The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.


WASHINGTON NOTES.
Exports of domestic brcadsmfYs for the nine
months ended March 81, 1882, sl47,70l 1857; same
period last year, $,0i,729, IS7. -. - -
Tho house committee on education reported
favorably the bill appropriating $l0,0oO,OOO for
general educational purposes.
The secretary of the treasury has decided
that hoop iron cut to lengths, punched and
splayed TO ft barrels, is dutiable rs hoop IRON
The senate committee on territories have
agreed to report favoraby the bill introduced
by Senator Butler providing for the organiza-
ton OF the territory OF Alaska.
Senator Logan writes to friends here that
the hot weather and the hot springs are to him
very facilitating, and that he is now very
weak.
A petition has been referred to the house
committee on Indian affairs, charging that the
funds intended for the education of the Indi-
ans were being used I'm advancing certain sec
tartan interests, and entering protest.
| The house committee on Pacific railroads
mas directed an adverse report on Representa-
| tive Binghams bill proposing an appropria-
lion of $4,000 to enable the secretary of war
to purchase the Pacific telegraph line and
| branches.
The bill to establish a court in the Indian
territory was recommitted by the United States
|
Indians may serve on jury where an Indian
| is on trial.
Andrew Devine, one Of the two official steuog-
raphers for committees of the house OF rep
resentatives, has received a letter from Speak
err keifer, informing him that, for "good and
sufficient cause" he had been dismissed and
his services would no longer be required.
1t is said in official quarters that Hon. Al
phonso Taft, of Ohio, will be appointed minis
ter to Austria, I'm place of William Walter
Phelps; that Gen. Badeau will be appointed
| consul-general to Havana, in lieu of Mr.. Hall;
and that Mr. Charles Payson, now In charge at
Denmark, will be made third assistant score
| tarY Of state. .r
Ifthe house is disposed, all the appropriation
bills can be passed by the LIST of June, and con-
gress can easily adjourn sine die by the 10th
of June, IL the members so desire. A great
number Of them do desire an early adjourn
ment, for the reason that, in addition to look
| ing after their denominations, they have, also
! or good many OF them. to become familiar
with their districts, which have been changed
by the state legislatures i'm redistricting. The
outlook, hence, Is that congress will adjourn
in June. IS al
Ben. Butler, in a letter congratulating John
Russell Young upon his appointment as min
lister to China, depicts the Importance and deli
cacy of tho duties before him. The general
! then argues that the United States Is under no
obligation to receive upon its soil any person
whom It did not expressly invite; that no well
ONE has been extended to laborers brought
here under contract or purchase, and that we
have an undoubted right to exclude from our
territory or from participation in its govern
ment any unnaturalized person proving dis
tasteful. He agrees with the president that
the vetoed bill was unnecessarily harsh in its
provisions, and advocates law that all Chinese
who come hereafter, by sea or land, shall be
sent back.
r.o ..,,,-. ~ A. ~ ,x,,--.,.- 80 49,, ho,.- .o,.
mittee on railways and canals-Amos Town
send, chairman, and j. w. Dwight, In opposi-
ton to the passage of the bill-"to provide for
construction OF the Illinois and Mississippi ca
nal and cheaper trsnsportation"-were sub
mitted to the house. The minority doubt the
constitutional right of the government to con-
struct any projected Improvement lying Who'll
ly within the limits Of a state and, even II con-
stitutional, they maintain that the policy of
constructing canal will set u precedent for
all sorts of schemes OF like character. They
state that 1.-THE can't phrase cheap transporta-
ton has been made hobby-horse on which to
transfer to the general government many OF
the old slack-water navigation improvements
and canals that have served'their purpose.
Being superseded by railroads, they are no
longer profitable, and hence several states to
which they belong are anxious to got rid OF
them, and under the guise of an attempt to In
augurate new enterprises like the Hennepip
government take charge and run them at the
expense OF the nation"
First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton
writes to the postmaster at Marblehoad, Mass,
about the right to hold another ONCE: 1.-The
president expressly excepted from tho order
postmasters whose salary Is under 1000, al
though they are appointed by the head of the
department. The order applies to you as an
officer. It does not apply to clerk In the Gin
cinnati postoffice, who Is o subordinate, not
being nominated by the president and confirm
ed by the senate, nor appointed by the head OF
the department, but employed by the post
master at his pleasure, without consultation
with, or direction from, the department Such
subordinate, at the discretion of the postmast-
er who employs him, may hold the Office OF al
derman, provided the attention required by
such position does not interfere with the regu-
lar and ofhcial discharge Of his duties in the
postal service. 1t is the rule that excludes
you, an officer within the intent Of the execu-
tive order. from holding the Office Of selectman
Of Marblehead. Many state constitutions in
express terms exclude from holding Offices a.
representatives or senators in state legislatures
persons holding Offices under the government
Of the United States. AL such persons are
also intended to be included within the prohibi-
ton of the executive order"
synopsis of the April report to the depart
ment of agriculture upon the area condition OF
winter grain shows the increase to be nearly
half a million acres, or 2per cent. The esti-
mated area of the previous crop was "a $4,000
acres. The states showing an increase are:
Per ct Per ct. |
Michigan. ........... Georgia.. IL
Indiana ......,...... Florida. .............. |
Ohio ............... l Alabama. ............8 |
Kentucky .......... Ii Mississippi. ..H
West Virginia.. Louisiana. 10
Virginia ........ Texas.
North Carolna..... IL Arkansas. ...........1O
South Carolina 49,. 10 Tennessee. .......T
The average increase in the cotton states
70 per cent.-amounts to about 100000 acres. |
In the southern Atlantic States, from Connec-
ticut to Virginia, the area is 4,053,00) acres, |
which is about 5000 acres less than In 1881 In
the western states, from West Virginia to Kan
sas there is an average decrease of 2 per cent,