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Show A HEEDED INVESTIGATION. A dispatch from Washington says that the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and tbe Postmaster General are engaged in making an investigation into the character and fitness of Federal officials in the Southern South-ern States, who have mainly been appointed ap-pointed to and kept in office on the recommendations of the Republican Senators from those States. This is rule of the Senate, and it has forced many most unfit men upon the public pub-lic service. The first of these investigations inves-tigations has just been completed in Texas, where the confirmations have all been at the control of Senator Flanagan- Special agents of the postal pos-tal and roveuue services, who have just returned from this investigation, report results of a startling character. Great irregularities are reported, both in the revenue and postal services, and a wholesale removal of officials is promised. A similar investigation will be made in other Suites, and all officers found to be engaged in thieving thiev-ing and rascality are not only to bo remove! but immediately prosecuted. |