The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-12-03
WASHINGTON NEWS.


| Tor the Austrian mission.
| The postmaster general reports 1904
| pOSt0flices, OF which 2, 2i4 are presidential.
The highest rental paid ~ 800 is in Brook
Ign. There are ISL free-tclivery offices.
Commander Sampson, superintendent Of
the Annapolis Naval Academy, recon-
mends o reduction from six TO four years III
the course of cadets study. He also pro-
poses to abolish the two years course at
sea. H
The annual report of the Quartermaster
General OF the army shows that 10 new
buildings were erected at military posts,
and CSC, $50 persons and 100, l9l tons of
freight transported ut the expense OF the
government.
Mrs. Sarah III. Sampson now receiving q
salary OF 81, 400 rs clerk In the pension
bureau, has received from President Cleye-
land commission as notary public for the
District of Columbia. During the war she
dev0tedly nursed sick and wounded SOL
diers.
The commissioner OF internal revenue
has demanded $4,000 mt once from land
and lumber company in Georgia, which for
the last eight years has kept afioat q large
Sa for scs d ma as orafT Ss s se to Ss
generally received for merchandise In
Glynn county, and even for taxes.
Secretary Whitney, OF the navy depart
ment, has issued an order concentrating in
the bureau OF provisions and clothing OF
the navy the functions OF other bureaus OF
the department so far as they relate to the
purchase of supplies for the navy and their
storage. The action Is regarded rs the
initial movement on the part OF tho sec
rotary toward the accomplishment of his
plan for the reorganization OF the navy de-
partment.
Mr.. Springer has been to the president to
suggest the appointment OF Alfred Oren-
dOrf as governor Of Dakota. Gov. Pierce
Is ready to retire at any time, and anxious
to retire by next spring at the latest. The
president can't spare time enough from his
message to consider the matter seriously
now, but after congress meets, or, at latest,
immediately. after the adjournment in
March, he will apply himself to the selec-
ton OF governor for Dakota, with the
chances in Mr.. Orendorfs favor.
Ward Lamon. the biographer of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and Marshal OF the District
during Lincoln's administration, will re.
ceive q fee OF $3.50, 900 in the case of the
Choctaw Nation against the United States,
which was decided in the United States SUI
preme Court. The amount Of the judgment
rendered in favor Of the Choctaws will az
gregate almost $3,C0),000. Lannon's fee was
upon the contingency of gaining tie suit.
He has devoted number of yeals to the
case.
All the members of the cabinet were
present at the meeting Tuesday except
Secretary Manning. The session was de-
voted entirely to the consideration of the
Presidents message. The document is
nearly finished. The President has re-
ceived all the data necessary for Its CON-
pilatiOn except such as relate to the war
and naval establishments, and these will
be furnished him in q few days. 1t is
understood that the message will be much
shorter than the one submitted to Congress
last year.
Attorney General Garland las received
letter from William A. Stone, of Pittsburg,
who was suspended from his office OF
United States district Attorney tor activity
~ the recent campaign Ill Pennsylvania.
His letter Is modelled after that 0fColonel
Benton, of Missouri, who was suspended
for like action and subsequently relnStated.
The letter explains that Stone spoke only
IN towns convenient to Plttsburg, to which
he could 90 in the evenings, returning the
next morning without loss 10 the public
service. tf{
1t IS given out by persons who claim to
know whereof they speak, that strong
effort will be made by representative labor
men to secure all extra session of the
expiration OF this Congress, on March
next, to consider questions affecting labor.
1t Is understood that petitions are being
circulated among the laboring men of the
country, calling upon the president for an
extra session, and that the labor advocates
session, 1t IS proposed, shall be devoted ex.
clusively to labor questions.
No action has vet been ken in regard
to the pardon Of james ID. i .sh the banker
convict of New York, and the Attorney
General will not even consider the matter
until all the papers bearing on the case
have been received from the District At
torneyo of New York. 1t Is thought likely
that an order will be sent from here to the
superintendent OF the Auburn penitentiary
directing him to make an examination OF
Fish and forward it to the department here.
If Mr.. Fish is to be liberated Oh the ground
of ill-health, The pardon will be based upon
the prison surgeons report, and not upon
that made by Fisl's family physician.
The President is experiencing some difi-
Guilty In filling tile Office OF United States
District Attorney for the Eastern District
of Wisconsin. A. X. Dcarey, the former
incumbent, resigned tn, Ollie, at the 3ug'
gestion of the President, in order to accept
the democratic nomination to congress from
the Second District of Wisconsin, now rep
resented by General Bragg. The election
resulted In his defeat, and he has since made
formal application TO Attorney Garland for
reapp0intment as United States District
Attorney. Some time ago the President
am% tue 70 Dras
from him saying that It would be impossi-
BILE for him 10 accept. The Office was then
rendered to another prominent lawyer OF
Wisconsin, and he, COO, declined with
thanks.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Gen. j. ID. Z. Atkins, commissioner OF
Indian affairs, has returned 10 The city, aft
er n month spent In inspecting the Indian
agencies In the southwest. He reports that
affairs ut the several agencies are In q salts
factory condition, and that the policy of
the Indian office-that the Indians should
abandon their tribal relations and accept
their lands in severalty-is daily growing
In favor among the tribes in that section,
especially so where the pcrnicOlls influence
OF designing whites Is least felt Bishop
Henry Il. Whlpple. of Minnesota, inenl-
Der of the committee to negotiate with GER
tain Indian tribes In the northwest for the
sale to The government OF portions OF their
reservations, has resigned, aud Jared w.
Daniels, OF Minnesota, has been appointed
TO the vacancy.
A CORPORATIONS CONSPIRACY.
In a matter of ISL entries made In Hum
boldt county, California. under the timber
land act. OIL which Dateuty have been