The Globe-republican., 1893-09-15
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Items Of Some Interest from Wash
ingtOn.
Code Of Pension Rules-Geary Law to Be
Enforced-New Baby ut the White
House-Condition OF the
Treasury.

RECONSIDERATION Of the
Treasury.
New Code of Pension Rules.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-For the pur-
pose of arriving at a more certain and
uniform practice in the pension Office
and the department of the interior in
the matter of appeals in pension
cases, Secretary Smith has promul-
gated new code of rules for the gov
eminent of the department and guild
ance of applicants and their attorneys
Very loose methods. it is said, have
hitherto prevailed, and almost any pa
per filed by a claimant who considered
himself aggrieved by the action OF the
pension office, has been considered and
treated as an appeal
This practice had a tendency to rem
der the board of pension appeals
mere board of general review for the
work of the pension Office, and to oc-
cupy the time and attention of the de-
partment with the utterly useless and
irrevelant matters.
No special or technical forms are re-
quired for an appeal by the rules. but
applicants would be required to file
with the secretary a concise and plain
statement of the errors of law consti-
tuting the ground of the appeal New
and material evidence, which has been
filed subsequent to the action or order
of the pension Office, from which the
appeal is taken, will not be considered
by. the secretary until the same
has been passed upon by the
pension office. No appeal taken on be-
half of claimant by and through a
suspended or barred attorney will be
entertained unless refundment as re-
quired shall have been made No
claim, the rejection whereof has been
affirmed by the secretary on appeal,
will be reopened without his approval.
Hard on John.
Sept. 11.-There is every
indication that the Geary law for the
exclusion of the Chinese will be en-
forced with vigor as soon as the funds
at the disposal of the government are
made adequate by an appropriation.
Meanwhile inspection officers will be
instructed by circular to be issued to-
day or Monday to execute the act to
the full extent permitted by the exist
ing appropriation.
In case the law is rigidly enforced,
Yung Yu, the new Chinese minister to
this country, will, it is said, withdraw
to China. For the past forty-eight
hours he has been besieged with tele-
grams from Chinese subjects through
out the country asking for a vertical
ton of the report that President Cleve-
land and his abinet had decided to put
the Geary law into effect. The Chinese
Six companies in San Francisco have
been in Geographic communication
with him ever since his arrival in
Washington.
A New Baby.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Mrs. Cleve-
land became the mother of another
daughter at 12 o'clock Saturday. Mother
and child are doing well. DIR. Bryant,
of New York, was in attendance.
The happy event had been expected
and DIR. Bryant and Dr. O'Reilly of the
army were in attendance.
As soon as the news that Baby Ruth
had a sister reached the departments
there was a fiutter of excitement and
messages of congratulation were sent
| to the president and Mrs. Cleveland.
As to the weight of the little new
conner, one of the attendant nurses
said the baby had not been placed on
| the scales yet, but made a rough guess
that it would not be far from ten
pounds
The birth took place in the White
house.
The Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Sat no time
since the war have the customs receipts
been as low as they are now, and the
| matter is causing Secretary Carlisle
good deal of worry. In the treasury
last night the cash balance was re-
duced to s1O5, 900, 900, inclusive of the
gold reserve and the s1O,OOO,0OO of
abraded and uncurrent subsidiary
coin. What is left of the depicting
gold reserve continues to be the only
cash balance in the treasury with which
| to pay current expenses. The total rev.
enue for the first six days of this month
amounted only to s3,s9O.OOO or about
s64s, 900 day, while the expenditures
have been $4,000, 900 or $4,000 day.
SO that the treasury is running behind
now at the rate of sl6S. 600 day.
| TRAIN ROBBERS CAPTURED.
| The Gang That Killed the Express Messen-
| ger at Mound Valley. Kan.
| OowrcO Kan Sonf 1o--EOur Of the
robbers who held up the Frisco train
at Mound Valley, Kan, and killed Ex-
press Messenger Chapman, September
8, are now in jail at Oswego. They
were captured ten miles south of In