The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-07-25
WASHINGTON.

One-dollar notes will not be issued by the
treasury until about August /. Congress
did not make an appropriation for printing
them until the last day of the session.
1t is understood that q successor to Judge
Drummond will not be appointed until De
cember, when congress meets. Postmaster
General Gresham will then be appointed
almost without doubt. In the meantime
business in the United States circuit court
will be seriously delayed.
Secretary Frellnghuysen has instructed
the consular officers at London, Liverpool,
Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen, and
Hamburg to employ competent physicians
TO inspect all vessels and passengers depart
ing from those ports to the United States,
and to refuse clean bills of health to all
unless upon the recommendations of such
physicians and sanitary inspectors. The
consuls are instructed to report promptly by
cable any cases of infectious disease.
REDUCED TELEGRAPH RATES.
The most important news on the stock
market is the announcement that an imme-
date reduction in telegraph rates will be
made by the Baltimore 81 Ohio, the Postal,
combination to Western cities. This Is the
actual beginning of what promises to be
great telegraph war, with the three COM
panies above mentioned on one side and
the Western Union on the other. In stock
market which has not lost all sense of shock
would have influenced prices, but Western
Union did not fluctuate more than on an
ordinary day, and was strong at the close.
The new rival lines are quite powerful
corporations, and the Western Union Is q
splendidly equipped and wonderfully or
gained system, with reserve of financial
strength. The fight will interest the pub
lie in giving it the cheapest and best tele-
graphic service in the world The contest
will be bitter. and probably long one.
A off nnt riD0 nf bn iao
at first glance would seem to be to very
greatly decrease them, but cheapening of
the tolls between great centers has frequent
ly resulted in profit from an increasing
business. While it is known just what the
result of q railroad. war would be In this re-
spect, the result of competition between
telegraph companies Is problematical.'
SENDING OUT PUB. DOCS.
The legislative chambers at the capitol at
Washington are deserted and the corridors
are frequented only by strangers who come
70 see the sights of the national capitol; but
on the lower floor, where the document and
folding rooms are situated, there Is great
activity. Congress has left thousands of
speeches and public documents of all sorts
20 be folded and sent out through the mails,
and as a large force of employees is required
TO attend TO this work, men and boys who
have the good fortune to have secured the
influence of senators or congressman md
lucrative employment for some months.
The amount of mail matter of this character
that Is carted away from the capitol daily
would fill u mal-car. The reports of the
department of agriculture-of which mem
bers of the house are entitled to 256, 900 and
senators 6,000-form the larger part of the
daily mail from the capitol at this time Of
the year, but there are also many other pub
lie documents to be folded and directed for
speeches. The greatest demand is for the
tariff speeches of Mr.. Uurd, Mr.. Kelly, Mr..
Morrison, and Mr.. Mckinley. Several hum
bred thousand Of Hurd and McKinley's
tariff speeches have already been sent to
the west and north, and the total will prob
ably aggregate a million before the campaign
closes. All of this matter Is transported
under the frankin9 privilege at the expense