Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03

IeOWdu udc dShou W 10 reblreO irOn the
duties of superintendent of the naval OBJ
servatory, and Secretary Chandler has ap-
pointed Commodore Shufeldt to succeed
him. Commodore Shufeldt will, on the
9Th of this month be promoted to rear
admiral, as on that day Rear Admiral E..
R. Calhoun will be placed on the retired
list. 1t had been decided to give Shufeldt
command of Mare island navy yard, but
now some other officer will be sent to that
point.
THE MONTHLY CROP REPORT
for May will be issued by the department
of agriculture at the usual time, late in the
afternoon of the 10th inst. The returns
from the departments correspondents
throughout the country are uniformly
mailed on the 1st of each month. Many of
them are not received till the very day on
which the final totals and deductions
are figured out. Therefore all assertions
as to what the forthcoming report will
show are merely speculative and con jec-
tural. The department statistician him
self remarked to-day that no knowledge
short of omniscience is sufficient to warrant
a positive prediction of results from a
compilation of the hundreds of individual
reports to the department in advance
of their completed receipt and examination
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Rev. j. A. Reddick, well-known coIored
Methodist Episcopal clergyman, formerly
of Baltimore, but now of Staunton, Va,
arrived on the Baltimore train from Wash
ington, over the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road, and at once made complaint that his
civil rights had been denied him, and that
he had been ill-treated and elected from
the Viaduct hotel, at Relay station, owned
by the railroad company. He States that
when the train arrived at Relay ne vent
into the hotel with other passengers to his
breakfast, but was refused by the manager
of the house, who stated thai lie hG1 given
orders that colored people shoGld loa %
served there. Mr.. Reddick says he at
tempted to demonstrate with the manager,
when the latter became angry, and, with
an oath, put him out of the dining hall.
Mr.. Reddick declares he will
have his rights vindicated.
THE NAVAL ACADEMY VISITORS.
The following board OF visitors to the
naval academy was appointed by the pres
ident to-day: Hon. Eldridge G. Lapham,
New York; Hon. Johnson N. Camden, West
Virginia; Hon. Alfred G. Harmer, Pennsyl-
vania; Hon. Thos. Updegraff, Iowa; Hon.
Roger 0. Mills, Texas; DR.. Samuel Abbott
Green. Boston; Roar Admiral John G.
Howell, Major General Irwin Mcdowell,
Edward V. Kingsley, West Point, n. Y;
Rev. John w. Densmore, Bloomington,
Ill.,; Gen. Arson G. McCook, New York;
Prof. George lnman Richie, Philadelphia.
Secretary Chandler has written a letter to
Gen. Mcdowell, requesting the latter to
visit the academy in connection with Rear
Admiral Howell and Edward V. Kingsley,
between the Goth of May and the meeting
of the board of visitors June LIST, for the
purpose of informally inquiring, first.
whether the standard of scholarship adopt
ed is too high; and second, whether the
discipline, during the past year has been
too severe.
CABINET MEETING.
A special meeting of the cabinet was
held to day to consider the civil service
regulations, now awaiting the presidents
action. All members were present except
the attorney general. The session lasted
about two and a half hours and the regula-
tons, as presented by the civil service
commission were agreed to without sub
stantial change, although it was deemed
advisable to change the mode of expression
of certain rules. There was one question
which the cabinet found it difficult to de-
eide. The custom which is now observed
in making appointments in several of the
executive departments, and which in the
treasury has force of law, is to distribute
them among the states and territories
upon the basis of population. 1t is qUes
toned whether strict adherence to this
rule would not in many cases hamper the
administration of the civil service, and a
msjority of the members of the cabinet
incline to the view that appointment under
the new civil service rules should be made
strictly upon merit, as determined by
competitive examinations regardless of the
residence of the successful candidate. A
decision, however, has not yet been reach
ed by the cabinet upon this point. Dor
man B. Eaton, of the civil cervice commits
sion, said this evening that one of the
clauses of the new civil service law pro-
vides that appointments shall be dis
tributed among the states and territories.
IN proportion to the population, as
far as practicable, but that as this clause
comes with several others under the COM
mon head of provisions which are to be
carried out only as far as good admins
tration of the law will permit, he did not
think it would prove a source of much
difficulty. He said further it should be
borne in mind that the law had nothing to
say with regard to the proposition in which
the several states and territories are repre-
sented in appointments already made, and
that the present representation of the
states and territories would not be taken
into consideration in determining further
appointments, as the law refers solely to
appointments hereafter to be made. Also
that the provision of law in question
relates to appointment, not to examina-
ton. OF course the examinations would
be made, he said, with view to supplying
the appointing power with the proper
material. The president will approve the
regulations as soon as they shall have been
altered to meet the views of the cabinet.
TREASURY DECISION.
Judge Lawrence, first comptroller of
the treasury, has rendered a decision to-
day in favor Of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railroad Company, upon its claim
for transportation of stationery on account
of the United States from st. Louis to the
collector of revenue at Springfield, Mo.
The question involved was whether or not.
A