The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10

nau Deen retuIneu because Oh certain III
formalities. Her claim Is for $4,000 for
skillful attendance In a professional capac-
ity as q physician. 1t will, therefore, have
to be considered as coming within the linn
its of the S35, 900 allowed TO the physicians
under an act Of Congress. The board will
meet at the Treasury Department this
week for consideration of the bills of the
physicians. The Edison claim Is not accom-
panied by q release upon the estate, hence
1t Is quite likely to be disallowed unless the
release Is added to 1t.
THE Lam OFFICE.
An evil which has grown to great proper
tions, and for which a remedy Is being Gag
of Commissioner Mcfarland, Of the general
land office. 1t is to prevent persons who
makew what Is known as tim~ber-culture en-
tries from dispOsing of their entry without
having made some improvement, as the law
c~ontemplates. Under the law, one year Is
have been in the habit of dispOsing of land
before that period elapses, thus complying
with the letter, while they violate the spirit
OF the law. The practice of clerks in the
land offices throughout the country of act
ing as attorneys for persons having business
before receivers has grown to such an ex-
tent that COMMISSIONS Mcfarland has TAX
EN- the matter In hand, and Wednesday Or
lando Fletcher, q clerk in the receivers Of
fce at Mitchell, Dakota, was discharged for
engaging in business.
SUSPECTED CLERKS.
A week ago it was mentioned that the at
tOrney general had been investigating the
leaks in his department, whereby the de-
Tense In the star-route cases had been
promptly appraised of every move made by
the. government, and had received consid-
cradle miscellaneous information which
could only have come from some person in
the department; that the transfer oftDis-
bursting Clerk Devens to the postofice de-
partment was are suit of this, and that as q
further result of it Chief Clerk Samuel
Mulliken and Pardon Clerk A. Il. Gray
would be removed. The department Of
Messrs. Mulliken and Gray to take effect
next week. Mr.. Mulliken was appointed
from New Jersey and Mr.. Gray from Wis
consin: Both have been in the department
several years.
REMOVALS.
Now that the election is over q number of
removals from Office are anticipated. In some
cases this seems to be mere talk, but the
statement that there is going to be q gener-
al shaking up in the treasury department is
on the authority of a high official not far
from the seat of power. Several of the bu-
reau chiefs are marked, and there is q prob
ability that whether Secretary .Folger re-
mains or not, his department will be man.
aged more than it has been with a view to
political effects. Secretary Folger's expert
ence is likely to incline him to listen more
to the suggestions of practical politicians
and less to instincts of his own benevolent
nature. Although there have been official
denials of the statement the other day that
Stewart L. Woodford would have to 60 Eif
FOlger were beaten, few persons would care
to pay anything for WoOdfOrd's or Robert
sons leases of official life.
swINDLING CLAIM AGENTS.
The attention of Mr. Harmon, acting sec
ond auditor, has been called to the fact that
INSCRIPTIONS claim-agents in various ,parts
was recently passed under which all sol
diers-deserters or otherwise-can get their
pay and bounty, and requesting soldiers to
send In their papers and their fees. The
act referred to is one passed at the last ses-
sion Of congress, relieving of the charge Of
desertion soldiers who served faithfully till
the close of the war, and then went home
without waiting for the formalities of mus
tering out, and soldiersiwhO deserted tech
nically, but did not intent to desert, and
who voluntarily returned to- their COM
mands.. The act concludes as follows:
And provided further, That no soldier,
nor the heirs or legal representatives of any
soldiers who served in the army q period of
less than twelve months, or who intention
ally deserted, shall be entitled to the bene-
fit of the provisions of this act"
JUDGE BLACK AMI THE MoRMoNs.
Some weeks ago Judge Jere Black, of
Pennsylvania, who has been retained as
Utah, came to Washington, and after de-
voting several days to its preparation filed
q long and very vigorous argument with the
Secretary of the Interior, in which he urged
that the act creating the Utah Commission
was unconstitutional, and that all its acts,
as well as the cooperative acts of Murray,
of Utah, were arbitrary %usurpations of
power, threatening danger to the Republic.
Since then the commission and the Governor
went right on as if no argument had been
filed, committing mOres''acts of %usurpation,"
chiefly in connection with registration, de-
signed by Congress to secure q non-pOlyg-
amOuS vote at the next election 1t Is UNI
derstood that the Secretary of the Interior
will not interfere. 1t is not believed to be
q part of his duties to pass upon the cOnsti-
t~utionality of acts of Congress. Judge Black
will have to go to Congress or the courts.
PHARIsAICAL swINDLERs.
The marriage and birth insurance associa-
tions were thriving like mushrooms all
through the south when the p~ostOffice de-
partment undertook to crush them. Nova
days they appear to devote most of their
time to writing protests to the postoffice de-
partment against the enforcement of the
proposed order excluding their letters from
mails. The law Office of the postoffice de-
partment is fairly buried under them.-
From a burrow in the midst of the mass,
Judge GraW, law clerk OF ,tne department,
said the other day that the department
would make a test case out of that of the
st. Elmo Marriage and Birth association, of
Chattanooga, Tenn, and decide the cases
of the rest In accordance with the prece-
dent to be established in it's decision. This
association has been notified to file q brief
giving reasons why its correspondence
should not be excluded from the mails. A
curious feature of the mass of matter in the
shape ofiprotestJwhich have fallenIupon the
post0fice department is the pharisaical tone
the letters from the Mississippi ~associa-
They thank heaven between every
that they are not as other asssocia-
tions. are, even as the poor publicans of Ten
ANOTHER BILL.
Conner 1. Jones, a hotel-proprietor at FL
beron,. has put in his bill before the board of
for entertaining the Garfield suite for
days, Sept. 9 to 81. 1t amounts TO
81 1872 IS. Mrs. Garfield, Miss Mollie Gar
field, DR.. Boynton, Col. Rockwell, Mrs.
Rockwell, Miss Rockwell, o. ID. Rockwell,
j. Stanley Brown, Gen. Swain and Warner
Young fare Fall down on the bill for fifteen
at four dollars a day. There is a
wide difference I'm the amount charged
fnr Qntarfaipinn ttha xyartn,.o Jooko. IN.