Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-09
Treasury Department Changes.

Treasury Department Changes.
The following named persons have received
appointments under amended rule 10 civil
service rules viz:
A. N. Stevenson of New Jersey 10 lieutenant
Of the watch, $500 per annum; 7. H. Sypherd
Of Virginia and VIM. Cairns Of New Jersey to
clerkships of the $500 class in the Office of the
commissioner of internal revenue. Promotions:
c. A. Brown Of Maine from class to
class 8. Miss E. NJ. Bartlett of Arkansas from
o. 900 to class /; Miss Hattie Bartlett of Maine
and ID. A. Reiff Of the District of Columbia
from 81 600 in the Office of the commissioner
OF internal revenue; Miss Augusta Pratt of
Minnesota from $500 to o 600; Miss Jennie
Sanders Of Wisconsin from $500 to $1,000,
Office Of the Secretary and Miss A. r Cornelius
of Pennsylvania from $40 to $500, Office of the
second auditor.
Contesting the Doctors Seat.
A rather interesting case has arisen in con-
nection with a member of Q pensions medical
board. DIR. Phil Roberts. a republican living
in Richmond, KY, on the Gath Of July last re-
signed his position on the examining medical
board in that district. He asked that the resig-
nation take effect at once, but in fact
1t was not officially accepted until
August IS. On the 5th of August he was elected
a member Of the state senate after close con-
test, and 1t is stated that his election will be
contested on the ground that it was a
violation Of the state law which prohibits
the election Of man to state office who
Is an officer Of the United States govern
ment DIR. Roberts has written to
Commissioner Raum in regard to the matter,
and the latter in his reply said that he did not
believe that the election would be contested on
that ground. He stated that in the case of the
United States agt. Germaine the Supreme
Court Of the United States decided that civil
surgeons appointed by the commissioner of
pensions are not officers OF the United
States, the commissioner of pensions not being
the head Of department within the meaning
of the Constitution prescribing by whom oti-
GERS of the United States shall be appointed.
The Supreme Court Centennial.
A committee of the New York state bar asso-
citation held q meeting Saturday for the pur-
pose of concentrating the preliminary arrange
ments for q commemorative centennial cele-
bration of the establishment of the United
States Supreme Court Arrangements we're
perfected for holding the commemorative ex-
ercises in the Metropolitan opera house Febru-
airy 4. Orations win be delivered by William
Allen Butler OF New York. Thomas j. Semmes
of New Orleans, Edward J. Phelps of Vermont
and Henry Hitchcock of st. Louis. The
Supreme Court has notified the committee
that it will attend in a body and participate in
the exercises. 1t is also expected that Presi-
dent Harrison and his cabinet will attend.
After the commemorative exercises there will
be banquet in the Metropolitan opera house
assembly rooms.
Secretary Windows Silver Policy.
Mr.. Edw. o. Leech, director OF the mint, Is a
firm believer in Secretary WINDOWS silver
policy. He says of the proposed measure: at
commends itself to my judgment not only as
the best plan for the present utilization of
silver, but believe it contains in itself the
solution of the silver problem. be-
lieve that the adoption Of the measure recon-
mended by the Secretary would in few years
so enhance the value of silver that an inter-
national agreement looking to the opening of
the minis of the world, or at least the states of
the Latin union. and the countries Of this con-
tinent to the free coinage of both metals at a
fixed ratio would not only be possible but
desirable and readily accomplished
There is tbs danger that the government might
be a loser in case Of large depreciation in the
value OF silver but as it is confidently believed
that the effect of this measure would be to in
crease the price Of silver the danger from de-
probation Is SO remote as to be unworthy of
serious consideration"
Where Prohibition Does Prohibit.
Representative Picker of South Dakota ad-
dressed a meeting yesterday afternoon at the
Congregational church under the auspices Of
the Woman's Christian temperance union. He
said that the Dakotas were the first two states
to enter the Union with prohibition in the con-
stitution, and the people of those two states
were in earnest in their attempt to show that
prohibition does prohibit. Mrs. La Fetra, who
presided, introduced Mrs Picker the wife Of