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Show FOR CHIEFS OF DIVISION. About a Hundred Applications (or Appointments on File. laaiiilnallun lu lie I'aisril lu Lslali. Hall 111" riliirour Hie Aiilleaul Wasiiinutov, March 25. Thero oreonflluln thu treasury department nearly onu hundred applications for ajpotiilinontsasohltfof division. Bo far no appointments of this class havo been made. Many applicants havu been surprise I to learn that evin this class of losltlons is within thu civil servlco rules or iartlally so. Tho latest treasury department regulations coutalu the following: "Hireafter no person shall be appointed chief of division lu this dciartment unless bo shall have first satisfied the board of exaiulmrs of his fltnias for that position; provided that the chief ol the division of speilal ngeuts, the chief of the secret servlco division and the chief of the mall division may In the discretion of the secritary be ap polntid as at tbo J resent time without exuinluallou. Tlio examination for this lurposewlll be oouietlllve aud not technical, and shall be practical In Its character and ao far as may be shall relate to matters which fairly test the caj ability and illness of thu person examined as to thu discharge of the dutlisof IhoolUce to which be Is to lu appointed. tho board of examlmrs for thu ix-amluatlon ix-amluatlon of suih persons shall ho oomtltutid as follows I Assistant secretary In chargo of tho appointments, appoint-ments, the chief of thu bureau In which tho rrson Is to bu appointed or the chief clerk of the department wueriln such persou Is to bo appointed, the chief of thu division In the secretary's secre-tary's olilceandlho triasury examiner. exam-iner. United Hlates special agents too have touudoit,oan examination before be-fore their appointments to determine their uuall tliallons, thu rulo reidi. "Hcroailer no p rtou shall be appointed appoint-ed special agent of the treasury department depart-ment unless his Illness hsa been asctr. talued by suitable tests." rhoso who apply for these psltlons will therefore be Huljctted to suih examination as may be ncitsaary to asoertalu whether they are pouiiued ot the requisite qualifications. lhuapolntrainis will bu oonfimd irobatlonary for six months, with thu iintloyiumt for thu luturu to depend upou thu illness of the n polntee for thuwoik usilgued, lhe examination board of the spiolsl agentB will bu constituted as follows. Thu assistant secretary lu chargo ot euetomi, thu chief of thu division of special agents unj thu treaiury ex-umlnur." ex-umlnur." . in. Ill nKlln.. ii, WaeiiikutuN, March 1.5 Tho l'res-Ident l'res-Ident has drclded to a point Allen 1. Mors, Michigan, consul at Ulas-gou. Ulas-gou. His prluilpal oi pouent for thu I lace was Owsley of Illinois, who formerly for-merly hild the (tact. etilniae far llie Met Imllrs Monihui, March 'Ji. Canadian Parlllo olllclals here she that a big tralllu Is about tu spring up In tbo trunspottatlou of Chlnesu from Vancouver Van-couver to Halifax, on routo to thu West I'ldlen. The Chlurse are allowed al-lowed to enter thu Wist Indies free and are beginning to go foiwuid lu largo numbers. . ... . |
