New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-14
OFFICIAL CHANGES.
A LARGE MEMBER TO BE MADE IN THE TREASURY
ABOUT 200 CLERKS TO BE DIsMIssED-A TENURE
OF OFFICE QUESTION.

ABOUT 200 CLERKS TO BE DIsMIssED-A TENURE
OF OFFICE QUESTION.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1
WASHINGTON, April ia number OF important
changes will probably be determined upon in the
Treasury Department during the present month"; but
all dismissas aud appointments except of subordi-
mates in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Will
be dated from the 1st of May. No final action Will
be taken OH any of the more important cases now
under consideration during the next week. In re-
organizing the Bur eau of Engraving and Printing
the Secretary of the Treasury will probably con-
cude to appoint new chief in the place of MIR.
jewell who at present occupies that position. Ills
object is to secure man not identified with the old
system. 1t is not understood that any one has yet
been selected, but the names of several competent
plate printers have been suggested to the Secretary
A list of about 200 employees of the Bureau OF En-
craving and Printing has been made out for dismiss
al at once and those thus selected will probably re-
ceive notice of the fact within day or two. An
other list will be immediately prepared for further
reduction of the force i'll this bureau. These re-
auctions are made OH account of want of an appro-
priation and a lack of work to keep the present
force employed. The bureau has been provided for
by an APPROXIMATION in bulk. and has been made the
receptacle of hundreds of the friends of politicians
who could not provide for them otherwise. The re-
suit has been that the force has had continual
tendency to become too great.
Many important appointments which the President
has thought of making will be postponed until the
meeting of the special session of Congress. All ap-
pointments made during a recess of the Senate,
except to fill vacancies caused By DEATH resignation
or the expiration of commission, subject TO diff
fereut conditions from those made during its session.
| They come under the Tenure of Office act OF March,
! 1867 which allows the President only to suspend
civil officers appointed by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate until the end of the next
ceeding session.
1t has been suggested to the President that there
is something in the law which seems to Indicate
that he should give reason for the removal or
suspension of an officer under this act While he is
| not required to do in cases where the appoint
| ments are made during session of the Senate, a
careful examination of the act fails to disclose any
| such requirement, and it is certain that during
President Grants administration it has not been the
practice of the President publicly to assign any rea-
| sons for the removal suspension of any civil
| officer President Hayes does not contemplate the
removal OF any public officers except i'll cases where
the interests of the public service seem TO require It,
or where changes are necessary in order to secure
| the harmonious working of his policy in any partic-
uar For instance. in introducing the contemplated
reforms in the custOm-hOuses of the country, the
collector who has beel honest and efficient, but who
has been identified with the political theory Of man
aging his office, and may thus be embarrassed Ill any
attempts he might make to apply the new ideas OF
the Administration, may in certain cases be removed
| in order to insure the success of those ideas.
Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary Nc
Cormck spent several hours tonight i'll cOnsidcra-
ton of the changes which deemed necessary to
promote the efficiency of the several bureaus of the
department. Among the appointments TO he made
on the 1st of May will be new chief clerk Ill the
MACE of Mr.. Upton. 1t is not believed that any
present officer of the Treasury Department will have
the place The Office of Chief OF the appointment
Division is now vacant. Mr.. Lamphier. who is now
acting was only temporarily designated for the
Mace. This place will also be filled. OAly one or
two changes will be made in the heads of bureaus.
There are now on file in the appointment office
about g. 600 applications for places The Secretary
of the Treasury said to-day that II was useless for
persons to 90 to the expense and trouble OF coming
to Washington TO apply for appointments in his de-
nartmput.