Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30

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sew, of Tennessee.
The Government rested its case in the How
ard court Of inquiry on the oath. Gen.
Howard expected to occupy about week in
his defense.
POLITICAL
The Civil Service Commission have made
their report to the President. 1t says:
Regarded as whole, the situation and pros
poets may be stated as favorable. To arrest the
new system now, when it has encountered all
possible obstacles, and has surmounted most of
them, but has not had time to develop the expert
ence required TO exhibit the best application of its
methods and ull results of its influence would be IN
every way lnconclusive and unfortunate. To
carry on the reform for another year there is need
ed an appropriation of $4,000 It is desirable
that the appropriation should be in such language
as TO no longer leave doubt among people whether
1t be the intention Of Congress to allow the new
system full and fair trial. In addition to the in
creased prestige and vlgor which an unmistakable
Endorsement by Congress would impart to
the new system, it is plain that, in
the language of the Presidents MESSAGE
December, 1872, it will require the direct action
OF Congress to render the enforcement of the syS-
TEN binding upon my (his) SUCCESSORS We can
uoI better express our conVlcuons than by adopting
the language of the highest officer elected by the
people: There is public feeling in this country
founded on reason, compromising the best inter-
ests of the country, which demands reform in the
civil service, and the elevation and publication
of the civil service of the government will be
hailed with approval by the whole people of the
United States.'''
The Industrial Congress closed its session at
Rochester, n. Y, on the 18th. A resolution
was adopted inviting all the officers of the
several international and national trades,
labor and industrial unions to use their in
fuence to organize the industrial classes under
the Industrial Congress of the United States
Indianapolis was selected as the place in which
the next session of the Congress will be held
The President on the goth sent the report of
the Civil-Service Commission to Congress,
with special message inviting particular at
tention thereto. He says:
If sustained by Congress, I have no doubt the
rules can, after experience, be so improved and
enforced as to still more materially benefit the
public service, and relieve the Executive, members
of Congress- and heads of departments from in
huenceS preJudlclal to good administration. The
rules, they have heretofore been enforced. have
resulted benefcially, as is shown by the opinion
of members of the Cabinet and their subOrdlnates
IN the departments, and in that opinion | concur
But the rules applicable to officers who are to be
appointed by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate are in great measure impracticable,
except in so far as they may be sustained by the
action of that body. These must necessarily re-
main unless the direct sanction of the Senate
is given to the rules. L advise for the present
continue the work in its present form and would
leave to the future to determine whether 1.-THE
direct sanction of Congress shall be given to
the rules that may perhaps be devised for
regulating the method of the selection
of sppoiniees, or that portion of them who need
to be confirmed by the Senate. The same amount
appropriated last year would be adequate for the
coming year, but think the public interest would
be promoted by authority in the Executive for al
lowing small compensation for special service,
performed beyond the usual Office hours, under the
called Of
Government.
bill to incorporate an Incremation Society
for burning the dead, with capital of $5O, 900,
has been introduced in the New York General
Assembly.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die on
the Goth.
Elections were held in several towns in Hi
nois on the 21st, and the returns on the morn
ing of the 22d indicated that the Temperance
tickets were generally successful.
The Ohio State Convention of the Women's
Temperance League met at Cincinnati On the
ed Five hundred delegates were present,
representing 125 towns and cities. Mrs. Man
ley, of Akron, was chosen President. Sew
eral Vice-Presidents were appointed from as
many counties. memorial to the Consti-
tutional Convention was adopted, asking
that the new Constitution forbid
license and require the Legislature to
enact laws for compensation for injuries re-
sulting from the sale of Intoxicating liquors,
and giving municipal officers special IegisIa-
tive powers against the liquor traffic.
Washington specials of the oath indicate
that the Western Representatives were very
decided in their purpose to adhere to their pre-
VIC bo
lican Senatorial conference had decided to
draw up an address TO the country on the sub
ject of the veto, and appointed Senators Nor
ton, Carpenter, Logan, Terry of Michigan, and
West to draft it. At a conference of Republi-
can Representatives, called to consider the
feasibility of the passage of a free banking
bill, with a redemption clause it was con-
Guided that such plan was feasible. Senator
Sherman is represented as believing that some
measure could be devised which would be
agreeable to both sections of the country, and
Senator Morton is also said to be of the opin-
ion that compromise would yet be agreed
upon which would be acceptable to nearly all
parties. He thought the debate on the veto
would be of considerable length. One special
telegram says: Some of the more prominent
Eastern members IulS morning manifested
much anxiety to secure some compromise, in
order to restore harmony in the party. They
express a willingness to cooperate in all
proper ways to secure such a compromise,
and think that the West is entitled to more
than it has received. One of the suggested
means of compromise is the passage of the
House Free Banking bill with something
like the Foster amendment" This amend
ment, which was rejected in the House by a
vote of 105 yeas to 1873 nays, provides that,
whenever the National Bank note circulation
shall exceed $500, 100000, Iegal-tender notes
shall be redeemed and Cancelled to the extent
of 35 per cent. of such excess until the out
standing and unpaid legal-tender notes shall
be reduced to s2OO,OO0,OO0.
CONGRESSIONAL.
No session Of the Senate on the 18th.
In the House, bills were passed-giying the assent
of Congress to the improvement of Wolf River
across the Menomonee Indian reservation in Wis
cOnsin; donating ten pieces of ordnance to the