Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-12

sion, and Examiner Lyman have return
ed to Washington and Eaton 81 Thomaa are
expected this evening. The examination
of applicants for clerical positions in the
executive departments will be held to-mor-
row and on Friday. One
hundred and ten applicants
have been notified to appear each day.
These examinations are for the purpose of
creating a.list of eligible persons, from
which vacancies hereafter occurring in the
executive departments are to be fled.
About 5000 applications for positions in
the department service at Washington have
been placed on file by the Icommission.
The applicants recently examined in the
various cities by members of the civil SER
vice commission and chief examiner will
be notified by letter as to their standing
as soon as the papers in their respective
cases can be examined and passed upon.
HORTON TO RESIGN.
The following may be accepted as an
authoritative account of the complications
in regard to G. NJ. Horton, lately ap-
pointed revenue agent: Commissioner
Evans was personally acquainted with him,
and he came to Washington highly recon-
mended for the appointment. Soon after
he was appointed, Solomon Carter, of Bos-
ton, wrote a letter to the president making
charges against Horton, that he accepted
$1,000 as a consideration for the release of
certain goods seized under the internal
revenue law. Horton was notified of the
charges as soon as made, and he wrote a
better explicitly denying them. Suisse
quently these charges were referred to Col
lector Slack of Boston, at which city all the
parties interested reside, for investigation
and report.
The report of Collector Slack was re-
ceived last week during the absence of the
commissioner, and remained unopened
until his return on Sunday last, at
which time it was opened and carefully
read by him. The report was found to
set forth as conclusion that the evidence
failed to connect Horton with the re-
ceipt of the $4,000 paid by Carter. Col
lector Slack in his report, however, incor-
porated the statement of per-
sons examined privately by him in the
absence of Horton, and these persons re-
fused to allow their names to be used, but
made in this way certain other charges
against Horton, which he was given no
opportunity to deny by the collector.
These charges were OF character similar
to those made by Carter.
Upon reading the report the commits
sioner felt it was due to the administration
and himself that Horton should tender his
resignation, not because he had been found
guilty of any charge nor because of the
charges in the collectors report, but to
relieve an evident embarrassment. Conse-
quently, on Sunday he wrote Horton re-
questing him to forward his resignation.
This, Horton was in position
to do without any reflection on
himself, and especially as the charges
made by Carter had not been sustained.
On Monday last the commissioner tele-
graphed Horton calling his attention to
his letter of the day previous, and asking
immediate compliance with the request it
contained. On Tuesday Horton tele-
graphed the commissioner asking if he
would be allowed an interview, and as this
request was not regarded IN
reply was sent
granting the same provided he come to
Washington Immediately. On Wednes-
day, instead of coming to Washington,
Horton again telegraphed asking that a
copy of the report be forwarded him, or
that Collector Slack be directed to permit
him to read his letterpress copy of the
same and at the close of the telegram he
said ne courted investigation
of the Howe and French charges
made against him. After carefully going
over the situation the commissioner felt it
was better for all concerned, and that it was
due the administration that the embar-
rassment should be relieved by the resig-
nation of Horton, and accordingly this
afternoon he telegraphed him positively
to that effect, and of course Horton will
resign.