Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-06

The Increase of PsnsiOns-Regulations
 to Carry the Law Into Early Effect
 Mail Service on NOn-SubsidIzed Rail-
 rOads-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, March 5.-The Secretary of the Interior has prepared the following regu- lations for the purpose of carrying into ef- feet as speedily as possible the provisions of the bill which has just become law to in crease the pensions of soldiers who have lost hand, foot, arm or leg. 'Inasmuch as the said act has immediate effect upon such ad- mitted cases as have been adjudicated at rates of $24 and SIS per month respectively, no formal application by the beneficiary is nec- essary to be made other thaa to forward to the commissioner of pensions the pension certificate accompanied by letter stating in the handwriting of the pensioner his present postofice address. As soon as possible after the receipt of the pension certificate afore- said the commissioner will reissue to him 8 new certificate for the new rate and will for ward the same to the proper pension agent to inscribe the name of such pensioner on the roll at the increased rate and to make to the pensioner the proper payment. In case of amputation the certificate will be reissued without further medical examination. The intervention of an agent or attorney in such admitted cases as are affected by this act be- ing unnecessary will not be recognized"
 The Secretary of the Treasury is preparing an important circular in reference to the mileage of subsidized railroads Of the United States to serve as guide for the Postmaster General in settling the accounts of these roads. Secretary Folger in his circular will h01d hof ha 61Iaf f0r fn non-subsidized roads which are leased by sub- sidized roads must be paid. The effect of this decision will be to take out of the treasury about $500. 900 hitherto withheld by the auditor of the treasury for the Postoffice department and pay it to the non-su bsidized branches. The amounts | covered into the treasury for mail service on both the subsidized roads and their leased branches for the past four years are as fol- ! lows: 1879, SIP, 1909; 1880, $995, ,6O4; 1881, $1,1O0,6S9 and 1882, $1,214, 186. Of this amount the $500, oOO,mentioned above was for service over unsubsidized roads and will be returned. Taking the above as fair estimate the roads in question will in future l receive about $150, 900 per year under the decision of the Secretary, which under form 1 CT practice was, with the pay due for service l on subsidized roads, covered into the treasury. The amounts due the subsidized roads for the l past four years for mail service which by law l has been covered into the treasury are as | follows: Sioux City railroad $57, ,567, Central Pacific railroad $1, ,5s0, ,253, Union Pacific | $2, ,367, 676.
 | Senator Fair of Nevada and Secretary 1 Chandler gave dinners tonight which for ele- gance and distinguished attendance have not been surpassed this season.
 l On January 10th Indian Commissioner I Price addressed letter to Agent Tufts of Mus cogee, Indian Territory, in which a | number of questions were asked as to the | L -f-az I--- H., 1 the effect The agent sent 8 letter in reply dated March 1st in which he states that there are 959 miles of fencing Tn the country be- longing to nineteen citizens of the territory. There are, he states, no fences within two miles of the post routes. Timber he says is found along the water. courses but unless some measures be taken to prevent it's des- truction the country will be entirely denuded of timber and the small streams will dry up.
 large number of departing Congressmen called upon Architect Hill at the Treasury to-day in the interest of public buildings In course of construction in their districts.
 Messrs Burrows Rice, Ford, Hazeltlne
 and Brurnm. who were representatives of the National Labor Greenback party in the For
 ty-seventh Congress have issued an address
 mainly explanatory of the words used in the
 name of the party. They say the word ma
 tionaln covers all benefits resulting to Amer
 ican citizens from @ union of the States,
 They quote from Washington's farewell ad-
 dress to show the dangers of sectional party
 preiudices an1 refer to @ foreign influence
 over our legislation to prove the wisdom of
 what Washington said, claiming that their
 marty is free from such influence.
 They quote the decision of the Supreme
 court of 1870 to prove the correctness
 of their theory for issuing money
 and say that the decision is accepted by their
 party as an intelligent expression of it's views
 on that branch Of the greenback or money
 question. The relation between money and labor they declare is inseparable, so that all
 political economists say that when money is
 plenty labor is high and business prosperous,
 and that when money is scarce the opposite I is the case that the present necessities of the government and the people require mon 1 ey at this time as indicated by the increased number of failures, the stopping of factories and furnaces and the reductions in wages. The address also pronounces the tariff land internal revenue laws as oppressive.