River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
GoSSIPFRo1F WASHINGTON.


! By direction Of secretary of the interior,
party under John II. Renshawe will leave
Washington in G few days, en- route for the
Yellowstone National park, to make a top
Ographic survey If the park Another parfv
under Arnold Hague, viii make a geological
survey of the park. IT is now settled that
the president will start on his CONTEMPLATED
trip to the Yellowstone valley about the ist
of August next if nothing should oci.u~ IN
interfere with his present plans. The ar.
rangement for the trip are in tire hands of
Lieut.. Gen Sheridan. The party will mum
Der about ten persons and be gone five or
six weeks. The pre- dent niil Join Gen.
Sheridan and otEpr members of the party al
Chicago. Il IS proposed 10 go direct to Vel.
lowstone win as few stops as possible The
president has abandoned all idea Of visiting
Newport
the amount of stamps imprinted on
checks and drafts received at the internal
revenue bureau for cancellation and re-
demption to date is 81, 500, 600. Persons
having stamps upon checks and drafts.
who cancelled and returned them need net
expect money for the value of the clamps
so cancelled Tor some time TO cOlBe, as all
such claims are referred 70 the accounting
officers of the deI artmeHt to be audited be-
fore warrants arr issued. The number of
claims received at the internal revenue bu-
reau for rebate on account of tobacco, snuff
and cigars, under the new internal revenue
law, approximates 10000, aggregating s.,
100000.
An opinien VIZ. Yende.ed by Attorney
General Brewster which denies the legality
of the expectation scheme proposed by the
distillers. This viii prove, II adopted by
the treasury department, Z disastrous blow
to the whisky interests of the country. The
only kind of spirits proposed to be exported
IS the long or Kentucky whisky, which is
placed in the bonded warehouse ara kept
three years to ripea, Inc Ak lot being col
iected until tug expiration of the bonded
period. It uDuld thus appear thst the
Kentucky distiilers were alone interested
but the TACT is thai the compound whisky
men Of Chicago aad Peoria are far more
deeply concerned than they.
There is Observation-Disclosures ncf;g the
female clerks over the act that the effect of
the new-civil service law will be to grad
uaily weed them o"t Of the departments m
less special pains are taken to remedy the
defects in thc act Most of the ladies now
in oft:cs are placed there by personal pres
sure of friends or influential relations. That
element is removed by the machinery Of
the commission The matter will be close
ly watched, and except for counters, il is
not thought that many will get in until the
law is changed
Mr.. FOlger's treasury statement for the
fiscal year, just ended is discussed in Eng
land with crest interest, both as indicating
the great prosperity Of the United States
and as holding out q hope of an early and
important reduction IN customs duties
The Times devotes much space to the mat
ter end expresses the firm conv cticn that
the protective system must shortly tie
abandoned in America.
In accordance with the resolution OF con-
gress directing tie president to notify the
British government Of the termination of
certain articles Of the treaty Of May 1871,
relating 10 the fishery question, the British
government has been 30 notified, and these
articles will terminate July ., 1885.
The Congregational church in Northfeld
is about to secure a pipe organ. $3.50
have already been raised. So, 500 are want
ed which amount will undoubtedly be oh
tanned.
John G. New has been acting secretary Of
the treasury ring the absence Of Mr.. Fol
ger.