Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-01
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
GENERAL NEWS AND GOSSIP.
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"AsBINoroS, June 30.--Secretary
Ls"'r has appointed his son, l.. Q. G.
Lamar, d., as his stenographer and
p;ivate secretary, to fill the vacancy
caused by the promotion off p. Hanna
made in February last. Mr.. Hanna
viii ssmain with Secretary Lamar in a
confidential capacity.
The Commissioner of Pensions has
decided to dismiss between fifty and
sixty OF the special examiners appoint
cd under the act Of Congress passed in
1884. The list Of names has been sub
mitted to the Secretary Of the Interior
for his approval.
Secretary Whitney has revoked the
order issued July 5, 1888, announcing
that naval officers attached to cruising
war-vessels, especially commanding
officers, are expected to leave their
families at their usual or fixed places
of abode, and not to attempt to trans
fer them to more convenient visiting
points. Officers disregarding this in
junction will be liable to be relieved
from duty.
A reduction of ll9 persons in the
force of the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing took effect this afternoon. The
saving in salari' thus effected amounts
to s277 day.
Eleven persons detailed to act as
guides to strangers visiting the Bureau
are returned to their original duties as
printers assistants, and an order has
been prepared to be promulgated to-
night designating Saturdays, between
the hours of 10 and 2, as the only time
in the week when visitors can be adj
mitted. This order is rendered neces-
sary by the delays which result from
the great number Of visitors who have
been allowed heretofore to pass through
the work-roOms at all hours. The sala-
ries of the guides amounted to $4,000
year.
} Another order, to take effect to-mor-
row morning, requires a strict enforce
ment Of the eight-hour law throughout
the Bureau. Heretofore a considerable
part Of the force has not been required
to report until twenty minutes of 9
each morning, while all have been ex-
cused at 3 o'clock on Saturdays. The
new order will bring the entire force on
duty at o'clock and keep them at
work until 4 o'clock each day. All
counters, examintys, and numberers, a
great many Of whom have heretofore
been paid by the piece, are hereafter to
be paid by the day. They will be
divided into three classes, to be paid at
the rates of 81, sl.75, and $3.50 re-
spectively.
OF the discharges made to-day,
thirty-one are in the clerical branches
of the Bureau, the force of clerks being
cut down from lightweight to fifty
seven. This reduction in the CLERICAL
force is largely based upon the recon-
mendations Of Messrs. Rogers and
Huntington, of the Treasury Depart
ment, who were detailed some time ago
by Secretary Manning to examine into
the system Of account-keeping prac-
ticed in the Bureau, and who, in their
report, recommended large reduction
in the number of forms used.
L. o. Graves, chief Of the Bureau.
to whom, acting under the ss.iathoritv Of
the Secretary Of the Treasury, the re.
ductions and changes to ho effected are
d"., hos been carefully examining the
working methods Of the Bureau since
he was appointed to its control. The
small reduction in the amount of work
to be required of the Bureau during
the next fiscal year has been taken into
consideration, but the reductions in the
chief part have been made possibly by
the adoption Of improved and more
systematic methods of work.
The President to-day appointed the
following gentlemen Government di-
rectors Of the Union Pacific railroad :
Francis Herman, Of New York; Ed
mond F. Noyes, Of Ohio; general f.
p. Alexander. of Augusta, Ga. {;
Franklin McVeigh, of Illinois, and J..
W. Savage, of Nebraska.
On the 9th proximo a special mail
train will leave this city every week
day at ! A. NJ. ria the Virginia Mid
land railroad for Lynchburg, Va, ar
irving at that place at ? p. NJ. At
present the train carrying the Baltimore
morning papers arrives in this city at
A. NJ. and lies here until 1915 A.
NJ, when the New York morning mail
arrives, and they are dispatched to the
South, reaching Lynchburg at Goo P.
NJ. The new special service will cost
$4,000 per annum.
The new legislation contained in the
post-Offce appropriation bill will, it is
estimated, swell the excess of expendi-
lures over receipts to $4,000, 900 next
fiscal year.
A number of transfers and removals
took place in the Treasury Department
to-day, and it is expected more will be
made tomorrow. Twenty clerks in
the classified service were dropped from
the rolls, and the force in the offices of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
and Of the Register were reduced by
transfers to other offices. The former
loses about thirty clerks and the latter
about twenty. Most of the clerks drop
ped were until recently borne on the
rolls of the lnternal-Revenue Bureau,
but were detailed to work in other Of
fees.
Mr.. William Someryille, of Illinois,
chief clerk Of the Internal-Revenue Bu-
reau, rendered his resignation, and
Frank NJ. Thorn, Of Erie county, n.
Y, has been selected as his successor.
1t is understood that the vacancy in
the Office of the chief of the customs
division, caused by the resignation of
Mr.. II. b. James, will be filled by the
promotion Of Captain j. b. McGregor,
assistant chief, who has been in charge
Of the Office for over month past.
The President will appoint William
DOrsheimer United States attorney for
the Southern district of New York,
and Martin I. Mcmahon United States
ynorob.l for tba CANA district