Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-01-28

to them One requires the clerks to pay
their debts and the other directs them
to perform their duties faithfully The
hrst order notifies the employees of the
treasury that il they neglect 70 pay in
dehtedness for necessary family supplies
ana creditors. seek To enforce their claims
by appeals ~ the department.. it win take
action locking TO the removal OF the Of
tehdlng person. Government employees
cannot be sarnisheed nor can their sal
ares be attached in any way, Some un-
scrupulons clerks take advantage OF thi,
protection and contract debts beyond
their ability TO pay. Consequently See
rotary Gage, as well as tlse heads of 9th
er departments, has been besirged by pro-
fessional collectors and others having
claims against the employees. While there
are a nnmber of government employees
who neve- make any effort to pay their
debts, it is true that great many more
meet their obligations.
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Rats are overrunning the White House.
This is one of the reasons why new
Executive Mansion should be built. The
present residence of the President is in
Tested and undermined with the rodent
pests. This has been the ease for years,
and the rats have increased in numbers
until the question of getting rid OF them
has become serious. The danger to the
building from their constant burrowing
and undermining has led to repeated ef-
forts TO exterminate these Executive
Mansion hats. Colonel Bingham, the
custodian of the historic building, will
a ffnal at 81
dents our Of the holes they have used for
many years. If his plan fails it is not
Known just what can be done, but the
nuisalce has reached sage where, il
relief cannot be secured, the building will
he a dangerous place of abode, il not ac-
tualiy uninhabhable.
Uncle Sans navy continues to grow,
and, according to the Naval Register inst
issued. the number of vessels now in COM
mission or available for service is 225,
and sixty are under construction, thus
making the tata! 2S5. Those in commits,
sion CO available for service are ten bat
tleships, twenty armored cruisers, fifteen
protected cruisers, six unprotected cruis-
ers, five double tIrret monitors, four sin
ale turret monitors, seventy gunboats, six
auxiliary cruisers. twenty-seven Golfers
and supply ships twenty-seyen torpedo
boats, one submarine boat. thity-niuc
tugs, seven sailing ships, six receiving
ships. The vessels under construction
are eight battleships, six nrmored cruis-
ers, nine protected cruisers. one gunboat,
four monitors, sixteen torpedo boat de-
scroyers. nine torpedo boats. and seven
sff Inns nj hnafs Of
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Coffee Importation OF the United
States for the calendar year 1901 were
the largest in ire history of our import
trade. Figures Of the bureau OF statis-
ties show the importations Of coffee
amounting to 967, 969,5S1 pounds in the
eleven months ending with November.
against TOT 495, l52 in the corresponding
months in 1900; SIT, 223.S77 in the cor
responding months Of lS99; 7AL9i0.t79
in the corresponding months OF 1898:
726. 1896 in the same months of 1897:
and 567,929S17 in the eleven months Of
1896. These figures Indicate not only
that the coffee importations OF 1901 were
larger than those of any preceding year.
but that they for the first time exceed
LOCO. 000GO0 pounds. The value Of the
coffee imports Of the year reach about
$70000,0Op
The SECRETARY Of the Interior has sent
to the congressional committee ON arid
lands favorable reports from Commits
sioner Her;Gann Of the general land office
and Director Waleott of the geological
survey, regarding the proposition looking
10 rra fittt as. 81, e.ai, i'm ~ apfJ
sections Of the Western States. Presi-
deat Roosevelt, in his annual message,
made a strong recommendation to Con
gress for such irrigation. The reports
referred tG, while generally Approving
the irrigation bill. suggest amendments
to proportion the cost of irrigation ac-
colding to acreage irrigated. 1t is ex-
pected that plan viii be reached that
viii meet with the approval of Congress
when the matter comes before it.
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There will be grief IN all the Indian
tribes OF the country when the latest or
der Of the Inferior Department forbid.
ding male Indians TO wear long hair and
the painting Of faces by either sex
reaches the Indiaa reservations. Com
missioner Jones has taken decided step
towards breaking up this custom, which
has prevailed for many years. He has
gone further than this in his elforlS TO
ciyilize the indians. AID has issued an
order relating 10 the costume. Indian
dances and feasts viii be prohibited, aud
the Indian agents are directed 70 induce
their charges; to discard the Indian COS
tune and blahkets and wear citizens at
tire.
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Postmaster General Payne's first oni-
cial act was The signing of a Sl000,000
draft ola the United States subtrcasury
at Chicago in favor OF the subtreasury at
New York. Money order deposits to the
amount Of about q million had accumu-
lated in Chicago from the postofiices in
the West, and the same amount was
needed in New York to meet money or
der drafts from other cities. b. a sim
pie act of signing the draft the POstmas-
Ter General transferred $1.000.000 from
the credit Of Chicago 70 Sew York.
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The new livery which President and
Mrs. Roosevelt have selected for the
White House c0achman aud footman has
a c1ckade Of red. white ana blue. The
national c0lors are also iH evidence
throughout the costume. The coats and
trousers are Of heavy dark blue vicuna,
the best quality Of goods being used. The
outeY seams Of the trousers are bound
viii, whi,e cord The long paddock
driving coat. which terminates midway
between knee and ankle. is Of military
cut, with snug waist and broad, square
shoulders.
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Secretary Root win send 10 Congress
soou bin providing FOR the consoiida-
on Of the subsistence department, quar-
tarniasters department. and pay corps
Of the army into one biz department. to
be known as ''the quartcuuaster's depart
mont The purpose Of the bin Is 20
bring under Ole head the work % each
OF tbege departments without disturbing
The separate functions Of the branches
consolidated.
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Ssnstor Fairbanks OF Indiana the new
chairman OF the committee on public
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