Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-08
WASHINGTON.
MINISTER TO BRAZIL.

At the Cabinet meeting on the 3lst
ult., Henry w. billiard, of Georgia, was
appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotcntiary to Brazil, vice
James r. Partridge, of Maryland. Hill
Hard previous to the late civil war, was
a representative i'll congress from
Alabama, Montgomery district
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.
SCIlURZ AFTER THE EDITORS.
An Associated Press dispatch of the
LIST 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 ncwspa-
per should hold any federal office
under the present administration. His
reasons for such an order were that ii
was necessary for the independence Of
both the press and the officers; that the
officers should be divorced from ncwspa-
per influence as we'll as from partisan
trickery, and because man who had
the management Of n 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 vehemencc, 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 otlice-holders
from political committees. 1t it said
that the vote in the cabinet was very
close on this proposed order, and it APP
pearcd ut one time to command the
sincere and earnest support of Pres
ipcnt Hayes. The excitement of Schurz
when it was defeated is said to have
been extreme, and he was on the point
of resignation, lie said that the other
order was Il 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:
at 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 rs the meeting of
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
It's success rs a live daily newspaper,
He has for several years been feeling
the sentiment Of the public men Of the
country a to the ACCESSIBILITY of running
an administrative organ in Washington,
and it Is now only question of how
soon before the meeting of congress the
paper should be started. There is also
Il capitalist in town 10y the name of lap
hen, who Is going to try and revive the
old Chronicle
THE NEW LOAN.
The total popular subscriptions To the
t Der cent. loans is S6.319, 700; total re-
cciycd by syndicate, 100000; total
subscribed in London reported to date
is 100000: making total of So