Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-09

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Secretary Teller has amended the placer
mining claims circular Of Sept. %, SO It
provides that no application by an asst
claim, will be allowed to embrace more
than $50 acers, and not less than $500
worth.
Prof. Hilgard, superintendent Of the
coast and geologic survey, has received q
report from Assistant Davis, chief of the
| transit of venus party at Fort Selaen, n.
n, announcing the complete success of the
| observation of all four contacts and six
teen splendid photographs being obtaired.
The sugar importers and refners of the
, country who ara bitterly opposed to tbs
recommendation OF the tariff commission
with regard to tho duty on sugar, are a.
sembiing here for the purpose ot persuad
ing congress not To adopt that recommend
alton. They say while nomina. reduction
from 10 to ~ per cent. is recommended,
! no actual reduction is in fact proposed,
| and that to adopt the recommendation of the
commission would be to make the law even
| more complicated and oppressive than
now in its relation to the sugar interests
The postoffice appropriation bill, which
| will be reported from the committee to
| follows for principal items of expenditure:
For inland mail transportation, $4,000
| 600; transportation by star routes. $50, 500
600; railroad postal clerks, b3,977, 900; rail
road postal cars, &1,6O0,0O letter curriers'
$3,60o,000; postrnasters, St0.00O,G00; in
land transportation by stean5 oats. $780,
Geo: transportation of foreign mails. $3.50
GOO; depredations, S225,O30; advertising,
$4,000. The above with items not M
! merated makes total of about S42,GG
| 600. There is an increase III over .he
! amount appropriated last year Of $1.oG0,-
900 for postmasters' salaries, and q de-
| crease Of S1,75O,000 in the appropriations
for star route service; increase OF 2St5,GGO
for inland transportation b. rail, and d.
crease OF $IO00O0 for ini-nd transDorta-
ton by boat. The most il; porIant chang:
Is Il reduction OF letter postage from 3 TO ,
| cents. Another notable change is tie
| omission of the amount asked for speci Il
facilities, $500, geo. This means the abaa
donment OF the fast mail service The bill
viii be reported to the house Monday.
In the Dickson case this afternoon.
Brown testified he had received Nc nav
from tbs department OF Justice since ,e
resigned. Ee reiterated the story alleging
Dickson asked hira how twenty # ve'' would
do FIR his vote. During the course of his
exa i.lif- .ticn tho only incident occurring
was that Smith, one Of the counsel for The
defense. asserted that Wells, for the COY
eminent, was no judge Of what Was decent.
Hinkle closed the argument for the de-
fence and court adjoured till Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-Senator Morrill,
introduced in the senate to-day
an amendment for the house hill
for reduction of internal revenue taxation
now pending in the senate. The amend
nlent was referred to the fnaace commit
tee and ordered printed. The internal
revenue bill Was also ordered to the finance
committee. Morri,rs amendment is in
reality tariff bill. It incorporates the
entire schedules recommended by the
tariff commission as substitute for the
present thrift as embraced in section 2.491
and 2:516 inclusive.
The president recognized J. MolIer as
vice consul for Denmark, at Galveston.
Hereafter before postal service is placed
on a new railroad the case will be referred
for report, as to the necessity of service,
to the superintendent of railway mail ser
vices, who Will cause the proper division
superintendent to investigate and report
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-Albert NJ. Woos-
ter, first assistant examiner of the patent
Office, has resigned.
Application was made to the supreme
court of this district to-day, foc SUM
mos to the secretary of state, requiring
him to show cause why he should not Daf
over, TO certain claimants, money ia his
possession, under what is known as the
Bon. We'll Mexican claim The claim
amounts to over 100000. Claimants fear
their rights may be impaired by the treaty
with Mexico, now pending.
The form Of certificate to be used in COLI
nection with awards made by the Garfield
board of audit was completed to- day
awards to be included III one certificate
and payment made by the board in bulk
A member of the senate military com
mittee, speaking about dismissed army
officers, said the com mittee was il no tenn
per TO listen to appeals for reinsf a,ement.
and that the visit of army officers to Wash
ington would probably be fruitless.
Mr.. Bingham, i'll his report to the house
| urging reduction of letter postage to two
cents, gives statistics as far back as 1892,
| when the rate for carrying letter was six
cents for distance of thirty miles and
| twenty five cents for $50 miles. There is
also a careful estimate based on history OF
reductions in the past which sustains the
! theory Of the report that the stimulus to
| letter-writing, which would naturally be
caused by q reduction. would greatly lessen
the estimated loss the first year which
mot counting such increase of letters would
only reach $S,OOG, 600 The entire loss repoI t
assumes, could be Offset by a fair allow
ance for carrying the mail matter of the
| government. Also, the estimate showed
the reduction would not take effect till
Jan. l, 1884, as provided in the amendment
to the Anderson bill. The surplus of the
| first half of that financial year would bal
ance the loss of the last half and there
would be ample time to exhaust OR call in
a printed supply of government stamped
three-cent envelopes. The surplus of the
postoffice department in 1882 will be fully
doubled, it is believed, in 1888. 1t is sug-
gested when a loss is experienced by this
reduction it shall be fully made up and
! when there shall again be surplus re-
duction Oh drop letters should be made.
Judge Lawrence, first controller of the
treasury sustains the recent decision of
the sixth auditor Of the postofiice depart
ment In the case coming from jackson
Miss, to the effect that rates of payment
fixed by the postmaster general for advert
tisements in newspapers for proposals to
| carry mails are final aud are not subject
! to review by any other authority.