The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-07-16
Washington News.

John c. Wise is appointed postmaster at
Mankato, Mimi.
Col. John Gibbon will be made Il brigadier
general when Ausur retires.
The prcs,den. joined in the singing OF
"America" at DR.. sIn.ierland's church III
Washington.
The rumor that Miles viii succeed Ausur
in command OF the departm eat of the Mis-
souri, is not credited.
.fhe ss,- eminent statisticians have been
counting the .iiads trees in Washington.
They number GA 81.
The president has accepted the resigna-
ton .; p B. 5. Pinchback as surveyor OF
customs at rev Orleans.
Yhe postma 5ter gene4al viii terminate
leases Of buildings for posAoiiices where the
rates seem to him exorbitant.
The commissioner OF agriculture has APP
pointed Tom King OF Ohio ehiet OF the seed
division OF the agricultural department
1t will &C st Lieut.. Schultz year OF hard
travelling to deliver to the Lena Delta peo-
pie the presents voted them by congress.
Hugh Haroldson OF Georgia has been APP
point,.d chief of division in the seventh
auditors o,,,es Gf the treasury department.
T. c. Nash, the postmaass+ generals new
chief clerk has for some time i.eei. ~ edl-
T. i expected that Judge Alexander, the
only Ye1.ssining auditor OF the i've appoint
ed under Republican, rule, will be relieved and
succeeded.
The following postmasters were commits
sie4e.,: J. NJ. Long, Primhar, Iowa. II.
Sinter, Ada, WIS. J. J. Conrad, Pine Bluff,
Wis. Fannie Neissenberg, Stephensville,
Wis.
]. D. Killer OF Albany, II. Y, ta- teen9
appointed disbursing clerk OF the treasury
ior the sixth auditors Office. Mr.. Killer
was nj oEe time private secretary OF Sena-
tor Fair.
Postmasters commissia..s .t:-J. c. Cum
ningham Bradford. Idaho; j. ". Burton;
Custer, Idaho; Julia Bridges, Paris, Idaho;
z, +, Shields, Park Rapids, Mimi; j. Smith.
Arena. Wis; J, j. Kennedy. Highland, Wis;
j. II. Smith, MerriEac, Wis.
The court martial appointed to try
Paymaster General Smith, OF the navy, con-
ysned recently. The charges on which the
paymastet general is to be tried are ''scan-
| dalous conduct. tending to the destruction
of good morals, and cuipni,le deficiency in
+ the performance OF duty.
! s. orders received from the secretary Of
the treasus., the office of deputy collector
OF Gust oms, Ee.gner and gauger, and two
coastwise anSpector stitE 1T Providence,
r. l.. were abolished, it is sqPRoscd to re-
] duce the expenses ineonformit. with tie te.
duced appropriation available Tor these
! offices.
The president appointed postmasters in
/ eiglt cities to fill vacancies occurring by the
ex iratioa .i.9mmissions and designations.
Thirty-nine case. ioF REMOVAL were cons1d-
| cred. Among these twenty suspen-
sions were made, and in seventeen eilsea
! the alleged cause was not deemed sufficient.
/ The suspension at st. Paul, Neb., was made
. bee ause the postmaster was found to have
used over $500 Of the public money i'll his
privat tie business. The suspensionsin one or
| two cases were for personal unfit conduct,
and the Others for craftsmanship.
JThe president appointed the following
presidential postmasters: Robert w. Speer,
| pended: Michael Wayap Of Medford, Wis,
vice II. II. Keller suspended; JoLI Hep-
per at Boscobel, Wis, vice William Il. De-
/ lap resigned. The postmaster general has
, curtaled the mail service upon the star
route from kelton, Utah, to Weimer, Ida
| no. thus effecting an annual saving OF S19,-
300. R:ds were recently opened for the
stone work oa ti.G postoffice in Peoria, Ill.
Brainard & Co., OF Joliet, ILL.,, Elre the low
/ est bidders. protest against their being
! awarded the contract was, however filed
! nv Messrs Straub & Co. OF Buffa-
Ia, the next lowest bidders, on
, Tie gfontd that Brainard & Co. are con-
tractors Of lhs labor OF the Illinois state
prison and would employ kqnvict labor on
/ the postoffiGe. The matter was refelted 20
Solicitor McCue, who gave an opinion Tint
| the department should not be expected to
! dictate the means by which contractors
siaauH perform their work and that he did
not beteys tits protest valid one. Secre-
tary Manning has sustained the solicitor,
and the contract VIII be apaaftdl'edI to Brain.
ard & Co.