The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-19
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
GENERAL NEWS.
A Delegation Of Discharged Post
ofiCeClerks Visit Washington.
They Complain to the President
and Get a Flea In their Ear.
Editorial Excursion Over the Dem
YER & Rio Grands Railroad.
The Most Elevated Railroad In
the World.
WARRINGTON.


WASHINGTON, June lS.-R. L. Preston,
Examiner Of the Mint Bureau, ia ap.
pointed Acting Director during the ab.
Sence OF DR., Linderman at San Francisco,
for which place he left to-day.
IMPORTANT TO STEAMBOAT INSPECTORS.
The Treasury Department has issued
circular saying that 1t will exact from
steamboat inspectors strict attention to
the true intent and meaning Of the Sth
rule and the statute on which it IS found.
ed. The duty is enjoincd on inspectors
OF frequent visits OF excursion steamers,
" order to have personal knowledge that
the equipments are kept up to the require.
ments and that the hull and boilers are
entirely safe.
INMEMoRIAM.
The clerks OF the Internal Revenue
Office will hold meeting tomorrow, for
the purpose Of passing appropriate reso.
lutiOns, relative 10 the death Of the late
Commissioner, D. D. Pratt, whose death
is the frat on the list Of those who have
had charge Of that bureau since its organ
ization.
ABOUT A PENSION AGENCY.
Representative Gilbert c. Walker, ol
Virginia, to-day called upon the President
and Secretary Schurz in reference to
having u consolidated pension agency for
Virginia and West Virginia, North Car.
olina and Tennessee, located at Rich
mond. The probability il that there
will be no change from Knoxville, as has
been fixed upon by the President.
THE FISH QUESTION.
Information has been received at the
Treasury Department that the United
States District Court at Detriot has aus.
tanned the decision OF Secretary Sher.
man that imported fresh fish packed on
ice are not entitled to free entry rs fish in.
tended for immediate consumption
A DELEGATION OF DISCHARGED CLERKS.
Some days ago number OF clerks dis.
charged by recently appointed Post Mas.
ters from Post Offices in one of the lar.
ger cities Of the West, visited Washing.
ton to lay their grievances before the
Post Master General. They represented
that new post master had discharged
faithful and efficient clerks (themselves)
and had appointed inexperienced and in.
efficient clerks in their stead and thai
present p. NJ. was not loyal to the nd.
ministration. They accordingly asked
his discharge.
The Postmaster General informed them
he would lay the case before the Preli
dent, and having done so replied by let
ter, in which he says it appears from the
evidences in the Department that the
office is we'll conducted at present, and
the Special Agent has made favorable
report as to its present organization and
management. see that tne public is
not suffering for the want OF good service
The Office is we'll managed now, 40 thai
the complaints are more in the nature o.
private rather than public grievances
The Post Office Department is not a po
liticAl institution. II it DO true, as
you say, that the Postmaster oppose:
the policy OF the administration; that ht
has q right 10 do, and its no cause o.
removal, unless in his zeal and activity HI
sink the postmaster in the politician. L
any one, whether he support or Oppose
the administration, neglects his duty b.
being busy politician, or makes himsel
obnoxious by reason Of inconsiderate ant
foolish zeal, he ought to be removed; bu
il he attends faithfully to his duties ant
makes a good and acceptable postmaster
he should not be removed, though he set
fit to oppose the administration. ThD
President finds no sufficient cause for
change in The nnat offire