The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-10-01
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A Statement OF the Public Lands Dis
posed of During the Last Fiscal Year.

Colonel G. S. Stewar'. OF the corps OF en-
gneerS, h1S been placed upOl the retired
list ut his own request
Edward c. Buskirk, OF Indiana, and Dan
lei Q. Geulchet of Ono, have been appoint
ed principal examiners In the Pension
Office.
The American consul at Trieste reports
that Russian petroleum Is crowding out the
pennsylvania product Oh account or the
lower prices
Consul Dupars writes from Havre that
the French government will take no steps
toward the repeal OF the decree against
American pork.
A special agent of the treasury depart
ment who recently returned from Alaska
says the master of tho seized British vessel
Onward admitted having killed his catch
OF seal along the shores of the islands.
The treasury department has issued
another call for Sl5, OO0, 900 3 per cent bonds;
What is known as the voluntary bond
CALL" the time of which expired Wcdnes-
day, has been so modified as to offer to re-
deem until further notice" all 3 per cent
bonds presented at the treasury ut par and
with accrued interest up to the date Of re-
demptOn.
IN, The Evening Star says that secretary,
Manning will go to. Austria as United
States minister instead of returning to the
treasury department. 1t says a mint to
that effect has been received with great
favor in Austria. Gov. Porter, first assist
ant secretary of state, says, however, that
he has never heard OF such an appointment
being contemplated.
Indian Commissioner Atkins in his forth
coming report will estimate the cost of In
dian agencies for the coming fiscal year at
SIS, 554, 1888, which is less by 81, 763, SIG than
the estimates submitted 70 Congress two
years ago, and yet in the estimate is an in
crease of $4,000 for Indian schools.
These figures Indicate, it is argued, that
the Indians are rapidly dying out and will
in the course of q few years cease to be q
burden upon the public treasury.
The consular report just issued by tho
State Department contains much valuable
information respecting wages and the con-
American states. The average wages paid
laborers is only % cents day, and in some
cases 1t Is as low as So a month, the hours
of work being from early morning until
daylight disappears. SO cheap is manual
labor That improved machinery Is dis
couraged from being brought into that part
of the world.
Some manufacturers of oleOmargarine
are protesting against the revenue bureaus
construction OF the second section of the
oleomar9arine act by which the same tax
other articles of like nature" as upon oleO-
margarine itself They claim that by this
construction they are forced to pay
double taX-first on the ngredients-and
then OH the finished article. Such con-
structlOn will also subject firms who make
''oleo OiP' to be used solely us u lubricant
for machinery to the tax imposed on cleo
margarine.
The secretary of the navy has settled all
the pending claims between the assignees
of John Roach and the government by
paying them S45, C00-S25, 600 for the care OF
the monitor Puritan and $40, 000 as final
payment for the dispatch boat Dolphin.
Congress authorized Secretary Whitney to
pay ROacis aSSigneeS $50, 00O for the care
of the monitor Puritan, but the secretary
offered to compromise for So, 000 and the
assignees accepted the offer with view, it
Is believed, OF having clean bill of health,
so that they can compete for the new
cruisers advertised.
The Montana Improvement Company,
which last winter was the subject of no.
tOriety in connection with treSpaSses upon
Government Understands in the Northwest,
has again engaged the attention OF the
Government officials. The special agents
OF the general land Office report that the
Improvement Company, through the Mill
ers' Lumber Company, has expended $685.
COZ in retainers for legal talent. Acting
Secretary MuldrOw to-day sent the papers
to the Department OF Justice, ordering
suit against two AGENTS of the Miners
Lumber Company for cutting from Gov
ernment land 4.10N,O00 feet OF timber for
shipment. The district attorneys directed
to begin civil and criminal prosecution and
seize the lumber cut and sell it.
MANNING WILL NOT GO.
Secretary Manning's probable appoint
ment and acceptance OF the Austrian mis-
sion has been q topic under discussion
here for the past two or three days. The
statement when first published was gen-
orally looked upon as altogether probable;
but subsequent inquiries Mt the State and
Treasury Departments, of officials who GER
tainly should know something OF tho
Presidents purposes and Secretary Man
nng's plans, weakened belief in the truth
of the report Secretary Bayard says en-
phatically that he has no knowledge of any
to send Secretary Manning to
AUSTRIA acting Secretary Fairchild has so
far obtained all the information OH tho
subject IN his possession from the news
papers, and Treasurer Jordan and other
treasury officials laugh at or ridicule the
notion of increasing Secretary MannIng's
usefulness In solving the troublesome in
ternational silver problem by taking from
him the portfolio OF the Secretary of the
United States Treasury and sending him to
fill second class mission In Austria
CHINESE WOMEN AS sMUGeLERs.
The secretary of state some time ago
transmitted to the treasu ry department
complaint made by the Chinese minister
that certain Chinese women who arrived
ut San francisco OF the steamer San Pablo
were on their landing searched all over
their persons by male customs officers at
the wharf IN the presence of many specta--
tors, and that some OF them had TO take OIL
their outer dress reluctantly by compulsory
orders. After an examination OF tho facts