The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-19
A WEEKS NEWS.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

ARRANGEMENTS are being made by Mr..
Blackfain, Superintendent of the Foreign
Postal Service, to admit the Australian
Colonies into the International Postal
Union. When this is accomplished q rate
of five cents will pay for a letter to any
place on the globe with the exception OF
Bolivia.
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided to accept
the terms of compromise offered by A. Z.
Hesing, of Chicago, in settlement of judg-
ment against Hesing, held by the Govern
ment. The amount involved was $4,000;
amount offered in compromise and accepted,
S2,700. In accepting the offer the Secretary
acted in accordance with the recommen
dations of Jewett, of Chicago, who was
special United States Attorney in the case,
and Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the
Treasury.
UP to the close of business on the 10th,
there had been received at the Treasury
Department for redemption $500
United States bonds, embraced in the l21st
call, leaving still outstanding $6,4l6, 200
bonds, included in that call.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is reported as having
stated most positively that he does not in
tend to return to the position of President
pro teppore of the Senate. He intends to
resign Immediately upon the organization
of the Senate, and Senator Anthony, it is
said, will be elected in his place.
THE Secretary of the Interior has &C.
cepted the resignation of Edgar A. Marble,
Commission of Patents. The position has
been rendered Hon. Benjamin Butterworth,
Of Ohio.
THE cotton return of the Department of
The crop on the first of October was worse
than on the first of September. The con-
hnuance of drought at many points, the
ravages of worms in regions most infected
and the more visible results of previous in
juries had reduced the general average
condition from seventy-six to sixty-eight.
Indications pointed to crop little larger
than that of 1881, but falling short of last
years crop by more than one million bales.
IT is stated that the Civil Service Commits
sion has asked the President to direct the
further classification of employees in the
Government service, so as to bring within
The operation of the Civil Service rules the
class of employees now receiving less than
nine hundred dollars per annum. The
President is believed to favor the PROPOSE
ton.
The opinion prevailed in Washington
that the President would soon pardon Ser
geant Mason. The petition for his pardon
aggregate more that 100000 signatures.
AN order was recently issued by the
Postoffice Department establishing daily
exchange of through registered pouches
between postmasters of New York and
Portland, Ore.
SECRETARY FoLGER has written a reply
10 Senator Garland, who recently pre-
sented a claim of the State of Arkansas for
moneys alleged to be due under the deposit
act of June %, 1886, in which he says:
"Since the Indebtedness of the United
States has been sufficient to absorb the sur
plus revenues, understand the usage of
the Department has been to look upon the
deposit act as being at least suspended, if
not entirely obsolete, and until otherwise
directed by Congress, 1 am disposed to con-
cur in that usage"
THE published statement that the Presi-
dent had directed that the annual reports
of all the Bureau officers of the different
Departments be withheld from publication
until after he shall have sent his annual mes.
sage to Congress, is officially denied. Pri-
vate Secretary Phillips said the President
had never made such request, nor had
he ever intimated that such was his pleas