| Show FOR THE WAY HE TREATS A they have to submit to examinations correspondence ol 01 the chief justice fuller has announced that the united states supreme court would cease to hear arguments on the dinst and adjourn from then until the of lay and then adjourn for the term all the laws passed by the last congress have been published in book form by the state department und copies may be obtained for 55 cents each senator wade hampton is still here and he says he does nofa expect to leave until EX GOT thompson of south carolina is appointed a member of the civil service commission an appointment which ho bays is bound to bo made unless harrison ignores the strongest endorsement ever given an applicant for a position owing to the funeral of tho lato john P usher who was secretary of the interior from 1863 to that department was closed yesterday this is a senseless and useless custom and is besides very costly to tha government cheap john koris being by the three hundred applicants for positions as special agents of the post office department because he has sent all the applications to the civil service commissioners sio ners and notified the applicants that they must stand a civil service examination these positions are much sought after and the impression had got out among the republicans that no examination would lie required john sherman had a candidate for controller of the currency but ho got left and the prize went to Es congressman Cun gressman iracy 0 michigan verily these be parlous times for another fat plum has been captured by a newspaper man tho fortunate individual is robert P porter editor of the new york press who has been appointed superintendent of the census harrison is certainly making himself solid with the republican editors and is doubtless laying the wires for a applications have been made to the controller of the currency for chart ors for several national banks in oklahoma and thai official is much por closed as to what he should do the law requires applications to be on file one year before the charter is granted but this being a new country the ap cants think an exception should be made in their favor the question has beba referred to the attorney gener 1 l TT an opinion several years ago the department issued an order prohibiting train employed emp loyes or trains others than mail trains carrying letters packages etc this order was particularly ticul arly hard on newspapers as it often prevented their receiving imi fc correspondence and also pre vented them from sending out packages of papers in response to gen erder ggs beeh rescinded the postoffice Post office department guilo tine isnow working on fourth class postmasters abc the rate of a day extra clerks have been detailed from other branches of the department to help choso in the first assistants of i fieo so as to increase the number of dismissals and appointments in tho railway mail it is almost as bad the number of removals in six weeks is over secretary oble says every precaution has been taken by the covern maent to prevent lawlessness in oklahoma and that the attempts of the alarmiste alarmists alar mists to scare people away from the now territory are absurd it is said that senator farwell stole a march on his colleague senator is getting J A lexton appointed postmaster at chicago if this be true mr will bo more disgruntled than ever the ex congressmen seem to have the call this week mr hepburn of iowa has been appointed solicitor of the treasury it is reported that mr harrison has stated that no postmaster in the presidential ident ial class will be removed without cause until his commission expires it is also said that he has decided that all commissions shall date from the date of confirmation but he is getting decidedly impatient may he continue in the same condition after keeping ha 17 S light house tender holly tied up to the wharf here for three days while two light ships which left their moorings in chesapeake bay during the recent storm are floating around endangering vessels mr aboard monday for a pleasure sail down tho potomac the republican idea of protecting our commerce april |
