The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1893-03-23
GAVE UP HIS PLACE
The Pension Commissionership Re-
signed by Gen. Raum.
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Statistician Dodge to Be Retired
His Successor to Be Henry w.
Robinson, of Michigan.

RAUM is OUT.
WASHINGTON, March 1s-The secre-
tary of the interior has accepted the
resignation of Green B. Raum as COM
missioner of pensions and has desig-
mated Deputy Commissioner Andrew
Davidson to take charge of that Office
until the appointment by the presi-
dent of Raum's successor.
To DO Away with Red Tape.
The commission provided for by the
last congress to examine into the
methods employed in executive de-
partments, with a view to recommend
ing improved systems of transacting
business, is expected to meet and or
ganize for business early next week.
The member on the part of the SEN
ators are Messrs Cockren (Mo),
Jones (Ark. and Proctor (Vt). On
the part of the house the members are
Mr.. Dockery (Mo.), Mr.. Richardson
eTenn.) and Mr.. Dingley tMe.).
The commission will engage three
experts, men of the standing, ex-
perience and executive ability required
of auditors of railroads or other cor
porations. The investigation will be
extended over period of two years,
and, as each department is com
pleted, a report will be made Dy
the experts to the commission and ap-
propriate legislation will be framed.
1t is the principal purpose of the in
vestigations to do away with the enor-
nous amount of unnecessary red tape
in all the departments and to cut down
wherever possible the present unueces-
Sarily large mum Der of clerks.
EItradition Treaty with Sweden.
Authority has been given by Presi-
dent Cleveland to Secretary Gresham
to exhange with Minister Grip certifi-
Gates of ratification of the extradition
treaty between the United States and
Sweden recently ratified by the SEN
ate. The exchange will take place in
few days, and the presidents procla-
nation declaring the treaty in force
will at once follow. Exchanges of the
ratifcations of the French and Russian
treaties. which also were recently rati-
fed by the senate. will take place in
Paris and st. Petersburg respectively
probably before the end of next week.
Question OF Reappointments.
Postmaster General Bissell stated to
Senator Harris and Representatives
McMillin, Richardson, Cox and Snod-
grass, of Tennessee, that whenever
there is a contest for any post Office
the person who held the Office under
Mr.. Cleveland's former administration
is not to be considered. He further
stated that the full power of
this rule applied to the fourth-class
postofices, and he and not the presi-
dent was responsible for it. This
statement leaves open the prospect of
reappointment of postmasters who held
Office under Mr.. Cleveland before,
when there is no other applicant for
the Office, but holds strictly to the rule
that as between two applicants he who
has not held Office shall be the one Sc
lected.
StatistIeIan Dodge Must Go.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton is
about to make an appointment in his
department which will cause a sensa-
tion. The veteran statictician of the
department, Mr.. Alfred Dodge, who
gives to the country the monthly crop
EcpOEGs " III OC ICblLCo oIA AAS PA2SO
will be fill by Labor Commissioner
Henry w. Robinson, of Michigan.
The appointment has been fully oe-
cided upon and it will be officially an
nounced the early part of next week.
The government statistician of the
agricultural department exercises more
influence upon the money affairs OF the
| country than any other officer Of the
government. not excepting the secre-
tary of the treasury. The monthly
| crop report, issued at 8 o'clock on the
10th of each month, flies, to q large
extent, the price of wheat, cot
| ton, corn and all other agricul'
tural products. The produce exchanges
of New York, Chicago, ST. Louis and
elsewhere are largely controlled by
the information given in these month
ly crop reports At critical stages oi
the market the government report has
been eagerly awaited and has been al
times the foundation of fortunes.
To Preserve the Constitution.
Every precaution will be taken by
the state department to prevent any
mishap to that cornerstone of the re
public, the original constitution of the
United States, during its exhibition al
the worlds fair. 1t will form par
of the state department exhibit, and I
new case has been constructed to pre-
serve the old documents from possible
injury or loss. 1t is in fairly gooC
state of preservation, though showing
the effect of,years of repose in cylin-
drical tin case, which slightly matil
ated the edges.
The articles of confederation OF thu
colonies are exquisitely engrossed ant
look almost as If they were write
yesterday. They are on long roll o
the finest sheepskin parchment, tn
sheets being sewn together with tn
utmost delicacy. The declaration o
independence, unfortunately, has be
4 come almost indecipherable. Nearl
all the signatures have wholly van
ished and the body of the text is TO
the most part illegible.
New Trial Refused.
/ New York, March 17.-Recorde
| Smyth has denied the motion for neN
| trial for Carlyle Harris, and he will b
electrocuted at Sing Sing unless th
governor intervenes, the court of al
peals having recently upheld the d.
S.iSion of the lower court
Illinois Editors.
/ ROCKFORD, ILL.,, March 18th
twenty-eighth annual meeting of th
Illinois Press association closed her
on Thursday. Clinton Raselle, {
DeKalb, was elected president
Killed by the Ohrs.
New ORLEANS, La, March 1a-Mri
Vincent Oliver, Mrs, Walker aud th
latter's child were killed at New Iberil
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