Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-07-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
The President Stands BY the Civil Ser.
vice Reform Observation-Disclosures Al.
fairs-An Important Decision.
WAsHINGToN. July Is.

WASHINGTON. July Is.
The Evening Star gives prominence to the
following: / he President has called a halt
, li,tie over a week ago an order went out to
all the departments that all dismissals and
appointments to fill places not vacant must
be stopped at once. A week ago stop was
put to all the work in the appointment divis-
ion in the treasury department, and the ap-
pointment clerk was told that no more COM
missions were 10 b. made or. or papers con-
sidered until further orders. and a lot OF
changes contemplated We're killed in their
inception. Commissioner of Pens .ons BlaVk K
was sent for personally by tine President, and
was given TO understand that the offensive
partisanship cry had become too indefinite in
Its meaning and that no more changes in his
office were TO be made until there was thor
ough understanding on the subject on the
part of the President The result was that
orders for a number of changes in the pen
sion office were courtermauded and every
thing put at standstill The President then
had an understanding with the heads of the
postoffice and other departments, declaring
his policy to be to stand by the civil service
reform declarations. In his letter TO Curtis
and his address on the fourth of March,
removal for cause" he held 10 mean that
and not removal with excuses. The result is
week and is still there. How tar the thing
is 10 go can be merely surmised, but it is be-
lieved the President is decidedly in earnest
and does not intend his declarations shall bs
ignored.
In the matter of the payment of compound
interest on treasury note of $50, date July
?. 1864. which was refused b. the first au-
ditor on the ground that the note stated err
roneously upon its face the date of the act
under which it was issued. Comptroller
Dunham decides that the note is genuine and
must be redeemed when presented
A telegram has been received in the nte-
rior department from Special Agent Arm
strong at Fort Reno, saying that the herds
stopped on public lands have been notified to
move on. He says there will be no trouble
on the Indian reservations, but only on the
public land north of Panhandle where the oc
cupants have no right to be. Everything is
quiet among the Indians who are willing to
be enrolled and do whatever is required of
them. They are now returning property
said to have been stolen and Mr. Armstrong
doae not anticipate any trouble now because
the Indians do not appear TO realize that the
government is in earnest
Land Commissioner Sparks has rendered
an important decision affirming the right OF
entry, under the public land laws, and the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States of lands heretofore withdrawn by vol
untary action of the general land office, for
railroad indemnity purposes where no re-
quirements of law existed for making such
Withdrawals. The effect of this decision. if
sustained by the secretary of the interior,
will be to restore to entry, under homestead
and other laws, many million acres of public
land, which has been kept out of the market
many years because claimed by railroad cor
poratons.