The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-15
WASHINGTON.
Latest Items of News from the
National Capital
Ectrenchment In the Land Omce-COst of
Collecting the Income Taxa New
Territory for the Five Tribes
of Indians.


of Indians.
Proposed Retrenchment.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1O.-The econom-
ic endeavors of the Dockery commission
have heretofore been experienced
in their results chiefly in Washington.
Saturday night Mr. Dockery considered,
in company with Secretary Smith, the
details of reorganization of the land
branch of the interior department, the
effects of which will reach throughout
the entire west.
Briefly the plan proposes the aboli-
tion of the office of receiver at every
land Office in the country and the re-
tention of registers at their present
salaries. A great portion of the law
force in the interior department is to
be dispensed with and one law officer,
at salary of $1,000. is to be as
signed to each of the thirty-eight dis
tricts affected. The solicitor-general's
office is to be abolished. The land
commissioners salary is to be increased
81 200 and his decision in land cases is
to be final. Heretoforc'appeal has lain
to the secretary. The effect of the plan
will be to make Mr.. Lamoreaux SUI
preme in his department, to ex-
tinguish a great number of offices
and create n few others; to leave
the secretary of the interior more free
to devote his attention to matters of
superior importance, and finally to
save S2O0,0 year. Congress is ready
to adopt it If the secretary mods an ap-
proving head. II was to secure that
that Mr.. Dockery saw him.
The Income Tax.
WASHINGTON, Dec. THE appro-
priation committee received yesterday
afternoon from the treasury the esti-
mates required to carry the income tax
provision of the tariff bill into effect
for the remainder of the present fiscal
year, beginning January 1, 1895. The
estimates for the collection of the tax
until July l, 1895, aggregate SEAS, ,O95,
and include provisions for one statis-
tican, $500; an additional head
of division, $500; six clerks at
81, 400; eight clerks at S1,2OO; seven
clerks ut 81, 900; one messenger at $420;
salaries and expenses of 303 additional
deputy collectors, S211.sOO; salaries
and expenses of ten additional revenue
agents, $4,000. The appropriation to
provide for the collection of the tax
will be incorporated in an urgency de-
ficiency bill, the consideration of which
will be ready Monday, and
will be Immediately passed. The
bill will probably precipitate
the first general political skir-
mish of the session. The eastern mem.
bers irrespective of party, will, as rule,
oppose the appropriation and the de-
bate will probably bristle with acri-
mony. Although it is expected that
the republicans generally will vote
against the appropriation, the demo
Gratis express themselves as entirely
satisfied it will carry.
Proposed New Territory.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The bill intro.
duced in the senate yesterday by Sena.
tor Berry, to provide a temporary gov.
ernment for the portion of the Indian
territory occupied by the five civilized
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