Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03

imply a REIMBURSEMENT of further claims
for compensation beyond the fifty per
centum, and the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco company having filed its acceptance
with the third assistant treasurer, that
| company is entitled to payments at the
| rate of fifty per centum of the full amount
upon the basis of the tariff rates
for like transportation performed for the
public at large.
SECRETARY TELLER WILL NOT REPLY.
Secretary Teller informed representa-
tive of the Associated Press this evening
that he does not intend making any formal
reply to Senator HilPs letter and added,
although he found it was full of errors and
Misrepresentation, he does not propose to
take any public notice of any portion of
it, that is local or personal in its character.
He did not think the public had any inter
est in these matters. He said, however,
as to the Yellowstone park lease, he took
the advice of his assistant, Joslyn, and of
McColman, law officers of the department.,
and that the lease was in their opinion
! in accordance with law. Teller went on
to say, sit does not, as the senator as
sumes, give control of the park to the
lessees." Any number of other leases may
to lessees as this one. No exclusive privi-
lege is given, and no advantage is given
in sites. The lease covers sites for a hotel
and stage stations, aggregating ten acres.
Others may, if they desire, have the same.
AS to the rulings of the department in
favor of corporations in the matter of the
land grants, the senator made only a gen.
eral charge concerning matter of which
"a RnTIld 4hoya hn
general public. The rulings have all
been made to conform to the decisions of
the supreme court, and the opinions of the
attorney general concerning the duty of
the executive departments of the govern
ment in that respect. The secretary furth-
ermore remarks that he is not authorized
to Iegislate, but simply to administer laws,
whether such laws are in accordance with
his views or not, and that Senator Hill
might have ascertained what are his views
on this subject from the last annual
rorur of the department of the interior.
SENATOR HILL ON THE SITUATION.
senator Hill left Washington this even
ing for Colorado. Before his departure
he was asked if he had anything further to
say at present with reference to his con.
troversy with the secretary of the interior.
| He replied that "every statement con-
| tanned in my letter is strictly true. Sec
rotary Teller will naturally seek to break
| its force by a general denial, but upon
some of the points he will have to face
| evidence. The effort to make a diversion
| by an indirect charge on the alleged au
| thority of the friends of Secretary Teller
that 1 bought my seat in the senate, is
unworthy, and has no foundation
to rest upon. If it had
| he would have used it against
me long ago. The truth is, neither Sen
ator Chillcott or any other responsible
| person has presumed to make such q
| charge. The nearest approach to it was
contained in a card from Ex-senator
| Chatfee, in which he said that my election
had, according to my OWL statements, cost
me $4,000. This statement was so vague
that I never deemed it worthy of notice,
| since Chaffee might have referred to legit-
| innate contributions made by me to my
| party to the state. Whatever charges
! have preferred against Teller have been
made over my signature. If he
will adopt q like course, and be
responsible for the statements that 1
furnished, used, or caused to be used,
money in any corrupt or illegitimate
manner connected with my election to the
senate, will afford him at the earliest
possible day an opportunity 10 prove the
charge"
| A VACANCY FILLED.
The president to-day appointed Will
liam S. Woods az district judge for the
seventh district of Indiana, vice Walter o,
Gresham, appointed postmaster general.
THE HowGATE CASE.
The court in general term to-day, heard
an argument on the appeal by the counsel
for Capt. Howgate from the decision of
Justice Macarthur, Diminishing his appll-
cation for vacation of the attachm ants,
aggregating nearly 100000, against Capt.
Howgate's property, because the suit had
been brought by special counsel instead of
by the United States attorney. The court
reserved its decision.
LARGE RECEIPTS.
| The acting commissioner of internal
revenue has received telegram from the
collector at st. Louis, stating that the re-
ceipts of his Office yesterday from the sale
OF tobacco stamps were $173,741.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
At meeting Of the executive committee
of the national board of health to-day, the
refuge station at Ship Island, Miss, was
ordered opened as soon as the necessary
details be arranged. The inspection SER
vice in New Orleans and on the Mississippi
river was also directed to be organized for
| immediate work.
THE NEW TOBACCO STAMPS.
Rodgers, acting commissioner of internal
revenue, to-day telegraphed Collector
Sturgis, of St. Louis, regarding the de-
mand for stamps under the new law, as fol-
lows: SIN addition to the stamps already
sent, $4,000 twenty pound stamps will be
shipped you to-day. We will try
to keep You supplied for
the current demand and hope
| to stock the trade fully within ten days.
| The short time elapsing between the pas
| sage of the act and the date it took effect,
has made it impossible with all the
machinery available thus far to meet re-
| gular demand and put out a three months
supply in addition. Every press is at
| work, and has been since the emergency
arose. AS fast as the stamps are received
| by the internal revenue bureau, they are
Immediately prepared for shipment, and
| each day are forwarded to collectors, each
| collector is SUPPLIED with a quantity pro-