The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

SECRETARY FoLaER has informed the
President that in order to carry into effect
the provisions of the act to prevent the i'm
portation of adulterated or spurious teas,
1t will be necessary to appoint assistant
appraisers at New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, who shall perform the duties
of Special Tea Examiners. These appoint
ments are vested in the President and not
In the Secretary of the Treasury.
In the case of Paymaster WATSON, who
recently reported himself robbed in Texas,
but who really was defaulter, the order
for court-martiai has been suspended by
direction of the Secretary OF War, pending
further examination as to the extent of the
defalcation. An officer has been detailed
to ascertain the amount. WATSON denies
that his shortage is due to gambling. He
alleges that it was in the nature of forced
loan from the Government for sixty days
to float his father during temporary mer.
camille embarrassment, and that he in
tended to make the amount good.
TIE Commissioner of the Freedman's
Saving and Trust Company recently de-
,clared a final dividend of seven per cent in
favor of the creditors of said company,
making sixty-two per cent in all.
THE Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury
Department reports that during the month
of April there arrived in the districts of
Baltimore, Boston, Huron. New York, Pas
saniaquody, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco $3.50 immigrants. The total arrivals
In these districts for the ten months ending
April 80 were n7,6S9; for the same period
last year, ga COL: decrease, 1892. .
The reunion of the Army of the Poto-
mac in Washington the other day was very
imposing in the grand procession, decora-
dons and other festivities. 1t was the first
representative gathering of the Army of
the Potomac in Washington since the war,
and as the soldiers of twenty years ago
marched past the stand, many of them
gray haired and bearded and bowed with
the weight of intervening years, it recalled
the review of 1865, when the Army of the
Potomac marched up the avenue anil passed
in review before the President, 100, 600
strong. .Ez HtE& II
THE Civil Service Commission will first
inspect the postofices in Western and
Southern cities, reserving New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia to the last.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the mineral character of a township
is determined by the character of the
greater portion. Where township has
been reserved as mineral in character,
it raises the presumption that a tract stu
ated therein, which has been fled for agri-
cultural, is mineral in character, and this
presumption the agricultural claimant must
overcome by affirmative proof.
THE Secretary of the Interior has deliv-
cred an opinion upon the question SUBJ
mitted by the Commissioner of the Gen.
eral Land Office regarding the propriety of
withdrawing from entry and settlement
the odd sections of land within the endem-
nifty lands of the Northern Pacific. Rail-
road. The Commissioner was of the
opinion that the recent decision by the
Secretary had tended to reverse the
usual practice of the Land Office in such
cases; namely, to Withdraw the lands COM
prised within the granted and Indemnity
limits upon filing map of def mite loca-
ton. In his decision the Secretary denied
that this construction is to be placed upon
his former decisions and holds the matter
is open for the consideration of the Depart
ment.
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided to refer
to the Attorney General for an opinion the
question of the right of persons to export
whisky from Newport News, Va, to Ber-
muda, and thento re-importth the same either
for immediate consumption or for storage
in bonded warehouse for three years.
SENIOR GILMORE, Peruvian Minister to
Washington, discredits the report of the
conclusion of peace between Chill and
Peru.