People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-21
RULES TO BE CHANGED.
Postal Employees Combining to Secure De-
sired Legislation.


Washington, March 1S.-The postoffice
department has information of the for
| nation Of a powerful combination of
postal employees, designed to bring pres
sure upon congress to overtunr certain
regulations and rules Of the depart
ment.
The employees have been encouraged
by their success in attaching to the last
postoffice appropriation bill an amend
ment which suspended an order of the
department This order was issued
last June and directed that by the first
of May, 1895, all railway mail service
employees should remove to some point
along the line Of the route on which he
was employed. This was unsatisfac-
tory to most of the clerks and the OBJ
tanned the legislation overruling the
order.
The reason for issuing the order is ex-
planned at the department as necessary
because at the time that the order was
issued there were about 1900 of the
i,OOO in the service who did not live on
the lines where they worked. When
there was an accident or anything else
mat requires emergency men, those
VINO were on leave and away from the
line where they worked escaped the
extra duty and it fell upon those liv-
ing, on the route. OF the 300 who were
living off the lines where they worked
about 300 have notified the department
that they have or will remove their
homes to the point requested. Pro-
badly all of them will so remove not
withstanding the legislation overruling
the order.
The department is now informed that
since the failure of legislation in the
last congress increasing the pay of en-
ployes, a combination has been form
ed to pass this legislation and also to
overturn those rules of the department
which are unsatisfactory to them.
A high official in the department said
To-Day: This combination includes
some thousands Of employees in the rail-
way mail service, the letter carrier SER
vice and in pOstoffices. They are all in
the classified service and protected from
removal. The effect of this combination
would be to create a sentiment against
the civil service law which protects
these employees"
First Lieutenant Charles f. Shoe
maker has been promoted to be captain
IN the revenue marine service. This
is understood to be preliminary to his
appointment as chief of the service TO
succeed the late Captain Sheppard.
William T. BraytOn, a clerk in the
pension office who came here from
Wisconsin, dropped dead on the street
today.
Secretary Smith says that it is prob
able that prOclamations will not be is
sued opening lands within the next
three weeks. The ploclamations that
have been prepared for opening the
Yankton reservation in South Dakota
and the Siletz reservation in Oregon.
provide that within thirty DAYS after
being issued, the lands shall be opened
The weather would not be propitiouS
for land opening thirty days hence and
so the proclamation will not issue.
A large number Of income tax returns
are being received at the internal rev.
enge bureau. They show a very sat
isfactory acquiescence on the part of
the taxpayers in all the regulations
governing the collection of the tax
The utmost secrecy as to the amount
and character Of the returns is being
observed.
President Cleveland is IS years old
today. There was however, no special
observance Of the day at the White
house and the president KEEP tclose to his
desk as usual. Several cougratulatory
kilograms were received and several of
his intimate friends called, while others
sent their congratulations accompan-
led by baskets of flowers.