The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The Superintendent of the Philadelphia
Mint has been authorized to purchase 90.
100 ounces Of silver for coinage into dimes
The report of the committee appointed
BY the Secretary of the Treasury to inves
;igate charges against Supervising Archi
,ect Hill, has been given out for publica
lion. Some of the findings of the commit
ZEE are severe on Hill, and his resignation
was freely talked Of.
BY order of the Second Assistant Post
30, the star-route from Fort Niobiara Il
Fort Randall, OAK, has been discontinued
The reason given at the Postoffice Depart
nent for the abolition Of the route is thai
since the date of advertisement for pro
posals the railroad system in that section
mas been extended SO as to greatly reduct
the necessity for star-route service.
STANDARD dollars were issued during the
week ended September Is, to the amount OF
1898, against $379, 900 for the same time
last year.
decided that it is not practicable to send
another expedition to the relief of Lieuten
ant Greeley this year.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL has ten
lered his resignation to Secretary Folger
10 take effect on the appointment of his
successor.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has issued
q call for fifteen millions Of three per
cents, payable December 1.
The Secretary of War has received a let.
yer from General Crook, asking that an in.
auiry be made as to the omissions in the
published copy of his letters of August IL,
last. Some of the kilograms made General
Crook say, in referring to the Chihuahua
prisoners, that they surrendered with the
understanding that their past mis-
deeds would not be punished, pro-
eided that they behaved them
selves in the future; whereas he
wrote that it was with the understanding
ION their part" He was thus made to con-
:radict his repeated statements that he had
refused to the Indians to guarantee their
safety from punishment. General Crooks
account of the matter was clear to the Sec
rotary of War and the Secretary of the In
5erior. While in Washington he stated that
while he had lpade this refusal, it was diff
cult, if not impossible, to make the Indians
understand that he could not control mat
.ers.
SPECIAL AGENT EVANS, sent by the
Treasury Department to inquire into the
smuggling of Chimes into Washington Ter
ritory from British Columbia, stated that
I'm his opinion the reports were exaggerated,
but he admitted that a number of men in
that section employed large numbers of
Chinese, and were willing to take all they
could get of them without wanting to know
where the Cinnamon came from.
The requisition upon the Postoffice De-
partment by postmasters for new two-cent
stamps were so large that the contractors
were unable to supply the demand, and the
Department consequently reduced the
amounts called for in the acquisitions, in
order that all offices might have some of the
new stamps on hand when the law goes in
10 effect.
WIN. s. WHITSFoRD was committed to
Jail at Washington City, the other day,
charged with forging checks on the Ser
geant-at-arms of the House, representing
about 500, in the names of United States
Senator German and Congressman Talbot.
Whitsford was at one time private secre-
tary to German.
! BEFORE the Senate Sub Committee on
Education and Labor Rev. Heber Newton,
of New York, testified that the difficulties
met with by labor reformers were the in
temperate habits of the laboring classes in
cities, and the improper methods to which
labor resorted in endeavoring to accom-
plish its desires. The great want of the
people, he considered, was industrial edu-
cation. Instruction in public schools was
woefully deficient, and its tendency was
entirely one-sided. 1t had given to the
youths of the country dislike for manual
labor, which was a very dangerous tend
ency.
The Civil Service Commissioners, the
other day, received letter from ex-Repre-
sentative Dazendorf, of Virginia, stating
that c. Clark, Senator Mahone's political
assessment agent, had made another assess
ment of five per cent. on the salaries re-
ceived by all the employees of the Norfolk
navy yard, and that this was the third
assessment levied upon the same employees
by the same man inside of year. Mr..
IL
Government employee he has violated the
Civil Service act. The matter was laid be-
fore the executive authorities.
WASHINGTON claim agents have been
sending out circulars stating that by an act
of Congress the Secretary of the Interior
was authorized to increase the compensa.
ton of all Assistant Marshals engaged in
taking the ninth census. The Secretary
says the additional pay can only be allowed
in limited number Of cases, where he is
satisfied the pay was insufficient, and
warns Assistant Marshals against mislead-
ing circulars.
SECRETARY FoLGER has raised an i'm
portant question in regard to the operation
Of the new Civil Service law, which he
stated in a letter addressed by him to the
Commissioners some days since. He made
, requisition on the Commission for a
person to fill 500 clerkship,
and the Commission certified to him
he names Of four persons, from
which to make his selection. The Secre-
sary found himself in doubt as to whether
section 17o4 of the Revised Statutes did not
limit him in making his selection from four
names. Other things being equal, this Sec
lion gives preference to honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors of the late war;
His opinion is that if one of the persons
certified to him is an honorably discharged
sailor or soldier he must select that one.
THE EAST.
TIE Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention, held recently at Boston, NOM
mated George d. Robinson for Governor
and Oliver Ames for Lieutenant Governor
AN iDcendiary firerecently destroyed the
tannery of G. n. Burt & Co., near Elmira,
n. Y. Loss, about $50, 1000.