The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-19
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A Government Report Regarding Gold
and Silver Coinage Throughout
the World.

lnenI, Capable OIL UTlng tNeTy tWO iliHuLcS
a dynamite shell weighing two hundred
pounds.
Secretary Lamar has ordered the issue OF
ratiOns to seven hundred Hualpai Indians
on q reservation in northwestern Arizona,
who are reported by General Miles to be In
destitute condition.
President Cleveland is about to appoint
Lieutenant Colonel John Moore surgeon
general of the army, one reason for the
selection being that he failed to ask for the
place. He Is now on duty at San Francisco
rs assistant medical purveyOr.
MAJOR Mackenzie has raised breeze in
the war department by q report that the
high bridge without draw now being
built at Dubuque is OF pattern totally
different from tnat authorized by congress,
and that no plans therefor have been sub
mitted.
The Frenchmen who represented their
country at the unwilling of the Bartholdi
Thursday. nj. de Lesseps made an elo-
quent address, particularly referring to the
examples OF liberty under the law pre-
sented in the United States.
Gideon J. Tucker has written to Presi-
dent Cleveland declining to serve as acom-
missioner to examine and report upon 100
miles of railroad constructed by the Oregon
81 California railroad company in south
western Oregon, because the salary Is hard
ly adequate to the expenses of the trip, and
because, il the hospitality of the road were
accepted, q favorable report would place
HIM under the lmputatiOn OF venallty.
The United States postal authorities
have about abandoned the search for the
registered mail-pouch that was stolen last
summer between New York, Pittsburg,
and Indianapolis. Several clews have been
followed for weeks, but none of them re
or the recovery of the stolen property. All
of the persons who had packages i'm the
pouch have not been heard from vet, but
1t is said that thus far the value OF the
known contents aggregated over 100000.
DIR. George Weary, the botanist of the
agricultural department, who has recently
spent several weeks I'm the ''arid region"
in report to the commissioner of agricul-
ture expresses the belief that large pOr-
ton OF the region so designated may be
made vastly more productive by the culti-
walton of some more prolific species of
and buffalo grasses upon which the cattle
now subsist. 1t is, however, he says, q
matter to be determined by experiment,
and to this end he recommends the utiiZa-
ton OF the Fort Wallacs New Mexico) re-
servation as an experimental station.
1t is stated on authority that the OPINION
given by the Attorney General as to the
umavailability OF called per cents as a
basis of national bank circulation will
make no change In the attitude of the
treasury department, because this opinion
only confirmed the rule heretofore follow
Ell The banks have shown considerable
diligence In acting under this Iule, and Ill
consequence of IL they have withdrawn
from deposit and presented for redemption
nearly $40, ZOO, 900 OF 5 per cent bonds since
the 18th of August, the date OF the first
$lO, OOO, Ok D call. AT the same rate hereafter
1t is expected that Withdrawals will keep
pace very fairly with future calls
OLEOMARGARINE.
The OleOmargarine law has been in Oper-
alton one week. The results thus far are
u surprise to the officials of the govern
ment, and will be disappointment to the
meters of tile bill. The internal revenue
officials are surprised at the large amount
of revenue which the government is likely
to receive from the law. The complete re-
turns will not be received in the ordinary
course Of business for the first month until
early In December, but according to the
receipts, of which the internal revenue
bureau has knowledge, the income to the
government from the tax on oleomargarine
for the full fiscal year will not be less than
81 ,G0J,0J0. and Is more likely to amount to
81 500,U00.
CONSULAR FEES.
Fifth Auditor Elckhotf, in his annual re-
port to the secretary OF the treasury, shows
that during the last fiscal year 10, S35 ac-
counts were settled in his Office involving
SS15, 5SS,21l. In the consular service the
expenditures were S9J0,o05, being $19, 035
in excess of the receipts. The amount of
consular fees collected during the year was
1851. $40, All increase over the previous year
of S90.22i. This increase arises from GER
tificates to invoices, which were issued in
greater number than. ever before. The
auditor says 1t is worthy of comment that
Notwithstanding the very considerable de-
crease in the tariff of fees in 1881 ami the
adjustment Of charges for service to
American vessels in 1884 the fees now re-
ported are greater than for any year before
1881, and fall very little short of the re-
ceipts for any year since.
THE TELEPHONE CASES.
The Supreme Court has advanced what
the Government suit to annul the patent
of the Bell Telephone Company gets far
along in the United States Circuit COurt at
Cincinnati decision is likely to be had OH
the six cases which have been brought up
from lower courts by the rivals of the Bell
monopoly. Arguments are to begin the
latter part OF January next. The records
i'm these cases comprise $1,000 octave pages
of printed matter.
The records in these cases are the most
yOluminOus ever presented to the court.
Copies enough of the record to supply all
the justices in the single case of The Peo-
pies Telephone Company VS.. The Amer-
can Bell Company occupy nearly fifty cubic
feet Of space. The defenses In these six
cases involve all the points set up by the
Government i'm the Pan-Electric suit
against the Bell Company. The defend
ants in the Overland case and Drawbaugl
case are represented In the Supreme Court
by Chicago counsel.
PENSION SwINDLERS.
The announcement in the papers here
that q special agent of the pension Office
named Robertson had been arrested in
Bloomington for frauds on pensioners
proves - have been Inaccurate. Robert
son was arrested by Special Agent Magin-
mis- IL Indianapolis. lie ID not q special
agent nor in any way employed by the
government, but has been fraudulently rep
resenting himself as n special agent of the
pension office, and as Sucn has been col
lecting fees of $40 apiece from pension APP
plicants on the pretense that he would
hasten the settlement of their claims. The
pension bureau has lust received infOrma-
iIon that Special Agent Roome has arrested
George w. Morgan, alias BOggs, in Ken
tuclxv, for pcrsOnating n special examiner
and matchmaking pensioners. Judge Key,
in Chattanooga, has just sent to Albany
penitentiary for year n man named Sur
seen, arrested by Special Examiner Will
liams, who pleaded guilty u q charge OF
making false aflidavits In pension claims.
Applicants for pensions should remember
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