Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-30
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Internal Revenue ChangeS-The Matter Under Advisement by the Cabinet-An Important Pension Decision - Other Matters.
 WAsH1GNToN, June 29.-At the Cabinet 1 meeting today the greater portion of the time was devoted so the consideration of pro- posed changes in several of the recently con- l solidated internal revenue districts. Owing to l the controversy between the distillers in Kentucky it was decided to retain the abol- ! ished sixth district and constitute 8 seventh ! district. The headquarters of the sixth dis l trict will probably be at Covington, with J. W.Finnell as collector, and that of the seventh l at Lexington, with A. M. Sinope as collector The districts of Montana, Idaho and Utah were consolidated, with Thomas P. Fuller of Montana as collector.
 Supervising Inspector Dumont has issued circular addressed to the masters of pas senger and excursion steamers calling their attention to certain sections of the revised statutes regulating the carriage of passengers on steam vessels. Local inspectors are to furnish the Treasury department weekly statements with the names of all steamers supplied with excursion permits with the number of passengers allowed on the regu5 lar certificates and the additional number ai- lowed on the excursion permit.
 Commander F. R. Smith of the navy, who was recently tried at New York by court martial for duplicating his pay accounts and sentenced to be dismissed from the service, has been granted leave to appear before the Secretary of the Navy in his own behalf. Meanwhile the court martials recommenda- tions will be held in abeyance.
 IL 1R (I of Michigan, was to-day appointed by the President postmaster at Washington, D. c. Mir. Roillamor the charge daffaires of Rus sia was to day presented to the President and delivered letter from the Emperor of Russia expressing his appreciation Of the ao- tion of this government in accredltlng MT. Hunt as a special representative to Mosco on the occasion of his coronation and in direct ing the presence of Admiral Baldwin at the
 ceremony. The President said such acts were no less spontaneousat than others which
 have so long bound the two countries togeth- CT and that the opportunity to testify their good will on so suspicious an occasion had been very gratifying to the government and
 people of the United States.
 Quartermaster General Rufus Ingalls, has applied to be placed on the retired list of the
 army after July 1st, 1888, under the provis- ions of the forty years service act He will
 not be sixty-four years old until the middle of next August, but prefers to anticipate
 compulsory retirement in the interest Of oth-
 CT officers
 Acting Secretary Joslyn, of the Interior
 department, has decided in the application of
 John B. Collett for an increase of pension,
 an important point being the construction of
 the law of June 18 1874, as to what consti
 tutes s'total and permanent helplessness-"
 The applicant in question received pension
 of $31 25 and asked for an increase to $50 on
 the ground that he was totally helpless. It
 was shown that he was helpless in his left
 arm as the result of gunshot wound. and his
 right arm was fractured by the fragments of
 shell. He could write and is now performing
 the duties of clerk. He has also the
 use of his lower limbs The opinion holds
 that Congress did not mean to place tech
 nical construction on the words .stotal.a