New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-01-11
There are several important que

ests OF the country which are to
come before the present Congress.
The House is partly made up ofneW
and untried members, whose opin-
ions and views on finance are ,un.
known to the country generally, and
naturally this creates a feeling of
solicitude among those classes to 1e
most affected BY financial legisla.
tiou. The question Of renewing
national bank charters for another
twenty years is one of more than
usual interest, and about which a
large difference Of opinion is known
to exist in Congress. It involves
other questions Of Importance, or
one more, at least. The circula-
ton of national. banks is based upon
or secured by United States. bonds.
If the present rate of taxation con.
tinues, other conditions remaining
as favorable, the national debt
would probably be paid off before
the extended bank charters expired.
This would bring the question to
the vital polnt-shall the present
rate of taxation be maintained or
decreased, and, if the latter, where
shall the reduction be made; in the
internal or custom receipts! The
| free traders and revenue reformers
favor reduction of tariff duties,
while the protectionists prefer to see
the entire internal system of taxa.
ton abolished rather than reduce
the tariff. .E=
Acknowledgement Brewster's let.
ter to Col. George Bliss declares
that the Star Route cases are to be
prosecuted in earnest. He wants
the case thoroughly and carefully
prepared for the presentation in
court, and announces his purpose to
take charge of them in person there.
The uttermost penny lawlessly re-
ceived and taken from the public
Treasury must be recovered, he
says. This sort OF talk by the At:
torney-General does not indicate
that the Government has any dispo-
sition to ''let up'' in the pursuit of
the North Star robbers.
Adyices received at the Post Office
Department from different sections
Of the country Washington Terri
tory, Minnesota, Texas, Iowa, New
York, Kansas, Indiana, and the
| Northwestern States generraIly--re.
port an alarming spread of smallpox.
Ia one case in which the disease
has made It's appearance in the fa-
mily Of a postmaster at Walla- WAL
Ia, Washington Territory, the pos.
tai authorities have directed the sur
ties to remove the Office and effects.
Before this could be done the sure.
ties took small pox and died. In
many cases the mail from post Off
ces Of towns suffering from the dis
ease will be quarantined, and in
some places the disease is so bad
that mail matter from those points
will be stopped.
The money! order business of the
Post Office Department has increas.
ed to such proportions that the en-
ployees of that division, in order to
keep up with their work, have been
compelled to put in all their holi'
day time at their desks. The mo-
ney-order system has been largely
extended abroad by new connec.
) lions with foreign governments,
but aside from this, it is rapidly
growing in the United States. It Is
a somewhat surprising fact that
money orders are used to consider
able extent for the transmission Of
money even between cities where
banking facilities are plenty. Con
gress will probably be asked for an
increase of the clerical force of the
division to meet the growing de-
mands of the system.
1t having been urged by some, be-
fore Judge Cox consented to place
Giteau in the dock, that to have
punished him at any time for con.
tempt of court would have been tt
decide in advance the question Of
his insanity, the point is made that
by allowing the prisoner to appear
as his own counsel, as we'll as by
f putting him on the stand and ad
ministrating to him the oath as a
witness, he was practically declared
: sane by the court. Insane persons
| are not treated in this manner as
| responsible beings capable of un
Outstanding the nature of an oath
HOwARD