The Ottawa free trader., 1884-05-03
GIVEN FAT OFFICES.
TWO IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS.
Postal elegraph-Operations of the Press
ent Tarln Law - Town>hend's TariI
Biil-The Debt - Work In
Congress.
APPOINTMENTS.

Treasury. Connolly is at present attorney
for the Southern District of Illinois.
TIE HOUSE COMMITTEES TELEGRAPH
BILL
The House Committee OH Post-offices has
agreed upon a Telegraph bill based on the
Senate measure. The provisions creating q
fourth Assistant PoStmaster-General and
authorizing the construction of Govern
ment posta-telegraph system In case no
contract is made with the telegraph COM
pany is stricken out The section relative
to rates provides that kilograms shall be
prepaid by telegram stamps, and that the
maximum rate for twenty words or less I'M
der fifteen hundred miles shall be twenty
five cents, and between cities situated close
together fifteen cents day or night
EFFECT OF THE PRESENT TARIFF.
WASHINGTON, April 80 - Mr. MIN
mo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics,
on Saturday handed to the Secretary
of the Treasury his report in regard TO
the operations of the Tariff act of March 3,
1883. 1t appears that that act caused a re-
duction of about six per cent in the average
ad valorem rate of duty on the imports. In
detail the changes were as follows: Sugar
and mOasSes, a reduction of 9.32 per cent.
llOl uliN NtONl anu tlltiCOi, IL
reduction of 6.l5 per cent; clothing wool,
reduction of 9.SS per cent; comb
ing wool, a reduction of ll.27 per cent; car
pet wool. reduction of 6.0l per cent; man
ufactures of wool, a reduction of 4. SO per
cent; manufactures of cotton, an increase
of 1.92 per cent; manufactures of silk, a
reduction Of s. 81 per cent; earthen and china
ware, an Increase of l3. IL per cent; glass
and glassware, an Increase OF LOG per cent;
spirits and wines, an increase of 1920 per
cent, and malt Liquors, reduction OF 59.6l
per cent The report, which is document
of seventy-two pages embraces somewhat
elaborate statement in regard to the changes
in al valorem rates caused by the ta-
riff act of March 3, 1888, and by
The fall in the import prices of commodi
ties. 1t contains also considerable
amount of statistics, and Other information
in regard to the production of sugar, iron,
wool, manufacture of silk, and of spirits
and wines in the United States. The re-
port treats with some particularly of pro-
duction in the United States OF three great
classes of wool known to our tariff laws
namely, clothing wool, combing wool and
carpet wool, and the extent to which these
kinds of wool are used in the manufacture
of wOrsted and woolen goods, hats, carpets
anu oliltl llCicS.
THE C1vIL-sERVICE COMMISSION.
DR.. Gregory, of the Civil-Service Commits
sion, will, in few days. leave for the West
to hold examinations for the general de-
partmental service in various cities The
dates of examinations are arranged as fol-
lows: May 10, Des Moines;
Is, Omaha; II, Lincoln; 30 Denver;
"a, Topeka; 26, Kansas City; 2S, st.
Louis; 30, Milwaukee; 81, Chicago; June
5, Dubuque; 10, Minneapolis; and II, St.
Paul. Minneapolis and st. Paul have been
added to the list of post offices coming un-
der the Civil-Service rules, as over fifty
clerks are now employed in each Of these
offices.
TowNsHEND'S PENSION BILL.
A subcommittee of the House Commit
tee on Public Lands has decided to favor
ably report to the full committee Represen-
tative Townshend's bill granting bounty
lands to soldiers of the late war. The bill
provides that every person who served
in the late war not less than four
teen days, and honorably discharged,
shall be entitled to eighty acres
of public land; those who served
not less than one year to one hundred and
twenty acres; and those who served not less
tudU LWO years, OUc anu SlAIy
acres of land. In the event of the death of
such person during service, or after honor
able discharge, the patent shall issue to the
surviving wife, child or children, if there
be any, and II none, to tho father, and If no
father to the mother.
OHIO CONTESTED SEAT CASE.
The sub committee in charge of the Wal
lace Mckinley case, from the Eighteenth
Ohio District, has, by a majority vote of
one, voted to sustain McKinley's claim to a
seat. Ii is reported however, that the full
committee will reverse their decision, but
this is not confirmed. The vote OF the sub
committee stood: Turner and Adams Dem
Ocrats) for Wallace, and Robertson Dem
ocrat), Hepburn and Ranney (Republicans)
for Mckinley.
REFORMS SUGGESTED BY THE UTAH COM
MISSION.
The report OF the Utah Commission was
made to the Secretary of the Interior yes
terday. The Commissioners recommend
the passage Of law giving the first, or
legal, wife the right of dover, or some other
equivalent interest in the real estate of her
husband. They also suggest that, as JUS
tices of the Peace in Utah are nearly all
Mormons, it would be wise to confer con
current civil and criminal jurisdiction upon
the United States Commissioners.
THE HENSEPIN CANAL.
The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors has agreed to insert in the River
and HarbOr bill an item of $500, 600 for the
Hennepin Canal
DECREASE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The estimated decrease in the public debt
for April is S5,250,000.
CONGRESSIONAL PRoCEEDINGs
The Senate was not in session on the 26th. |
. In the House the Freeship bill was passed. |
with an amendment providing that any
American citizen may import free Of duty |
iron or steel steamships of not less than four |
thousand tons measurement
In the Senate on the 2sth Mr.. Cuom re-
ported an original bill to establish commits |
sion TO regulate Interstate commerce. The !
Pleuro- Pneumonia bill was further consid- |
cred, but no Definite action was taken In |
the House bills were introduced: BY Mr. Cos |
grove, to authorize the lighting of navigaDle |
rivers by electricity; 10y Mr.. Guenther, to pro |
hilit the importation OF articles falsely bear
ing an American brand A bill was reported |
from the Committee ON Appropriations 10 |
provide Tor tie Worlds Exposition - New /
orleans. A bil WAS also introduced making |
IL unlawful to collect a fare on any convey |