Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-19

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COMMISSIONS SIGNED.-The President, this
morning, signed the commissions of Edward D.
Clark to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
and John G. Black to be Commissioner of Pen
sions
EX-CoNTROLLER LAWRENCE PLEASED
YES said First Controller Lawrence yester-
day, 81 am very much pleased with my term of
office. have had five volumes of my decisions
printed and circulated, and have had q wide
heio Tor the consideration of legal questions"
THE DISTRICT MARsHALsH1P.-It is said by
some who claim to have it authoritatively that
President Cleveland has finally decided to ap-
POINT Mr. Woodbury. Blair to be U. s. marshal
for the District.
THE New ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL.-Mr. Malcolm Hay, who was yesterday
nominated as first assistant postmaster gen.
erai, was at the Post Office department to-day,
ana had a conference with Mr. Crosby, who
holds that position. Mr.. Hay is man of tall,
spare figure, and his hair is white He is said
to be in delicate health. He will assume the
duties of his position as soon as confirmed. He
Is stopping at the Arlington.
NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EX-CoNFEDER-
ATES.-HOn. Dorman B. Eaton, of the civil SER
vice commission, on being asked about the
charge that ex-confederates are Disseminated
any way discriminate in favor of the union sol
d1er or sailor, except far as the statute re-
duHcS, anu 90 not QlScrlmlnate against cOnfeu-
crate soldiers at all. The requirement that APP
pllcants for positions in the classified postal
service in other cities should not be thirty
nVe years old, disqualified any one from service
as letter-carrier who was over eleven years of
age when the war broke out.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIoNs-Civil Ser
vice Commissioner Gregory left the city yester-
day morning to hold examinations in the west,
as follows: Detroit, March 20; Cleveland, March
-; ST. Paul, March "a, and Madison, Wis.,
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In the general and limited examinations appli-
ctntS may be examined in the French, German,
DANISH and swedish languages, and law and
medical service. and for medical reviewers of
the pension office.
ADMITTED TO PRACTIcE-The following gen.
temen were yesterday admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court of the United States: Rich
ard l.. Maury, of Richmond, Va: f. o. Sykes of
Aberdeen, Miss: John w. Allen, of Tupelo
Miss, and Charles f. Hanlon, of San Francisco,
Cal.
Mr.. HIGGINS AND THE BALTIMORE RE
FoRMERs.-The fire against Mr.. Eugene Hig-
gins the appointment clerk of the Treasury, is
Kept up in Baltimore, and it is stated that the
civil Service Reform Association of that city
Will send a committee here to lay the resou-
ton adopted by the association. asking the re-
m0vai Of Higgins, before Secretary Manning.
II he does not remove Higgins the committee,
II IT. is said, will appeal directly to President
Cleveland. Publication is made i'll Baltimore
this morning, Ostensibly under the approval of
the Civil Service Reform Assocat ion of q num-
Der of discoveries alleged to have been made
concerning Mr.. Higgins record. one of the
charges is that he stuffed ballot boxes in the
mayoralty contest in 1873; another that he i'm
another that he has been actively engaged as q
lobbyist at Annapolis.
THE RUSH FOR Posi- OFFICEs-It is esti-
mated that applications for about five thousand
post offices have been received at the Post Office
department.. As there fifty thousand post
of1lces In the United States the rush.of appfica-
tions have just begun. To-day 1t is estimated
that about one thousand applications were re-
ceived, and it is expected that the rush will con-
tlnue until late in the summer.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day
were Senators Harris and friends Plumb and
friends, Cockrell, Dolph and Butler; ex-senator
Pendleton and friends Representatives Weaver
aud Fredericks, and MeSsrs. l.. W. Goode and
and W: il. Mase, Of New York; Hon. s.s'li Jesse D.
Butterworth and friends; Representatives
Springer and LIE Fevrc: Gen. j. C Parkhurst
of Mich: c. w. Campbell, of Bath, n. y: w.
Bourke Cochran, OF New York, and B. II. HILL
of Ga.
GEN. BEAI.E called upon Secretary Whitney
this morning. He stopped at the door to shake
hands with the venerable messenger Lindsey
Muse. remarking: "IOu were here when | en-
tered the navy as a midshipman.''
A WARRANT has been issued from the Treas
ury department for S3,95O.73 in favor of ex-
President r.. Il. Hayes, being the sum appro-
priatcd by Congress to reimburse him for nav.
liientS made on account OF expenses of the com
mission appointed to go to Louisiana in April,
1877. Warrants have also been issued in the
name OF Charles H. Reed for So 900 and in the
name of George ScOvile for s., 900 for services
rendered as counsel for the defense in the case
OF the United States against Charles j. Gui-
teau.
THE U. S. S. TALLAPoOsA is to be put in re-
pair for the regular service instead of for the
transportation of government freight and pas
sengers. 1t has not yet been decided to what
station she will be assigned.
PROF. SHALER NOT A CANDIDATE FOR
MAJOR foWELLS PLACE.--In answer to a
Washington news paragraph in the Boston
Adrertiser that "Prof Shaler of Harvard COLLEGE
is talked of to succeed Major Powell at the head
OF the geological survey; there are some charges
that this bureau has been eXtravagantly man
aged, and change would be advantageous to
the SERVICE Prot. S. writes to that paper that
ne Is not a candidate for that position, and that
IL Is ms nrln belief that no one of the scientific
departments fthe government has been so we'll
and economically managed as the geological
survey since 1t came under the able direction
of Major Powell. In conclusion he saws he is
convinced that it will be a very great misfor-
tune II Major Powell is not allowed to continue
'he Work Wnlch he has so admirably begun.
THE KANSAS INDIAN ScRIP-The Commits
sioner of Indian affairs, under clause of the
Indian appropriation bill, is preparing to nav
what Is known as the kaw or Kansas Indian
scrip, from the proceeds of the sales of the Kan
sas Indian lands, which is now in the United
states Treasury, amounting up to March of last
year to S61. 1856. The scrip was issued in $50
by the bureau to pay for improvements in the
reservations, and the amount issued was some
thing over S1OO,OOO. The law provides that
the payment shall be made within ninety days
after the date of the passage of the act and in
order to be paid the scrip must be filed within
that time. The rate of interest allowed will he
five per cent, which will add considerably to
the principal, so that the amount of the annrO
priatiOn will be divided pro rata among the
holders of the scrip.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Epsign John F. Luby. de.
tached from the jamestown and ordered to the
Pensacola; Lieut.. Junior grade) D. l.. Wilson
commissioned lieutenant from December Ist
1854.
A WARNING TO CUSTOMS OFFICERs.-Secre-
tary Manning has issued a circular to officers of
the customs calling attention to extracts from
the Revised Statutes imposing penalties for
which the person offering and the officer taking
such gratuhy is subject to. The sections quoted
in the circular are 5452, 5444 and 5445 of the
Revised Statutes and synopsis of portions of
section $3.50 and 545l. The Secretary has
also addressed a circular to Collector Rohertsnn
of New York, calling his especial attention to.
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