Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-12
General Capital Ne,Cs
STAR ROUTE CASES.

WASHINGTON, July lin the star route
causes VIM. Krieder, postmaster at Mineral
Port, Arizona, testified that the names signed
to the petition were those of persons living
off the route petitioned for. II was Christmas
day, 1878, before they had received their first
mail, although the service had been ordered to
begin in July. An effort was made by Wilson
to show by the witness that the town OF
Signal, where the petitions appear TO have
been prepared, received at least a portion of
its mail through Mineral Port. KriedeI,
however, said If such was the case he never
knew it.
Bliss presented the mail bill for this route
from time to time. A solitary letter parcel
appears To have been transmitted, but as
rule the mail bill itself was the only mail in
the pouch. Route A, 100, from Cannon City,
Oregon, to Fort McDermott, was next con-
sidered. Bliss requested the crier to call q.
E. Spencer. This was done, but there was no
response. In answer to the court Bliss said
| the witness ex-senator from Alabama) had
| been summoned and after putting in an APP
pear aHce had suddenly left the city. Elk Sena-
| tor Spencer is believed to have gone to Dakota,
and an attachment will be immediately taken
| out by the government to compel his attend
ance.
petitions relating to the route under consider
alton. After some testimony of the usual
character the court adjourned.
1t can be authoritatively stated that but one
United States senator is expected to be con-
nected with the star route frauds through the
| newly discovered evidence.
NOMINATIONS.
Edwin Higgins, collector OF customs; I.
Dubois, marshal of the United States for
Idaho: Joseph W. Robbins, Illinois, surveyor
general, Arizona; Alvey A. Adee, District Of
Columbia, third assistant secretary of state.
THE MORMON WAR CLAIMS.
The house committee on Judiciary directed
Representative Payson Qll.) to report adverse
~ the Norm n war claims, pending since 1879.
The amount involved is $4,000.
CROP REPORTS.
The July returns of the department of agri-
culture from all states aud territories of the
United States indicate an increase OF the area
planted in corn, exceeding per cent, or fully
$500, 900 acres.
THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION.
Senator's Hale, Logan aud Davis (Va.I SUBJ
committee, and the senate committee on ap-
preparations, having in charge the naval aP-
preparation bill, completed their work this
afternoon, and at 9 O'Clock tomorrow morn-
ing meeting of the full committee will be
held to pass upon the bill with g view to re-
porting it TO the senate tomorrow. Very lit
tie change was made in the house bill in the
items of the appropriation, but several ms
terial notifications were made in matters of
legislation affecting the personnel of the navy
with a view 10 avoiding the harshness of
those features of the house bill, which in cut
ting down the number OF officers would Tor
many years completely block the promotions.
The sub committee propose to attain the de-
sired result by distribu ing the prospective
reductions among greater number of grades
aud by making a greater reduction in the
lower grades. The provisions of the house
bill in regard TO commodores and graduating
midshipmen are unchanged; also the provision
for the completion of the monitosr.