Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-31
NEWS BY MAIL.

Arrangements have been perfected at the
Post Office Department to establish several
hundred new money order Offices in the States
and Territories by the first of August.
The New Orleans custom-house receipts
during the last month were greater than that
of any preceding June for ten years, while
the expenses were two per cent. less.
The Tribune says: 1.-THE instruction Of
the capitalists" as the movement to resist
further payments to Tammany has been
| called is rapidly assuming large proportions.
Two movements are in progress. One con-
sists of combination of property owners,
| resident in New York city, about lO, 900 of
| whom, it is stated, have signed an agreement
| to resist the collection of taxes by the city
| and county officials until showing of the
| books has been compelled. The paper was
actively circulated in Wall street yesterday.
Even the most conservative capitalists indi-
cate their determination to support the move
ment, provided that it be made general, as it
now appears likely to become. Meanwhile
those doing business in New York, but re-
siding in New Jersey, are stirring, and con-
template fink movement in the United
States Court.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Journal says: Postmasters have al
ways been excepted in the various plans sug-
gested to Congress for civil service reform,
but the Civil Service Commission while in
session here had these officers, among others,
under consideration. Post Offices have be.
come. with few exceptions, the personal per-
quisites of Congressman, and accordingly
great abuses have grown up under the system
of appointment which has prevailed. Mr..
Medill, one of the Civil Service Commission,
has prepared a plan for the selection of all
postmasters, except those for the larger cities.
This plan has been submitted to the commits
sion when it reassembles in October, and I'M
der it Mr.. Mejill thinks the method proposed
would apply to &c, 800 out of the 81 900 post
masters in the country. The scheme pro-
vides for selection by petition of the legal
votes of the place where the post Office is To-
Gated, the petitioners to certify that they reside
within range of the delivery of the post office
for which they petition. After the petitions
shall have been signed, a magistrate or notary
in the town shall take the affidavit of each
petitioner, and certify that he is legal voter.
The petitions and certificates are to be mailed
to the Postmaster General or the President,
who will cause to be compared the different
lists of petitions of candidates for the office,
and when satisfied they are free of fraud,
shall issue commission to the candidate
most numerously endorsed by the people Of
the post office district, for FIVE years. Each
applicant for the Office must bear the expense
of administering the oath. Mr.. Medill thinks
the plan would remove the local pest offices
from the control of Congressional aspirants
and partisan bummers, and enable the peo-
pie to free themselves from obnoxious post
masters. The power of removal would not
be taken away, and responsibility would still
be secured. 1t is probable that other men,
bers of the Commission besides Mr.. Medill
will favor the plan.