Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-02-13
IowAsAT WASHINGTON.
Doinss of Hawkeye Citizens at tho
NaffQn3s Capital.

N0uOns capital
Washington, Feb. SIT is reported
that DR.. Hutchins will be ordered
home from Manila. He has been sick,
and has been subjected to surgical
operation, and is now in the hospital.
Claims are made by number OF
Iowa soldiers, and also by soldiers
from other states, for reimbursement
for losses sustained by having their
clothing destroyed after they had been
ill with yellow fever and other con-
tagious diseases. Claims are also be-
ing filed by soldiers for allowances to
pay their physicians when they were
treated by civilian doctors, while at
home on furlough, or otherwise law.
fully absent from their commands.
All claimants should understand that
the war department has no money ap-
propriated for either of these purposes,
and hence none of these claims can be
allowed. Some sort of legislation will
be necessary before these just claims
can receive consideration. 1t is proba-
BILE that bill covering all cases will
be formulated by the war department
and adopted by congress.
The men who want appointments as
census enumerators waste time by
sending their applications to their
senator's and representatives. All ap.
pointments of enumerators are made
by the census supervisors in the vari-
Gus congressional districts. Those SUI
pervisors are appointed, and are now
at work. When applications are sent
to senator's and representatives, they
forward such applications to the SUI
pervisors, without manking any rec
concentrations. The director of the
census holds the census supervisors
personally responsible for the work
before them, and political influence is
of small value. Send your applications
direct to the census supervisor of your
congressional district. M
Colonel Hepburn says: ''The rules
of the senate are strictly enforced,
but the rules of the house are not
strictly enfofeed in some particulars.
Senators have a barber shop for their
exclusive use They also have res
,taurant intn which outsiders are not
permitted togo. Here in the house we
have barber shop which is patronized
by employees and the public, so that
when representatives want tonsorial
attention, they are often obliged to
wait, because some outsiders occupy
the chairs. 3s The house restaurant is
wide open a. the public, and, at lunch
time, it often 5happens that represent
tatiyes who are busy and pressed for
time, are obliged to wait, because out
siders occupy &the tables and chairs.
There has gpt{to be change in these
and similar particulars of detail"
Postmasters appointed in Iowa: Gift
ford, Harding county, IL. A. Collins,vice
g. CT KinnaY,E resigned; Rogerville,
Benton county, E. 5G. Chase, vice F.
w. Kerr resigned.
n Iowa Pensions: Original-John II.
Cleveland, Sioux City, Sc; Henry
Brown, Ottumwa, IS; Mather Farris,
Independence; Sc. Increase-Martin
v. Spencer, Corning, Sc to $40; Robert
Shackleton, Jordan, Sc TO So; Thomas
A. HollingsWorth, Ottumwa, Sc to $40;
VIM. H. anderson, Greenfield, SIG to
SIT. .ReissitesA- - ~. ustis, Hampton,
$50. origihaESNid lows, etc.-Jo ohm Mich
oil (fatherJ, Vinton, SIP; Elizabeth
Bosworth, Ottumwa, SIP; (restorati on).
Harriet HARPER, Decorah, SIP; (reis-
sue Mildred Alton, Ottumwa, So;
Catharine Hart, Blairstown, $12.
+. Washington, Feb. 1O.-Postmasters
appointed: Artesian, Bremen county,
r. F. Moeller, vice H. j. Boedecker, re-
signed; Calumet, O'Brien county, Ern-
est Pape, vice f. w. McComber, remov-
ed; Campbell, Polk county, j. w. Him.
les, vice II. E. swope,. resigned; !Graet-
finger, Palo Alto county. Chris Jensen,
vice r. o. Berg, removed; Industry,
Webster, county, A. Ricke, vice Carl
Ricke, removed
A postoffce has been established at
Webb. Clay county, and William G. GAN
naman appointed postmaster.
+ The postofice at German Valley, Kos
suth county, has been discontinued;
mail to TitonSa.
Iowa pensions: Original-Martin
Bressler, Iowa City, Sc; Luther S.
Short, Glidden, Sc; George R. Huffman,
Hamburg, &c.. Increase Francis j.
Peppin, Monticello. IS to $40; Andrew
j. Sewers, Bedford, SO to $40; Albert
B. Curtis, Canton, Sc to IS; David A.
Ford, Des Moines, Sc to SIS.
AN IOWA ELOPEMENT.