The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-13
CAPITAL NOTES.
Transpirings in Washington,
DC, on THURSDAY.
RIEL'S DOOM DEEMED SEALED.
Merchant Vessels - The Baptists =
Chinese Troubles -FOrgeries.
washington whispers.

collector of customs at San Francisco,
informs the Treasury Department tina.
number OF Chinese laborers, who
Elanded at New York in June last, in
transit to San Francisco, where they
take the steamer for China, have not
been heard from since their arrival in
New York, and the supposItion is they
are concealed in this country, and have
no intention of leaving.
1t is said at the Navy Department
that there are no available me ms which
can be used to trace them.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE NAVY.
The President to-day made the fol
lowing appointments in the navy: John
J. Hunter, Lieutenant Commander;
Milton K. Schwenck, Lieutenantp VIM.
II. Sch1eltz, Lieutenant; Waldemar D.
Rose. Lieutenant of the Junior Grade
The President also appointed Fred
erick +. Mansfield. of Texas, secretary
of the legation at Japan.
THE JAPANESE POSTAL COMMISSION.
The Japanese Postal Commission. &C
companied by the Japanese minister.
called at the Postoffice Department to-
absent, the distinguished visitors were
T ceiyed by First Assistant Postmaster
General Stevens, who explained to them
the American 70 t ! system and es-
corted them through the various offices
of the department. The Commission
will leave for the west, via New York,
in few days.
THE MONEY ORDER BUREAU.
In his annual report, Superintendent
Mcdonald of the money order bureau.
says: The gross amount of fees received
by the postmasters from the public
from the issue of domestic money
orders was 1928. $50. These figures ex-
hibit decrease in the amount of orders
issued and paid and orders received.
This slight falling off. says the superin
tendent, may be attributed in part to
the general stagnatiOn of business dur
ing the past year. and perhaps in
small measure to the increased use Of
postal notes. The increase in the
amount of postal note business was 141x
per cent. The superintendent recon-
mends a reduction of fees on foreign
orders from 1 4 per cent as at present,
to per cent.
THE COURT MARTIAL.
The court martial at Fort Myer,
which tried eighteen signal service men
on the charge of insubordination, found
all guilty and sentenced them to be
publicly reprimanded by the chief sig
nal officer. The said court was salts
fed the offerse was committed in ignor-
ance of the military law. General
Hazen. this afternoon. issued an order
approving sentence, "the publication of
which is considered sufficient repri-
mand for the men, whose intelligence
cannot fail to, at all times, prompt the
wish to do right" In the order General
Hazen says, also: This seems the pro-
per occasion to reitsrate the instruction
of the chief signal officer in 1882, upon
the adoption of measures to secure the
higher classes of men for enlistment in
the signal corps"
CIVIL SERVICE.
The civil service commission has, to-
day. directed the Board of Examiners
at New York to certify to the collector,
in case of the examination for weighers,
the whole number at once of those
found eligible for appointment-some
thirty persons-placing the disabled
soldiers first. in order to their grades.
This was the unanimous decision OF
the commission, there being no division
of opinion among the members as to
the wisdom in this particular case of
having the entire list of eligibles certi-
fed to by the appointing power, giving
disabled soldiers the preference to which
they are entitled under the law. Indi-
vidual members of the commission
decline to say what reasons influenced
them in reaching this conclusion, ex-
cept that they deemed it "wisest and
best in this particular case" TO make
such a ruling. Their reasons will be
made public in day or two and they
say when the result is made known the
public will be satisfied with the decision
in this case President Edgerton says
it does not abolish or in any way affect
the rule requiring 9 certification of the
four highest graded applicants on the
list of eligibles when a vacancy occurs,
either in departmental service here or
the customs or postal service through
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