The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-09-04

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The Swain court martial has been postponed
IN Washington until Nov 16, as Gen Swaim's
chief counsel will be unable to appear before
| that time.
Pc stofices established: Minnesota-hake
Itasca, Beltrami county, Wisconsin Shipps,
Sawyer county. Postmaster Commissioned
Nathan s Gilbert Central City, Oak.
The opinion is very generally expressed q,
the treasury department that the printed &C
counts of Secretary Folger's health are true,
and that his physical condition is so precArious
as to warrant the gravest fears as 10 his re-
| covery.
! Postmasters commissioned: Asa Paine
FaifMount, Oak. John B. Chale, Olga, Oak
Louis Shaw, Aver, Wis; John J. Brinkman,
Pray, Wis. New Offices: Caleb H. Ellis, Ellie.
Vile, Faulk county, Oak; Oliver Gerfnoin,
New Canada, Ramsey county, MINI.
The following special examiners of the PEN
sion office were appointed recently under The
civil service act to rate ,as clerks Of Glass l:
Iowa, S. w, McEldery, J. G. Mckenzie; Min
nesota, c. B. lockwood, Miss Nathan Picard,
Mrs. W. W. Dedric, A. G. Harding; Wisconsin,
81. A Richards.
| The commissioner of the general land Office
has issued circular declaring that the prac-
tice which prevails at many of the local Offices
of publishing notices of the right of appeal in
contested cases, l,lHst Be discontinued as the
same is not authorized by any law or any regu-
iation of the department. and entails needless
EXPENSE on the contestant.
1t has been decided to postpone the meeting
of the court martial for the trial of Judge Ad-
vocate Gen. Swain from Sept 10 until Novem-
Der Ii, and notice in the date of assembling
has been sent to the officers composing the
court 1t is not known whether this action is
at the instance of Gen. SwaiIn's counsel, who
has been urging delay, or is done to enable
Maj. Gardner, the attorney for the government
to prepare his case. Friends of Swain say he
means to fight to the bitter end, and the trial
is likely to be protracted
Gen. Green B. Raum is very indignant over
the forged letter, purporting to have been
written by him, threatening department clerk
who had not responded to the finance COM
mlttee's invitation to contribute to the cam
palgn tSnd, the letter having been first pub
rs Gen. Raum heard of the publication he i'm
mediately telegrsphed to New York an en-
phatic denial, declaring that he had never writ
ten, nor thought of writing, any such letter,
and that it was base forgery:
A curious case in the settlement of official &C
counts has just been brought to the notice OF
the solicitor of the treasury. Some twenty-nine
years ago Willis A. German, as governor OF
Minnesota Territory, was ex-officio superinten-
dent of Indian affairs. In this latter capacity
he gave bond in September 1852 His disburse-
ments began the following year and ended in
1858. His accounts were not settled by the sec
ond auditor until February last, that is twenty
six years after he ceased to be disbursing
officer, when deficiency appeared of
Sl,2S9 The comptroller passed the account
March s, and the case was sent to the
auditor for suit on the bond of Gov.
German. The papers were forwarded to the
| United States attorney for Minnesota and
| they have just been returned with the infor-
nation that all the bondsmen are dead and
their estates distributed, 1t does not by any
means follow that there was anything dishon-
est in this case. The chances are that if the
Indian officer had undertaken settlement
while Gov. German and the generation with
which he acted were alive, the discrepancy
could have been explained The case, howev-
er, shows more promptness in settlement than
that of Rev. J. P. Bardwell, a missionary well
known in Ohio, who, thirty years ago made
some disbursements of public funds, and
whose accounts, by late settlement, were
found to show balance due the government
Suit on his bond was ordered few weeks
since, but the solicitor stopped proceedings on
the ground that all the responsible parties were
long since dead.