Show TH ei I 1 the chil civil service cominis sion ghe give SOME for the enlightenment of partisans A classification of freights from new ew torl york to san francisco THE C ON CESSION cleveland it t the capital Aga inThe cal congreso Con gresi new joree bertey 1 prohibition the boston ato by west n associated pre press to the THE CIVIL SERVICE some Im important Import mt t explanations by the corn com mirl loners oneri washington WASHINGTO 1 1 sept 8 charles IV rowland chairman chain nan ot of the civil service board of examiners for the cincinnati postoffice post office wrote a rote a letter to acting president oberley of tile civil een service ice commission under date of august 29 making inquiries about a the construction construct i on of the tile civil 6 ervice roles rules in ina which among other thin things a ho he save says are me veto to understand t that at a postmaster may without any question qu tion remove a carrier save for the causes enumerated by you in v your our report on the philadelphia postoffice post office case in reply mr oberly says that every carrier and clerk in the cincinnati postoffice post fico office might be leilly legally le illy removed tor for cause ca use is a proposition on which vou need no information it is therefore concluded th anat at you ou wish to enow whether in in the tile opinion of the tile commission efficient carriers and clerks may be legally removed tor for partisan re us because they do not agree in politic ci A ath the postmaster 1 I 1 ho he col commission minis sion has stated and now repeats that the power pow er of removal ie is unrestricted except that removal may not be legally made for any one on of the tile following causes I 1 first arst because a person in tho the service has refused to contribute to political purposes second because the person has refused fused to render political service third because becalm fl a person has refused to permit the tile appointing officer or any other person in the civil service servi ceto to coerce his nia political action after quoting the civil servi sen ice conet act and rules sir it aberly concluded hy by saying the law fairly constructed is that entrance to tho the classified cla sifted civil bervice service shall be he upon the merit of the applicant without regard to political O 0 opinions inions or affiliation and that con t ti nuance in the service shall be upon the th 0 employed emp loyes 11 els merit without regard to political emlea lit opinions or I 1 oil wherefore Rhe therefore I 1 the appointing officer who appoints appoints or refuses to a appoint an applicant p icart because the applicant docs doe 9 or d docs acs not entertain il hia I 1 political aein oam ions violates viola tea th the e la law and an appoint I 1 ing ng officer who ii ho removes an employed because the employed refuses to t 0 render 1 political I 1 political oli service in in accordance accor danco with the w bishea of the appointing officer because u he lie is not ft a political pirt part izan izan of bo the appointing officer er v violates the lav law entertaining these views the tile commission replies to your question by baying that in the opinion of the commission the postmaster at cincinnati cannot lawfully 1 w fully remove e any carrier or clerk for u reason that the carrier gieror or clerk belongs to the political parta to ali w hichi ach the postmaster is opposed that he lie can lawfully remove no pm u from the classified tl postal service at cincinnati except for some other reason than titan employed emp loyes political opinions or affiliations the concessions ratified washington sept 8 the chinese minister has decided that so far as his government can make them to the concessions to count iez are confirmed and the effect is the pipers papers only require tile signatures of the american financiers fin indiere who are to carry out the enterprises and tho the for mal ratification of the concessions conces s st 0 a a at the tile state department C count 0 u n t resents the publication n of his alleged record by envious rivals riva I 1 a and declares that he I 1 is will mill mate make it warm for papers a r e r maligning n aligning him hina lie ile admits he irh has as 1 had in ad a checkered career but denies that ho he hi bas eve over beliber tely injured i or defrauded anyone rho telephone ho lie will introduce in china has been perfecto b by electric lane ians associated mith him it is 19 an electric device combining the trum bull bell and edidon machines there are no patent la laws 8 in in chin china general freight classification NIAGARA F ALLS sept 8 A general meeting of freight agents mill w ill be held liere bere nest next tuesday for the purlee of agreeing upon ono one genera general classification of freight