with other Pacific
companies, provides nothing in the act
shall be held to authorize the consolida-
tion of parallel or competing lines be-
tween the Pacific coast and ports .on the
Gulf of Mexico or the Mississippi liver
or impair any right acquired by these
companies under previous acts Of con-
gress.
THE president has appointed the fol-
lowing TO be members of the tariff COM
| mission:
VIM. A. Wheeler, of N Y, chairman.
Jno. L. Hayes, of Massachusetts,.
Henry W. Oliver Jr., of Pennsylvania.
Austin NJ. Garland. of Illines.
| Jacob Amber, Of Ohio.
Jno. S. Phelps, of Missouri.
Robert P. Porter, of Dist. of Columbia.
JnO. w. Underwood, of Georgia.
Duncan +. Kenner, of Louisiana.
THE deficiency bill brought up in the
house revived some Of the scandals of the
IhlOhu C6nItHHldl. LIE DIl SnOWSu
a deficiency in the fund for expenses of
entertaining the French and German
guests while here, of $4,000, nearly double
what was authorized to he spent. 1t
leaked out, a little at time, in state
ments from Holman and Sparks. and ad-
missions from Hiscock, that the money
was largely expended for wines and
high old time generally. Eighteen
thousand dollars of it was for hotel bills
in New York and Washington, and sever
al thousand for the use of the steamboat
on which the committee took the parties
TO Yorktown. Hiscock vainly tried to
keep the matter as quiet as possible, say
ing it would be an insult to our guests to
quibble over the bills for their entertain
ment.
THE house has unanimously passed a
bill which is likely to prove another sur
prise to those who have taken an interest
in the pension laws. The bill is entitled.
IAN act to amend the pension laws by in
creasing the pension of soldiers and sail
ors who have lost an arm or a leg in the
service" but that is not what it really is.
In the text is a significant clause which
includes all those on the pension rolls, or
who shall hereafter be granted a pension,
"who shall have suffered disability equal
thereto shall be granted pension of $40
per month" This clause. In the opinion
of a pension Office ficial, will flood the
pension Office anew with large class of
pensioners, and if as literally constr ed as
other laws. will take Lar ge amount from
the public treasury.