Show WOMEN AS OFFICIALS eight thousand in service of the tha postoffice Post office ALL ARE VERY EFFICIENT first assistant postmaster general transmits a comprehensive report to the postal administration ot of the german government ot of tho the employment of women woman in the postal service in ill tho the united states sol salaries run nun from to 1800 1600 per annum washington Washl neton N nov 23 first assmann Ass litant Y general heath has transmitted to tile the postal administration ot of tit the german government through second assistant Shit Sha llenberger a comprehensive report of 0 the employment ot of women in the government service ile he states elites that there rare are in tile the united states slates at each of 0 which thero there are several employees who he lawfully may be either cither men or women postmasters at third anti and fourth class aulca select their cm own A employees without ith consulting the department and it Is 13 accordingly impossible to give the ex cx aut number or oc women employed in the dernice there are arc however women postmasters and perhaps women to whom the oath of 0 office has haa b been con administered to quality qualify them to assist in conducting tho the business of 0 the post anic there are women employed in the post postoffice office department proper women the re report port sao says a are emp loyed in all br branches amelic I 1 of 0 the postal service except as a letter lotter carriers clerks in the railway mall mail service L and in they are riot not de barred by rule lule or mcgui regulation lion from crit cring any branch of the the service in tact fact there ar post postoffice office in the united states RE at which there I 1 none but women employed mare marc the sanle same salary is paid them a to men for tho the same ebat acter of w ork in the Pos torlIce department the sal bat varl now paid to women vary from atzio to 1 10 per annum according to service cei vicc performed though there Is no aule preventing them fion accica iulg more inore than that and as postmasters or go ai si stants they sometimes receive much larg r salaries some of tile the most faithful and eff lelent employees in the pital ital service are women continuing tile tho depoi t pays it ila lias I 1 ena en ra mooted qu question c stion tor for many years ia fill I 1 the fie heads ot or the executive depart in nta ants x bether women can render as an prod general fro demice as men because the latter may bo be ta transferable RE at all times limos to position mateas women may inay IX be nith duties in a sense indelicate or dilleh alch require too much fr manual annual labor but it Is seldom that duties dutar s devolve on any clerk or chich cannot properly be performed by T omen the conclusion ot of the department Is JIBE altogether the service arvice st of women hafl proven almost it if not equally satis balls actori with those of men me n the report a based on a request of tile german alt as an to ahat v hat has been the ehe general experience of the government with women employees MORE TALK ON OH CURRENCY gold democratic senators save have not determined on a course nov 23 senator lind pay fay of kentucky who he Is one of the three gold old democrats in the senate was asked today what policy lie he and those democratic senators mho w ho agree hini him on financial questions would pursue in case an effort should be made to secure currency legislation at the approaching session of congress hi he replied we havo had no conference amona ourselves and therefore have not agreed creed if upon any policy I 1 may say however that I 1 think the country still wants wanta the currency reformed and I 1 believe that if tho the republicans could agree among themselves it would be possible for them to accomplish tins this end but without being in tile the counsels I 1 see some indications that this may be difficult to secure it if they had given us u different tariff laws the task of securing the necessary reform would have been a comparatively easy one for it the count rys revenues were equal to its expenditures it would mould not lie be so difficult lini cull to secure an agreement to lo repeat repeal the clause clauie ot of the act of requiring green greenbacks backs when pre presented 0 anted ta t the treasury to be reissued mil and d that la in all the legislation that would be tor for with the necessity alty for the re issuance of 0 the green greenbacks backs done iway I 1 with ith they would all be redeemed ind canceled cane lel in a very short time in the face however of the of tile the revenues this course bould be ba more inore dilli cult and I 1 cannot yet fay what it if anything will he be done or attempted temp teal CHARGED extortionate FEES an alaskan commissioner now how undergoing der going investigation washington nov 23 F ormal formal charges have been preferred alth fill the president ident and tho the secretary Secre ot of the ilia interior against john V U smith united state commissioner tor for talla Al alaska laska specific allegations are mado made 0 of usurpation pation of unwarranted authority of taking extortionate teea fees tor for big hl services iee and other grave irregularities an am investigation vesti gation has been beun begun and it Is paid fald smiths removal will tollow follow smith was appointed last july anti and soon noon atter after ho he went tor to big post poet it appe appeared axed he be had bad riot not acquainted himself with tho the nature of hla his dutle duties and stories began circulating that he ha was waa exceeding his authority in many anany ways the papers lust just filed bled make intake specific allegations of 0 offen naca and it Is 19 understood that the matter was discussed at the cabinet meeting smith camo came from portland or AS TO BUTTER BUTTEE MAKING opinions on oa what is known as 03 tho the Ilear beardon dorr process washington nov 23 dr D aiso mon chief 0 of tho the bureau of arkin ni i industry of 0 tho the agricultural has malo made a report to tho secretary ry of 0 agriculture on what to la known ta as tho the T