Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-25
REFORM IS NEcE' wsx..,
The Boss Of the American Navy Be.
gins to Cut Expenses,
Miners Mail Contract Apnulled-A
Protest Against Irish Paupers-
General News From
Washington.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Special Dispatches to THE BEE.
CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES,

Chandler has addressed q letter To the
chief of each of the bureaus of the navy
department, calling attention to the rec
concentrations of the commission con-
corning the reorganization of the navy
yarde and the disposition proposed to be
mazda of each yard. The commandments
of the various yards have been furnished
a copy of the letter and requested to as
sist in carrying out the plan of the com
mission. &The secretary alludes to the
statistics of the navy yards, and says:
"They show an enormous daily ex-
'penditure, namely: For 657 fore
men, clerks and employees other
than ordinary mechanics and
~workingmen, 81, 179, and 1905 other en-
ployees S9,139, making 4462 total en-
ployes at a daily compensation of SILL
3l9, or at the rate of SO, 900, 900 a year,
when the only work in progress on ships
of war at all the yards was repairing of
the Omaha. Shenandoah, Trenton, Os-
sipee, Mohican and Alert.
Secretary Chandler considers this enor-
nous expenditure for such feeble results
inconsistent. with faithful administration.
SUNDAY
The Post will publish tomorrow q long
article presenting the question Of open
ing on Sunday the National museum,
Smithsonian Institute, congressional libra
ry, and similar institutions at the capital.
Librarian Spofford, Professor Baird, Col.
Robert G. Ingersoll and Robert Colyer,
of New York, favor the movement, while
of the numerous ministers here but two
approve the proposition. ll-
VAN WICK WINS.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Second Assis-
tant Postmaster Elmer has annulled the
contract lately awarded to John r. Miner
for carrying mail on the newly estab-
lished route from Fort Niobrara to Dead
wood.
This is the matter on which Senator
Van Wyck has been waging such a strong
war, and will be looked upon as at least
a partial victory for him. Miner and his
hackers were so sure of being sustained
by the postal authorities, through the
influence of some of the Nebraska dele
CATION, that they had already sent horses
and mules to various stations along the
route, and We're getting ready to COM
mence business.
What action will now be taken is un-
known, but at all vents it is pretty posi-
tive that none of the old star route crowd
need apply.
ASSISTED IRISH EMIGRANTs.
Alexander Sullivan, president of the
Irish National League of America, &C.
o%ompanied by a representative deputa-
ton, presented to President Arthur yes
tezday at the white house an address in
accordance with previous arrangement
and raenItrfinnu olnvfal ~ @hn oro.x Iu.al
convention in Philadelphia, protesting
against the reduction by law and force Of
large numbers of Irish people to pauper-
ism and their deportation in extreme
poverty to the United States. The adj
dress detailed the present condition of
Ireland and the efforts of the British
government to ship the poor and aged
people of that country to America. Mr..
Sullivan's address was supplemented by
short speeches by Messrs- H. L. Hognet,
president of the Irish Emigrant Savings
bank of New York, Jas. Lynch, of New
York, president of the Irish Emigration
society, and Smith, of Ohio, who said 70
impoverished emigrants were sent to Tiff
fen and were a burden upon that COM
munity.
The president replied to the address as
follows: The subject you present will re-
ceive my careful consideration. 1t has
already been under consideration by the
secretary of state. Correspondence in
regard to it has been had with our diplo-
matte and consular representatives, and
investigation into the facts is now being
made by me. 1t is, of course, proper
that this government should ascertain
whether any nation with which it holds
amicable relations is violating any obliga-
ton of international friendship before
calling attention to any such mat
ter. The law now provides that
officers of the treasury shall exam
inc into the condition of passengers ar
irving as emigrants in any part of the
United States, and if there should be
found any convict, l~unatic, idiot or any
person unable to take care of himself
without becoming a public charge they
n report the same in writing to the
collector of the port and such person
hall not be permitted to land. In
vestigation will be thorough and exhaus-
tive on this side of the Atlantic, and on
the other, and in the meantime the law
will be strictly enforced"
Each of the delegates was then pre-
scented to the president by Sullivan and
the conference closed.
TREASURY STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-The following
is the condition of the treasury: Gold
coin and bullion $196, 600, 1877; silver dol
and bullion, S115, 302, 672; fractional sill
yer coin, S28, 483, 281; United States
notes, S53, 1853, 713; total 1898, 667, 1873.
Certificates outstanding: Gold, $780,
613,60; silver, 1901 81; Currency,
$13, 900, 900.
STAR ROUTE
In the criminal court, Williams, IL
sci for Brady, asked Judge Wylie to dis
pose of the original and untried indict-
ment in the star route case. Ker said
hat Bliss was in New York and Merrick
was sick, and therefore asked that fur
Their time be allowed. Judge Wylie said
he hardly thought the old in
dictment would trouble Will
liams again. Williams, counsel
for ex-senator Kellogg, then asked to
hare some action taken by the court upon
the pleas in abatement submitted Mon
day last, but upon Ker's statement that
the government was not yet prepared to
proceed in that matter, Judge Wylie
postponed the argument until Saturday
next.
An AD~ortionist In Trouble.