The Portland daily press., 1877-03-27
WASHINGTON.
The Louisiana Cou,m;..iou.

WASHINGTON, March 26 Vice President
Wheeler will not be one of the Louisiana COM
missioners. Ex-GOv. Brown of Tennessee is
the only one who has yet accepted the appoint
ment
Secretary Conant Vindicated.
Solicitor Talbot, after investigation, reports
TO thu Secretary of the Treasury that there is
not a shadow of foundation for the reports
against Assistant Secretary Conant.
The Solicitor concludes as follows: "It is
not known to the present time that, with the
exception of $240 imprudently paid out in
1876, any amount has been paid as unclaimed
interest, which has not been paid back or will
not be paid back. as the result of the present
investigation. No loss has resulted or can
result to the United States, the Treasurer being
liable upon his official bond tor all disburse
ments made to persons not authorized to receive
the same. Several thousand dollars appear to
have been fraudulently paid out but this can
not be determined without judicial investiga-
tion.''
Unfounded Rumor.
The published reports that Secretaries Evarts
and Schurz are to retire from the Cabinet and
be appointed respectively Ministers to England
and Germany are authoritatively pronounced
by those gentlemen as without foundation.
Civil Service Rules in the Treasury.
The Secretary Of the Treasury to-day issued
the following regulations governing the ap-
pointment and employment of persons in the
Treasury Department:
First-The force employed in the department
and IN each division and bureau will be care
fully limited to the number and grade fixed by
law and the appropriation therefor.
Second-When the law does not fix the
number or compensation of the employees, as
10 the case of temporary clerks or persons paid
from the appropriations for specific purposes,
the number at no time shall exceed the de-
mands OF the service, and the compensation
shall not exceed the rates paid for similar
service in private establishments
Third-Each head of bureau in the depart
ment will be strictly holden to the enforce ment
OF the foregoing rules and will report in
writing to this Office within ten DAYS and from
time to time thereafter the names of all person
employed under his direction, who BY reason of
incompetency, bad habits, neglect of duty, or
any other cause, ought not to be retained
longer in the service; also those whose services
are no longer required for the conduct of the
business entrusted to their charge When
vacancy in any grade above that of Glass /
occurs IN any bureau and the public service
requires that it should be filled, the head of
such bureau will report in writing to this office
the names of persons of a lower grade who by
reason of industry, integrity and competency
are most deserving OF recognition by promotion
thereto.
Fourth-Appointment to this department of
temporary clerks will hereafter be made only
Tor limited time and not to exceed the ext
gency which calls for their employment the
period of service to be stated in the letter of
appointment.
Fifth Hereafter no person will be appointed
or employed in this department. unless on
written application for the appointments or
EN- loyment, and all papers and recommends
tlons pertaining thereto, intended for file in the
department., shall have been filed in the an.
pointment division of this office, and merely
verbal applications or recommendations for
appointment or promotion are not to be enter
tanned.
Sixth--By requirement of Joint resolutions of
Congress approved March 3, 1866, preference
for appointment will necessarily be given to
honorably discharged soldiers or sailors of the
United States. Under provisions of the act
OF March 3, 1875, directing appointments of
this department to be SO arranged as to be
equally distributed between the several states
OF the United States, and territories and the
District OF Columbia according to the popula-
ton, no person :whose legal residence is in
any division OF the country above mentioned
which has received already the full number of
appointments in accordance with the dis tribu-
ton directed can be appointed IN this depart
ment, and all appointments will be subject to
examination required by the provisions of
section 1854, Revised Statutes of the United
States.
Supreme Court Decision.
The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the validity of the law of New York
providing that shareslof national banks shall
be assessed at their full and true value, the
same as assessors would apprase them in pay
ment of just debt due from solvent debtor
without regard to their par value, and holds
that the reserve fund was properly included.
Southern Men Satisfied with the Prcsi-
dents Course.
Several prominent Southern men who have
been referred to as parties to various alleged
agreements say they are as well satisfied now
as at any previous time that in the end no
Sontnern state government will be sustained by
federal troops. They consider that nothing
mas been done by the President since he ems
dorsed the sentiments of Representative Eos
tors speech, or since he made them more
emphatically his own in his inaugural address.
which violates or indicates any intended viola.
ton of the policy thus announced, and there
Matthews and Foster had been made by the
President himself, (Which of course is not the
case) there IS no ground for asserting that they
will not be fulfilled
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