Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-30
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The AmerIcus Post Omce-Locke
and Ghe New Georgia maFsheIshtp
Congress and Public HeaIth-Ia-
Ieressing Facts from Ehe Census.

| WASHINGTON, May 23.-There is being made a
sharp contest as to who shall succeed Postmaster
Bell at Americus. That Mr. Bell will have to yield
| up the office from which he is now deducing
emoluments is a fact as settled as the first colo
ny that came to this country after its discovery
| by Columbus. Major Black wants the place.
end wants it bad. He may get it, But the man
who appears to have the inside track is named
Brimberry. He was Deputy Collector under
Andrew Clarke. He has but recently moved
| into Americus to entitle him to a candidacy for
the place. Frank Hatton, the unanimous AS
sistant Postmaster General, ,favors Brimberry's
aspirations. 1t is probable that Brimberry viii
succeed.
QUESTION oFTPowER.
At the last annual meeting of the American
Public Health Association officer of the
National Board of Health read paper advo
eating the establishment, IN this country OF a
| system of registration and supervision over
| tnoS9 who constitute the social evil /" similar
TO the system in vogue in certain European
countries A numerously signed peti-
tion protesting against any such AUTHORITY
being given to the National Board of Health
was presented to Congress early this session
and referred to the Committee on Epidemic
Diseases. That committee has just made the
following report:
THAT Congress has no constitutional power
either by its own direct enactment or through
any board or agency that 1t may create to make
or enforce any such regulations in the States az
those protested against by the petitioners: no
power to enter uVon the work of general local
sanitation; but Congress has power to regli-
late commerce with foreign nations and
among the several States and the commitfee
believing that it is the duty of Congress so to
regulate commerce as to prevent the impOrta-
tion of contagious or infectious diseases into
the United States from foreign countries.
or into one State from another. and all the
powers heretofore given, and all that the COM
mittee proposes to give to the National Board
of Health are intended TO accomplish this ob-
ject, and this object only, and the powers here
tofore given, as well as those proposed to bs
given, by the bill heretofore reported to the
Senate, are believed by the committee to bs
absolutely necessary to its accomplishment
The committee therefore reports the peti-
tions back to the Sen 8te, with the assn rance To
the petitioners that they need have no appre-
hension of any action on the part of the Ma.
tional Board of Health upon the subject to
which they refer"
NEW PROVISION.
The bill making the annual appropriation for
fortifcationS ana harbor defense has become
law. 1t does but little more-appropriating
in the aggregate only S2S0, 0O0-than TO keep
up the present inadequate coast defensss
There Is, however, new clause to the bill this
year. 1t is as follows:
That the Secretary OF War is hereby au-
thorZed, at his discretion. to issue, on the re-
QUESTION of the Go yernor of a State bordering
the sea or Gulf coast, and having a pernA-
neut camping ground for the encampment of
the militia not less than six days annually two
heavy guns and four mortars, with carriages
and platforms, il such can be spared for the
proper instruction and practice of the militia
in heavy artillery drill, and for this purpose
suitable battery for these cannon will be con-
structed; and for said construction and the
transportation of said cannon, and so FORTH
the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby ap-
propriated for supplying each state that may
so apply"
MIR. LOCKEs CANDIDlCY.
Mr.. r. D. Locke continues to do work in his
own behalf, in that he may be made Marshal
of the new judicial district in Georgia Mr.
Locke is thorough worker when he starts for
thing. IL is true that ne did not make the
Columbus post office, but he worked for it all
the same. He has not had any ything like the
opposition in hunting for the Marshalship that
he had while out cunning for the Columbus
post Cthce. He therefore stands a better
chance. Locke told me the other day that il
President Arthur made the appointment be-
fore he left for New York, he was certain to
get it. If the President delayed the appoint
ment until he returned from New York, he
would, he thought, stand very good chance
to be the selected, but iG would not be a GER
tainty. President Arthur has gone to New
York without making an appointment to the
place.
INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.
The Census office has just issued a report
showing for the several States and Territories
of the United States the number Of persons:
the area in square miles; the number of fami-
lies; the number of dwellings; the number Of
persons, of families, aud of dwellings,, to the
square mile; the number of acres to person
and to a family. and the number Of persons to
a dwelling and to family, as shown at the
census of 1880
The figures for Georgia and Florida are as
follows: