Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-25
TOPICS IN THE CABINET.

The Expenditures of the Sanitary Fund
Discussed-An Informal Talk About
the Dynamite Party in America-A
Batch of POstmasters AppOinted-COn-
gresham Murch Bound that no Favor
itism Shall be shown Architect Hill.
WASHINGTON, April PA meeting Of
the Cabinet to-day lasted about an hour
and half. All Of the heads Of the depart
ments We're present, including the new
Postmaster General. There was some
discussion Of the question whether the
National Board Of Health or the Marine
Hospital Service should direct and con-
troll the expenditure of the 100000 appr0-
priated for the prevention and suppress
sion Of epidemic diseases, but no conclu-
sion was reached. = The Marine Hospital
Service had control Of the epidemic fund
last year, but their authority
to disburse it now is disputed by the
National Board of Health, and the ques-
tiOn has been referred to the President for
decision. There was also some informal
conversation at the meeting to-day in re-
gard to the evidence furnished by the
newspapers that persons in the United
States are actively engaged in aiding and
directing the operations of dynamite plot
conversation
not grow out of any official CORE
spondence, for no document of any kind
relating to ii was presented. but there is
reason to believe that a hypothetical
question was framed and discussed. and
that the members of the Cabinet general
ly expressed their views as to what the
policy of this government should be in
various suggested contingencies which
might arise out of the manifest DISPOSE
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country as basis Of attack, by means
of dynamite and nitro-glycerine, upon the
English Government and the English peO-
pie.
The President has appointed the follow
ing POstmasters: David t. Dunn, Bruins
wick, Ga; David l.. Young. Win0na.
Miss; A. L. Berry, Roanoke, Va; j. II.
Goss, Union Court House, 5. {.
EX-Congressman Murch has written TO
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury New,
Chairman OF the committee to investigate
the charges against Supervising Archi-
tect Hill, raising several objections to the
management of the investigation The
letter is withheld from the public, but 1t
has been learned that Mr.. Murch's prin-
cipal objection is that Assistant Solicitor
Robinson, who, Mr.. Murch asserts, is par
tial to him, is allowed to sit
as a member of the committee. Mr.. Rob-
insOn has expressed his willingness to
withdraw, and Secretary Folger will APP
point a substitute, not because he be-
lieves there is any ground for such action,
but to make impossible any charge of
favoritism in creating the commission.
There was received at the Post Office
Department to-day an Internal Revenue
return blank ON which was printed an adj
Vertisement of a well known business en-
terprise. The matter was called to the
attention of Secretary FOlger.
The party engaged in making surveys
and archaeological investigations in North
Carolina under the direction of the Bureau
of Ethn0lOgy, has just discovered near
Mount Pisgah, in that State, two pre-
historic aboriginal mounds, containing an
unusually rich and valuable collection of
polished stones, aXles, celts, and
other Indian implements. The mounds
had apparently served as burial places.
and also contained the remains of human
bodies. The collection of implements,
which constitute the richest and most
valuable find recently made in the Eastern
States, will be brought to Washington,
and added to the collection in the ma
tional museum.
Secretary Teller has disbarred William
George, of Lake Providence, La, from
practicing as an attorney before the De-
partment of the Interior or any bureau
fbnvoof