The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-04-19
WASHINGTON,

IN q day Or two 900 employees of the bureau Of
engraving and printing of the treasury department
viii be dismissed, and this reduction will be follow
ed at the snd of the month by an additional dis
ulissal Of 200 more
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE hae announced the follow
ing order: On account of the insuffcisncy of the
appropriation by congress for printing the records
1t rs apparent that shall not be able to continue
the nearing OF causes at the present term later than
the 18th or 10Th of May. We shall, therefore, close
the term on May 7th, and thus enable justices to
give attention to their business upon the circuit
which could not be done in many Of the districts
II We continue later. An announcement will be
made hereafter of the time the call of the docket
will be stopped.
TIE postofice department invites proposals for
furnishing all the postal cards which may be re-
CURED during the next four years. The number
is expected to reach 1,0O0,000,o00
IHE secretary of the treasury has instructed As
sistant Secretary French to make out a list of 20
special customs agents for assignments to duty IN
various portions of the country under its irnme
diate contral. From this It would seem that the
secretary has abandoned the idea of consolidating
the customs agents and secret service force of the
treasury and internal revenue agents into one or
ganization. The assistant secretary to whom this
proposition was referred. reported that it would
be highly expedient to adopt it. The number of
customs agents was reduced by the list congress
from So to 20 the maximum
THE President has been unable, up to the pres
ent time TO give any consider alton to the action of
the Venezuelan government in giving the Amer
lean minister (Mr. RusselD his passports and send
ing him out of the country. The matter has been
very freely talked about in diplomatic circles and
the opinion is general that our government will re-
sent this treatment by breaking of all diplomatic
lori With
ezulan minister his passports. The action of the
Venezuelan government is regarded in official cir
cles as an act of war, and 1t is believed that it will
be so construed by all foreign nations. 1t is un
derstood that Mi mister Russell will be appointed to
another American mission.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has issued an order direct
ing that in all cases where more than one member
OF family is employ ed in the department the extra
member shall be discharged.
PRESIDENT HAYES has decided to occupy the
house in the Soldiers Home in which Lincoln
lived summers during his Presidency. Mrs.
Hayes will not leave the city until fall. This is
quite unusual in Washington society, |
and it is practice which has not been observed
since the war days. The Lincoln house in the Sol
diers' Home is now being fitted for President
Hayes.
THE first step in reorganizing the force of special
agents for the customs service III the treasury de-
partment preparatory to an investigation of the |
SssrS,s, .ans service was taken by Secretary |
the force till his case can be considered by itself
Mr. Tingle, Of the same force, was made chief. |
The latter gentleman has long been known in con-
necticn with this service one of the most ef- |
ficient officers. This placing of Moore over him
under the last administration was one of the mis-
takes By which men who had been prominent in
making war on the rings punished. This
wro1 is one of the first righted by Secretary Sher-
ma