Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-04
WASHINGTON VIKINGS.
A Batch of Presidential Ap-
pointments.
OFFICIAL REPORTS AND OPINIONS
Foreign Built Cars Engaged in
International Traffic Not
Dutiable.

Associated Press DISPATCHES TO tne hEhALD''
WASHINGTON, August 3.-F. Augustus
Harsh, of Oregon, has been appointed
Special Examiner of the Pension Office.
The President has rendered the Col
lectorship of the port Of New Orleans to
Governor Yarmouth.
The President today appointed John
r. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana, Minister to
the Argentine Republic.
NEW PoSTMASTERs.
The following Presidential Postmasters
have been appointed: Henry p. Kraus,
at Reno, Nevada, vice j. @. Hagerman,
removed; Robert Dunn, at North Yakima,
Washington Territory, vice e. W. Carr,
resigned; Thomas B. Warren, at Spokane
Falls, Washington Territory, vice ]. l..
Peele, resigned; Alonzo Bradford, at
Haywards, California, vice Francis N.
Sprague, resigned.
DEATH OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
Commodore w. E. Fitzhugh died in
the hospital of the Naval Home, Phila-
delphia, this morning, aged 55 years.
His death will make the following pro-
motions: Captain Joseph S. Skerrett to
be Commodore +; Commander Henry F.
Picking to be Captain; Lieutenant Com.
mander 7. A. Lyons to be Commander ;
Lieutenant f. G. Pendleton to be
Lieutenant Commander.
MR.. TICHENoR's CONDITION.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor is said to
be more comfortable this morning, al
though still suffering severe sciatic pains.
He will be taken to some health resort
as soon as he can bear removal.
REPORT ON THE YORKTOWN.
Secretary Tracy has received the fol-
lowing report form Commander Chad
wick who accompanied the Yorktown,
under orders from the Navy Department,
at the recent two days trial at sea, in
which he says: "The ship showed her.
a remarkably steady gun platform.
scarcely any water on board. She rolls
easily, the extreme rolls were twenty
degrees to leeward, eighteen degrees to
windward. Her windward rolls were
generally from two to five degrees less
than to leeward.
PENSION CLAIMS MADE SPECIAL.
Commissioner of Pensions Tanner has
made public statement OF the number
of cases made Especial" from the date he
assumed charge of the Pension Office,
March 9th up to July 23rd. 1t shows
that during that period there were made
special 95S claims. Of this number the
commissioner had 952 drawn from the
files and examined to ascertain who were
attorneys in the cases. The results show,
among other things, that there were 1lS
cases in which there was no attorney !;
that George F. Lemon was attorney in
ninety eight cases and William w. Dad
ley in five. The Commissioner then
named eleven other attorneys, who had
cases made special in numbers ranging
from twenty-six to eight, about an aggre-
gate of 1856 cases. The balance Of the
cases, the Commissioner says, were dis
tributed among various other attorneys,
no one of whom is attorney in as many
as eight cases. Three hundred and sew
enteen attorneys are represented alto
gether.
FoREIGN-BUILT CARS.
The Secretary of the Treasury this
afternoon rendered decision on a ques-
tion submitted by the Collector of Gus
toms at Detroit, as to the dutiable or nom
dutiable character of foreign built rail
way cars, coming into the United
States from Canada, laden, or
for the purpose of being laden,
with mails, passengers, etc. The
decision says in part that cars engaged
in such trade never have been regarded
as importations subject to duty, but SIM
ply as vehicles of transportation for con-
Quoting an established and legal
ICED traffic. This principle has
remained in force more than twenty
years, and in view of the long settled
rule and practice upon the subject, the
department does not deem it conformable
to public interest to disturb decision
deliberately reached and repeatedly
affirmed. and must hold that
the question is no longer open
to administrative construction, although
the practice is not to he permitted to de.
generate into license for the free impor-
tation OF foreign built cars into domestic
traffic.
LAND GRABBERs HEADED OFF.
Secretary of the Interior Noble has re-
ceived telegram from Gov. Shoup of
Idaho setting forth the resolutions
passed by the Constitutional Convention,
stating that spectators are following the
United States irrigation surveying par
ties and taking up valuable water rights.
In reply Secretary Noble quotes the pro-
visions of the law providing for
the survey now in progress, which
he thinks covers the ground and
protects all righ's. Among other things
this law provides that all lands which
may hereafter be designated or selected
by such United States surveyors for sites
for reservoirs, bitches or canals for irri-
cation purposes, and all land made sus-
ceptible of irrigation by such reser-
voirs, bitches or canals, are there
after reserved from sale as the
property of the United States,
and shall not be subject to entry, settle
ment or occupation. 1t is further pro-
vided by the law that the President, at
any time, in his discretion, may, by
proclaim .tion, open any portion or all of the
lands reserved by this provision to settle
ment under the homestead laws. The
Secretary points out that it is impossible
for speculators to acquire title to single
acre of land while this law is in force.