OCR Text |
Show The :ui!loiioe at Work. I Washington, 5. The displacement: of Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1 Douglass was a surprise to him.! Y'esterday afternoon Secretary Bris-j tow culled upon Douglass, saying he' did so at the request of the president and to perform the very disagreeable duty f informing him th'it ex-Sen- I ator Pratt had been tendered and ' accepted the position of commissioner of internal revenue. Douglass made one inquiry only following ibis verbid communication. It was whether his ! integrity as a man and otlicer had been impugned, to which the secre- tary replied: "Not in the slightest 1 degree." With this Douglas ex-j pressed himself satisfied. I. G. Hester, special agent under i tho department of justice, and known' in connection with political affairs in Alabama, has been dismissed, I |