Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

From a statement prepared by Second Assistant Postmaster General Knott, it appears that reductions aggregating $45,596 were made in the expenditures on account of transportation service during the months of April and May. During April the reductions in expenditures for star-route services were $9,945, while the expenditures for mail messenger service increased $4,281. In May the expenditures for starroute service were reduced $6,244; for steamboat service, $31,847, and for ~ mail messenger service, $1,841. A shortage of over in the SubTreasury at New Orleans has been reported to Secretary M;mning. It is reported that Redemption-Clerk hasidisappeared. A full examination of the affairs of the Sub-Treasury is to be made at once. The President, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, says a Washington dispatch, enterfiin the belief that the whole land-office system is honeycombed with fraud. A good many new appointments have been made, and the work will not stop until there is a clean sweep. The President is not disposed to appoint land officers from the local residents, because the chances would be that the members of existing rings would be appointed, and the change would only be from the frying-pan into the fire... .It is now believed that the President will not take up his residence at the Soldiers’ Home this summer.,.. At the meeting of the Conference of Charities and Corrections in Washington, the construction of jails and other subjects were discussed.