The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-11
1t Sewers the Official Head of
Pr0sser's Postmistress.
SUSPENSION OF PENSIONS.
Secretary Smith Makes q New Ruling
on the Act Of 1890.
faynastsr J. c. sallivan Of Navy 60 Re
Court Aartisied - Enlissed Men In
Navy 20 Be Permitted e suy Their
Discharge.

WASHINGTON CRY. July lo-TSpecial. T.
Headsman Maxwell welded his AZ again
today and Washington state woman was
one OF his victims. This lady is Agnes
Prenguber. postmistress at Psosser. Yak.
ina county, and she is succeeded by L. A.
Span.
The pension bureau has notified q great
many pensioners throughout the entire
country who are drawing pensions under
the act Of June %. 1890. known as the de
pendent pensions act." that the payment
OF their pensions will be suspended for
sixty days, during which time they will
be required to show cause why they should
continue TO draw pensions. This action is
pursuant to recent ruling OF Secretary
smith, to the effect that pensioner, under
the act Of June q. 1880. drawing pensioa
for total disability, must be shown 10 be
physically incapable Of manual labor. II
Is estimated at the pension Office that,
although the work Was only recently be-
gun. that something over l 900 suspensions
have already been made.
Enlisted men in the navy will now have
the privilege OF purchasing their dis
charge. Secretary Herbert today issued
an order establishing rules and reguIa-
tons for the purchase Of discharges an-
thorixed by the last naval appropriation
bill. No man is TO be allowed to purchase
discharge while in debt to the govern
ment or until he has served three months.
The price Of discharge during the fourth
month Of enlistment will be 2J per cent. of
tho yearly pay Of tho applicant; during
the fifth month, 80 per cent. and 40 on i'm
creasing per cent per month until the
fourteenth month, when the maximum
price Is reached. During the fifteenth
month the price will be 95 per cent. OF
the maximum price. in the sixteenth
month 80 per cent. and 10 ON
decreasing 5 per cent. per month
until tho thirty fourth month, when no
may apply for discharge without pay
mcnt. No man will be allowed to pur-
chase discharge second time. and those
procuring discharges by purchase will for
felt all benefit due to continuous service
or honorable discharge. Discharge by
purchase is not an inherent right, but
privilege which may be granted by the
navy department.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints and treasury offices during the
week ending July s. 1883. was $3.50. 2so and
for the corresponding period Of 1sa2 it was
$i45. 5.395. ~hc shipment Of fractional sill
yer coined from the LIST to the Sth instant
aggregated $2O2. 221 The gold reserve
fund has gained $500 900 since Saturday,
and has reached the total Of $97. 2s3 i0i. The
currency on bond aggregates 81. .i9i, ,3i7,
making the cash balance $i24, ,4S2.als. The
comptroller Of currency has ordered ma
tional bank currency to be printed or ac-
count OF bonds deposited TO the amount
of s. 0e7. 900 since July 1.
The total number OF fourth-class post
masters appointed today was I26. Of which
100 werc to fill vacancies caused by resig-
nation and death.
A cab!egram was received at the navy
department today announcing thae the
cruiser Philadelphia was at Rio de Janeiro
She will remain at Rio long enough to coal
and then proceed to Valparaiso. Her in
s,ructions. it IL said, will be TO proceed to
Samoa until the state Of affairs in Peru
and Chile require her presence there. She
has been eighteen days in going from New
York TO Rio.
Secretary Herbert has directed a court
martial to assemble at Mare island, Cal,
on July 26. for the trial Of Paymsster j. c.
Sullivan, charged with embczxiement.
There are Eve charges against Sullivan, rs
follows:
Rendering false and fraudulent returns OF the
balances to his credit
Rendering false ana fraudulent returns in vi.
oiatton OF a-tics II OF the navy regulations.
Making q false and fraudulent Official report
D!sobeyiug the lawful order OF the secretary Of
the navy.
Embesxlsment in violation OF the naval rsgu-
latioua
Tho court which will conduct the in
quiry will consist Of Capts. Seifridge and
Romyl, Commanders Glass and Clark,
Paymasters Bache. Shedding and Loomis
and Lieut.. Commanders Huschins and
Gilmore. with Lieut.. Garst as iudge-advo-
cate.
Congressman Burrows. Of Michigan,
sends local paper a telegram denying
that there il any truth in the published
statement from Jerry simpson that the
Populists and silver men are proposing to
combine with the Republicans to elect
Burrows speaker Of the house.