Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

First Auditor Chenoweth is* still engaged in investigations into the operations and expenditures of the scientific bureaus supported by the Government. Ho finds additional evidence as he goes along of an utter lack of knowledge on the subject of legal disbursements, which will, in his opinion, result in suits for recovery, similar to that brought against ex-Cominissioner Loring, of tire Agricultural Bureau, for perverting an appropriation. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of imports of merchandise during the twelve months ended Sept. 30 were $570,551,260, and during the preceding twelve months $658,110,065, a deerease of $87,558,805. The values of exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Sept. 30 were $715,893,671, and for the twelve months ended Sept. 30, 18M, were $735,777,000, a decrease of $19,878,380. The report of Adjutant General Drum shows that 6,515 enlisted men of the United States army are drawing increased pay for periods of continuous service ranging from five to thirty-five years. A decision made by Commissioner Spajks restores to the public domain a tract in California claimed by the Atlantic and Pacific Road equal in size to the State of Massachusetts. Secretary Lamar and the Commissioner of Patents will sit as a board to hear arguments of representatives of the Pan-Elec-tric Telephone Company, who petition that the name of the United States may be used to bring suit to annul the Bell telephone patent.