Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Colonel John Hay has been sworn into office as Secretary of State. The ceremony took place in the President's room at the White House, and the oath was administered by Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court. The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures for September shows the total receipts to have been $311,778,070 and the expenditures $54,223,921. This statement takes no account of the receipts from the war loan. A plan has been effected between the pension bureau and the Postoffice ntul Treasury Departments by which pensioners will hereafter be permitted to have their checks cashed at all money order postoffiees free of charge. It is estimated that this will result in it saving to pensioners of $250,000 per annum. The Postoffice Department has made an important change in the money order laws, whereby the postoftieo can be used by patrons as a savings bank in places where there are no banks. The change is made by amending section 1246 of the postal laws and regulations so as to read as follows: "A money order may be drawn upon the office at which it is issued, provided such office lie not a ‘limited money order office.’ The advice of a money order so drawn, until payment is made or until the order has become invalidated by age (more than one? year having elapsed since the last day of the month of issue), should be filed among the unpaid advices, the same as if received from another postoffice.