Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-01-21

kdcceSS and practical
BY giving to American
what governmental assis-
n Csn rendered honestly and legiti-
ma.ely H. compensation for carrying the
mails. Last year only two American YES
sells carried grain from New York to Eu-
rope. Neither of them we're steamships.
tom of the list. The peculiar advantage
of this situation is that the bottom is good
place to start from.
A well-known Democrat of the Jack
sonian epoch gives voice to the following:
Concerning the departments in Washing
ton, find that since the Civil Service act
went into effect, January 16, 1883, 214 have
been appointed to clerkships under said act
| in the Interior Department, 1875 in the
Treasury and 80 in the General Postofice
Department, making 379 in these three de-
partments, where there are about 5000
clerks employed This is about six per cent
of the total; therefore ninety -four per cent
of these subordinates have been appointed
during twenty-four years, through Repub-
| lican influence for political service rendered
under the vicious spoils system. If there
| is any protection to clerks appointed under
the Civil Service law, there certainly is
nothing in the letter or spirit of the law to
protect clerks not appointed Hereunder.
| The law is not retroactive in its provisions.
| 1t is stated at the Treasury department
| that it is mistake to suppose that clerks
| in the department. are Withdrawing their
papers and recommendations which, in
many instances, secured their appointment,
and which are on file in the appointment
division. In view of the approaching
change of administration a number of en-
ployes have endeavored to withdraw them,
but the chief of the appointment division
holds that they are part of the records of
the department, and cannot be removed.
The only papers which can be returned are
those which were filed by unsuccessful ap-
| plicants.
The indications are that there will be a
larger crowd in this city on Inauguration
day than there has ever been before. The
city will be increased to almost double its
summer population, and its lodging capaci-
ty will be tested to it's utmost. The hotels
have already received enough applications
for quarters to fill them over two or three
times, more than they ever did during any
inaugural time in the history of the city
en- ir,mense number.
The bill to prevent the unlawful occu-
pancy of the public lands which passed the
| House last June was amended in the Senate
on the report Of Senator Van Wyck this
week and will be passed. The bill provides
that all Enclosures of any public lands of
| the United States heretofore or to be here
after made, erected by any person, or cor
poratiOn, to any of which land included
within the incl6sufe the person, or corpo-
ration making OK controlling the Enclosure
| had no claim or e2ior of title made or &C.
quired in gooi filth, at the proper land
office, are hereby declared to be unlawful,
|. nd the maint, nance, construction, or con-
! troll of any Enclosure hereby prohibited,
and the assertion of right to the exclusive
use and occupancy of any part of the pub
lie lands of the United States without
claim, OF color Of title as to Enclosure, is
likewise dycliied unlawful.
1t shall be the duty of the district attor-
ney for the proper district, on affidavit filed
with him by any citizen of the United
States that section one of this act is being
violated, sho ing description o. the land
inclosed with reasonable certainty, not
necessarily by Governmental subdivisions
of surveyed lands, bit only so that the inclO-
sure may be identified, and the persons
guilty of tie violation by description, if the
name cannot be ascertained, to institute a
civil suit in the proper United States dis
trict or circuit court, in the name of the
| United States and against the parties who
shall be in charge of the inclosure COM
planned of as defendants; and jurisdiction
is conferred on any United States district
or circuit having Jurisdiction over the local
ity where tile land is situated to hear and
determine proceedings in equity. by writ of
injunction, to restrain violations Of the pro-
visions of this act, and it shall be sufficient
l fn frIxJaf hn J,1-i cdI nf
original process be had on any employees
having charge of the inclosure; and any
suit SO brought Shall have precedence over
other cases on the docket. In any case, if
the Enclosure shall be found to be unlaw-
full, the court shall make the proper order
| for it's destruction in summary way, un-
less the Enclosure shall be removed by the
defendant within five days.
No person, by force, threats. or by any
fencing, or any ether unlawful means, shall
obstruct or shall combine with others to
prevent any person from peaceably entering
upon any tract Of public land subject to
settlement under the public-lard laws of
the United States, or shall obstruct free
transit through the public lands. This
shall not apply to persons who have occu-
pied lands under the land-laws of the
United States, claiming title thereto in good
faith.
| Any person violating the provisions here
of, whether as owner, or agent or who
shall assist in any violation hereof, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemenor, and fined
not exceeding $1,000 and be imprisoned
not exceeding one year for each offense.
| The President is authorized to take
measures to destroy any unlawful Enclosure
of any of said lands, and for such purpose
to employ civil OF military forces as may be
necessary.
Where the alleged unlawful Enclosure in
cludes less than 100 acres of land no suit
shall be brought under the provisions of
| this act without authority from the Secre-
tary of the Infe,iolt.. -
| Nothing herein shall affect any pending
suits to work their discontinuance, but as
to them hereafter they shall be prosecuted
and determined ander the provisions. of
this act.
The bill for the amendment of the gene
raj Incorporation act of territories which
passed the House, is as follows: Be it
enacted, That section 1889 of chapter l,
title %, of the Revised Statutes be amend
ed SO as to read as follows:
Sec. 1889. The Legislative Assemblies Of
| the several Territories shall not grant pri-
vate charters or special privileges, but they
may, by general incorporation acts, permit
persons to associate themselves together as
bodies corpor tie for mining, banking, man
ufacturing, Or other industrial pursuits, or
| the construction and operationSof railroads,
wagon-roads, canals, or irrigating bitches,
and the colonization and improvement of
lands in connection Herewith, or for collie
ges, seminaries, churches, libraries, or any
benevolent, charitable, or scientific asso-
citation.
The second year of the existence of the
civil service commission ended on the 10Th
inst. The aEngal report to Congress will
be ready in a few days. Itg;ll be more
voluminous volume than the first annual
report, which covered only six months of
the actual operations of the civil service
lay. r.
The Desaocrsatic national committee is
meeting with difficulty in making up the
deficiency in its treasury, and Gov Gleys-
Land has been asked for a contri buf1on hf