Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-09
WASHINGTON.
ENORMOUS APPROPRIATIONS ASKED
FOR THE NAVY.
A Letter from the Attorney General on
Fraudulent Pension ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ment of the Civil Service Rules.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

Special Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.-Commodore Sc
cord, chief Of the bureau of ordnance of
the navy department, in his annual report
asks for $2,70O,O00 for the bureau
for the next fiscal year. Of this amount
| $1,073, 600 will be needed to supply ord
nance outfts fer the monitors Puritan,
Terror, Miantonomah, Amplitude and
Monadnock, and S449.O27 80 complete the
outfit for the four new steel cruisers. Dur
ing the past year experiments have been
made with steel armor piercing projectiles.
varying results were obtained, the best to
record being the passage of an unhammer-
| ed cast steel six inch shell, through ten
inches Of iron; backed by twenty
inches of oak. Commodore Wilson, of the
bureau of construction and repairs, in his
annual report, asks for 100000 to COM
| plete the frigates New York and Mohicen.
| The Thilmany process of preserving lum-
| Der is strongly advocated. The number of
wooden vessels in the navy will be ma
terially reduced under the act OF last
March. The report states that the navy
yards and private ship building yards are
not in so good condition now for the con-
struction of vessels as they were at the
close of the late war.
! LETTER FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN
RELATION TO PENSIONS.
WAsH1NGroN, Nov. 8.-The following
letter from the attorney general explains
itself. Under previous instructions from
him Colonel Corkhill, United States dis
trict attorney, has nearly completed g
number of cases Of frauds upon the pen
sion claimants for the action of the grand
jury. Hs has received large number of
fraudulent circulars, and letters explaining
the use made of them. He is DESTROYS
that soldiers or their friends having copies
of such circulars, Or knowledge of such
attempted frauds, will at once send him
| full information and be particular to send
the number by which the claim in each
case is known at the pension Office:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WASHING
TON, Nov. Ito the Secretary
OF the Interior: Referring to your letter
Of the I'd, respecting appointment by the
commissioner of pensions of person to
aid the United States district attorney in
this district, in the investigation Of ali
claims for pension and bounties, in con-
nection with which charges are made
against the attorney and to examine such
! cases as the district attorney shall desire
| to present to the grand jury, 1 agree
with you that such appointment cannot be
made to examine cases, where the offenses
charged are net offenses against
the United States. But the district
attorney in his letter to you
includes cases where these pension agents
make formal applications to the pension
Office, we'll knowing the claims they pre-
sent to be fraudulent. This is an offense
against the United States. So far as the
district attorney makes charges of
crimes against the United States he should
be aided in his examination of such cases
by the officer of the pension bureau
| specially detailed for that purpose. The
evil set forth by the district attorney is a
| growing one, and all means that can
legally be employed to suppress it ought
to be put in motion for
that end. Permit me to send
you advance proof sheets of the second
auditors report, which discloses fright
full condition of organized fraud against
poor and helpless soldiers, who have either
served their country themselves, and live
manned and broken down in health, or
who have left destitute widows
and children, all Of whom are now
victims OF these designing bad men
who rob them of their little savings and
earnings under the color of the gains that
they are never to have, and overload the
| public departments with work that hinder
necessary progress in their proper bust
ness. If this can be put an end to by in
tervention of the officers OF the United
| States; if this can be punished it ought
to be.
Signed, BENJAMIN Il. BREWSTER,
Attorney General.
AMENDMENT TO THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES
The president has so amended the civil
service rule No. 81 so that it now distinct
ly prohibits the appointing power alike
in every department and in every post
Office and customs Office, from making any
| discrimination in the selections for ap-
pointments by reason of any political or
religious opinion or affiliations.
| THE GREEDY INQUIRY.
The court to investigate the Greedy re-
lief expedition, met and decided to defer
taking oral testimony until the document
airy evidence had been submitted.
HAzEs's REPORT.
The chief signal officers report says:
The service has been seriously crippled by
diminished appropriation, and urges con-
| gress to be more liberal in the future. He
| recommends q saDarste office on The Pacific