Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

Inc Ueutu Ot Jusllce waite tuS
pending nomination OF his successor. Mr..
Fuller. revives interest in the supreme
court Of the United States sufficiently to
warrant the reading Of the report which the
secretary of the treasury sent TO the senate
recently giving list of the judges OF this
and other United States courts who have
been retired upon full paw. This list shows
that there have been three Justices OF the
supreme court retired who have drawn as
the aggregate Of retired pay as follows:
William Strong. ST., 500; N. H. Swayne. $685.
728: Ward Hunt. s3s,97O. OF these Swayne
and Hunt are dead. The only other judges
who have been retired are Thomas Drum
mond, seventh circuit; Eben Peck, court of
claims; Z. G. Loring. court OF claims: c. d.
Drake court OF claims: Ross Wilkins. east
ern district of Michigan; J. c. Watrous.
eastern district of Texas: H. Leavitt,
southern district of Ohio; Willard Hunt,
district of Delaware; Andrew G. Miller.
eastern district of Wisconsin,; Wilson Nc
Candless. western district of PENNSYLVANIA:
j. II. Knowles. Judge of Rhode Island;
Alex Rives. judge Of district of West Vir-
ginia; John Z. Erskine northern district Of
Georgia; G. S. Bryan. district of South
Caroli"a; S. Treat. eastern district of Mis-
souri,: A. Wylie. associate justice supreme
court District of Columbia; A. Macarthur.
associate justice supreme court district Of
Columbia. Ofthesc Judges Peck, wilkins.
Watrous. Lcavitt, Willard Hunt Miller,
McCandless, Knowles and Rives are dead.
The aggregate money which has been
paid to retired judges of the United S ates
courts up to March 80 is $3.50 96469.
Col. D. A, Grosvenor, member of the
employment committee Of the G. A. r..
testified before the house committee on
printing regarding the employment of SOL
diers, sailors and orphans of soliiers or
sailors by the government printing office.
Col. GrosVenor was asked if the assurances
made by Benedict to representatives of tho
G. A. r. that the law cxempting this class
Of employees from discharge had been kept.
He said it had not been kept, but that the
reverse of this was the case. Col Gros-
venor further said that he had visited the
government printing office frequently of
late in the interest of comrades OF the G. A.
r., and that it had always seemed to him la
be the most difficult bureau of the govern
ment the G. A. r. had TO deal with and
where they could expect tho least help.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Me-
Comas, of Maryland. to the legislative. ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill was
adopted by a vote of 81 to IL. The amend.
mint provides for one additional clerk o.
class 3, one of class 2. and Que at 81 900, arG
an increase in the appropriation for neccs-
sary travelling expenses from "a 600 to So
$50. Mr.. Grain, Of Texas, raised /; point O.
order against the appropriation of S3,C0t
for the salary of the first auditor of Tho
treasury. He quoted from the statute Law
fixing the salary Of this office at $4,000. an,
denounced the practice of cutting dowl
salaries on appropriation bills. The poin
of order was sustained and the appropriu
ton ruled out.
THE president has approved the act au.
thorizing the president TO arrange Il con
ference between the United States o
America and the republics OF Mexico. Cen.
trail and South America. Hayti. San DOMINIC
and the empire of Brazil: the &C. TO restore
part Of the Unitah Valley Indian rescrva.
ton t" the public domain: he act TO lim
the hours that letter carriers in cities sIul
| be allowed per day, and the act for the re
| lief OF the First National bunk of Marion
Iowa