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Show WASHINGTON. AlloIutmcnts Report or the Land Commissioner The Viee-Irosileut. Washington, 12. The presidonl has "appointed Hiram LemogweL United States marshal for the district dis-trict of Missouri, and Levi Bacon, of Michigan, has been appointed financial finan-cial clerk in the patent office. Commissioner Burdett, of tho general gen-eral laud oflice, will, in his forthcoming forth-coming report, strongly recommend that the timber land oflered by the government be appraised ami thrown open to purchasers at not Icsj than their appraised value. He is of the opinion that unless they are thui placed under private guardianship, the fine forests of the country will sooa be wantonly exhausted by lumber lum-ber companies and speculators, who i are now stripping the land of its tim ber under the cover of the dummy preemption entries, or without any pretense of complying with the law, while the government derives no revenue from its property and tho country sustains an almost irreparable ' damage from the sweeping denudation denuda-tion of areas of its water sheds. He will aho condemn the practice of ex tending the system of subdivision surveys sur-veys over immense bodies of worth-lees worth-lees land west of tho hundredth meridian, mer-idian, and will suggest that only sucli tracts be nominally surveyed as have any attractions for settlers. The commissioner will also recom-! recom-! mend that provision be made for connecting the laud oflice survey with important points established by the geological surveys of the territories, terri-tories, and that monuments ut section corners, etc., be constructed in a much more las'.ing manner. The recommendation pf a predecessor prede-cessor that the pre-emption laws be abolished and homestead nysteui made the only method of acquiring a title to agricultural lands is repeated and earnestly urged upon tho attention atten-tion of congress. The vice president " has rested quietly during tho day. Ho suffers no pain and is cheerful Dr. Baxter says he is rapidly convalescing. . Baron Blanc, the newly appointed minister from Italy, was presented to the president by the secretary: or state to-day, "with the usual formalities. formali-ties. . Wnah'uniLon, 12. The vice president presi-dent to-night waa able to take a more nourishing diet. At 8 o'clock ho was Bleeping quietly. His pulse was regular and hia condition generally comfortable At midnight the vice president waB more comfortable than at any time lime since bis prostration, and Dr. Baxter thinks in a week ho will bo able to go to Massachusetts. Tho president has recognized the following consuls: Albert Pick, of Hungary, at Chicago; Ernst Von Bauuiback, of Hungary, at Milwaukee. |