Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-19
From Washington.

"Show the colonel in, ;" said the secretary.
From Washington.
Four important offices have been aban-
doned in the new Orleans custom house.
The British minister atWashington plays
lawn tennis in a pea jacket and green spec
tacles.
George Wilson Of Peoria is appointed col
lector Of internal revenue for the Fifth dis
tcict Of Illinois.
The president appointed George Wilson OF
Peoria, ILL.,, to be collector OF internal rev.
enue for the Fifth district Of Illinois, vice
Howard Knowles, suspended. Wilson is
about forty years OF age, and lawyer by
profession.
Land Commissioners Sparks has addressed
arecommendat ton to Secretary Lamar that
the indemnity limits along railroad grants
be cancelled. The aim is to prevent 80
many millions OF acres being locked up from
settlement.
President Cleveland has appointed Mr..
Thomas Curtin chief OF the secret service in
place OF COL Brooks. Mr. Curtin was chief
mayor, and is the second Buffalo appoint
ment OF the president.
The lightning which shivered the capstone
OF the Washington monument recently, has
given deal Of trouble to the government,
for it will be q very perilous and difficult
operation to repair the damage. Scaffold-
ing will have to be erected over five hundred
feet high.
1t is expected that Secretary Whitney
will very soon issue an order for the court
martial OF Paymaster General Smith, whose
Office was recently investigated by a court
OF inquiry with regard to alleged irregular
practices in the matter Of contracts for
naval supplies.
The fund for the payment OF the United
States marshals is very low, and will SO re-
main until July /, when the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial bill becomes operative.
Therefore the mars}als who have been re-
Gently appointed have shown no eager de-
sire TO assume office.
Senator Conger OF Michigan and Mrs. Con-
ger and Mrs. Conger's mother called on
the president, to pay their respects. Mrs.
Conger told the president that her mother
was a Democrat, and she came all the way
| from Ohio to pay her respects to the first
Democratic president she had ever seen.
Daniel Corrigan, ex-chief clerk OF the br1-
reau OF medicine and surgery OF the navy
department, who had pleaded guilty on four
indictments OF theforty for presenting false
vouchers on the bureau ofmedicine and sur
gerry, was sentenced to six years i'll the AL
bany penitentiary.
Gen. Rosecrans has happened upon for
tunate days for himself. just us he receiv-
ed the appointment OF register OF hetreas
cision OF the federal supreme court, touch
ing certain land surveys in California, has
brought him abundant wealth.
The treasury department is informed Of
the arrest in New York, of Ed Hall, on a
charge OF counterfeitine 500 Gautemalan
notes. This is the first arrest under the act
to prevent and punish the counterfeiting
within The United States Of securities offor-
eign governments. Hall was committed in
default OF IS, 900 bail.
| President Cleveland refuses to appoint
James Ryan postmaster at Appleton be-
| cause he is the publisher OF a. partisan
DelilOGfittlC HeWSptEeI-CHt CIle AulN1HiS-
tration is daily removing Republicans be-
cause OF their connection with partisan Re-
publican sheets, and the postmaster gener-
al and the president will not knowingly APP
! point man to q postottlce who is connect
| ed with a partisan newspaper.
Mr.. Sparks discharged one of the special
agents of the land department. who recently
returned to Washington under an assumed
name without proper authority, and held
| a converse ton with one OF the chiefs OF di-
! vision in regard to land entries which are
suspected OF being fraudulent. The agent
did not call upon Gen. Sparks, and kept out
OF sight as much as possible, and when dis
covered had no satisfactory explanation to
offer.
| The rumor is audible in the corridors OF
the interior department that the firm OF
Britton & Gray, the great land lawyers,
would be disbarred from practice before the
interior department, as penalty for mali
cious statements recently made by private
! circulars, and by g. newspaper interview in
regard to the motive which led Land Com.
missioners Sparks to issue his order OF
! April 3. suspending further action upon
| land entries in certain dist riots Of the West.
This firm has been one of the most SUCCESS
full in Washington, and boasts ola business
amounting to between $4,000 and $780,
| 900 year.