Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
W WARRINGTON.

SECRETARY FoLGER says the statement
that he determined to make a change in
the chief Of the Engraving and Printing
Bureau is without foundation,
The house committee on Pensions has
agreed 10 recommend a pension of $500
per year 10 Mrs. Betty Taylor cambridge,
daughter of President Taylor.
SENATOR HoAR introduced in the SEN
ate bill to establish a uniform system
Of bankruptcy. IL il substantially the
amended Lowell bill as reported 10 the
house.
THERE il 4 rumor about that Marshal
Henry. Of the District Of Columbia, will
be removed, owing to the manner in
which the star-route jury we've drawn.
PosToFFIcR officials assert that the sur
plus of receipts over expenditures of the
department for the past year will reach
nearly 81 100000.
The report which comes again from
Maine, that Blaine will run for Governor,
is discredited here Last week Mr..
Blaine told a correspondent that he
was out of politics; that he was a coal
merchant
THE senate passed the house bill 10
divide Iowa into two judicial districts,
and authorizing the Sioux City and Pa
cihc Railroad Company to construct
bridge over the Missouri.
TIE army bill as amended by the senate
came up in the house June Is. Mr.. But
terworth, who had charge Of the measure,
recommended concurrence in some Of the
amendments and noncHrrence in others
The senate anne endment increasing the
compulsory retirement 10 sixtv-four wears
was concurred in.
THE commissioner of pensions asks the
approximation of 81 1877 600 for clerk hire.
with which amount he proposes TO finish
every claim within three years. The gov
ernment has already paid over $500, ,000,-
G00 for pensions To the soldiers of the late
war, and the amount required for some
years TO come will be greater than the in
terest on the public debt
TIE president has appointed the fol-
lowing to be members Of the tariff com
mifaion:
Wm. a. Wheeler Of N. u, chairman.
In, Il. Hayes, of Massachusetts.
Henry w. Oliver. Jr. of Pennsylvania.
Austin NJ. Garlnnd Of Illinois.
jacob Amber, Of Ohio.
JnO. ) Phelps Of Missouri.
Robert L. Porter Of Dist Of Columbia
Jno. W. Underwood, Of Georgia.
Duncan +. kenner, of Louisiana.
THE deficiency bill brought up in the
house revived some Of the scandals of the
Yorktown Centennial The bill showed
deficiency in the fund for expenses of
entertaining the French and German
gnests while here, of $50, 900, nearly double
what was authorized to he spent. Ii
leaked out, liItle at a time, in state
ments from Holman and Sparks and ad-
missions from Hiscock, that the money
was largely expended for wines and
high old time generally Eighteen
thousand dollars Of il was for hotel bills
in New York and Washington, and sever
al thousand for the use Of the steamboat
on which the committee took the parties
to Yorktown. Hiscock vainly tried to
keep the matter az quiet as possible, say
ing il would be an insult to our guests to
qnlbble over the bills for their entertain
ment.
THE house has unanimously passed
bill which Is likely TO prove another sur
prise to those who have taken an interest
in the pension laws. The bill is entitled,
An act 10 amend the pension laws by in
creasing the pension of soldiers and sail-
ors who have lost an arm or leg in the
service, but that is not what il really is.
In the text il significant clause which
Includes all those on the pension rolls, or
who shall hereafter be granted a pension.
who shall have suffered disability equal
thereto shall be granted per sion of $40
per nonth.' This clause, in the opinion
Of pension office cth cial, will food the
pension office anew with n large class Of
pensioners, and il as literally constru ed
other laws. will take Ii ge amount from
the public treasury.