| Show ot the one of the latest acta 0 president cleveland greatly pleaded the demo crat sand woefully displeased tb mv virapa vu rapa and the it waa his to approve th newly bjoro posed civil service rule requiring to file their reasons for the removal of subordinates this aling the way to rid the service of hundred of re publican a who hav fattened at the public crib until age has impaired their usefulness another feature of the neej ules that is received with much satisfaction is the abrogation of the clause requiring applicants for examination to be under forty five years of age this will open the classified service to thousands who have been heretofore excluded on birthday teb the national democratic committee will meet in this city for the purpose of calling the national democratic convention the of several cities are actively at work to secure the coveted prize among the number bew york chicago st louis indianapolis and san francisco if I 1 were disposed to be prophetic I 1 would say that the coni bention will go to new york and also that representative scott of pennsylvania who is known as the closest friend of president cleveland now actively engaged in politics will be the successor of mr barnum as chairman of the national democratic committee the house has passed an important bill amending the internal revenue laws its effect ia to abolish what are known as minimum punishments and to give the courts discretion to impose fines in such cases the object of the proposed law is to discourage frivolous prosecutions many other bills were passed by the house this week which are scarcely worthy of special mention most of them being of a private character some scandal having been caused lay private telegraph wires being connected with the house speaker carlisle has ordered an investigation of the matter it is said these wires are used chiefly for stock jobbing purposes senator platt came forward early in the week with a partisan attack on the democracy his provocation was the presidents message which he triumphantly characterized as a free trade document it is evident that the chief magistrates able staf paper will fur mish the republicans with political ammunition for a long time yet another fight similar to the rine controversy is brewing in the senate it is the bill to prohibit the adulteration of lard with cotton seed oil and other foreign substances it was claimed that only one firm now has pure lard on the market FEBRUARY 10 1888 |
