The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-08-21
Current Events.

SuIIcuG 0VCAIos
The civil service commission contem.
plates another important change in the sys-
tenn of examination for admission 70 the
postoft1ce and custom house service, which
will shortly be formulated and promul.
gated. II will be made In response 10 the
desire OF the civil service reform associa
ton that the local board of examiners for
admission TO the postoffice and customs ser
vice should be composed Of men who are
not themselves In the civil service. This
proposed system Of indepeRden. examiners
the commissioners do not consider practi.
cable, so far as they are concerned. In the
first place, i, would require change in the
civil service act, which provides that the
examiners shall be taken from the civil
service, and In the second place II would
necessi.ste the creation OF several hundred
new officers. The commissioners think
thst the proposed change In the system will
effect the same result In better way. They
propose 10 have the local examiners send
81 the examination papers directly 10 the
civil service commission there 10 be marked
IS graded instead Of marking or grading
them themselves, SIS al present, Thus, the
marking and grading will he uniform and
will No, be affected BY local influences. II
might 10, be practicable 70 have examins.
ton Iapers sen. from the Pacific coast to
TIE civil service commission for this pur.
pose. but IL will probably be arranged 50
tbs; they can be sent 10 special board Of
examiners 81 San Frsncis-e
Its expected tina, the formal exchange
OF the copies Of the ex,Adivion treaty be
tween the United States and Japan will
soon lie announced from Toxic, and that
lis prom ulgation by the two governments
will take place Immediately thereafter.
This treaty was ratified 10y the United
Stated senate on the 2lst of last June, but
the senate made some minor amendments
Ia its text which rendered il necessary that
the document should be again submitted 70
the japanese authorities. Information has
now been received that Japan accepts the
amendments and is ready for the last step
In the III qtter-the formal exchange. The
japanese authorities are quite enthusiastic
over the COnsummation of this treaty but
not so much on account of its provisions,
which are similar in general terms to those
q. the existing treaty between the nited
States and Great Britain, as because of the
fact that il constitutes step In the progress
Of that nation toward a position Of equality
with the most enlightened nations of the
earth
The democrats Of Delaware have nOmi
mated for governor a peach grower named
Benjamin T. Biggs. This is a victory for
the salisbury faction over Secretary Bay
ards friends John b. Pennington was
nominated for congress
Warrants for 1872 ,430, for the quarerly
payment of pensions, We're Yesterday drawn
by the secretary Of the interior upon the
treasury.
The treasurer of Chicago has over So,
100000 n the vaults, and all current eX.
penses have been paid
Ohio Democrats, in state Convention at
Toledo, nominated John Mcbride for
Secretary of state, NJ. ID. Follett for Su
preme Court Judge, J. w. Cruikshank tor
Supreme Court Clerk, and l.. D. Brown for
Commissioner OF Common Schools.
Warner Miller, Levi j. Morton, Gen
James w. Hustled James d. Warren,
Frank lIiscock, and Andrew d White are
the prominent republican candidates for
the United States Senatorship from New
York.
The plan on which the photographic
ONCE ut Washington Is now engaged for
Kidding the Atlantic Ocean of dangerous
waterlogged wrecks is one of the greatest
Importance. The August chart showed a
number of such wrecks floating and drift
ing about in the pathway OF the ocean
steamers taking the International course
The photographic Office proposes that the
ocean shall be divided into districts and
that the nted States, England, France.
Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands
shall each assume control over one of these
districts and proceed 10 destroy the drifting
wrecks which are now sources of the gray
asst anxiety 20 the seaman and the traveller.
II i proposed that they shall be blown up
after the manner in which the Dispatch,
during the early summer, DESTROYED the
wrecks along the New Jersey coast There
appears to be every reason 10 believe that
the Governments named cooperate In this
plan for eradicting If not one Of the mos,
frequent. AT least one % the most terrible
perils of the sea
The Irish national convention at Chicago
made Judge Fitzgerald permanent chair
man. Resolutions were unanimously adopt.
ed approving OF the doctrine Of national
self government for ireland, heartily ap-
proving Of the cause ~ Mr. Parnell and his
assciates, thanking Mr.. Gladstone and his
supporters, and the American people and