Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-02

The civil service recommendations of
Commissioner Raum are framed for the
purpose of putting in force plan for
getting rid of superannuated clerks
without trouble, There are men in his
bureau now who have been there 60 long
that their days of business are past. ow-
ing to the incapacity of old age. They
cannot we'll be discharged as there is
nothing against them, and their friends
make such an outcry if an effort to re-
move them is meditated. General Raum
proposes to avoid this difficulty by MAX
ing their appointments for fixed term,
and retiring the clerks when expedient
at the end Of any term with the bonus of
months pay for each years service.
The report Of the navy advisory board
on the reorganization of the navy has
been made public. In their recommen.
dations they have received the endorse
ment of Secretary Hunt and the report
itself will be appended to the annual re-
port already submitted. The president
OF the board reports that they find only
thirty unarmored vessels in the navy Ell
ther available for active service, or which
can be made available ut cost low
enough to warrant the expenditure. Sew.
enty vessels, in the opinion Of the board,
are necessary to reform effectively the
work of the navy. They therefore rec
ommend the building of thirty eight un-
armored cruising vessels in addition to
five steel rams and five torpedo boats for
coast and harbor defense.
A Washington telegram says Mr.. Bur
chard's change of front on the expedien-
cy of further silver coinage continues to
attract great deal of attention, because
he was the only extreme silver man
among the prominent men in the de,
partment. He said to-day that he had
come to the conclusion that there were
two horns to the dilemma, either OF
which could only be met by suspending
the coinage of the standard dollars for
the time being. In the first place, it was
clear to him that without the co.opera.
tion of other commercial countries we
could not carry and maintain the posi-.
tion of silver as part of the currency Of
the world, having now in circulation oil
that is needed for our own use; and. IN
the second place, if the other nations
should agree upon q standard of value
it would probably be different from ours
80 that the dollars would have to be re
ceived. In either event, he thought, We
did not need any more dollars at pres.
ent.
The New York Worlds Washington
correspondent says of the instruction.
alleged to have been recently sent ou
representatives in Chill and Peru: eth
ground covered by those instructions ha,
been since reaffirmed by Blaine in his
circular letter on the Panama canal ques
rion; and have reason to believe tina
it will be maintained in all its scope an
extent by the administration of Arthur
no matter into whose hands the portfoli
of the state department may eventual
pass. 1t will distinctly make known
the Chilian government that the refus,
of the United States TO permit interfe
ence in South American affairs of Euro
pean governments eannot be abused {
uninterrupted by any South America
state to cover the policy of spoilatio
and violence toward other South Amer
can states, which would speedily attra'
European interference were the Unite
States to suffer it to pass unrebuked ar
uncontrolled"