The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-06-09
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.

1t is the purpose of Secretary Of the
Interior Smith to place army officers
in charge Of every Indian agency, except
those where the Indians are in an adj
vanced state OF civilization.
Secretary Herbert has announced that
the policy OF the Navy Department in
the future will be to relieve officers who
have held fleet commands over three
years and give other officers an oppor-
tunitv,
Prof. Harrington, chief OF the weather
bureau, has sent letter to the Presl-
dent denouncing the report submitted
by Assistant Acknowledgement Colby OF
the investigation Of the charges against
Harrington as willful and malicious
Justification OF the testimony taken in
the case. He requests the President to
give him hearing in his own defense,
General 0lney has received a telegram
from New York, stating that Judge La
combe of the Circuit Court Of New York
has decided that Section 8 Of the Geary
exclusion act, though constitutional, is
still Intellectual, because there is no pro-
vision as to how or by whom the order
OF deportation for Chinese should be ex-
ecuted. This is said to be a new ques-
tion not raised or in any way involved
b the previous appeal.
President Cleveland has approved the
deeds Of the Choctaw and Chlckasaw
nations for their right and title to the
LEASED" lands in Indian Territory, for
merly occupied by the Cheyennes and
Arapahoe Indians, but now constituting
portion Of the Oklahoma Territory, for
which 1901 ,450 was appropriated by
the Indian appropriation act OF March
8, 1891. The approval Of President
Cleveland makes the appropriation inn
mediately available, and the money will
be paid to the accredited agents of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Chief
| Harris OF the Cherokee nation has pub
lished notice asking bids for the sale
Of sc, ,640, 900 OF bonds authorized to be
issued under the act Of Congress March
q, 1893.
Major Davis, chief Of the war records
office, has Just returned from Gettys-
burg, where by direction OF the Secretary
of War he made an investigation OF the
effect upon the battle lines and points OF
| interest by the construction Of an electric
railroad. Major Davis found that the
damage to the battlefield had all been
done, as the work Of excavation and
filling was practically completed. About
four miles Of the railroad are laid with
rails, and the remainder Of the route is
ready for fine grading. The greatest
injury has been inflicted in one stretch
OF about two miles Of route, which runs
in front of Bloody Angle" and death
Valley" and skirts Round Top
Major Davis reports will be accom-
panied by chart and sketches, and will
be confined to statement OF the aetua
condition of affairs on the battlefield
1t can scarcely 60 farther, in view Of the
fact that the government has no prop.
erty rights in the field.
Owing to the small amount OF gold
bullion deposited, about 100000 pei
month, and the heavy expense Of coin
age at the United States mint at Carson
City, Nev., Secretary Carlisle has dl
rected a suspension of coinage operation
at the mint from and after the lst o
June. Gold and silver bullion will
however, be received for parting ant
refining. Gold deposits will be paid fol
in coin or fine bar, as preferred by th'
depositor. Returns for silver deposits
| will be made in impaired bars or in tin'
bars, as desired. Purchases of silve
bullion under the act Of July IA, 1890
will be continued as heretofore. Th'
suspension Of coinage operations at thi
mint will involve reduction in force b.
thirty-fye employees. Reductions in tn
force Of the employees at the Unitet
States mints at Philadelphia and Ney
Orleans will probably follow. With
suspension Of coinage at Carson Cit,
the coinage Of silver dollars will be dis
continued for the present, as there is n
demand for this class Of money. Frac
tional uncurrent silver quarters and hal
dollars are now being recoined at Nel
Orleans, San Francisco and Philadelphia
mints and gold at the San Francisco an
Philadelphia mints.