The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHHNGVON NOTES.
AT the Treasury Department considerable
anxiety was felt in regard to the United
States revenue steamer Manhattan, which
left Quebec on August %, for Eastport,
Maine. It was feared she had been caught
by the late severe storm in the gulf of st.
Lawrence and lost.
IT is stated that Supervising Architect
Hill, who was the subject of a recent inves-
tigation, is making preparation to resign
and go into private business.
STANDARD dollars issued during the
827,497 against 423, 600 for the corresponding
period last year.
IT is understood that the report of the
Hill Investigating Committee will criticise
In the severest manner the conduct of the
Supervising Architects Office, and recon.
mend an abridgment of the powers of this
official; that the investigation showed
gross carelessness and a general looseness
in carrying on bushes, and the inaugura-
ton of pernicious system of favoritism.
The State Department recently received
note from the American Consul at Bor-
deaux, France, containing extracts from
the proceedings of the Chamber of Com
merce of Paris and other cities wherein
they represent to the French Government
that the loss caused by the prohibition to
the merchant marine and the country in
freights, etc, to be great, that the sanitary
question had been decided by a commission
of public hygiene adversely to the prohibit
ton, that by prohibition the working classes
had been deprived of cheap food and the
price of food increased, and that as long as
the prohibition lasts retaliation may be ex-
pected from the United States. They asked
chat American pork be made free and the
decree of prohibition be cancelled.
METALLIC red is the color of the new
two-cent stamps that go into circulation
October /. The contractors are fully
stocked, and await acquisitions from the
Postoffice Department. The distribution
will be made from New York after Sep
tember 15, and sufficient number of new
stamps viii be placed in the hands of post
masters TO supply the demand caused by
he reduction of the letter rate of postage
October l.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office has prepared very interesting
statement showing the number of original
homesteads entered in the several States
and Territories since the passage of the
Homestead act, May 20, 1872, to June 80,
1883. The grand total of homesteads taken
an this time was 1859, of which Kansas
had the largest number, 90,9O1, Minnesota
the next, 73, 1872, while Dakota came in as
third with 7O,7o4
IT is thought that the inadvertence of
Congress in passing bill to regulate post
masters salaries to go into effect at once,
instead of the LIST of October, the date fixed
for reduction in letter rates of postage,
will cost the Government a million and
half dollars in increase of salaries.
THE President returned to Washington
from the Yellowstone, the 9TH.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON of the
marine hospital service, received telegram
rom the President of the Pensacola Board
Of Health, stating that the yellow fever was
increasing to an alarming extent on the
laval reservation there.
The Joint Congressional Committee on
tke Newburg centennial met recently in
Washington's headquarters, at Newburg,
N. Y, and adopted resolution in favor of
a granite obelisk for the proposed monu-
ment, the largest they can get for the
money available, SS4,5O0. The committee
desire it shall be one hundred feet high, if
possible, and, if found necessary, will
again advertise for proposals.