The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

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WASHINGTON NOTES.
TIE President has appointed Thursday
November 9th, as day of general thanks
giving Throughout the United States, and
recommended that it be so observed.
IT is understood that Judge Advocate
Swain, who is to be tried by court-martial
the latter part of this month, will make oh.
jections to several members of the court
Generals Schofield, Terry, Murray, Roch-
ester, and probably one other-on the
ground that they are prejudiced for rea-
sons which his counsel will explain to the
War Department. Such course will
probably necessitate further postpone
ment of the trial.
By recent report it appeared that the
estimated expenditures of the postal SER
vice for the fiscal year, beginning July 1,
1SS5, are as follows: Office of the Post
master General, S211 800; office of the As
sistant Postmaster General, S23, 695, Oc0 (the
principal items are for pay of post
masters), S13,OO0,0O0; pay of clerks in
post-office, $500 900; free delivery and let
tsr-carriers, s. ,536, 000); Office Of the Second
Assistant Postmaster General, $50, 294 ,269
1.-THE principal items being railroad trans
portation, SIS ,6S4 ,2O5; star routes, $780,
600; railway postal-car service, S,S.o,OOO,
and pay of railway postal clerks, $780,
300); Office of the Third Assistant POST
masser-Gene $685., 400; Office of the Su-
perintendent of Foreign Mails, 500, 1000.
Total, 6,099, l69. The estimated amount
that will be provided by the department
tincluding 800, 900 from the money order
service) is Sol ga, $50; estimated excess
of expenditures to be appropriated out of
the general Treasury to supply the def
cheney in postal revenue, s., S25 $50. Total
appropriations the present year, $40 ,040 400,
or 81, 05S, 100 less than the amount estimated
necessary the next fiscal year. The princi-
pal items of increase are: Compensation
to postmasters, S2,0O0,0O0; pay of clerks
in post offices, 100000; free delivery sys-
tenn, $535, 600; railroad transportation, 81
sr4 900, which includes compensation to
Pacific Railroads, which heretofore has
been certified to the Secretary of the
Treasury and pay of railway postal clerks,
S3SS, 300. The financial officers of the de-
partment say certain items included in the
estimate the present fiscal year (such as
compensation to postmasters and railroad
transportation, the amount of which is
arbitrarily fixed by law, were reduced by
Congress in the Post-office Appropriation
bill to the extent of several million dollars,
thus making the apparent difference be-
tween the appropriations for the present
year and estimates for next year consider
ably larger than it would be under normal
circumstances.
A FEW dozen working days will see the
Washington Monument completed, and
February % next will witness its public
dedication. Standing five hundred and
twenty feet and ten inches above its base,
it now ranks as the highest structure in the
world, its nearest rival being the lofty
spire of the Cologne Cathedral.
CHEF SALMON, of the Bureau of Animal
Industry, lately submitted voIuminous
report on the subject of contagious dis
cases among animals to DR.. Loring, Com
missioner of Agriculture. The recent cut
break among Kansas herds was attributed
TO ergotism, due to eating fungus known as
ergot. The course of treatment which DR..
Salmon laid down for cattle afflicted with
the disease will be consulted with interest
by stock raisers everywhere.
WHILE the Democrats of Washington, d.
C., were recently celebrating over election
shot man in the mouth.
e SEcRETARY McCULLocH of the Treasury
received an urgent petition against tn. i'm
portation of foreign rags few DAYS ago,
signed by many prominent citizens. 1t
was so urgent and so universally signed that
he responded with promise of immediate
consideration. The following is the petition:
We, the undersigned, recognizing the fact
that there is great danger of the introduc-
ton of Asiatic cholera into the United
States through the medium of old rags, in,-
ported into the country and coming from
European ports, do hereby respectfully
suggest and urge upon you the neces-
sity for immediate and decisive action in
reference thereto. We are prompted thus
to appeal to you because of the recent
removal of restrictions on the importation
of old rags, and it is our firm belief that
this threatened danger car, be averted only
by the most thorough and systematic dis
injecting of old rags coming from any and
all European ports. Trusting your honor
able department will see the urgent neces-
sity for speedy and definite action, we beg
to subscribe ourselves, very respectfully.
Here followed many distinguished names.
THE EAST.
The Rev. John Anderson Nelson. pastor
of the First United Presbyterian Church,