Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-29
WASHINGTON.
A MISCELLANEOUSB NOTES.
FROM THE CAPITdL.

The Star Route and Dick .on p<..s.r,s,
Transportation OF seer IS Ia slseAIails-The..
Findings OF enc 20 art Martial in Surgeon
owens Case departmental Rulings.
WAsHiSGTSN, Dec. 28,--The proceeds Of
the recent sales of articles accumulated at
the @ead letter Office, amount to $4,497,
which sum has been deposited in the
treasury to the credit of the postofice de-
partment.
The senate committee on the District Ct.
Columbia, decide to report favorably she.
nomination of John +. Olmstead, to be,
commissioner of the District of Columbia
The star route case was resumed this
morning, but beyond colloquy between
Wilson and Judge Wylie, touching the
variances of papers read b; the defense,
nothing interesting developed,
In the Dickson case to- day Judge Smell
said the restrictions of the rules of evil
dence would exclude all Drivers evidence
prior to the cross examination. He
would not say he would exclude it. Sever
al witnesses testified to Dickson's good
reputation.
Postmaster General Howe to-day adj
dressed q communication to Senator Ali
son, chairman of the senate appropriation
committee, calling attention to the fact,
that growers Of seeds and bulbs in states,
along the Canada border forward their
goods to Canada and have them sent.
through the mails to persons in the United
States, thus obtaining the benefit of cheap
or Canadian postage rates on such mat
ters. The postmaster-general,a after re-
ferring to the fact that the United States
charges twice as much per ounce for
carrying producers seeds. as it
does for carrying circulars which
advertise those seeds, concludes
his letter by asking whether We
cannot afford to transport for eight cents
per pound seed which the farmer buys, as
we'll as transport seeds for nothing " hich the
government buys, and if we cannot afford
to carry seeds for one cent for two ounces,
paid into our treasury, as we'll as carry
them for the same price paid into the
Canadian treasury He also calls atten-
ton to the 'need of some effective legisla-
ton to prevent the sending Of explosive
and dangerous matter that will iniure the
contents of mail pouches sc- employees
Cans CT dynamite, loaded pistols, and
bowie knives were among the articles
taken from the mails the past year,
The treasury department to-day instruct
ed collectors and other custom officers that
railway appliances arriving from abroad
destined Tor the national exposition of
the railway appliances to be held at Chica-
go in 1883, may be shipped by bonded
common carriers from the port of arrival
to Chicago under the provisions of the act
| approved June 10, 1880. Upon arrival at
Chicago the goods will be taken possession.
of by the collector of customs and entry
for warehouse in the usual manner will be
required. After the bonding of the exhi--
bition building an appraisement wiW be,
| made and the rate and amount of duties
be demanded. The circular issued details
the method of storage and the requirements
in case of the disposal of any of the goods,
A general order was issued from &e,
| navy department this afternoon an
noun cling the fir dings of the court-martiak:
in the case of Surgeon Alfred NJ OVENS,
United States navy. The specifications.
| allege that between August 90 and Sept z,
1882, he repeatedly advised and urged
Captain Hopkins, in command Of tho
navy yard at Pensacola at tbs time when
yellow fever was prevailing in that city.
to leave the station, without being regular
~ relieved, we'll knowing Hopkins did not.
have permission from the proper authori--
ty to so absent himself from his command.
The court acquitted Surgeon Owens of both 1
charges, but the secretary of the navy dis
approved the findings of the eoarh but
ordered Surgeon Owens released frcm ar
rest and that he return to his station and
resume his duties.
Commissioner Mcfarland, of She gener>
al land Office, ovsrrued the notion OF
McGarrahan's counsel for stay of pro-
csedings in the matter of the issue Of a
patent to the new Idria Mining company, p
for the Panoche Grande ranch.
Secretary Teller has suspended all prior
orders in the A. D. Scarf placer mining
claim case from Leadville, Col, and di
rected all parties interested to attend a
hearing at the district land Office. The
question at issue is whether the land Is
more valuable for placer mining than for,
other purposes. It is partly occupied at
the present time by the depot IN Laadvine,
of the Denver l. Rio Grande Railway com
pany.
memorial protesting against the pas
sage of the bankrupt act, signed by
l $50 firms and individuals of New York
city representing all the principal branch
es of business, was presented to the senate
by Mr.. Lapham, of New York. The me-.
morialists state the operation of the
United States bankrupt laws proved an,
injury to the business interests of the.
whole country.
The ways and means committee TO day.
went back to the schedule of glass md
glassware, and completed it, Several Va
rieties of polished cylinders and crown
class and flint and time bottles were added
to the commissions list, but no material
changes made in rates.. The schedules of.
cotton and WOODEN goods were passed over,
andshemp, jute and fax and silk taken up.
and completed.
Senate combinations: postmasters-O..
Scott, Silver CITY, n. M; Simon D. Lauffer,.
Irwin station, Pa; Thadeus w. Fancier.
Lorain, O.; Thomas II. Blake, Lebanon, o..
Henry Biehn, Ripley. o.; D. c. Andrews,
Mendoza. ILL.,: John W. Coventry. Edwards
Vile ILL.,; j. M. Buchanan Hartman, Ind.
1t is thought probi bic the tobacco tax
receipts the past sixty days will show a.
falling off of nearly $2,5O0,G0O.
The Star says the Implicated detectives
are understood to be Myers, McDevitt and
Voss.
Parker e. Sweet, patent attorney, testi-