rates from new york ac across the continent to san a fr I 1 r incisco n i as there are different cla I 1 t on that affect only tho the I 1 it is proposed ed to agree upon u a plan ilan by ate cn which c groppe air 1 goods will 11 bo the tile bime same class cl isa from now york to the coast cleveland it at the white house hon washington sept 8 president cleveland camo came in in from labe view this alvernoon alter noon and received bishop ireland and kev rev james A stephen of the koman roman catholic mission school indian affairs was tho eu sub biLt 1 t of tho th 1 interview later in the tile day 31 members me T of the irish catholic beneficial association to the number of now in session in in this city called at the tile white house presented to tho the president the medical congress Cong rtH sept 8 the medical congress met at 10 this morning the chair appointed a commit tee too 0 of one from each nation represented to fix a it place for holding lie the next meeting the aral assistant stant secreta secretary ry acad an in extract from a fajr in section of international hygiene 11 hygiene by dr domingo brieve re of kio rio janeiro en titled vaccination with the attena 1 td ot tho microbe micro beof of yellow I 1 I 1 t fever and a resolution ma wai passed recommending e a co operative t investigation ilij of the resul tamed obtained by yellow fever inoculations as protection a r I 1 that t d disease ase prof A anna una of I 1 hamburg ga bu r g had delivered elit red an n address embodying iii g a man plan for a more thorough h I 1 study y of i ekin n diseases sea after c r which sessa the general session 10 adjourned ed sensational will suit sult CHICAGO sept 8 A bill was filed in the tile superior court today to day to break the he will N ill of the late judge T lyie lyle dickey according to tho the will mrs beulah C dickey the second wife was bequeathed the entire estate the co complaints cht ise a n to are by judge dickeys Dick cye children n A nil 11 of whom were m e b by t the h e first wife wile they they are jo john I 1 in J 7 dik dickey e y of oma omaha h martha 1 I rtha A wallace of ottawa ills charles Cli arleR 1 11 dickey of hoi ku hawaiian islands and victoria 1 B wallace of the sanao same place the court is asked to carry out the anten intention ti on of the deceased which is ie declared to be that tho the widow receive one third of the estate it is claimed that mrs dickey compelled her hu husband 8 b a nd to make the will ignoring his children tile startling charge is made that ak when lien the judge was on his deathbed death bed he begged the presence ofa lawyer for the e of making a new will this twin m was denied and it is charged that pending the death of the aged judge his wife would allow no one to see him hirn but herself the boston washington sept 8 the official report of the officers in charge of tho the new cruiser boston upon ita its recent trial trip up long island sound has been received at the kavy navy depart ment merit the trial lasted six hours and resulted in the development of more horsepower horse power than the required red b by y the contract the maximum collective le e live horsepower horse power developed by the ni machinery during the trial was m while bile the mean power during durin the tile trial was the mean distance dis distance lance run per hour was 13 8 10 knots ts mean re revolutions unions per clr minute in ota and mean steam pressure 80 86 pounds per square inch the GA IL at omaha om ih sept 8 the attendance at the G A R reunion today to day was fully twenty thousand at 3 p m there w was as a fine artill artillery er y drill I 1 by bv batter battery Y five second U united n i ted states artillery under colonel woodruff of leavenworth in III the evening took place on cutoff cut off lake Lak easham a pham battle between the monitor and merrimac and running the blockade at vicksburg Vicke barg A man on board the carondelet Ca was badly burned by a premature explosion ion of powder prison delivery FALLS dakota sept 8 two prisoners escaped from the I 1 U j S wing of the territorial prison here last evening henry esmond in for mail robbery and ed ea powers in for murder the latter litter was a soldier from fort mcade they threw a blanket over tho the head of the deputy warden who came to lock them up gagged and bound him and fled with tao 80 and two winchester Winch erter rifles now nr jeney jersey prohibition Tn THENTON ENTON N J sept 8 about tn two 0 hundred of the leading prohibition ista of the state met iu in conference coji ference in this city this morning v speeches speeches were made in tile forenoon in the afternoon a platform was adopted embodying embody ing among its utterances that tha prohibition could not bo be hoped for f from roin the leading parties |