The Portland daily press., 1875-03-11
WASHINGTON.
Lexal Tenders 10 be Cancelled.

Legal Tenders 10 be Cancelled.
WASHINGTON, March I0.-The treasury bal
ances to morrow will show a decrease in the
outstanding legal tenders of 81, 3S5 100, the Or
der for cancellng that amount having been
sent to the Treasury to day. This will exhibit
the outstanding legal tenders at $3.50, IA 900.
Other reductions will be made as national bank
notes are issued.
A Decision of Interest TO Druggists.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided with reference to the tax upon medi-
cine under the law of February 8, 1875, that
two classes heretofore held to be liable to the
stamp tax are coEditionally exempted: First,
officnal medicines, or those mace ana COM
pounded according to formulas published IN
authorized standard medical authorities, bat
which have heretofore been put up in style or
manner similar to that of patent or proprietary
medicines in general; second, medicines unoffi .
cnal, or made and compounded according to
unpublished formulation.
The Civil Service Rules Abandoned.
At Yesterdays Cabinet session the President
called attention to the statement in his last an
nual message, that if Congress adjourned with
out legislation the subject of civil service re-
form, he would regard such action as dsap-
prevail of the system and abandon it so far as
competitive examinations are concerned.
Agreeably to that notice, he stated his inten-
ton to abandon it. and the officers of the Cabi-
net were requested to give notice of the fact
accordingly, aud the departments have issued
circulars announcing the abolition of the civil
service reform rules governing their respective
departments, wherever operative, and announce
inc return to the former method of appoint
ment of employees. as provided for by section
164, r. S, enacted Juue 81 1874, which Is that
no clerk shall be appointed to any department
in either OF the four classes until lie mas Deen
examined ana iound quaiineu " d poaru VI
bureau or Office into which such clerk is to be
appointed, and two other clerks, to be selected
nv The head of the department. All the sub.
Loo.rds of civil servics reform throuohout the
Country are abolished Inv these orders.
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The following are Tue treasury paianCes LOT
to-day :-Currency, S9,oI2,ll4; speclai deposit
of legal tenders tor redemption OF certncateS OF
deposit S46, 3lO,OOo; com, 30 49, 40 inciualng
coin certlhcates, ~, oo9,1oVi Outstanding iegai
'enueiS' %oo-'o0o'oo0'
AmPor""' u'o"' ca'o.
An important case was neard to-day De1ore
the Commissioners OF Patents, involving the
title to the famous q9a eur n mGa. yohn "a.
b. Lattrobe appeared Tor Geo. harrington, VINO
with his TRENDS control Ine aatonatic system;
Hon. Roscoe Conkilng, y. .; senator; appeared
for George frescotS OF tne western oniol lei
Is,np,n 10Th Harrinoton claims nnder
'',r.ot ~ Sctobar 1870 and an assionment of
", ;.rauonahIo mower nj attorney of Anril 1851
Prescott Claims under a contract of August.
| Tha nua
iaft r. tbe da1etmi nation of the conrt- IL ia
roaIIu n question of the Western Union and
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph companies. =
n,,.r.,;.. If I.deueudeuce / ..-
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Senator bootn says ne NH ~. so ln ~ caucus
with either party, put iwiii. IKE eXfrts'uenC
johnson Ut Tenn, ACT independently OF any
partisan determination. .-..
Secretary Fish for Minister to England.
II has been understood for some time that
Mr. Fish would 90 to London as the successor
Of Gen. Schenck, when the State department
had been removed into the spacious building
arscted for its occunation west of the Executive
Mono;on hnt II ia now minated that Mr. Fish
mo y not wait to inaugurate the edifice which
ha has exercised a watchful supervision over,
and which will ever be associated with his ad-
m;nstration of the State Department.
M. ou;.;.u. Arb;tr.t;om.
QMr. Wheeler ana otners of Inc con mi.tee!to
arbtrate on tae Marsha Pacard oe nUi
isiana, chairman OF tne hepaolcan s.a.g com
hicooo CIV ~ - -. -, bo,, oI.o co.,.