McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-22
WASHINGTON.

The annual report of the quarter.
master-general Of the army shows that the
total resources were So, O51, 1856; the expen-
ditures, $14, 756,5T. The construction OF
ninety new buildings, such as barracks,
quarters, stables, storehouses, guard
| houses, etc., have been authorized at an es-
timated cost of $147,17s Repairs to exist
ing buildings have been authorized at an
estimated cost Of $425, $50. An appropria-
ton of SIPS, 900 is urged to replace the build
ing used as recruiting depot and training
school for recruits at David's Island, New
York. The expenses for transportation
amounted to 81, 149,O51.
Complaint has reached the postofflce
department that mails on the Northern Pa
cific road are not properly worked by the
postal clerks, and instead of being distribu-
ted at various points along the route are car
ried through to Portland and stacked up
there. Superintendent Thompson says this
state Of affairs is brought about by COM
bination Of postal clerks, who purposely
neglect to work in order to compel him to
double the force, which he maintains is al
ready sufficient to distribute the mails prop
erly. Postmaster General Gresham has
taken the matter in hand and assigned As
sistant Superintendent Jameson to duty,
going over the whole line of road from St.
Paul to Portland, and making thorough
examination of the postal service.
Lieut.. Darlington resumed his testi-
mony in the Proteus court of inquiry on the
18th. He said he never saw the instructions
given to Capt. Wildes, of the Yantic, until
his return to st. John. His own instruc-
tons ordered him not to stop at Littleton
Island on his way up and he obeyed them.
His party went south in boats, hoping to
meet the Yantic and find some way of re-
turning to help Greeley. Gen. Hazen then
took the stand ana testified that the supple
mertal memorandum formed the fore part
Of Garlington's Instructions. darlington
showed me, - said the witness, call his or
ders, and I told him he must be controlled
by the regular orders he had given him and
by directions Of Greeley on which they were |
Greeley's letter was law to me
and didn't feel authorized to give any or
ders that would conflict with it,
A dispatch of the 18th says: The !
of the orty-eighth congress has |
reached Washington, where several Of the |
for the minor offices have already |
stationed themselves, on the alert to secure |
''pledges' Of votes. General Clark, of |
Maine, one Of the candidates for the Office |
HI I'D
Thompson and eX-Represen-
tative Leedam, of Ohio, who are ambitious
to succeed Colonel Hooker as sergeant at
arms, and a half dozen other candidates
have been on the ground for week or more
their claims. A western rep
must have a man for speaker who has
been tried and found to be entirely safe.
really ought 20 vote for Mr.. Randall,
put 1 feel under some personal obliga
ions to Mr.. Cox and my first
vote will be cast for him. After he is out of
he field I shall support Mr.. Randall. 1
understand he drafted the platform of the
democrats last summer, and I
10 not see why it is not as liberal as the Ohio
platform, as far as the tariff question is
He has had five years. expert
,nce in the Speakers chair. and that is an
,ther strong thing in his favor.
On the 18th Senator Vest and Con-
.ressmen Carlisle, Casey and Young called,
With Commissioner Morehead, on the Aus
rian minister, with q view to securing,
trough the Austrian government, transfer
u the late Vienna electrical exposition to