The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-29
Capital Chips.

SECRETARY cHulcOtI, PRESIDENT VI LIE
board recently appointed to examine
and report upon defenses end fortifca-
tons OF the United States, has called a
meeting of the board to be held at the
/ War Department on June Sd.
| The President will leave Washington
! for New York tomorrow night. and be
accompanied by Secretaries Whitney
and Endicott and PostmasterGen
| Villas and by Secretary Lamar, in case
his health will permit. The party ex-
pect to return on Sunday.
/ Secretary Lamar is still unable to at
| tend to his duties to-day.
| WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The collections
of internal revenue for the first ten
months of the fiscal year ending June
3Gth, 1885, as compared with the col
! lectiens during the corresponding
period of the fiscal year ending June
! 9th, 1884, were as follows From spirits.
1884, S63, 104, 40; 1885, $56, 126 .345; de-
| crease, $6.978,39). From tobacco. 1884
$2l ,3l9, s99; 1885. $2l. All $50; increase,
| $67 ,637. From fermented liquors 1884,
$14, 227 800; 1885, $14,393,735, increase,
Sl65, 935. From miscellaneous, 1884,
$5l9, 1858 1885, S226, SOP; decrease, $293,
0Sl Aggregate receipts, 1884, sos, 202,-
302; 1885, $92, l64, All; decrease, $T,137,-
! S85. The aggregate receipts for April,
1885. were 81 ,14I .S32 less than during
the same month of 1884.
The attorneys for certain postmasters
have complained to Postmaster-General
Villas that the construction placed by
Postmaster-General Graham upon the
act of March 3, 1888, providing for the
REIMBURSEMENT of salaries of the third
and fourth classes was arbitrary and
extremely unjust to the postmasters, III
whose behalf the act was passed. As
sistant Acknowledgement Bryant. of
the Postoffice Department, has care
fully examined the complicated statutes
bearing upon this subject, and
as result of his report, the
Postmaster-General has decided that.
is not free from doubt, and he is not alb
solutely sure that the construction of
Postmaster-G General Gresham was right
in the premises, yet the rule having
been followed for two years and some
thing over 5000, 900 having been appro-
priated by Congress for the payment OF
salaries on that basis, he does not deem
it proper, on the strength OF his own
1 individual opinion, even if it weredad
verse, to change that ruling. The
remedy of the claimants was through
the courts or by additional congressional
enactment
From correspondence transmitted
( by the War Department to the Indian
Bureau, it appears that the Apache In
/ dian outbreak was, caused by whisky.
/ The Indians manufactured large guam
i titles of "Tiswin" and became intoxi-
Gated. Knowing hatpunishment would
/ follow this infraction of the rules. they
abandoned the reservation and went on
! the war-path.
1 4 There was a full attendance of the
! Cabinet at the meeting to-day, includ-
/ ing Secretary Lamar, who has partially
recovered from his recent attack OF sick
ness. The question of authorizing the
4 continuance of the Words Exposition at
Y New Orleans was again considered. The
result is shown in telegram sent by the
! President to Senator Gibson, later in
! the day. of which the following is a
tcopy: 1.-THE question of reopening the
/ Exposition has been considered by the
! Cabinet and they unanimously OF
the opinion that there is no warrant of
/ law for it, and that it would be mex
( pedient on other grounds"
The Secretary of:the Treasury has is
sued circular to all customs officers,
/ that the appropriation for defraylng the
expenses OF collecting the revenue for
customs will be exhausted by the neces-
sary payments for May. and directs
them that no expenses for June collec-
tons can be made until Congress shall
make an appropriation therefor.
! The Commissioner of Internal Reye-
new is preparing circular prescribing
regulations for the expectation of spirits
to foreign countries by rail. The present
regulations in regard to Inc expectation
of spirits relate only to expectation by
vessels. A brisk trade in this COM
modify here recently sprang up in
Canada and Mexico, and it is found
necessary to amend the regulations ac-
cordingly, The new circular will pro-
vide that all spirits intended for expor-
i tation by rail shall be gagged at the
port of expectation and authorizes the
collector at that port to. cancel the ex
portation bond upon receipt of salts
factory proof that the spirits have
actually been exported.
The Secretary. of the Treasury has
issued circular, directing customs Of
fcers to collect an alien immigrant tax
of 80 cents each from foreigners coming
to this country as tourists or travellers
in transit to other countries, as well as
from those coming to this country to
reside.