Daily globe., 1883-08-01
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

WASHINGTON, July 31.-The month of
August is to be the dull season of this
year IN Washington. The president and
every member of his cabinet are absent.
Few members of the cabinet will spend
much time here during August. Secretary
Frelinghuysen is at his home in New
Jersey, where he expects to remain until
cool months or the pressure of business
brings him to Washington. Secretary
Lincoln has gone with the president on his
Yellowstone trip. Secretary Chandler is
doubtless endeavoring to enforce the civil
service rules in New Hampshire. Attorney
General Brewster is at Long Branch, and
as all the courts in which the government
has any business have adjourned until
October, he will not spend much time in
Washington until then. The reports of
Kuklux outrages in the south are not
likely to disturb him greatly,
because the answer has already been given
non possumitS, and the telegraph brother
hood will scarcely expect Mr.. Brewster.
who is the counsel of the Western Union
to disturb himself to enforce against that
company the federal law of 1866. Secre-
tary Folger accompanies the president to
Chicago, from which place he will visit
Minnesota. Secretary Teller has gone to
Colorado for the month of August, to rest
and Postmaster General Gresham has &C
companied the president, to be absent fol
two weeks. The deputies are in the hands
| of subordinates.
YOU'RE ANOTHER.
There has been no change in the tele-
graph situation here since Saturday
More operators are out than on Friday last
Western Union reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding. This afternoon Mr.. C.
I. Murray, correspondent of the Phil
| adelphia Times, addressed Super
intendent Zenblin, of the Western
Union Office, letter in reply
to card from Zenblin published in the
Times charging Murray with falsifying
the condition of the Western Union Office
force. Mr.. Murray, in his letter, says that
Zenblin's assumption with relation to the
management of the Office here has made
him the laughing stock of everybody who
knows anything about the service, and
that Mr.. Zenblin's course here is very
properly considered as that of an impu-
dent braggart who would conceal the truth
under the cloak of impudence, and adds:
''If you mean by your card in the Times
to convey the impression that have wan
tonly mis-stated news from this point, you
add to the quality of the insolent braggart
that of the coItemptible liar" Murray
insists that he has never allowed his sym
pathies to color news, nor made any state
ment in the Times with the intention of
rejecting on Zenblin's personal honor.
On this point he says: II don't know you,
never saw you. You are no more to me
than the horse cars. I do not know
what your reputation is for personal honor
in Philadelphia, but the reputation which
you have established here in remarkable
short time seems to indicate that it was
very small affair and not worth mention
ing," Murray concludes his scorching let
ter by charging that Zenblem has found
ready tool in the Associated Press
in wiIfully misrepresenting the state of af-
fairs Of the telegraphers here.
OUR MINERAL RESOURCES.
A report entitled the mineral resources
of the United States will shortly be pub
lished by the division of mining statistics
and technology United States geogical
survey. This report is for the calendar
year of 1882 ana the first six months of
1883. 1t contains detailed statistic for
these periods and also for preceding
years, together with much technical and
descriptive matter. The following totals
of the productions of coal and iron are
from advance proofs. The only statistics
in which the trade is interested are those
relating to the amount of coal which is
mined for and reaches the market. Their
is besides a loca. and colliery consumption
which is usually disregarded in statistics.
TWestern Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July 31.-When the Hill
investigation committee met, Coleman
asked for ruling on his application fol
the suspension of Hill pending the inves-
tigation.
The chairman said the committee had
no power to grant this request. The
question had been submitted to Secretary
Folger and he refused the application.
Coleman then asked for a ruling on his
request that the committee take the testi-
mony of a number ofiWitnesses of Quincy,
,, Mas, whose names and residences had
been given.
The ehairrnan said the committee would
rule on the application to morrow.
John Woodman, of the firm of Wood
man d Warner, Of Chicago, was called to
the stand and examined by Coleman.
He had been in the steam heating busi-
ness shree years and was familiar with the
heating apparatus of the Chicago custom
houss as constructed by Bartlett, Robinson
& Co., in company with King, of Chicago
He had made a careful examination of the
apparatus on Thursday, Friday and Satur.
| day of last week, and made special ex.
| animation of the boilers and the cast iron
coils on the third floor. He had read the
| specifications of Bartlett, Robinson & Go
relating to the character of the make OF
| the boilers required. The boilers should
have ninety-seven three inch tubes.
When he examined them he
| found the boiler only had
ninety-two tubes. This caused
reduction of the heating capacity of boil
ers and made difference in cost of max