Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

+, recent dismissal of sixty-seven clerks {
the general land office provided for re
duction of the field expenses of the OF
lice. "A large number of offices will b
consolidated in such way rs to max
the number twenty less than heretofore
Assistant Secretary Reynolds OF tn
Interior Department has made pension
decision which will become welcome
news to large number of women wht
ministered to wounded soldiers in tn,
hospitals during the late war. They ar,
TO be placed on the pension rolls. TIT
question arose upon q communication
from the Commissioner of Pensions AZ
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 al
once the practice of admitting sulphides
of silver from Mexico without consular
invoice and iii future not to admit silver
bullion from Mexico exceeding 800 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 fixed value per ounce,
| and not as merchandise.
The Wisconsin State and National
Commissioners do not believe the Fish
Commission OF the Badger State will
withdraw from the fisheries building.
National Commissioner Coburn said that
the Fish Commission had threatened to
withdraw its exhibit month ago, but
he would not believe the threat would
be carried out until he saw the fish re-
moved. The resignation OF X. b. Kirk
land, Executive Commissioner for Wis
consin, has just been accepted. 1t had
nothing to do with the trouble over the
fish exhibit. Mr.. Kirkland's i'll health,
resulting from overwork, was the only
cause Of his resignation.
Inquiry at the Treasury Department
discloees the fact that about $40, 900 re-
mains for the enforcement OF the several
Chinese acts. In July the new appro-
priation of $4,000 becomes available, SO
that the aggregate fund available for car
rylng out the Chinese exclusion acts, in
Guiding the Geary law, will be $1,000.
AS announced by Secretary Carlisle, the
policy OF the administration will be in
view of a lack of funds to rid the coun-
try OF Chinese who have entered unlaw-
fully in violation Of the previously ex-
isting laws before endeavoring to send
out Chinese who came in lawfully, but
are now under the ban of the Geary law,
because they failed to comply with its
requirements of registration, etc.
They are after fraudulent pensioners.
A list comprising the names OF 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
rlous reasons not entitled to draw pen
sions. The work of examining the rolls
with 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
l-ochren 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 Olney has decided
that the appropriations made by the act
OF Congress approved August 3, 1892, in
aid of the Worlds Fair, including the
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
llnois corporation known as the Worlds |
Columbian Exposition. The grounds |
for the opinion are that Congress meant |
that the exposition as whole should be |
closed Sunday. 1t did not, however, un-
dertake to pass law to that effect, but |
itself with making certain APP |
conditional, not upon the |
TACT OF Sunday-closing but upon the |
Illinois corporation agreeing to the |
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
Proper rules were made
by the Columbian Commission, and the
upon which the appropriations
referred to were made must be regarded
,s fully satisfied.