Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-06
WASHINGTON TOPICS,

At the sale Of Government property at
Harper's Ferry. the Potomac water power
sold for S35 100, and the Shenandoah water
power for $50.
In relation to the dispatch from London
that Secretary Frelinghuy sen had declared
his inability to understand the reluctance
OF France 10 an smicabie settlement OF the
difficulties with China. Mr.. Frefnghuysen
says he has never expressed an opinlob on
the subject.
The Surgeon General Of The Marine Hos
pital reports that yellow fever has again
broken ont on the west coast Of Mexico, in
the most malignant form. The City Of CO.
lima 4 $50 feet above the sea level, has not
escaped. The fever also RACES at Mangs-
vile.
Rev. DR.. Chapel, pastor Of st. Matthew
Catholic church OF Washington, and Prof.
Fullerton, called at the White House and
invited the President 10 attend the opening
exercises of the Plenaly Council, to be held
in Baltimore NOV. g. The President prom
ised to be present ii not prevented by pub
lie duties.
The Secretary of the Treasury has receiv.
ed the report of the special committee ap.
pointed to consider the general question OF
classification of wool under the new tariff
The question arose whether East India
cashmere" should come into class two,
combines woods, or into class three. carpet
wool, and the committee voted seven totwO
to place it in class three, IS carpet stock.
In his annual report the Governor ofIda-
ho says the funded debt Of the Territory
has been practically wiped out. The popu.
lation Is stated to be $1,000, which should
$hn mr. N
opinion, to be admitted into the Union as a
Slate. The value Of assessed property in
the Territory has increased 80 per cent.
over thstof last year, and is now placid at
$a3S,C00. The export OF minerals for
the last fiscal year amounts to about 500, :
600.
The Postmaster General has referred one
of the Star & oute controversies to the Court
Of Claims tor settlement. w. W. Griffith,
a large mail contractor Of Arkansas, de-
mands pay for two quarters amounting to
$4,000. The department, however, con.
tends that the contractor has already been
ovcrpaid for fraudulent expedition upwards
of $50, 900. The issues are much the same
IS those involved in the Star Route cases
and the whole matter will now be passed
on by the Court Of Claims under the pro-
visions of the revised statutes.
Superintendent Crawford of the Foreign
Mail Bureau, has made strong denial OF
the charges made recently before the South
American Commission, by Loring Blodgett,
of Philadelphia, 20 the effect that the Amer
lean mails addressed to South America
have been frequently thrown into the sea
from English mail steamers. Crawford
says very small part of the South Amer
lean mail is sentiro ID this country via Eng.
land, and that the English Government is
bound to and does carry our mails carefully
as their own.
Judge Lawrence, First Comptroller Of the
Treasury, said to reporter, concerning the
charges Of fraud recently made against bis
office by ex-CIerk Barker: This is the
first complaint ever heard that / had al.
lowed an illegal claim. The protests have
always been that disallowed legal claims.
I am in no way disturbed by these charges.
Barker cites number Of instances OF al
legged illegal claims which were passed by
me. l can't remember the particulars OF
is looked up carefully, as it will be, there
will not be found q single case that had an
atom of fraud connected with it that vas
allowed"
In his annual report Gen. HaEsn boldly
returns to the subject Of the Darlington ex
pediticn for Greely's relief, year ago, and
again acQuits himself, though the entire
subject was investigated by the Benet COM
mission, last Winter, and the blame laid on
Gen. Hazen himself. Considering the po-
sition that has been taken by the Secretary
of War. this falls little short of defiance
Of Mr.. Lincoln. There is little doubt that
there will be court of inquiry, if not q
investigation, a3d perhaps
both, this Winter, to settle all the disputed
points in Greely's management, with Ha-
z.n's and Garlingtons.
Paymaster General Rochester. II his an.
nual report. says that the total amount
available for the fiscal year was SIS 1S0. 16l;
total amount disbursed, Sl3, $50, $50; balance,
81 ,92e, All. He commends the per cent. eys.
tenn of depositors for public funds. He re.
srets the discoutinuation of repositories at
Sante Fe and San Antonio, and recon-.
nends their re-establishmeut- He also re-
,ommends that an appropriation of SITS,
100 he made for the mileage Of officers for
he fiscal yesr 1886, and ssys there will I'm. !
1oubtediy be deficiency in the appropria- |
joins for the present f seal year, unless great !
restrictions are imposed in issuing orders !
hat contemplate the payment of mileage. |
[r is again recommended that the law for |
bidding the payment of mileage to army |
officers over land grant roads should be re- |
,ealed. 1t is urged that that paragraph OF
lrmy regulations forbidding officers from |
ssuing, hypothecatingor transferring their
not nctually dno at the tina |