Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-08-09
WASHINGTON.
SCARCITY OF CLERKS.

SCARCITY OF CLERKS.
The departure of clerks upon their sum-
mer vacations has cut the departments
down to the lowest possible working
limit. In some bureaus nothing more
will be done until the first of next month
The clerks are allowed annually two
weeks leave with pay.
SCHURZ AFTER THE EDITORS
An Associated Press dispatch of the
1st inst, says it has transpired that
while the civil service order of Pres
ident Hayes was under consideration
by the cabinet, secretary of the
interior Carl Schurz offered and pressed
for adoption an order providing that
no editor or publisher of a newspa-
per should hold any federal office
under the present administration. His
reasons for such an order were that it
was necessary for the independence of
both the press and the officers; that the
officers should be divorced from newspa-
per influence as we'll as from partisan
trickery, and because Il man who had
the management OF newspaper could
not give that attention to the manage
ment of the office which is required to
make it efficient. This proposition was
pushed by Secretary Schurz with all
his characteristic vehemence, and he
claimed, with his usual force and ell
oquence, that it was needed to make
full and complete the system of civil
service reform embodied in the other
order excluding federal office-holders
from political committees. 1t it said
that the vote in the cabinet was very
LII -
peared at one time to command the
sincere and earnest support of Pres
ipent Hayes. The excitement of Schurz
when it was defeated is said to have
been extreme, and he was on the point
of resignation. He said that the other
order was a mere sham and halfway
reform without this to accompany it.
1t is believed that if the other order is
successful he will renew the fight for
the adoption of this to exclude news
paper men from office.
A NEW DAILY PAPER.
The same authority says:
; "It is now pretty certain that a new
daily paper will be started here about
the middle of August. 1t is understood
that the capital with which it is to be
operated will come from New York.
Hon. John Lynch, founder of the Port
, land Press, and an eX-member of con-
gress from Maine, is to be manager
and one of the principal stockholders.
The new paper Is to be an administra-
ton organ, and is intended to crowd out
of existence The National Republican.
The arrangements for its appearance
have gone so far as the meeting of a
contract for the use Of the old Globe
office and material Mr.. Lynch is to
have complete control Of the paper and
goes into it with the expectation of
, spending the necessary money to insure
its success as a live daily newspaper.
He has for several years been feeling
the sentiment of the public men of the
country as to the advisability of running
an administrative organ in Washington,
: and it is now only a question of how
soon before the meeting Of congress the
paper should be started There is also
f capitalist in town by the name of lap
hen, who is going to try and revive the
old Chronicle"
THE NEW LOAN.
The total popular subscriptions to the
per cent. loans is $6,319,700; total re-
, ceived by syndicate, 60,O00,000; total
subscribed In London reported to date
/ is $O,20O,OO0; making total of $75,-
$4,000, against this amount. Calls have
been issued for the redemption of 40
100000 of the $50 bonds of 1865, and
five millions of gold have been paid into
the treasury for redemption purposes.
leaving $31 $4,000 in bonds yet to be
called.
HAZEN'S MISSION.
General HaZen left here tonight for
New York on his way to Europe, where
he goes as an observer Of the Turco-
Russian war in behalf of the War De
partment While here the General was
served by the Adjutant General of the
army with copy of the charges made
against him by General David S. Stanley.
The charges are mainly concerning the
) testimony given by General Hazen at
the Belknap impeachment trial, and are
J founded on contradictions between his
| verbal evidence and letters he had writ
ten previously. General Hazen made a
, brief statement in explanation to the
; Secretary of War, and afterward report
: ed to the President. After q cOnsrlta-
ton between the two it was concluded
that there was nothing in the charges TO
NdGIttIlt d COult uldfIIal Or 10 UnI1t tI6Tl-
eral Hazei as u representative of this
government at a European court, Con-
'sequently they were ordered dismissed.
General Hazen received his instructions
from the Secretary, which were simply
to make close observations of the con-
: duct of the war from military point of
view, and report frequently and fully to
the War Department. Also to study
| the improvements in the equipment and
, organization Of armies. General Hazen
| will be attached to the legation at Wen
na subordinate to Minister Kasson, and
, it is the opinion of General Sherman
, that he can observe the war more intel
: ligently from that point than from either
St. Petersburg or Constantinople.
GOVERNMENT COAL.
, The War Department has been lately
criticised for advancing money on a
| contract to a coal company here which
; has become bankrupt. Itappears, how
l ever. that the government coal was kept
on hand although not fully delivered,
5 and by an order to-day the remainder
: was turned over to the War Department,
: which seems to have proceeded properly
in making a contract with the lowest
: bidder.