The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-10-15

~ - ~ " ASH MI ~ 1870 $3.50
WAsm~eTox. ID. G.. Oct 8. 1886
The past week. while full OF minor
|poii'icsl aud socia, even's has been dis
I,inzui.hei b. nothing mofnentons Or
Isen~siional. The President sud his Cab
Iinrs. with The exception the Secretary
lof the State. aud the Secretary OF the
/ Treasury. are now In Washington. u -
understood hat Mr.. Manning will re-
sume charge 81 The Treasury portfolio
Iearly next week. Never before hns this
great department been managed with
|snch economy and systematic eificieicyl
a. nader its present head. Last month
the National debt was cut down $ll,Vp-
700. Intelligence from all sources in-
dictates genera revival OF business AMI
the gloomy predictions OF sherman,
\ Blair and other Republican Virgins.
that Democratic success would mean
\ National bankruptcy are now dcrided
lbv their recent dupes. The indicationsl
.are very clear that before the two aud
lhaif remaining wears term Of the present.
Standardization are concluded, the ainre-
'lmeniionea Virgins will be brought tc
'Ifuriher confusion. Much has been done
ITO simplify The complicated and ponder
Ions Civil Service establishment which,
1.-The Democrats came into after twenty !
live wears Of Republican Acknowledgement
Land debauchery. but there j. time 10 ac-
rompli>h much more.
n Mr.. Benedici's first move was TO dis
llcharge over three hundred employees
4 land nobod, in Washington il surprised
no learn that. paradoxicai as il may seem,
, more and better work is accomplished
: with the reduced force. The condition.
Tin which Mr.. Benedict found The Govern
4 meni Printing Office proves concinsivesy
: THAT The change WAS not made too soon.
: sPeople who had any chance 10 observe
, the inner workings Of this great estao-
4 liishment. have long known that the rep
: Iutaiion for efficiency obtained b. Public
e Printer Rounds was a myth created BY
'flthe little mutual admiration society he
\ had collected about himself. The fact
THAT when he stepped out he was spend
sling each day about twice As many dol
2 Iarsss Congress had appropriated 10 run
x the Office leaves nothing further to DC
lsaid.
= The Massachusetts, Civil Service Re-
p form Association has written TO the Pres
Al ideni asking for list Of all those APP
p pointed 70 positions in all the depart
A ments under the Civil Service law, en-
q bracing the state each appoiniee halls
from and their politics, together with
lelfheir ages aud general character. Up.
ID wards OF thirty clerks have been EN-
ployed for some days in completing the
lie list which will contain about 40 pages
lof legal cap. No one except the Presi-
err Ident knows what j. wanted with the
isliist. a member Of the Cabinet said 70
OF dsv that he supposed the Association De.
a. - .x<
Ia respected. and ..if IL does not suit The
We ideas of the aesthetic reformers will moi
T.. be surprised 10 hear thar the association
ne has issued q proclamation 70 the Presi
Cd dent directing him 10 remedy what the,
al think are evils. Il has cost the Gov
he lernment clerk hire about $3.50 10 prepare
he the list.
nd In the Postoffire Department, whicl
i linclndes by far the largest number OF M
1e. lcIas-ed employees. The offices appear 10 b
On. about equally divided between Republi
IN cans and Democrats. In the Department
Eof Justice some sixty per cent. ofthe un
classified employees are Democrats, Will
n" in all other Departments the proportio
lof Democrats il something less than ha
eA- in one case not more than ten ps
ih cent.
lnn The fiction that Senator Sherman an
p other Republican orators are proclaim
m" ing from the stump that the present AZ
'en minisfrafion IL hostile to the Union We
NO. erans can be easily refuted BY figures
lnii 1.-THE Pension Office. The statement tn
~ the aconfederaie element Is beginning
r. dominate the Pension Bureau" -
iui- out Of whole cloth. There are Employ
~ at present in the Pension Bureau 3
are clerks from the Southern States. Ofth
w number as are shown BY the ofIici
~, .ne records 10 have been appointed bv 1
~ prey iOus administration and only 50
'teu Gen. Black. These 50 clerks were q
cry pointed after examination by the CT
ana service Commission. and as the age lin
: " -forty-five years-is still in force.
M very few OF the number could possit
un-lh have seen service in the Confeder;
!, isarmy. As matter of fact but Eve
y nlihem were -Confcderatcs, while 81
aslteen ex-Confederates were appointed
~ former administrations The recent
the pointees from the South are young =
Iencr2etic men Of the new generati
THAT has sprung up In that section sis
fully the war. The records OF the Office {
well lther show that more pensions have b
Ighf- allowed under Gen. Blacks administ
pro- ltion than any previous one In the n
were sion Office. and notwithstanding
\ oflcharges made that Gen. Black has b,
BY turning out ex-Union soldiers j is
} on that there are now on the rolls OF
nong Pension Bureau more ex-Union sold
q in than under any previous administered
n or On course few ex-union soldiers b
nner. been dismissed and for very good |
~ A. sons other than political. To the var
erin Icies thus made other ex-Union sold
sp- have been appointed. y. a.
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