Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-08-31

/. ment expenditures were $50, ,000,-
] 900 in excess of its receipts. This
I: indicates that more money will
have to be raised. There are
:: only two ways of raising it.
y More bonds must be issued, or
:: new taxes must be imposed.
\ Neither is likely to be popular,
4 but it is a question of necessity,
\ not popularity. Under the act of
{ congress providing authority for
\ issuing bonds to carry on the war
{ with Spain, only half of the
y S4O0, ,O0O,O 900 were issued, and
:. none of the 500, 0oO,O in GER
\ tificates of Indebtedness have been
: issued, but the fact that treasury
j officials have been quietly investi-
:: eating with view to an extern
j sion of the stamp tax indicates a
:: desire to try to raise the money
\ needed by new taxes rather than
I: by more bonds, although Secre-
y tary Gage says that neither bonds
: nor additional taxes will be nee
J essary, and expresses doubts of
!: his legal right to issue more
j bonds, if the necessity to do so
!: should arise, under the law autho-
} rizing their issue to pay the ex-
!: penses of the war with Spain,
y which officially ended with the
!: signing of the treaty of peace.
j Secretary Root declines to dis
:: cuss the nature of his conference
] with the president this week, and
!: says that Gen. Otis will remain
J in command of the army in the
!: Philippines.
J Postoffice department. officials
:; are little uneasy over the re-
J ports they have received concern
:: ing the organization of a lobby
\ to work congress in the interest
; of the fourth-class postmasters,
J of whom there are TO- IN this
!: country. The postoffice depart
] ment has very stringent rule
!, prohibiting the presence in WASH
ington for the purpose of trying
!; to influence legislation, of any
J postal employe, and under that
!: rule the man who is now getting
\ the fourth-class postmasters into
!; the National League of Fourth
class Postmasters, was dis
charged. The object of the
league is to get legislation from
) congress raising the pay of fourth
: class postmasters, and they are
/ now raising money to be used for
that purpose by assessing them
selves from 10 cents to So each,
: according to their pay. The
. postoffice department can prevent
postal employees coming to Wash
) ington to lobby before congress
: sional committees, but it cannot
: prevent their employing lobbyists
| and sending them to Washington.
: When it is remembered that the
, comparatively few printers and
, book binders in the government
printing Office raisee a fund of
/ $4,000 during the last session of
: congress to be used in getting
| their pay raised, and succeeded in
getting it done, it will be seen
: that the lobby fund of the fourth
class postmasters will be enor-
nous if they all go into the move
ment. Postmaster General Smith
/ intimates that he will oppose the
| raising of the fourth-class post
t masters pay.
The United States will be rep
resented at the congress Of the
) International Geographical soci-
: ETY., which will sit at Berlin from
September 2S to October 4, inclu-
} sive, by Prof. Willis l.. Moore,
chief of the weather bureau; Gen.
: A. w. Greeley, chief of the sig
nal service, and Ambassador
White. Prof. Moore will tell the
! congress about new lines of work