Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-30
WASHINGTON.
THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEpART-
MEMS COMING IN,

THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPART
MEMS COMING IN,
Interesting Facts Relative. to the Postal
Service-The Paymaster Generals Re-
port-General Gossip.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-The report of the
superintendent of foreign mails for the
last fiscal year shows 452 900 more pounds
transported than the previous year, not in
Guiding the Canadian mail. The cost for
ocean transportation was $4,000 more
than last year. The amounts estimated as
necessary for the foreign mail service for
the fiscal year 1888 "a are as follows:
Transportation of mails, S35O,O0O; bal.
ance due foreign countris, including pro-
portionate shares of expenses of interna-
tlonal bureau, postal union, and other
items, $4,000; total $4,000 A number
of interesting statistics are included
IN report. 1t is shown, for instance, that
In the number of postof6ces the United
States ranks first with 1899 offices, the
next highest being II, $40 in Great Britain.
Switzerland leads in respect to the number
OF offices for each inhabitant, with one Of
fice for every 993 inhabitants to the United
htates having one Office for every 1.l67
inhabitants. France and Germany have
by far the largest number of letter boxes
Tor reception of correspondence. Great
Britain conveyed the largest number of
letters, Il, 764, 236, 600 to the United States
ranking second with S47,82O,O29 letters.
The United States appears however. to
have conveyed nearly double as many DOS
tai cards and newspapers as were sent in
any foreign country. The United States
has the largest number of miles of railway
transportation ,939,491 miles. With
respect to gross postal revenues, those of
Germany aggregated 1OO,229,3 2O francs;
United States, 176453.627 francs. and
Great Britain 166335.765 francs.
The paymaster general of the army, in
his report for the fiscal year, shows total
receipts and disbursements for the year
SIS, ,245. He recommends that the act
of July 20, be SO amended as to allow in
the discretion of the secretary of war, one
months leave of absence to officers of the
army without deduction of pay or allow
ances for each year during which such alb
sence has not been taken. He thinks it
would be better still if all laws
affecting the pay of officers while
on leave were repealed.
The enlisted men of the army continue
to avail themselves of the benefits of the
deposit system. During the ten years this
system has been in operation the sum of
S3,S13,0S1 has been received on deposit.
Payments for the same period amount to
S2,766,613, leaving balance still on de-
post of S1,O46,46S. He recommends,
in this connection, that the act of May Is,
1872. be so amended as to allow interest on
the minimum deposit, SIS, from date Of de-
post, and further that the benefits of the
deposit system be extended to the COM
missioned officers OF the army.
general naval court martial has been
ordered for the trial Of Capt. Alfred Hop
klns on the charge of unofficer-like CON
duct, In having deserted his post at the
navy yard at Pensacola, upon the first APP
proach of yellow fever.
The special examiner of accounts for
the department of justice has been ordered
to Georgia to examine the accounts of
Marshal Longstreet.
Assistant Secretary New left here to-
night for Indiana. He will not return un-
til after the election.
large number of government employees
having residences in the west left the CITY
tonight.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-The stenogra phic
report of the statements made before the
tariff commission is about completed. It
Is expected that in about a week it will be
in type and ready for distribution by the
government printing Office. Under the
law creating the commission it was made
the duty of the public printer to dis
tribute copies of the testimony to senators
and representatives just as fast as printed
The commissioner travelled about 1000
miles, held public sessions for about
seventy days, and heard the statement OF
500 or 600 persons. The printed record
will fill about 1000 pages. The rec
concentrations of the commissioner will
not be made known until officially COM
municated to congress at the opening of
the next session. The opinions of per-
sons who have had unusually good oppor-
tunites of Judging of the sentiment of the
commissioner is that no radical or impor-
tant changes in the eastern tariff
will be recommended. The abandonment of
compound duties Il. e., of ad uolorena rates
Combined with specific rates will be recsm-
mended. It is also probable that impor-
tant changes in custom house regulations
as to clearancss, consular invoices, duties
or charges, and such matters will be sug-
gested. No change will be recommended
in the duties on china ware. The reimpo-
sition of duty on quinine, as persistently
urged on the part of manufacturers chem
icals, will not be advised. The duty on
raw wool will remain practically as at
present. The action of the Cresson con-
vention of persons engaged in the steel
and iron business in favor of increased
rates of duty on iron ore and ON iron and
steel in their various stages, will hardly be
Endorsed by the commission. In fact, the
general result of the report of the COM
mission will be in favor of making the
least possible number of changes.
THE BALTIMORE 4 OHIO.
Purchase and Projected Extension OF Its
Line-A New Through Route From Chi
cagO to the East.
WHEELING, W. Va, Oct. 29.-The IatelIi-
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