Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-22
WASHINGTON.
THE ANTI-CHINEsE ACT.

a request had been meda bT he Chinese
consul at New Y 1rk for pePrl;==ion to land
certain Cl;-ese sailors 1=crnsIy brought
TO that poct i: s1i1 - n :er hal not
been breuSht 30 IN III g y. 71-7,-
menE officially, bur he y. r-..-,y.3 ! .s,,a-
gram from Nav YAK s-M aiming king
| II o lec.s:-l had bec- relahed = =. case
i1 qIes;ioE. IL - - -oiied mt the aaes-
tio1 la: basU decided by 3Hl-e Pettac in
New YORK Igss august, the = "ir F7i;'n.s u
the case Of J, j. Fork, Jniue4s s4ijo-
on q British ~tss1a-iiiD. thss
Chinese sailors y,c4 pieoed
by iaw on the sqg19 fo9,iax a. cher Chi
nese iaborers. and could ut. . auded. Mr..
James said similar aJci-iou had been
reached a. San Francisco last year. Hs
said also that the treasury department
could not construe the law, that being a
matter for the courts. He thought that
Judge Potter's decision was I'll that was
necessary in this case.
EXAMINER OF TEAS.
The nomination of Edward Newman as
examiner of teas in San Francisco, made
by the collector of that port, has been
approved by the secretary OF the treas
urer.
COUNTERFEIT.
The secret service division of the treas
ury department has received from Boston
one of the s. notes of the Irish republic
previously reported in circulation there.
It is said by the treasury experts, to be
fair imitation of the United States treas
ury notes.
CADETS PUNISHED.
Cadet John V. Hamilton, of the fourth
class of the military academy, has been
dismissed the service for conduct uu5e-
coming an officer and gentleman. Thos.
L. KERN of the same class has been sus-
pended with loss of pay until July L, 1884,
for violating the rules of the military
academy.
Phillip Corkins has been appointed
postmaster at Fowler, Ind, vice Franklin
Taylor, resigned.
RELIEF FOR PENSACOLA.
Collector Tarbel, of Pensacola, had an
other interview with the secretary of the
navy relative to furnishing rat;ons to the
destitute naval reservation. The result of
the interview is that the secretary of the
navy is disposed to take the response
bility OF issuing ratiors to
destitute families upon the reservation to
limited extent but expects help to be
given by the inhabitants of the state and
CITY.
Postmaster General Gresham has gone
to New York to look into the operations of
the poztofice Of that city. Ills visit may
be extended to Boston and thence to Iowa.
ONLY FoR FEW.
Claim agents have been sending out cir
culars stating that by act Of congress the
secretary of the interior is authorized to
increase the compensation of all assistant
marshels engaged in taking the ninth cen
sus. The secretary says the additional pay
can.be only allowed in a Limited number
of cases where he is salts fed the pay was
insufficient and warns assistant marshals
against the misleading circulars.
THE LOTTERY ORDER.
To osupply certain omissions in the order
recently issued by the postmaster general
forbidding the delivery of registered let
ters to M. A.. Dauphin, it has been amend
ed SO as to read as follows: "In pursuance
of the finding of Postmaster General Key,
which finding remains in full force, it is
ordered that all postmasters be, and they
are hereby forbidden to pay money orders
drawn to the order of NJ. A. Dauphin, and
LuCy 6KC nCICO1 OALCOtO0 ~ LAc re-
mitters of said postal money orders that
payment thereof has been forbidden and
that the sum of such money orders
will be returned on presentation
of duplicate orders applied for and obtain
ed under regulations of the department.
All postmasters are also forbidden to
deliver registered letters arriving at their
Offices directed to said NJ. A. Dauphin and
o. sfrnofcd IN tnr oil S0oh raeyisfarad
letters to the postmasters at the offices at
which they were originally mailed, the
word ''fraudnleDt'' plainly written and
stamped on the outside OF such letters.
(SIgned,)
WQ. GREs lam.
Possmastsr General.
OLD SOLDIERS STILL PREEERRED.
Secretary Folger has raised an import
ant question in regard to the operation of
the new civil service law, which he states
in letter addressed by hin 10 the COM
mission to-day. 4 few days sgo he
made a reduisition on the commission for
a person 10 fill nine hundred dollar
clerkship and the commission yesterday
certified to him the names of four persons
from which to make his selection. The
secretary finds himself IN doubt as 10
whether section 1,754 of the re-
vised statutes does not limit him in
making his selection from the
-four names. He says IN his
letter to the commissioners that this Sec
tion gives the preference other things be-
ing equal to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors of the late war, aud that Sec
ton z of the civil service act provides that
nothing contained in that act shall be con-
strued to take away the preference given in
1854 to that class of persons; and he asks
for further information on the subject.
His opinion is that if one of the persons
certified to is an honorably discharged
sailor or soldier he must select that one.