The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.


According TO the official report Of the
secretary of the United States Senate 20
cuspidors were supplied that body during
the last fiscal year Nobody will complain
of this apparent extravaganza, providing
they were all used for the purpose for which
they were intend d,
Gen. Miles who is said /, be booked for
the next maior.gcneralship in the army,
was ceIk in a crockery ware store ON
| Washington street in Boston when the war
of the rebellion broke out, When it end, d
| he was made the custodian of Jefferson
Davis,
Harold NJ Sewall of Maine, consul-gen-
eral to Samoa, is at Washington to receive
| final instructions prior to leaving for his
post With Bismarck out Of Office Consul
! General Sewall may wnds his duties easier
than they were before.
| The number Of patents, designs trade
marks labels and reissues which has been
| favorably reported for issue on April 10 is
ga, the largest in the history of the patent
office.
Orders have been sent to the command
ant of the New Ioik navy yard to put the
| United States ship Enterprise out Of her
commission as soon as possible. All her
| officers will be detached and her crew dis
charged.
Secretary Proctor has complied with re-
| quest Re received from the Secretary of
State that the War Department devise
means to give the foreign delegates 10 the
| Pan-AmeIican Congress n view of the
mill airy of this country, and he has &C
cordngIy issued orders for parade to be
held on the 18th of this month by the
regular troops together with the district
militia. Tie Secretary of the Navy has
been asked 10 order out the marine guard
stationed here and the marine band on this
occasion. There will thus be represents
tive of every branch of the service.
The House committee on banking and
| currency has further discussed the subject
| of issuing some nd of fractional currency
for use in the mails. The subcommittee,
| which had been appointed to confer with
| the postmaster-senera on the subject, re-
| ported that it had done so, and that the
| postmaster-genela did not regard thepropo-
| siuon with favor. He promised to
submit his views upon the subject in
writing to the committee but, in the
course of the interview, said that he pre-
ferred something on the English system of
making redeemab!e by ~ stmasters' post age
stamps aft xed to the card so that the card
could not be Used for mail purpo- es.
The senate committee on claims has made
favorable report on the bill to pay the
assignees of John Roach 100000 for labor
and material furnished on the men of war
Roanoke and Puritan, which he constructed
some years ago or the navy department
Senator Gull m has received novel re-
| quest from one Of his Chicago constituents,
who desires recognition from tn govern
ment. The applicant is modest for he says
that be can bear his own expenses His
name is C. Milton Gray, and in his letter he
asks if there is any way in which he can be
recognized by congress or any commission
| given him to execute while on his coming
trip around the world on horseback. He
says he intends to leave Chicago on his ride
around the world on July /, riding TO New
York, whence he will take vessel fol
Liverpool. How long it will take
him to make the trip he does not know MOI
care. His object is to broaden his knowl-
edge and extend his literary privileges by
travel. In description of himself he sa} 5
| that he is q years of age feet 3 inches
tail $50 pounds in weight, and the son Of
farmer, which he thinks ought to be
sufficient guarantee that he understands
what he is about when he speakes of q
horseback trip around the world. He is q
college graduate. Accompanying his letter
is wood cut portrait of himself
In a report to Secretary Noble upon The
business of his office, Gen. Raum, the com
missioner of pensions, says that he will be
able by the last of May to cause the exam
ination of every claim pending in the Office
on the first day of January last, and have
every claim allowed that is completed, anC
calls for eviderce made in those not com
pete. This result has been secured, Gen
Raum's letter says, largely by
means of two orders issued the latter
part of December last. The first order re-
quired that an examination of the claims
pending in the office should be made, an(
that all cases which appeared to be com
plete should be placed upon the completed
files The adiudicating divisions wer
directed to spend five days in the weel
examining claims on these files and on
day exclusively to making calls fo
additional evidence in pleading claims
AS result of the examination
made, 30, S57 claims were put on the com
pleted files" A subsequent order directing
that claims should be placed in file upoI
application accompanied by statement o
facts, showing that the claims were com
pleted, has up to date added $3.50 cases t,
those already on the completed files
During the past three months 50 800 o
these cases have been acted upon, leaving
only 307S cases remaining on the files. Ap
plications at the rate Of $50 day are beinj
received, and hereafter every claim place.
upon these files will be taken up and acte,
upon within week. The record of tn
rast month is that 1884 pension certifi
Gates, S1S3 of them original cases, were is
sued-the largest number ever issued III on