Semi-weekly Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.) 1883-1895, 1883-08-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.

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WASHINGTON NOTES.
JUDGE WILEY on the 30th announced his
decision on the motion to quash the indict
ment in the case of ex-senator Kellogg,
charged with illegally receiving money
while United States Senator. The Judge
held that the indictment charged an offense
against Section 1882, Revised Statutes, and
that the action was properly brought under
it. He therefore overruled the motion to
quash. Kellogg was notified and imme
diately entered plea of not guilty. The
day for the trial of the case has not been
fixed.
PROFESSOR CoUEs, of the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington, has opened an
active campaign against the English spar
row. The following is his plan for extermi-
nation, as recently submitted to Major
Lydecter, Engineer Commissioner: First
Abolish the legal penalty for killing the
birds. Second-Permit the sparrows to be
killed within the city limits by any means,
except by the use of firearms. Third-Offer
two cents a head for dead sparrows.
Fourth-Make sparrow heads receivable
for taxes. Fifth-Make it a part of the
ordinary care of the public streets and
parks to destroy the nests, eggs, and young.
By the direction of the President, gen.
eral Court-martial has been appointed to
meet at Vancouver Barracks, Washington
Territory, August 80, for the trial of Second
Lieutenant Samuel C.. Robertson, charged
with duplicating pay vouchers for the
month of June last.
IT HAS been reported to the Treasury De-
partment that the British Parliament is
considering measures looking to the inter-
diction of cattle from foreign countries
where foot and mouth diseases prevail, and
that an attempt will probably be made to
have it apply to importations from the
United States. til stated at the Treasury
Department that such an application would
be unwarranted, as thorough investiga-
ton of the subject just concluded has
shown that foot and mouth diseases do not
prevail among the cattle of this country.
Steps will be taken to bring this fact to the
attention of the British Government, to the
end that orders on the subject may not be
made applicable to the importation of cat
tie from this country.
IT HAS been ordered by the authorities at
Washington that all neat cattle arriving in
the United States from any part of the
world, except North and South America,
shall be subjected to quarantine of ninety
days, counting from the date of shipment.
AS the Dominion of Canada maintains
quarantine for all imported, no quarantine
for cattle imported from Canada is pro-
vided.
THE Public Debt Statement for the
month of July shows the following: De-
crease during July, $7,9OO,590; interest on
debt due and unpaid, $12,556,6 21; debt on
which interest has ceased, S., 1861, 765; cash
balance available August 1, $155, III, 1855;
cash in the Treasury, $351, $50, 345; debt,
less cash in the Treasury, 81 ,543, 190,616.
SECOND ASSISTANT PosTMAsTER-GEN-
ERAL ELMER reports the increase in "Star'
service for July $62, Jas, and the decrease
during that period $65,524, leaving a net
decrease of $3,479.
DURING the month Of July, usually the
dullest month in the year, the report of the
mail division of the Pension Office shows
there have been received 1925 original in
valid pension claims and 4,501 of all others,
including widows, minors, increase claims,
old war bounty land, etc.; 26, 163 pieces of
additional evidence, 10, 219 reports from the
Adjutant General, and 8,6S7 from the Sur
geon General, 55.974 letters of inquiry and
miscellaneous, IL, 400 orders for medical ex-
animation returns, 6,S40 reports from spec
ial examiners, and 1876 Congressional let
tiers of inquiry The total letters sent out
for the month was 115 16S, an average of
4,6O7 per day.
A DEMAND has been presented to the
Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the
State of Virginia, for the sum of S732, 800,
being the fourth installment of the amount
directed to be deposited by the thirteenth
and fourteenth sections of the act of June
%, 1886, entitled Fan act to regulate the
deposits of public money" By these sec
fions it was directed that the surplus reve-
nue. that should be in the Treasury on Jan
uary 1, 1887, after Teserving $1,000, 900,
which surplus was ascertained to be $751;
46e ,S59, should be deposited with the
States, then twenty-eight in number, ac-
eording to representation, in four quar-
terly installments during the year
1887, and to remain with such States
until called for to meet appropriations by
Congress The first three installments
were so deposited, but the payment of the
fourth was never made, as there has never,
until the present time, been sufficient sum
in the Treasury not subject to charges
This clisim involves the question Of deposit !