Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-16
WASHINGTON NEVIS
Our Enormous Importations of
 Wool.
A GREAT INDUSTRY MENACED
Oousul Grinnell, at Bradford, England, Fur
 nishes Some Interesting Figures.

All Applications for Postoffice Inspec'
 torships to Isc Referred t" the Civil ser-
 vice NComnliss ioners-The Employes oi
 tho Railway Mall Service to Have a
 Taste of Civil Service Law.
 WASHINGTON, April 16.-During the past twenty five years the total exportation of wool and woolen products from England to the United States, according to report to the Department of State by Consul Grinnen at Bradfor has reached the sum of over $500 COG, 900.
 Tue largest annual exportation was in 1888, when S20, 100000 worth of wool and woolens were shipped to the United States. Consul Grinnell regards the increased ex- pprtntion to the United States as injurious 40 the interests of this country, and as a menace to one of our important branches of manufacture.
 He says that the wool industry of Great Britain has never been more prosperous nor the supremacy of Bradford, its head and centre, more incontestable than at present
 Postmaster-GeneralW Wanamakcr has is sued an order that all applications on file in the Postoff1ce department for appointment as postoffice inspectors be sent to the Civil Service commission In compliance with this order large number of clerks are ar- ranging the papers of applicants for trans fer to the Commission.
 There are about 5O0 applications on file in the Postoff1ce department for theso posi- tions and about 4O0 on file in the Civil Serv ice commission.
 The order placing postoff1ce inspector. under the operations of the Civil Service was issued by President Cleveland and zoe. into operation on May 1. Like the law In re- gard to clerks, inspectors now in the service will not be required to undergo exanlina tion, but all new appointees will have to un dergo an examination before appointment Both the President and Ptstmaster-Gen. erai Wanamaker have expressed their de termination to live up to the law It Is in the province of the President to modify the order of President Cleveland so as to per. init appointments as postoffico inspectors without examination, of those who nave within the past few years, been In the ser vice and it Is estimated that possibly he 1 may do so. If done, it will be done in jus. tice to those who were dismissed for politi. cal reasons.
 By an order of President Cleveland the l employees of the railway mail service were placed under the Civil Service law to take effect March 15 President Harrison at the l request of the Civil Service commission, modified the original order extending the I time to May l. That date, it Is now under | stood, will remain as fixed, after which no l one who desires a position in the railway 1 service can be appointed without first havlng passed the examination prescribed by the Commission.
 President Harrison has, however, said l that in justice to good men who in the past 1 four or fve years have been removed with | out cause, he will 50 amend the order ot 1 President Cleveland, as to allow old en- l ployes within that period, to be reinstated l This modification of the order, wlll it is
 understood, be promulgated in a few days 1 Men now in the service will not have to l pass an examination.
 | Callers at ths Executive Mansion yester l day were few. The Chicago and Al l America baseball clubs, who played in Washington in the afternoon, called early 1 to pay their respects to the President They ] were headed by A. G. SpauldinS, of Chi cago, who was introduced to the President by Secretary Halford, and he in turn intro 1 duced the baseballists to President liar 1 rison. An invitation to attend the game ! was extended to the President He in
 formed them that he enjoyed witnessing
 game of ball and had occasionally seer
 games at Indianapolis and Chicago, but ow
 ing to a previous engagement ho would bt | unable to attend.
 The Secretary of State has been informed
 by cable of the death yesterday, at Breslau l of Consul Dithmar, the United States repre- sentative there, Mir. Dithmar was appoint ed to the position by President Hayes il 1878, and has held the office ever since.
 Captain George W. Wilson, of Ohio, ana
 H. c. Rogers, or Pennsylvania, have quail
 fled as deputy commissioner and ohie
 clerk, respectively, of tho Internal Rove
 nue Bureau.