Show THE or secretary smith of the interior department has begun to carry into effect the policy of dispensing with the services of all incompetent clerks in his department or appointed purely for political re sons bons this policy it is said will ba 03 adopted in all the departments secretary smith is causing the individual records of tile clerical force of the census office to ha be thoroughly examined and all clerks who are found to be de dicent in adv any essential particular will be dismissed twenty nine clerks in this bureau were dropped recently and others are likely to follow it is understood also that the force of the general lind land L ind office cc will rill soon undergo a process of renovation after which some attention will be given to the pension and other bureaus with a view of putting them on a strictly business basis all of those bureaus are under the interior department in the line of this policy of reform S secretary of state gresham has directed fais hia assistant secretaries to examine more thoroughly than lias has been customary into the personnel perE onnel of the state department with a view of determining tho the fitness of employed emp loyes for the positions they told hold this action has been taken it is raid eaid with the intention of L weeding out those in the department who have held their places through influence alone and not because io of any particular ability in the discharge of their duties |