Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-31
WIRED WORDS.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION RE.
ORGANIZATION.
Floods in Virginia - Yellowstone
Park-The Death Penalty
Foreign Affairs.
WIRED WORDS.
isrroA. DISPATCHES TO THE RrooaDus1os.I
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Presidents Executive Order

1ne PresfdentS Executive order.
WASHINGTON, October 3Gth-The execu-
tive order of the President, giving notice
that he will hereafter decline to see all per-
sons seeking official appointments, or their
advocates and limiting to certain hours on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays the
time when he will grant interviews on
other public matters, does not mean that
appointments are to be lessened. but is in
| tended to direct those who desire personal
interviews with the appointing power to
| the proper heads of Departments, whose
| recommendations guide the President in
his appointments. These recommends
tons. it is said have in the past been in
variably observed, and the interviews with
applicants and their friends have consumed
almost the entire time of the President,
| and been of no use to him or them.
The Vacancies in the Civil Service Com
mission.
| WASHINGTON, October 30th.-The Star
| tonight says: 1t is probable, IN the reor-
ganiZation of the Civil Service Commission,
| the chief place will be given to Judge May
nard, the present Second COMPTROLLER of
| the Treasury. 1t is said at the White House
| that the vacancies on the Civil Service
| Commission will not be filled until after
the Presidents return from Buffalo, on
| Wednesday or Thursday next. and that no
| appointments as Commissioners have vet
been determined upon. Second Comptrol-
ler Maynard says no place on the Commits
| sion has been offered him, and he has no
aspirations whatever in that direction.
| Operations of the Labor Bureau.
WASHINGTON, October 30th.-In his first
| annual report TO the Secretary of the Iute-
| rior, upon operations of the Labor Bureau
| since its establishment Commissioner Car
roll ID. Wright begins with a statement of
| the organization OF the Bureau and re-
view of the line of policy outlined for the
| conduct of its investigations. The principal
features of that policy were the refusal to
recognize parties; that the Bureau should
| be disconnected with politics, and from a
| dependence on organizations, whether of
workingmen or of employees, and from the
| support OF economic theories, individual
views or class interest. The Commissioner
! believe this policy has generally been ap-
| proved throughout the country. The in-
yestigations outlined related to questions of
industrial depression, involving study of
| their character, their causes, and whether,
as to duration, severity and peri
odicity, they are all alike in the
| great producing countries. Such an in
vestigation included the question of the
influence of depressions Oh the cost of Iiv-
| ing, the extent to which the industries are
| involved the cost of production, as influ-
| enced by the use of machinery, and other
| kinds of questions. Between March 18th
and June 30th twenty special agents were
appointed, and at the close of the fiscal year
| fifteen OF these agents were actively EN-.
| ployed in the United States and five in
| Europe, collecting the information re-
| quired. The results of the investigations
will be embodied in the first annual report
| nf rho hIIrnon Uhinh will ha nh, -, 4
early in the coming year. The appropria-
ton Tor the expenses of the bureau for the
year ended June 80, 1885, were ample fol
its expenses, and nearly $4,000 were COW
cred into the treasury. In conclusion,
| the Commissioner says the ap preparation
| for the present fiscal year will, in his iudg-
ment suffice for the first full years work
| of the Bureau.
| The Yellowstone National Park.
WASHINGTON, October 30th.-The Secre
tary of the Interior has received the report
of Superintendent Wear, of the Yellow
stone National Park, upon his conduct O
affairs since taking charge of tie park il
July last. He says he found a lack of dis
cipline among the employees, and that hunt
ers were killing game. These things have
been remedied, and the park is now full o
game of all kinds, including about 20t
bison, large numbers of elk and severa
bands of antelope. About sixteen mile:
of good road TO the leading attractions ha.
been built. The Superintendent saws tn,
hotel accommodations are not what the,
should be for the prices charged, and h,
recommends that some one be authorized
to see that there is something like al
| equivalent given the patrons. The polict
affairs also need regulating, and the estab
hshment of special Court to try parF
| NpSpS mo ardoa To ol,c
priatIon of s150,000 for next year.
Illegal Transactions.
WAsHINGToN. October 30th.-The SeconC
Comptroller of the Treasury, in consider
ing the accounts of Pay Director Gilman
has decided that the payment of 81 IA t
Austin 2. Brown. on May 81, 1884, fol
eighty barrels Of pork, delivered to tht
| Bureau of Provisions and Clothing of til,
| Navy Department, under contract, i.
| Illegal and adds that Gilman is responsible,
for this sum. He holds that the additiona
sum of $4,0ll, being the 20 per cent. reser
yation, subsequently paid ON the contract
was also Illegal but as the chief of tht
bureau directed this payment the amour;
must be charged against him. In the opin
| ion OF the Second Comptroller, the circum
stances attending these attractions are sus
ceptible of no other Interpretation thar
! that they were intended as device to aiC
| IN the perversion of the law requiring :
contract to be let to the lowest bidder.
Coon's Successor as Assistant Secretar,
OF the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, October 3Oth.-Hon. VIM
E. Smith, of New Y York, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, il
place OF Chas. E. Coon, resigned to TAX
| effect November 10th. Smith is a LAWYER
aged about 30. and resides at Plattsburg
| with an office in New York city, where ht
is one of the attorneys for the Delayar,
and Hudson Canal Company. He has beer
a leader OF what is known as the Youn!
Democracy, and has been identified witt
the Tilden element of the party. In 189.
he was the leader OF his party in the New
York Assembly, and was one of the mos
influential champions of Governor Cleve
lands reform measure. He was a promi
nent fgurehead in the delegation of Younl
| Democrats sent to the Chicago Convention
to urge the nomination of Cleveland, anC
on his return was selected to manage tn,
canvass in New York State.
The American Farm in Corea
WASHINGTON, October 30th-Ensign J
G. Faulke, United States Navy, Charg
d 'Affaires at Seoul, Corea, in a report 4
the Secretary of State, describes the SO
styled American farm" established b,
the King OF Corea in 1888, upon the return
of the Corean Embassy from the Unite,
States. The farm is in thrifty, flourish
ing condition, 1t was planted with seed
presented TO the En- bassy by the American
Commissioner of Agriculture Last yea
the entire crop was allowed to go to seed
after Q very successful season Larg
quantities of all the varieties of seed wer
thus obtained, which were later distributed
to more than 300 localities, accompanied
by directions for planting and use TIL,
farming of these seeds this year has beer
very successful. The American farm ha
been successfully stocked with bloodes
animals from California, and Faulke be
lieves but needs the advice of a competen
Western farmer to. become infinitely bene
! fetal to thet country.
The Rice Question.
| WASHINGTON, October Secretar,