The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.


The act Of Congress necessitating the
recent dismissal OF sixty-seyen clerks OF
the general land office provided for re-
'duction of the field expenses OF the of
flee. a large number oil offices will be
consolidated in such way as to make
the number twenty less than heretofore.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds Of the
Interior Department has made q pension
decision which will become welcome
news TO a large number Of women who
ministered to wounded soldiers in the
hospitals during the latewar. They are
to be placed on the pension rolls. The
question arose upon communication
from the Commissioner OF Pensions as
to whether those women who superin-
tended the diet OF the sick and wounded
soldiers are entitled to pensions. Under
the acts provisions Assistant Secretary
Reynolds holds these persons are entitled
to pensions.
The Collector OF Customs at FL Paso,
Tex, has been instructed by Assistant
Secretary Spaulding to discontinue at
once the practice Of admitting sulphides
Of silver from Mexico without consular
invoice and in future not to admit silver
bullion from Mexico exceeding 500 in
value, alleged to be imported as money,
unless accompanied by consular invoice,
unless the bullion is shown by the ship
per's declaration, made before the con-
sular officer at the port Of shipment, to
be forwarded as money or the medium
Of exchange at q fixed value per ounce,
and not as merchandise.
They are after fraudulent pensioners.
A list comprising the names Of d number
Of pensioners recommended by Commits
sioner Lochren to be dropped from the
pension rolls has been handed to Secre-
tary Hoke Smith, and he has approved
the recommendations 1t has been found
upon investigation by the pension bu-
reau that the persons named are for va
rious reasons not entitled to draw pen
sions. The work OF examining the rolls
with a view to the detection OF fraud
will be prosecuted with vigor, and at the
same time the current issues will be care
fully scrutinized with the same object.
Secretary Smith and Commissioner
LochreE while prosecuting this work re-
new the assurances previously given that
Just as much care will be exercised to
secure pensions for those who are enti-
tied to them under the law as will be
used to prevent fraud.
Attorney General 0lney has decided
that the appropriations made by the act
Of Congress- approved August q, 1892, in
aid OF the Worlds Fair, including the
appropriation for the government ex-
hibit, are as available now as before the
decision of the Circuit Court OF Appeals
permanently opening the Worlds Fair
Sundays, with the single exception that
no more money ought to be paid the IL
linois corporation known as the Worlds
Columbian Exposition. The grounds
for the opinion are that Congress meant
that the exposition as q whole should be
closed Sunday. It did not, however, un-
dertake to pass law to that effect, but
lcontented itself with making certain APP
preparations conditional, not upon the
TACT Of 6unday-closing, but upon the
Illinois corporation agreeing to the
proposition Of Sunday-closing, SO that
regulations to that effect might be made
by the government. Representatives Of
the Worlds Columbian Commission, the
Illinois corporation, did agree to the
proposition. Proper rules were made
by the Columbian Commission, and the
condition upon which Interpretations
referred to were made must be regarded
as fully satisfied.