The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24
WASHINGTON WAITS.
Military AppropriatiOns-The OleOmarGar
Inc Tax NOmiuat iOns-COni1 nations.

Military ApprOpriatiOns-The OleomarGar.
Inc Tax Nomination Combinations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE House
Committee on Military Affairs completed
the Army Appropriation bill, and the
measure will be reported to the House to-
day. 1t makes total appropriation of
s23, 551, 23S. TIE estimates for the service
aggregated S25. 52s, 5S7, and the appropria-
ton tor the current year was S23, 794, COL.
The new legislation included in the bill is
intended to limit mileage to four cents per
mile; to keep the number Of horses for
cavalry and artillery use below the number
Of enlisted men and scouts In the mounted
service; to secure purchases only through
competition and advertisement; to the re-
duction of 5000 of the number of draught
animals in use, and to limit to $500 the ex-
penditures that may be made without the
approval of the Secretary of War upOn any
building or military post. The bill also
provides that not more than Sl,300,O00 of
the total appropriation shall be paid for
The service of civilian employees in tile
Quartermaster' Department, and that no
employee paid from the appropriation, from
supplies, transportation and incidental ex-
pelses, shall receive a salary Of more than
$50 per month. unless specifically fixed by
law. 1t is also provided that of the 81, $780,
600 appropriated for clothing and eQuipage,
there should not be expended ut the Fort
Leavenworth military prison sam in ex-'
cess of S1a5,OOo.
THE OLEOMARGARINE TAX.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-Frank Merry
man and b. j. Kelley, of st. Louis. arrived
from Massachusetts to-day. Mr.. Merryman
was here in connection with the Oleomarga-
rine legislation last session. He says that
there is good deal of talk among tile labor
organizations of New England about the
oleomargarine tax. a petition is be-
well as by the wholesale grOcers
in Boston asking Congress to re-
move the prohibition and the monOpOiStic
feature of the S4S tax for retailers. 1t is
stated by the labor men that Armour 4
Co., have sent out their agents, and by pay.
ing the TAX for the retailers have secured
irOncad contracts from them that they will
buy only from Armour. This is similar
to the system in England, where
great brewers pay the taxes OF
public houses OF condition that they pur-
chase their ale and beer only from those
paying the tax. MIR. Merryman says he AMI
George are going t. take tile matter up fol
he labor organizations.
NOMINATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE President
has sent the following nominations to the
Senate:
j. Marion Brooks. OF California. to be at.
tOrney for the Southern district Of CaliiOr.
mia.
Colonel Orlando b. Wilcox, Twelfth in
fantry, to be Brigadier General; Lieutenant
Colonel John Moore, Assistant Medical
Surveyor. to be Surgeon General, with rank
of Brigadier General; COlOneI Duane, corps
of engineers, to he Chief of Engineers with
tie rank of Brigadier General.
In addition 10 the above list the Presi.
dent sent in the names Of many other army
officers.
COMBINATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The confirma.
lions by the Senate made public yesterday
were as follows: Theodore ID. Wilson. Ol
New York, to be chief of the bureau OF
construction aid repair and chief con-
slructOr Of the navy with the relative rank
of commodore; Pay Director James Fulton,
of Tennessee. to he chief of the bureau OF
provisions and clothing and paymas'er gen
eraI of the Navy Department; Pay In
spcctor Rufus Park. of New York, 10 be
director Of the navy; Paymaster James E.
Toifree to be pay inspector of the navy;
Assistant P.ymaster John COnvin. of Ohio,
to he past assistant paymaster of the navy;
Charles A. Ward, of Michigan, to be COL
lect0r of customs at Huron, Mich; Quincy
A. Brooks, of Oregon. to be collector OF
customs at Puget Sound.
Arthur l. Thomas. Of Pennsylvania, to
be member of the board of registration
and election of Utah.