Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-06-17

TIE DrsMIssALs AT THR WAR DEPARr-
HENT.-The recent order of the Secretary of
War for the dismissal of all general service
and temporary clerks and other clerks en-
ployed in the War Department and various
bureaus thereof not recognized by law, seems
to have been altogether misconstrued, a. it is
not the intention of the Secretary to make the
order so sweeping in its character, but merely
20 dispense with the services OF all clerks no,
actually required to keep up the public work
The law authorizes the employment of 65 regu-
lar clerks in the AdJntant Generals Office, but
as this number is not sufficient TO keep mp the
work, Isl enlisted men were detailed for
service n that bureau, besides IS clerks who
were transferred from the Provost Marshal
Generals Once VIXEN that ofice was discon-
timed. The enlisted men have to be paid ont
Of the general army appropriation bill, and the
transferred ones out of the appropriation TO
collect ana driE recruits. In the Surgeon
Generals Once but sixteen clerks are author-
Ized by law, with which number it Is impossi-
BILE to keep up the business of the office, conse-
0uently eighty.one hospital stewards Were de-
tailed to duty in that Office and paid out of the
general army appropriation biil As the ap.
preparation bills have been cut down the Sec.
retary finds it necessary to dispense with the
services OF every one not actually req ulred and
therefore called upon the head of each bureau
OF the Department to furnish q detailed report of
The number OF clerks authorized, number en-
ployed,work upon which they are engaged, &c.
with a view to reduce the force in each Office.
he is now receiving those reports, and will in
few days designate the number to be dis.
missed, which will not exceed one hundred
when the entire work shall have been COM
pleted; hence the statement that between three
and four hundred were to be discharged was
In, sAa
Ofiice number Of temporary clerks have been
employed for some time past, but as the Secre-
tary finds no authority for the employment of
such clerks in that bureau, they will be dis.
charged. The Oommissary General Of Sub
sstence reports that his force has been reduced
TO the number authorized by law and the Pay
master General reports that his force has been
reduced 10 five below the number authorized.
In the Engineers Office, Judge Advocate
Generals and Ordnance offices the red action
will not be very large. The ofhces most ef.
fected by the reduction will be the Adiutant
Generals and Surgeon Generals, but an effort
Will be made to retain as many as possible in
each Office, as they are all required to transact
the public business. In the Surgeon Gene
rails office, men who have had some experience
in the study OF anatomy and pharmacy, are re-
CURED, the business being OF such q nature as
to require that knowledge, hence hospital
stewards were detailed. The pay OF these en-
listed men, including commutation of fuel,
rations. &C., is about $1,000 per annum, which
is In excess OF the amount allowed for the sup.
port OF each soldier. All enlisted men whose
services can be dispensed with will be honor
able discharged the service and not assigned
10 any regiment, although the Department
has the right to do SO. The order designating
the number in each bureau to be dismissed
will be issued on Saturday or Monday, but as
before stated, will not ex ceed one hundred in
all.
REMovALs.-The following employees OF the
Genera Land Office rece we'd notice yesterday
that their services would not be req uired after
the 30th instanr-Fourth cIass-M. BueII
Third clsss.W. q. Whittle -ey, q. w. Conn.