New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-12
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TINE QUESTION OF I.icENsINa ALIEN ENdINEERs--
FREE SILVER SENTIMENT IN wlscoNsIN--
NAIL SERVICE FOR THE NETWORK
BROADWAY srREEr CARS,
Wash,nxton, May u.-pon NJ, pickinson's speech
In Detroit last Thursday night has created some
thing OF sensation In Washington, particularly In
ofnciai circles. None OF the department on'oia's
are willing to be quoted In the matter and Private
Secretary ThuIbsI who, before hls spPe'n'Tsns 70
his p1s;snS, r S sr vas ~. hsss p q. sn
man.Wea n' discreet silence and met ali Inquiries
for n 20 y ys S 2" es NV When
Thurbers turn TO respond, he Endorsed tho sn'''re'
'gIS' sk RS'ss u" %s.SSao" Tor Detroit
day afternoon lie had been here .syessl, dsgs'
is": it X. Ss Ss R n O. "S ss
Sa painted Wa'; Ss .;,S; & s NJ p't n,
s" ssS s"Ss' p az rsssy Thar ss GSs
ca;s aHrss NJ ss nsss ana was mere o" mo
Attorney General Olney he's rendered an I'm.
portant opinion on the question OF licensing allen
engineers on the steamers New-iork ana Paris OF
the American Line Of steamships. as authorized by
Secretary Foster in 1893. lie holds that the ne.
ton OF Secretary Foster was valid. and that the
act @ which wa: ca% n. BY ihs Asso's
pcaied the &C, OF 1874, under which Secretary
ro:s Ss s II cs sna VIII er any
ouaiined allen who has been In the United states
ak months. and who has DECLARED MS intention or
becoming citizen. TO receive license az ensneer
or pilot OF any American merchant steam vessel
Postmaster General Wilson to-day awarded the
contract for supplying the Postofhce Department
with registered package envelopes. tag and dead
letter envelopes. for tho next hscal year. TO the
Piympton Manufacturing Company and the Nor
gan Envelope Company. OF Hartford. Conn. Their
bid was $4,000.
Second Assistant Postmaster-0eneral Nelson will
within the next two weeks close agreement with
tho Broadway surface line for street railway
mail service on Broadway. New-York City. About
six cars will be started on July l. next Next week
General Nelson will 70 to New-Oreans to confer
fishing streetcar mail service In that city.
Senator Mitchell OF Wisconsin. who has JUS. re.
turned from a visit to his State. says he Ia COM
peled 10 confess that there Is greater free-slver
sentiment there than he supposed. A recent imam
clai publication presenting the arguments in favor
of the free coinage OF silver was being read. ne
said on all sides. and was having WONDERFUL innu.
ence over the people. Men he had hitherto tnougni
In that book Still. he believed both paptes wouiI
do the right thing by the time the elections came
round. and that sound money would prevail IN tne
end Senator Mitchell said II was his impression
that the National Democratic Convention wouid
support free-silver plank in Its platform
The chief of the Bureau Of Statistics reports that
the total value OF the exports OF domestic breadstuns
provisions and mineral oils from the United states
during the month OF April. 1885, and during the Ten
months ended April 30 1895. as compared with
similar exports during the corresponding PERIODS Oh
the preceding years, were as follows: