The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1892-04-22

pamphlets and books, and if something is
not done to stop the flood some member
may run in the Bible or unabridged diction-
airy as a part of his alleged speech. To
ordinary people this looks like tomfollery.
The employees of the Government depart
ments are in a state that is far from being
pleasant. 1t is expected that many dis
charges will have to be made on tue st Of
July in all of the offices, on account of the
curtallment Of appropriations, and it is ex-
pecled that the record of sfaithfulness and
efficiency" which President Harrison has
recommended all the heads of the depart
ments to keep, and which is heing kept in
most of them, will decide who shall 80.
This is seemingly a fair arrangement, lut
In reality It is just the reverse, as the sys-
tenn of records adopted makes the chief OF
each division autocrat, who at pleasure can
rate a clerk up or down, regardless of his
or her merits. Verify, the life ola Govern :
ment clerk, in spite of short hours and
comparatively high pay, is not a happy
one. So much Clicking" is be ing don
that Secretary Foster has held several con.
situations with the heads of bureaus IN der
him with a view of adopting a more salts
factory system.
All sorts of ideas are presented in one Or
another shape to Congress, but a PROPOSE
ton which has been made to the House
Committee on Labor, for the solving of
the labor problem, by w. NJ. Howard, of
Pennsylvania, is about the most unique
yet presented. 1t is claimed that it has
been fully or partially endorsed by Glad
stone, Cardinal, Gibbons, the late Secre-
tary Window, H. c. Blair, Samuel Com
| pers, President OF the Federation of Labor;
Governor Pattison, T. V. Powderly and r.
G.. Ingersoll. 1t provides for an establish
ment of a unit of labor, by Congress,
just as a unit of measurement of land, a
unit Of weight for products and a unit of
value of money has been made. 1t pro-
poses that the wage unit shall be sixty
pounds of good flour or its equivalent, and
that all work shall be paid for in units.
All that is asked of this Congress is an ap-
preparation Vi SDVUU lOF tHe puOllCaIiOE "a
a circular setting forth in detail the plan.
Representative Duncan, of Ohio, has been
instructed by the committee to investigate
the subject and report thereon.
It is thought here that Commissioner
Roosevelt, who was the moving spirit in get
ting the resolution providing for an investi-
cation of the alleged violation of the Civil
Service laws by Federal officials in Balti-
more last year, introduced in the House,
although it was ostensibly a Democratic
move. The House Committee on Rules
will. it is thought, give President Harrison
a chance to tell why he did not take some
action On the report when it was made
by Roosevelt, charging these violations of
law before it reports the resolution author
izing an investigation by the House.
The Alliance Congressmer are much in
terested in the announcement that the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Georgia State
Alliance had ordered all sub alliances
which had Joined the Peoples party to re-
yoke their action or forfeit their alliance
cl arters. George is the State that they
had been counting upon to lead the otke r
southern states into the Peoples party.
WESTON.