The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-18
ORDERS COME TO CUT DOWN.
COLLECTOR ERHARDT MUST SAVE
$s6,45O A YEAR IN WAGES


seventy.hvs Clerks and Laborsrs TO Co.
The Surveyor TO Have an Increased
Temporary Force-Geoghegan and Ger
ritxen OF the Fable Stores Recon-
.endea for Renovai-Other Changes.
Secretary Foster issued an order from the
Treasury Department at Washington ysstsr-
day to Collector Erhardt that from July 81
next he must readjust the force Of employees
In bis office 80 rs to make an annual SAVING
OF SS6.450. The Collector. according to
Washington despatch, is required to dssiR-
nate the persons affected By the changes
ordered. and yet 1t is announced that the plan
Of reduction contemplatss the dismissal Of
sevsnty-nvs clerks and laborers. . reduction
Of tho salaries OF seven employees. and tho
abolition altogether Of seven Offices now Va
cant. Tho Secretary announces that these rs-
ductions are made necessary by the condition
Of the appropriation for the collection
Of the customs revenue. Tho amount
Of the reduction is . compromise be-
tween the figures Of the Wilbur and
Chance commission and the Views Of Collector
Erhardt. And though 1t Is announced that
Collector Erhardt 10 to designate the persons
affected BY the changes. 1t is believed that some
sort Of an agreement has been reached already
and that tho mon to be dismissed are already
selected.
The Collector left the city yesterday for Lit
tie Bears Head, N. H.. to join his family. He
will return Tuesday.
1t 10 said that Deputy Collector Fenner's SER
vices will BE- dispensed with. But he owns
his friends say he won't miss the salary
q deputy eollsotor; Deputy COllsctoE, Fra ~
eisrsd U that he . Is Valuable Worker when b
feels like 1t, and that he has felt Ike u
since = became known the wilbur W. d.n sad
II. ssryics e0t The seven ssiars to b red1csd
the chief clerks and others whose ineomss are
not far behind those OF thsl. immediate chisis.
bns 10 e q
!EiII MI b. known u1til they are forwarded By
order was issued from the secretary's ONCE
isesor Erha.dt ior the psrussi Of Surveyor
T.sl
s snd a. sso e may 5.
iii. last oder VIII Be espsoi.ily bsn.acisi e
election timea, It makes up in patronage
md lspors rs, oosta Clerks 10 {hs Custom
House hsve never been considSred OF impor-
The afs
much more influential as vote estters. "
1s, 81 s:ra Nsy s
81: 6his! Ss5t Apsus.us dsEritzsSS, = Deputy I
tendent Of iaborers in that department Tho
iisSsd that By their acts they had eontrl butsd
to the trouble among the laborers WHICH re-
:g.n thu s Ss1 i.a ss ssys S
sTaeis 81 sns sS
Il was said also that he is not satisfied with
head Of ths public stores. ana that Mr: Bsn5;r
!isn: 3 Fssnf R.s%ssa. FINE means q II
It was furthermore learned that the Col:
sd@!nissreslon - Tho stores; supsrintsndsSt
Hs!fer, vas said TO 30 no Longer ns
in the Appraisers stores. and il was said no
was to be returned to that place. The laborers
sg e%sf1s ssf mt co
from the Treasury inspectors now ON duty in
ponssd in shs ana
fs q County Democrat from the Nineteenth
soion s%ie6s rshts.nd men fo IN e. Twe1
mW.sHISSIoE: Juy 1.-THE Secretary ., the
ton Of tho force in the Custom House than was
nestiy Insisted that It could not be done With
ont injury to the pnbli service that Secretary
rstaiy Spaulding said tonight that the Col
Iector is to use his discretion In the selection
whose services are to be dispensed with. Tho
total reduction made and to be made ct New
York in order 70 bring the cost OF coiection Of
for that purpose is estimated at about S10O. 900.
This includes a reduction OF $500 in the
Naval Office which has been ordered but not
announced to-day. The trsnsier Of the salaries
o. part Of the force Of the Custom House to
amounting to $150OO. Ia not . saving to the
Government. as II IL merely transfer OF ex.
pan.a from on a Account to another.