The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-10
CAPITAL BRIEFS.

Assistant Secretary of the Interior Mul
drow, COMMISSIONS OF Indian Affairs Atkins
and Commissioner of Land Office Sparks,
qualified and entered on the discharge of Off
cial duties.
The commissioner of internal revenue has
recommended changes in several collection
districts, and 1t is expected the president will
soon nominate a number of collectors of in
ternal revenue.
Commissioner Mcfarland, of the general
land office, and Commissioner Price, of the
Indian office, interior department, took leave
of the clerks in their respective offices on the
9th. Their successors, Messrs. Sparks and
Atkins, assumed caarge the next day.
The secretary of the treasury has prepared
a circular letter to collectors OF customs, re-
q~uesting as TO the practicability
of reducing the expenses of collecting the
revenue from customs by curtailing the pres
ent force of clerks and other employees.
Rev. Drs. Fl. r. Taylor, Methodist, w. A.
Bartlett, Presbyterian, and w. H. Leonard,
Episcopal, all ministers of Washington. called
upon President Cleveland to-day and pre-
scented a memorial earnestly urging him to
enforce the Edmund anti-polygamy act.
The president has accepted the invitation
of the veterans of the First and other corps
to visit the battlefield of Gettysburg when
they make their historical visit there on the
ith and 9th of May, unless prevented by some
urgent necessity of the public service. The
president is anxious TO be on the field when
the leading generals of both armies are there
to explain their movements.
The secretary of the treasury has addressed
letters to the governors Of the states of Ken
lucky, West Virginia, Minnesota and Ne
braska, requesting III ir cooperation in the
effort which the federal government is max
ing to have legislatures of states cede to the
United States the jurisdiction of lands select
ed as sites for public buildings TO be erected
at Lexington, Clarksburg, Winona and Ne
braska City.
The Critic says Secretary Endicott states no
orders have yet been issued to General Hatch
TO clean out Oklahoma. The presidents pro-
clamation ordered that all occupants of Okla
homa, whether settlers or cattlemen, should
vacate and a reasonable time will be allowed
them to comply. In the event of their failure
to remove, the interior department will take
steps to free tho territory of all intruders and
If the assistance of the army is required it
will be given.
Attorney General Garland has furnished an
opinion to the secretary of the treasury, in
which he holds that sailed meats which are
exported with the henedt of a drawback of
tho duties on foreign salt used in curing
meats are entitled to be reimported duty free
refunding the drawback. This opinion
particularly to the case of the Anglo
pork packing company, Chicago,
which recently exported a large quantity of
pork cured with foreign salt, upon which
hey received a drawback.
Commit sion Black has issued the following
circular: ITO advance any one pension claim
,ut of its order is to retard by so much the
adjustment of thousands of others which pre-
EIDE it in the order of filing To prevent the
of fraudulent impositions upon the
Office it is announced no claims will
70 made special that is taken out of their
rider for expedition unless such rea ons are
hown in writing as will. in the Judgment of
he commissioner, warrant such action. Tho
nere statements of claimants the mselves un
orroborated by tho.e OF disinterested per
ons Will not be deemed sufficient to warrant
UGH special action"