The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-31


dent giving notice that he will hereafter
decline to see all persons seeking official
appointment, 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 ap-
polntments are to be lessened, built Is
Intended as direct to those who desire
personal interviews with the appointing
power, TO the proper heads OF depart
ments, whose recommendations guide
the President in his appointments.
These recommendations, 1t IS SAID,
have in the past been invariably OBJ
| served, and the interviews with the ap-
plicants and their friends have con
sumed almost the entire time OF the
President, and have been Of no use to
him or them.
THE -ADMIRAL's DEATH.
The death in this city yesterday of
Rear-AdmiraI w. Kraft, promotes
Commodore John Lee Davis, now COM
handing the Asiatic feet, to Rear
Admiral. Commodore VIM. Truxton is
now senior commodore and will be pro-
NOTED to rear-admiral in February,
1886. on the retirement of Rear-Admiral
Earle English for age. This will pro-
mote Captain a Z. K. Benham to Com.
modore; Commander George G. Remey
to captain and Lieutenant Commander
George F. F. Wilde to commander.
no ADULrERATED TEA.
United States Consul Wingate. at Foo
Caoo, reports to the Secretary of State
in reply to the instructions from the
latter, that after careful inquiry he is
unable to ascertain that any adulter-
ated tea is sold to foreigners, there
being stringent rules against its manu-
facture and sale.
LABOR BUREAU.
In his first annual report 70 the Sec
rotary of the Interior upon the opera
tons of the Labor Bureau, since its
establishment, Commissioner Carroll D
Wright begins with the statement of
the organization of the bureau and re-
views the line of policy outlined from
the conduct OF its Investigations. The
principal feature of that policy was the
refusal to recognize parties that the bu-
reau should be disconnected with politics |
and from dependence on organizations |
whether of workingmen or employees |
and from the support of economic |
theories, individual view or class inter /
est. The Commissioner believes this |
policy has generally been approved |
throughout the country. The inves- |
tIgation outlined related TO the ques- |
lions of industrial depression, involving |
a study OF their character, their |
causes and whether as to duration,
severity and perodicity they are all |
alike in the great producing
countries. Such an investiga ton in
Guided the question of influence of de-
pressions on the cost of living, the ex-
tent to which industries are involved,
the cost of production as influenced by
the use of machinery, and /
other kinds of questions. Between
March 18th and June 30th the |
twenty special agents were appointed,
and at the close OF the fiscal year fifteen
of these agents we actively employed in
the United States, and five in Europe,
the information required.
The results of the investigations will be
in the first annual report of |
the bureau, which will be submitted early
in the coming year. The appropriation
for expenses Of the bureau for the year
NANN0 414C COhhf ACCOt nCAC oAA III
use, and the expenses and nearly Sc, 900 |
were covered into the Treasury. In |
conclusion the commissioner saws the |
appropriation for the present fiscal |
year viii, in his judgment, suffice for |
the first full years work of the bureau.
THE ADJUTANT's REPORT.
The annual report of General Drum,
Adjutant-General of the Army, fur
nished to-day for publication, says: The
Adjutant-General has been much |
pleased to state that the number of |
assertions from the army during the |
past year has sensibly decreased, being |
754 less than the number stated in his |
last report.
THE MINT APPROPRIATION.
D. Kimball, Director of the Mint. has |
reduced the estimates of the appropria- |
ton for the mint service for the next |
fiscal year over $21O, 600 as compared |
with estimates for the present year, and |
over $4,000 as compared with the
actual expenditures of last year He |
saws the actual expenditures will be |
much iaSS IL tho oOi1aOa ~ sfopdord |