Interior Secretary Teller's Indian policy report releases
The Secretary of the Interior calls for disarming Indians, expanding education, and self-support through labor. He urges land titles reform, repeal of pre emption and timber culture laws, and stricter public land disposal to settlers. He cites costs of wars, annual Indian subsistence, and proposed budgets for schooling.
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Indian Affairs
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General Land Office disposals total 19,430,032.50 acres
The Commissioner of the General Land Office reports that public land disposals under all Acts of Congress aggregate 19,430,032.50 acres to date.
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Commissioner of the General Land Office
Congress
Pension roll tops 303658 at close of last fiscal year
Commissioner of Pensions reports 303,658 pensioners including 198,648 Army widows and dependents and 21,536 Navy widows and dependents. During the year 38,162 new pensioners were added and 7% restored, total 55,958. Net increase 17,961. average pension 16.18. total payments 60,464,009.25. Claims filed for disabilities 496,721 with 45,210 allowed. for widows 2029 with 206,717 allowed.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Pension fraud and building progress noted at Interior
Circulars mislead soldiers and dependents to pay fees for pensions while some agents swindle entitled applicants. Several practitioners have been suspended or disbarred. Congress urged to crack down. Construction expenditures reach 176970.14 with heating contract under way and 223129.46 plus 39480.55 remaining.
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Department of the Interior
Congress
Postmaster General Gresham reports 1883 postal finances
Judge Gresham presents the annual Post Office report noting Timothy Howe's memory, with 1883 fiscal year postal revenues totaling $45,508,092.61 and expenditures of $42,816,700.56. It covers money order and railroad credits, presidential post offices, money-order gains, dead letters, postal telegraph thoughts, and 1885 estimates.
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Commissioner of Education reports record work load and expansion
The Commissioner notes a sharp rise in activity across divisions with 30 745 outgoing communications and 67 875 received. A full reorganization of the document division is complete improving efficiency while 323 592 documents were distributed often by mail in separate parcels. He cites ongoing studies on shorthand instruction, school laws, hygiene, teachers institutes, normal training histories, state school systems, rural instruction, drawing, and education’s link to industry. He urges federal aid to public primary education based on illiteracy from the tenth census.
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Louisville
Quassia Cup Factory Finds Brew Use For Waste
In New Britain Connecticut a quassia cup plant makes cups for bitter tonic water while its wood chips and shavings, once discarded, are now sold as a replacement for hops in lager beer. The shop owner earns more from chippings than cups due to growing demand.
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New Britain
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New Haven Register
Two time standards in Pittsburgh traced to longitude
Pittsburgh now enjoys two time standards with the eastern standard for trains heading east and the Central standard for trains going west. The city is among the few in the country requiring this dual time system.
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Pittsburgh
Lotisburgi
Contraction of National bank circulation urged by Knox
Washington on November 26 Comptroller Knox highlights the expected massive reduction of National bank circulation as threes are redeemed. He argues legislation could ease the shift, proposing bond exchanges into three percents, tax relief on circulation, and maintaining bond-based issues to prevent rapid contraction.
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Treasury
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The Laws of Trade and a Stove Price Conundrum
A Wall Street News interview captures a shopper outraged by a stove priced at twenty three dollars while discussing iron industry declines. The seller notes immutable trade laws and offers a horse radish grater as an incentive amid broader economic jokes. The Georgia Legislature debates a dogs law and makes a remission proposal.
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