Year: 1879

AuAy huvoSslSutoo Wncu OOuBToes luoctb. IcuoAoA-
ers have engaged eminent counsel to argue their
case before the United States Supreme Court. and
Chief Justice Waite has agreed with the Attorney
General to advance the that it may be reached
early next month when the court meets.


The Commissioner of Pensions decided nearly two
years ago that the Soldiers Home in the District Of
Columbia was entitled to the pension Of such pen
sioners only have not contributed to the funds of
the Home, in accordance with the provisions Of
section 4.S20. Secretary Schurz sustained the Com
missioner. but the Attorney General overruled the
Interior Department, which was followed by insti-
tuting test before the Court Of Claims The
operation OF the revised statute has been since
1873 and as the annual payments Of pensions to the
Home amount to $4,000 the sum at stake
is now nearly 500 900. The Board Of Audit of the
Soldiers Home consists Of the Adjutant General.
Surgeon General and Commissary General Of tho
army. The annual income of the Home is estimated
at 100000 and as this supposed to be expended
on few hundred veterans the inquiry is now made
as to how the money is disbursed. The soldiers
complain that they receive only regular army fare
and that their pension money has been used in max
ing handsome drives for the officers stationed at the
Home Complaint is also made that the President has
been enjoying the hospitality Of the Home at the
expense Of the soldiers fund. and that during the
eight years of President Grants administration he
never sought q summer residence the grounds.
President Lincoln obliged to make the Home his
summer resort during the war. having other
place to 60 and the veterans say that they would
complain of the presence of President Hayes and
his family only that when his attention was called
to their grievances he snubbed the committee and
tore their appeal up. 1t is generally under
stood that the recent decision Of the Attorney
General in regard to the payment Of pensions direct
to the inmates of the National Soldiers Home was
made in the interest Of the Dayton Home in Ohio
and is counted as worth several hundred votes to
the republican ticket in that State. Why the Attor-
ney General should favor the National homes and
decide against the Soldiers Home here in the dis
trict is question which the Democratic Congress
sional Campaign Committee are preparing to ask in
the campaign this fall. particularly in Ohio.


SECRETARY MCRARY TO BE APPOINTED TO THE


VACANT JUDGEsHIP-THE WAR PORTFOLIO


The President said to friend before his departure
for Ohio that he should certainly send the Of
Secretary MoOrary to the Senate for the Judgeship
vacated by Judge Dillon the very first
day Of the session. He understood that there
was not the slightest objection to favorable
report from the Judiciary Committee the
nomination at the extra session last summer,
but that the committee was divided on the power
of the President to make an appointment in antici-
patton Of vacancy. AS to who will be the
of Secretary McCrary in the Cabinet the Presi-
dent said he had not the remotest idea
All other reports to the contrary. Mr.. McCrary
says he is not candidate for the Senate from Iowa.
and will be content to remain the bench the re-
mainder Of his life.


WORKINGS OF THE RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH


THE SANDWICH IsLANDs-sEcRETARY sHER-


MAN TO RECOMMEND ITS ABRoaATIoN.


The attention Of the Treasury Department has been
repeatedly called to the operations Of the Recip-
rocity Treaty between Hawaii and the United States
until the charge is now made that sugar is taken
to the Sandwich Islands and thence to San Francisco
and entered the product of the islands While this
is not known to be true. the fact remains that the
operation of tho treaty is of such nature rs de.
mand its immediate abrogstion; for the statistics
alreadyn the hands of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury show that the actual value Of all the goods i'm
ported from the United States into Hawaii during
the past fiscal year was less than tho amount of
duty remitted upon sugar alone. This has
been the history of the working Of the treaty
since 1t went into operation in 1875 Secretary
Sherman says that tho business way to express 1t is
that II would be cheaper for the government to buy
and give to the Sandwich Islands the goods imported
from the United States than to remit the duties
upon sugar sent to the United States from Honolulu
He will again call attention in his annual report to
this remarkable disparity in the workings of the
called Reciprocity Treaty. and will recommend to
the President that he urge upon Congress the repeal
Of the treaty.


INCREASING DEMAND FOR THE SILVER DOL


LARs-NEARLY THIRTY MILLIONS OF THEM


STILL IN THE TREASURY.


The demand for silver dollars is increasing every


day and the United States Treasurer is in receipt of
large orders from banks and bankers throughout the
country requesting him to honor their acquisitions
without delay. The principal demand comes from
the Southern and Western States. though the coun-
try banks in New York State, and even In
tho cities outside of New York. are sending for
5000 and $4,000 at Q time. Disbursements
this month thus far amount to nearly 81. .oo0 900.
and for tho month of August it was nearly
s2o00Ooo fully up to the coming capacity of the
mints. There is . large amount of silver on hand
aggregating $50, 100000 In standard dollars and
SIS 900 in subsidiary coin; the hope of getting
all the silver into circulation is not haterng
the advocates Of the double standard would wish.
Nevertheless. the business Of the Treasury shows
that this much abused coin is IN demand. and that
It will be used to . large extent in the south and
West this fall to pay for the new crops.


NO DISCRIMINATION IN FAVOR OF CONVICTED


PoLyaAMrsrs


The Attorney General before leaving Washington
teiegraphed tho United States Marshal OF Utah to
bear In mind that the convicted poygamist George
Reynolds. was not to be treated any better than
other criminals under his care that hc is being pun
ished for a crime, and that his punishment should
be in all respects similar to that of persons under
going sentence in tho Utah Penitentiary.


FOREIGN COMMERCE. REPORT OF THE BUREAU


OF STATISTICS.


The Bureau of Statistics has completed the report
on the foreign commerce with the United States for
the year ending June 80 1879. 1t is in the hands
of the printer and will be ready for distribution by
the end Of this month.