Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-01-18
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Washington special:: senator Sabin IL
rived here on the morning 81 the 10th from
Minnesota, and Has been fully informed a.
to the extent Of the depredationa upon his
business By the fre at stiIlwater. He says
the worst feature Of il is the delay to his
business, because he was amply injured
from direct loss. Il ID unfortunate that the
new portion OF the works and much of the
new machinery, as we'll as the buildings re-.
Gently erected, were destroyed, rather than ,
those which were IN poorer repairs and
older. he received telegram stating that
things are in shape 30 that contracts now
under way can be HHed. He seemed to- take
the misfortune very philOsophically, and
is as good natured over it as If he had re-
ceived q windfall instead of . visitation
from disaster. :. 5ss5.:*s s.*s 4 !:
Mr.. Toilet, who will have charge Of the
pension bill when it reaches the house, Is
strongly in favor Of abolishing entirely the
pension agency business. There are eigh.
{ cen pension agencies, costing $3.50, 600 per
year. Pension agents receive yearly salar-
les OF t4,0t0 and Z Tee Of Is GEMS for every
voucher above 4,e00 issued from, their Of
fees. Toilet thins q saving OF $500 600 per
year could be raade by having the work
done by force of clerks in Washington.
without any. delay in the payment of PEN
sions. Probably Folle:ts views will be
adopted, by the subcommittee, and the bill.
wi en- reported to the full committee, will
contain provision abolishing ell pension
ageI Q Les. - .Ss5&&3 4 =. ..
The entire Minnesota delegation, except
Senator Sabin, visited the secretary Of the
interior and commissioner Of Indian affairs
Wednesday the 9th with reference to send
ing number at children to the school OF
St. Joseph, instead of Milwaukee. II was
decided bv the department that they will by
the LIST of February send to the st. Joseph
fifty Indian children, mostly girls, aud
more, PROBABLY by the end of the fiscal year,
when the appropriation will justify it.
Mrs. Marion l.. Dudley, writing from
Washington to the Milwaukee Sentinel
says: "Nothing will ever make the regula-
ton cost and bifurcated combinations ses
thetic. A senator ought to wear the toga
and for dress occasions. the costume of the
days OF Sir Waiter Raleigh has lever been
mproved upon"
G. D. Gilmore, lawyer of Washington,
has begun suit against Carl Schurz, ex-secre'
tary of the interior, for the recovery of $780,"
600 damages, for disbarring him from prac'
tice. The offence which resulted IN his dis
barment was the alleged payment of Nd oney
to q clerk in the general land office IN 9
case in which Gilmore was interested.
Senator Van Wyck advances the PROPOSE
ton that the hostile action of the German
and French governments relative 70 Aneri'
can meats was only retaliatory, and desires
that Anthony's resolution giving tho presi'
dent power to adopt similar measures
against Germany and France, go over until
he could amend it.
At meeting OF the house committee on
postofdces and post-roads. Mr.. Money was
authorized to report to the house for favor
able action a bill m skiing public roads high
ways and post. routes, giving to the postmas-
ter general power to establish postal service
Whenever IN his judgment The public well
fare requires it.
Upon reports of special agents showing
fraud, the commissioner of the general land
office has held for cancellation the past
week, three entries in California, thirty-siz
in Colorado, nine in Dakota, th1rty-tWo in
Mexico, and one in Minnesota.
The secretary of the treasury has given no
tics that the principal and accrued interest
on $40, Oo0, 600 per cents, issued under thu
act approved July II, 1882, will be paid the
18th of March, 1884, the interest to cease
! that day.
Robert Bliss Lynch, clerk in the war de-
partment, Washington, died there on The
18Th inst.a He was a Milwaukeean and hit
life an eventful one.
The special senate committee will rec
ommend Mississippi river appropriations
of ever 81, 600, 600.