The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-18
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL.

A dispute having arisen between Mic
aragua and Costa RIGA in retaliation to
the site of the proposed Nicaraguan
Canal, the American minister to Gusts'
mala, some time ago, was instructed to
use his good Offices to bring about an
understanding between the two govern
ments. The following dispatch was re-
ceived from him at the Department of
State to-day: "a convention between
Nicaragua and Costa RIGA, to arbitrate
the question offecting the Nicaraguan
Canal. was signed for the 10th. The
President of the United States is named
as arbitrator"
THE vICE-PREsIDENT ELECT.
Vice-President elect Morton and wife
arrived in Washington on the limited
express from New York, this afternoon,
and are stopping at the Hotel La
Normandie.
The President returned to the Senate,
without approval, the bill to pay $685.
900 to William D. Wheaton and
Charles II. Chamberlain, for many
of the land Office at San Francisco.
The two officers were required, by an
order issued July 1st, 1877, to turn
thereafter into the Treasury certain
fees they had prior to that time re-
tanned. February Is, 1879, they were
allowed two clerks and the President
says it is proposed upon the theory
that the clerks were employed TO do
the work for which the fees were
formerly allowed, to reimburse the
officers for the amount paid for clerk
hire between the time of their
retention and the fees were stopped
and the time the clsrks were
authorized to be employed, and paid
out of the public treasury. The Pres
ident says the officers had notice that
such employment and payment would
not be approved by government, and it
reads: II am decidedly of the opinion
that the relation of duties and obliga-
tions of subordinates in the public en-
ployment should be clearly defined and
strictly limited. They should not be
permitted to judge of the proprietary
or necessity in mourning expenses on
behalf of government without author
ity, much less in the disregard of or
ders. Yet there are cases where
is paid for the benefit of the
public services by officers, which, al
though not authorized, ought in equity
to be reimbursed. If the present case
was one of equity, verified statement
ought to be made out showing the ex-
act amount expended by the benefci.
aries from their private funds, and the
found paid allowed" Such a
statement nowhere appears, and the
President thinks the benefciaries should
be required to establish the amount
paid out before a reimbursement is
made.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
The secretary of the Interior rem
dered decision in the case of James
Z. Martin, guardian of Calvin James,
and the city of Cheyenne. Wyo., vs.
Frances Nolan. The land involved lies
near Cheyenne. and is used for water
works. The decision sustains that of
the Commissioner-General of the Land
Office, rejecting Nolan's presumption
application. but leaves the claim of
Cheyenne undetermined.
SENATORS STAMFORD
and Stewart argued before the Senat tie
finance committee in favor of the re-
movaI of the internal revenue tax on
fruit brandy.
THE WOOL TARIFF.
Senator Sherman proposed the follow
ing amendment to the bill which the
now have under consid-
grafton. and will express their opinion
ON behalf of the committee tomorrow,
and paragraph 3444 is to read as fol-
lows: "On wool of the first and third
classes. which shall be imported,
washed shall be twice the amount Of
duty to which they would be subjected
as unwashed. The duty upon woods of
the second class, which shall be i'm
ported, washed shall be cents per
pound in addition to the duty which
they would be subjected as I'M
washed. Washed woods are defined
to be such as are washed in
cold water on the back of sheep. The
duty on woods of all classes, which shall
be imported secured, shall be three
times the duty to which they would De
subjected if imported unwashed, which
woods imported shall contain less than
Y per cent. than the weight thereof.
Yoke dirt, grease or other foreign sub
stance or matter shall be classified as
SG0nrnd H.