Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-09-14
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Items Of Some Interest from Wash
ingtOn.
Code of Pension Rules -Geary Law to Be
Enforced-Ncw Baby at the White
Transformation of the
Treasury.
New Code of Pension Rules.

New Code of Pension Rules.
WAsHN eToN, Sept. 1.-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
ernment 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 fled by claimant who considered
himself aggrieved by the action of the
pension Office, has been considered and
treated as an appeal
This practice had 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 concise and plain
statement of the errors of law consti-
tuting the ground of the appeal. New
and material evidence, which has been
fled 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 a 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 John.
WASHINGTON, 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 verifica-
Lion of the ePort-ttla.atzl IPl.as:ase.,t c,svc-
land and his cabinet had decided to put
the Geary law into effect The Chinese
Six companies in San Francisco have
been in telegraphic communica ton
with him ever since his arrival in
Washington.
y New Baby.
WASHINGTON, Sept 11.-Mrs Cleve-
land became the mother of another
daughter at II o'clock Saturday. Mother
and child are doing we'll DIR. Bryant,
of New York, was in attendance.
The happy event had been expected
and DR.. Bryant and DIR. O'Reilly of the
army were in attendance.
As soon as the news that Baby Ruth
had sister reached the departments
there was Il flutter of excitement and
messages of congratulation We're 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 rough guess
that it would not be far from ten
pounds.
The birth took place in the White
house.
The Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-At no time
since the war have the customs receipts
been as low as they are now, and the
matter is causing Secretary Carlisle a
good deal of worry. In the treasury
last night the cash balance was re-
duced to S105, 900, 900, inclusive of the
gold reserve and the 1000, 600 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 IS, 3,S90,O00 or about
S64S, 900 day, while the expenditures
have been S4,9OO,00O or Ss16,O day,
SO that the treasury is running behind
now at the rate of S16S, 900 day.
TRAIN ROB8ERS CAPTURED.