The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-05
NEWS OF THE NATION.
Business Transacted at the
Capitol Yesterday.
THE CoLERIDGE-ADAMs LIBEL.
Turf TaIk-In Parliament-Lathro
Address to the Michigan Legis-
lature = Other News.
Capital Chips.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-The Depart
ment of State is advised that the gov
eminent of Guatemala is now collecting
an additional 10 per cent. on the ap-
praisements of imported merchandise
and has added 10 per cent. to the con-
tracts made with merchants who loaned
money to the government with the
understanding that they were to have
the privilege of importing goods at
reduced duties. The duties are to be
applied to the liquidation of loans.
Under date of May 18th, the Ameri-
can Secretary of Legation at Berlin in
forms the Department of State that on
that date, Bismarck declared. in the
course of discussion on the tariff bill in
the Reichstag. that an understanding
had been arrived at by Germany and the
Spanish government, pursuant to which
the provisions fixing the duty rate for
Spanish rye of l mark per 100 kllo-
grammes had been eliminated from the
treaty of 1888. The effect Of this agree
ment will be to subject American rye to
the advanced rate of 3 marks per 100
kilogrammes, which will be the uniform
rate for all countries.
The Cabinet meeting was attended by
all the members except the Secretary of
State. who is out of the city. The princi-
pal topic of discussion was the distribu-
ton of the $500 900 appropriated at the
last session of Congress in aid OF Ameri-
can steamships engaged in the foreign
mail service. No conclusion was
reached. 1t was decided that hereafter
the President and members of the
Cabinet receive no visitors on Satur-
days.
Commissioner Sparks, of the Land
Office, has made the following order
1.-THE final action of this office on all
presumption and homestead entries in
the San Francisco and Humboldt,
California, land districts will be sus-
pended until the same have been
examined by special agent" The
effect of this order is simply to suspend
the final issue of patents until the
examination can be made, and not to
prevent the filing of articles at the local
land Offices.
The Treasury inquiry commission has
concluded its Investigation into the in
ternal revenue bureau, and made a re-
port to the Secretary of the Treasury
The commission recommend reductions
in the present force in several divisions,
and suggest changes in the method of
doing business, which they think will
expedite and improve the work of the
bureau. The changes recommended
| involve general reorganization of the
! bureau. The commission will next de-
vote its attention to the Supervising
Architects Office
The Secretary of the Treasury has
1 no llaH tha hnor1 Of st H.
! Worlds Industrial Exposition, at New
Orleans, for an itemized statement of
the premiums awarded to exhibitors.
The resignation of A. g. Thompson,
inspector of public buildings of the
Treasury Department, has been ac-
cepted, to take effect June 18th. He
resigned by request of Secretary Man
ming.
! The Commissioner of Pensions has
stricken off the list of pensions the
names of about 200 residents of the Dis
trict of Colum ia. who were found to be
not entitled to pensions, either because
they had recovered from their disabili-
ties or were not dependent upon the
government. In some cases, the par
ties were dead, and in still more,
widows had married again
Senior Bacerra, the Colombian min
Aster, says that the presence in New
York, of Senior Holguin, Colombian
minister OF finance, is not for the pur.
pose OF ascertaining the sentiment OF
this government concerning the propo-
sition for making Panama a neutral
state. Senior Holguin is on his way to
Europe and has no business whatever
with this government.
By direction of the Secretary of War,
and in accordance with the act of Con-
gress approved July 5, 1884, the detail OF
Captain Cyrus S. Roberts. Seventeenth
Infantry, as acting judge-advocate for
the department. of Arizona, is an
nounced, and he has been ordered to re-
port for duty.
ga number of inquiries have been re-
ceived at the Postoffice Department as
to whether the executive order made by
President Grant in 1878, forbidding
United States officials whose salaries
exceed 81 600 per annum, from holding
State or municipal offices is still in
force. The matter will be laid be-
fore the President for determination