Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-28
WASHINGTON. March u

WAsHINGToS, March u.
Commissioner Black has today issued the
following circular: To advance anv one mem
SION claim out of its order, is TO retard by &C
much adjustment of thousands of others which
precede 1t in the order of filing. To preven,
the practice OF fraudulent lmpositions on the
pension office, it is announced that no claims
will be made special, that is taken out OF
their order for expedition, unless such reas-
ons are shown in writing, as will, in the
Judgment of the committee. warrant such an
action Mere statements Of claimants, them
selves, uncorroborated by those OF disinter.
ested persons, are not to be deemed sufficien,
to warrant such special action
Messrs. Pendleton and McLane, newly ap-
pointed ministers to Germany and France,
were today qualified The date of their de-
parture has not yet been fixed upon.
The horses and carriages belonging to the
interior department, were sold at auction to-
day, and fair prices were obtained The sec
retarys pair OF bays were sold for S3lS, and
the large double carriage at $500.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Null
draw, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Atkins
and Commissioner of Land Office Spark
have been qualified, and entered actively inlu
the discharge of their duties.
The Senate committee on post offices and
post roads, has'today been investigating the
publication at the government printing office,
OF the alleged report of the committee and its
circulation through the channels provided for
public documents. The document which
made first appearance, yesterday, bears the
usual formal Senate heading and is numbered
Report 577, part ). The members of the
committee were at loss to understand how
this document of which none of them had
! ever heard before, could have worked its way
through the secretarys office where alone
1 formal readings are affixed. The clerk, hose
duty it is to record and put heads upon docu-
ments of this character, as they are received
| from the Senate, said the paper had never
passed through his hands. Other clerks,
| through whose hands such documents pass,
| had no knowledge of this one. 1t reached
the government printing office in apparently
] the regular form, however, and was set up
and printed It.was learned that the report
/ emanated from the late clerk of the commit
/ tee on post offices and post roads. The doc
ument is entitled Report on the
postal telegraph. in the Senate
| of the United States" The first five pages
consist OF questions propounded to the pres
| ident OF the Western Union Telegraph CO.,
and the remaining 81 pages are devoted tt
press comments on the action of the asso
( cated press in furnishing reports of the pres
/ idential election 1t is not intimated tina
any of the questions to the president of th'
Western Union were answered, nor does th'
document give any reason for the re-publlca
ton of the attacks upon the associated press
which are in large part from the columns o
papers which have never been able to secure
the facilities of the associated press
The ex clerk of the committee, vino slst
acted as private secretary to its late char
man. Senator Hill of Colorado, was sent to
today bv members of the committee, snC
stated that he had acted in the matter at thu
instance of Mr.. Hill.
A motion will be made in the Senate in be
half of the committee to have this alleged
report suppressed. The members of th'
committee charitably assume that MIR. Hill
was ignorant OF the fact that he had no righ
to make report as from the Senate commit
tee twelve days after he had ceased to be
member of the Senate.