Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

In contracting for supplies for the Freedman’s Hospital for the next fiscal year the Secretary of the Interior has made a saving of 81,550 from the prices paid for supplies during the present year. The judgment of the Court of Claims in the Pacific Railroad case, for 81,577,003 in favor of the Government, has been formally entered, the Attorney General having decided to make no further contest over the computation of the earnings of the Kansas Pacific branch. Payments already made and other set-offs will reduce the Indebtedness upon this judgment to about 8100,000. In pursuance of Secretary Manning’s economical policy, 300 persons employed as storekeepers, gaugers, etc., in the internal revenue service have been removed sinco March 20. The War Department has received a telegram from Capt. Bennett, of the Ninth Cavalry, at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, stating that Lieut. Stevens, of the Ninth Cavalry, has returned from Oklahoma after having thoroughly scouted the country. No boomers were found in Oklahoma. The wives of three naval officers having joined their husbands in Japan, the latter have been detached from duty for violating an order forbidding naval officers from having their wives with them on foreign stations. Internal revenue collections the first eleven months of the fiscal year, 8103,697,164, a decrease of 620,i1l over the same period last year. It is rumored that First Assistant Postmaster General Hay will resign, and that Mr. Bell, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, will succeed him. Under the adjustment of Postmasters’ salaries, just completed, the annual compensation of the Chicago Postmaster will be 86,000. The aggegate salaries of Presidential Postmasters for the next fiscal year will be 83,627,900.