The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-12
THE NEWS IN:BRIEF.
GOSSIP FROMWASHTNqT0N

GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.
L By direction of secretary of the interior,
party under John II. Renshawe will leave
Washington in few days, en- route for the
Yellowstone National park, to make q top
ographic survey Vt the park. Another party
under Arnold Hague, will make Z geological
survey of the park. 1t is how settled that
trip to the Yellowstone valley about the lst
of August next if nothing should occur to
interfere with his present plans. The ar
rangement for the trip are in the hands of
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan. The party will num-
her about ten persons and be gone five or
six weeks. The president will join Gem
Sheridan and other members of the party at
Chicago. It is proposed to go DIRECT to Vel
lowstone with as few stops as possible. The
president has abandoned oil idea of visiting
Newport.
The amouns of stamps imprinted on
checks and drafts received at the internal
revenue bureau for cancellation and re-
demption to date is $s,5O0,0OO. Persons
having stamps upon checks and drafts,
who cancelled and returned them, need not
expect money for the value Of the stamps
so cancelled for some time 10 come, as all
such claims are referred to the accounting
officers of the del artmeRt to be audited be-.
fore warrants are issued. The number of
claims received at the internal revenue bu-
Teau for rebate on account of tobacco, snuff
and cigars. under the new internal revenue
law, spproximates 10000, aggregating ST.
O00,0
An opinion was rende ed by Attorney
General Brewster which denies the legality
of the expectation scheme proposed by the
distillers. This will prove, if adopted by
the treasury department, disastrous blow
to the whisky interests of the country. The
only kind of spirits proposed to be exported
is the long or Kentucky whisky, which is
placed in the bonded warehouse and kept
three years to ripen, the lax lot being col
lected until the expiration of the bonded
period. It would thus appear that the
KENTUCKY distillers were alone interested,
but the fact is that the compound whisky
men of Chicago and Peoria are far more
deeply concerned than they.
There is considerable agitation among the
female clerks over the act that the effect of
the new-civil service law will be to grad
ually weed them out of the departments un-
less special pains are taken to remedy the
defects in the act. Mostof the ladies now
in Office are placed there by personal pres
sure of friends or influential relations. That
element is removed by the machinery of
Tue COMMISSION. Inc matter Will De close
ly watched, and except for counters, it il
not thought that many will get in until the
law is changed
Mr.. Folgers treasury statement for the
fiscal yearl just ended is discussed in Eng
land with great interest, h as indicating
the great prosperity of the United States
and as holding out a hope of an early and
important reduction in customs duties
The Times devotes much space to the mat
ter, and expresses the firm conviction that
the protective system must shortly he
abandoned in America.
In accordance with the resolution Of con-
gress directing the president to notify the
British government of the termination of
certain articles of the treaty of May 1871,
relating to the fishery question, the British
government has been so notified, and these
articles will terminate July 2, 1885.
The Congregational church in Mortified,
is about to secure pipe organ. $1,000
have already been raised, $500 are want
ed which amount will undoubtedly be OBJ
tanned.
John G. New has been acting secretary of
the treasury during the absence of Mr.. Fol-
ger.