Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-03

10 tEaI CITY was Tor The Durp0se OF effectlng
pool BY which the iruit transportation
business OF southern California would be
controlled by the Southern Pacific, Ken
lucky, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
Oregon Navigation Companies, and that
contracts having been signed for that pur-
pose, California fruit will continue to be
dear in Eastern markets AT all the Cali
fornia railroad offices in this city the above
special is characterized as an absurd in.
vention.
Civil Service Improvement-New Special
Rule.
WASHINGTON, October 2d.-The Presi-
dent has issued the following special rule
for the regulation and improvement of the
civil service:
Speeial'Rule No. 2 approved July Is, 1854, is
hereby revoked. All applicants ON any regis
ter for posts in customs service, who on the
first day OF November next shall have been
therein one year or more shall, in conformity
with Rule 16, be no longer eligible for appoint
ment for such register.
The special rule, which is now revoked,
provided that the panes OF those persons
on the registers of commission eligible for
appointment prior TO July 16, 1884, should
not be taken off at the end Of the wear be-
ing entered thereon, but should remain on
the registers as eligible for appointment for
two years from that date, without further
notice or examination.
COMMISSIONER EATON INTERVIEWED.
A reporter of the Associated Press called
to-day upon Commissioner Eaton in re-
gard to the new special civil service. WAS
that rule, asked the reporter. made on
the recommendation Of the Commission ?i
Eaton-lt was.
Z" How long had this subject been under
consideration ?n
= | cannot answer definitely. 1 have
drafts Of the rule on the subject made in
August, before l left Washington for my
summer vacation. The matter was much
discussed by the Commission"
What object win the rule serve ?"
" 1t will take off the registers for certifi-
cation those of lower grade than the ap-
phcatlons who havereceived appointments.
1t can hardly be said it will give those to
be hereafter examined any better chances
Tor getting appointments, because every
one is certified for appointment on the basis
OF his grade, and regardless of the time of
his examination. In other words. the best
OF those on any new examination are sure
to be marked higher than those left from
former examination, after the superior
ones have been appointed and in most of
the recent examinations those competing
are decidedly superior to those who COM
peted at former examinations. The change
now Will prevent the iil-informed from
thinking that persons examined more than
year ago are retained on the registers. in
order to give them places. Until this lsst
special rule was made all persons examined
from the beginning of the work of the
Commission have been retained on the
registers, but all those left on the registers
from the early examination are marked so
low that they would have no chance for
appointment, even had not the new spe-
cial rule been made"
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, October 2d.-Edward Nc
Sweeney, the Irish suspect" who has
been an applicant for Q position in The Gus
toms service at San Francisco, withdrew
bis papers from the Treasury Department
toe day, and says he viii make no further
efforts to secure an appointment under the
Government
1t is said at the White House to- day that
the President and members of the Cabinet
will attend the Virginia State Fair at Rich
mond on the I'D instant, if the pressure o.
public business does not prevent.
The Acting Third Assistant Postmaster
General has called upon Postmasters for a
report OF the first weeks special delivery
| business. The officers of the Department
are not discouraged by the comparatively
small business done yesterday at the prin-
cipal Postoffices. They feel that the public
has not yet had an opportunity to acquaint
itself with the advantages resulting from
the use OF the new plan, and believe it will
steadily grow III popular favor.
William A. West. of Oxford, Miss, to-
day accepted the position of Chief Post
otice Inspector and Immediately entered
upon the discharge of his duties
Captain Fred NJ. Crandall, o. the Twenty
fourth Infantry, has been directed hy the
War Department to carry out the instruc-
tions of the Secretary of the Interior con-
| cernlng the removal of unauthorized per
sons on the Cherokee lands in Indian Ter
| ritory west of the Arkansas river. che
order refers particularly to the removal OF
boomers and squatters
The Postmaster General to day appointed
Lee w. Foster fourth,class Postmaster at
Anaconda, Mont.
The President has issued an executive
order directing DR.. Z. o. Shakespeare, of
Pennsylvania, to proceed, under the direc-
ton OF the Secretary of State. as a repre-
sentative of the United States, to Spain.
and other countries in Europe where the
cholera exists, and make an investigation
Ct the causes, progress and proper preyen-
ton and cure of the disease, in order that
a full report may be made to Congress dur
ing its next session.
The President to-day appointed Spraille
braden to be Assayer in charge OF the assay
office at Helena, NJ. T,
California Rsissss - Exaggerated State
ment.
New YORK, October 2d.-Considerable
interest is manifested here by foreign fruit
dealers reparCinf- the Drina Of tho iialifor