eardon process of 0 making butter tile report describes the pro profess which consists of ch ruing ii uj certain quantity of butter walh cream and also ajao tile tho ex cx conducted by tho the department the resulting compounds co were sent to now how york where an expert was requested to acore ecore thern them ho he re reported portet aa follows 1 I find these samples 9 poor in flavor the grain la Is badly broken show ing that it had been much overworked and la is very I 1 consider it unfit for table use only uso use that could bo be madi of ft it would bo be to a cheap class of bakers trade 11 dr salmon sa baya ya considering the larro large proportion of water which tho the product by this process contains it does not seem geem proper to call it butter lit in states where puro pure food law care are lit in force attempts havi ve been frequently mado made to sell 11 ll so called but ter of 0 practically tho the same fume compost lion no as this anti and they have met with failure lal lure OLD PENSION CLAIM one ona rejected which it if allowed would amount to W washington a shIn glon nov 23 21 A pension clil claim n ties has been pending twenty seven years and chich anchich bould larry carry back pay of 0 1 if allowed was to ic ejected today by assistant secretary ot of OIL interior davis it was the claim of 0 gottlieb elverst C it of 0 nr alleged to total otal blindness due to a disease ut of tho the eyes I 1 contracted during the military sei service vice in III pilot 1 ahe he clAh cla nant was discharged front from tie tho I 1 abny tit iny tn in 1863 und and did riot not lose his lit S 8 ight until no effort to establish ills his claim presented lit in 1170 vaa made until 1801 menty falve years after his discharge arge when most ot of those nho ho could have testified from personal knowledge were dead the dec irlon holds holdi that the llie rial claimants mants jovn ou n statements incontri tent and hotly flatly contrad contradictory atory ot of ills most important witnesses It nesses a aside from arom which the physicians and oculists decline to accept tile the causer cause 0 of ills present as aa due to any service origin I 1 presidential PARDONS PARDON S clemency extended by the chi chief c f executive in Many Nary Cases washington nov 23 3 the president lias has crait pardons in the following cases stephen M W folsom now new mexico convicted abill 17 1831 ot of making false entries in tile the books of 0 a Nation nul tol bank and sentenced lo 10 five years sit in a new mexico penitentiary justus J ll bleisch eisch Xen kentucky tuckY indicted for embezzling postal funds pleaded guilty and sentence suspended until december 1837 1807 to allow deren defendant darriL to appeal for executive clemency J F young arkansas kar naus sentenced april 27 issa a served er v e d four years citizenship le ie stored john joh a timmins alaska sentenced june s D to six years in ili the llie state prison at san nan quent quentan ln n cal Freder frederick frederck lk W grit fin indicted for embezzling funds of 0 a national Nal lonal bank on jay hay 21 24 sentenced to aln the e yearn in the illinois pen patents for utopians Uton ians lans SPECIAL I 1 Was washington hInston U D C nov 23 jolin john W dobson patent on rudder lamartine Lamart lne C tal trent assignor to revoke rubber company of lio hoston ton hanged flanged belt bogde mi Inventor fi har harry ilayev boltl bolt tensions rEN GRANTED GnAN TED pensions granted Rr anted idaho increase Iner caie charles 11 II clark soldiers Sold lera home ada county nevada original albert wines elko W want aut a a modern warship Wa iship washington nov nor 23 the illinois naval association has called a rilLe tIllor at chicago november solli to eon lder the feasibility of having tho alio 0 old id gunboat now the sole a representative ot of the iho united states navy on the graat lakes replaced by a modern warship warP hirk persons have been invited to deliver addresses address naval militia mutters matters washington nov 23 assistant secretary roosevelt hasi has submitted to tile secretary of at the navy the report of 0 iho lie has charge of 0 naval militia matters the report speaks in high terms of the operations of cit the naval militia and is 13 approved by mr roosevelt heard in washington yesterdays statement of 0 the condition of he treasury shows available cash balance t gold cold reserve cne SO president BI cRinley has informed Int ormed the cabinet that his is practically completed but lie he has not read any portion of cl it to them the tha cabinet held a very short meeting yesterday as the president anti and govel a I 1 of 0 its members attended I 1 the ho wedding 0 of mr harlan arlan II son of justice harlan to miss AIL S NOW noble e ferry hall one or of the largest lai asit buildings ings of oc the washington lugton state agricultural college colleg pullman was destroyed by lire early yesterday morning cagut ing a loss loea of the tire lire was cocu caused bed by a u defective flue the secretary of war may advance the llie money necessary beci to pay tot tor adver in proposals prop 0 a for constructing san pedro cal cai breakwater us aa the law does not permit acceptance ot of gratuitous services by the government A special naval board appointed to examine into the cost coat of onnor armor making will present to Cong colemo Tess det delalis s of 0 the iho plant abich it 11 has designed designe d it viii mill lost cost more than V und N ill have a capacity of tons ot of ar annum annual tho the available cash balan balance e in the treasury yesterday was ine increased 1 an d by making the total 3 the 0 belne being the ail angiouni lount received on account 0 ot I 1 thy he sale of 0 the bonds in the striking sinking fund of 0 the union pa pacific effle railroad ans may maude noble and jamia james 31 11 were married yesterday y euter day at st johns john episcopal church washington the bride Is the daughter of mrs belden noble of 0 Wh washington ington and the kroom la Is the sort BOH of 0 associate AMo clate justice harlan ot of tile the united states supreme court |