Little Falls transcript., 1886-01-15
Washington Gossip.

1ne UVan OH was passed by the senate
by vote of,3S to 7, Senator Hoar voting
[ chising women. "@" '''''' ~'''ff ' ~. -
favor the introduction OF civil service reg
u)ations into. his department by establish
ing a standard OF proficiency for compost
tors, bookbinders, pressmen, etc.
Mr.. Fairchild, and acting secretary oi
the treasury. has appointed Special Agents
Montgomery and Tingle 3 committee to
act in conjunction with Deputy Collector
Berry In making Q Thorough examina ton
OF the customs service at New York city.
Representatives. OF the Commercial
Travellers associa tion are to appear before
the senate committees on commerce this
week, to enieavor to secure action BY
congress prohibiting tho imposition OF a
license tax upon commercial travellers in
any OF the states or territories. - '''
~ Ex-Minister Lowell is expected to soon
appear before the patient committee Of the
two houses, with other gentlemen who are
Interested in the movement OF the estab-
lishment of an international i copyright
system, TO discuss the measures pending
before the committees upon this subject
Gen. John P. Hatch, colonel Second cav
airy has arrived at the Ebbitt from New
York. His retirement, which takes place
on his sixty-fourth. birthday, promotes
Lieut.. Col. Sweitzer, Eight cavalry, to col
onel of the Second; Mai. Lewis Merrill,
Seventh, to lieutenant colonel OF the Eight,
and Capt. Edward j. Spaulding, Second, to
maior9o of the Seventh. d II, .fstfsYs Sf
The; aggregate congressional service by
mem bers of The present senate is 643 years,
or an average OF nearly nine years apiece.
The aggregate service OF members of the
house sis 92O years, an average or ia little
less than three years apiece. The average
senate is about four years each. Their
total terms OF service foot up 1885 years.
NJ The following named persons were APP
pointed and sworn in ~ committee clerks:
J John Wester, Indiana. invalid PENSIONS;
John F. Elliot, Texas, Indian affairs; w.
2. Rix, Wisconsin, military affairs Abram
q. Weaver, Iowa, expenditures in the de-
partment Of Tho interior; Alexander J.
Bures, Illinois, claims; Clifford Sanders,
Missouri, labor; Charles Gordon, Ohio, ter.
ritories; Lewis Choble, Texas, commerce.
There have bean number rof application
received recently at the war department
from widows OF soldiers in tho late war for
the hall pay which was granted by section
l65 OF the revised statutes, but which has
been superseded BY the pension act grant
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these npplicntions5 5are made Rt the sugges-
l*tion 81 nttorney6 Who supply tho necessary
iblanks aceonlp auied by the 90 tatenent that
such NitlON1 ~ entitlai to hnIf pay, inad.
tdition TO their pensions. This ii not the
case, and an effort will be made to check
such practices. $S I 55.5S5 =s
The.sscond ler Of tho treasury haa
decided TINT Oliver Hay ara, late sergeant
lin Second United Sta tes artillery, is enti.
+ tied to the three inofth'B extra pay allow.
led the soldiers who served in the Mexican
war. The controller holds that the III q,
with Mexico ended May, so, 184S, when
| Hidnlgo were excl anged, and not. as here
tofore held |, on July 6. lS4s. the date on
| which the WARD department. made official An.
nouncement oi the sanne. Untl ler this rulinf
all soldiers who served in that war and
were not discharged until alter May so an
i2entitied to the benefits III the aets 81 july
/ | To, 1348, and Feb. 10. a 1879.
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