Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-07-18
PENSION RULINGS.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds De-
cides Three Appealed Cases.
The YEARS IMPORTS and EXPORTS.
President Cleveland Makes IN important
Ruling Regarding Promotions
tary Hoke Smith VIII Not Fay
for Sunday Work.

WASHINGTON, July II. - Assistan
Secretary Reynolds has rendered three
decisions in pension appeal cases lr
the first he holds that while the com
missioner Of pensions is forbidden BY
law to suspend payment Of pension
pending proceedings to annul or re
duce it, nevertheless in case such pen
sion is annulled, all unpaid pension ap
parently accrued at the date Of annul
ment becomes illegal and must not be
paid.
In the second case the secretary
holds that the law forbidding the com
missioner to reduce pensions without
thirty days notice does not apply to
cases acted on before its passage.
In the third case 1t is held that a.
the act pensioning the children Of 9
soldier who are under 10 years Of ag.
expressly provides that the pensions
shall begin from the date Of the flinl
Of the application for the pension, .
claimant who was over 10 years OLE
when the act was passed has no claim
for pension at all.
THE YEARS IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
WASHINGTON, July H. "A statement
Of the imports, exports and immigra'
ton OF the United States during the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1895, shows
as follows. Merchandise exported
1907, 593,s61; last year, 1891, 9o7, 700; mer
chandise imported, $751;, oeo3l9, Of
which about one-halt was free Of duty
merchandise imported In 1894, S647,'
775,Ol7, Of which ss7s,575,981 was free
Of duty. The gold coin exported dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted &c
S6e, 131, 1873, and the imports, $35, 0s4, 449.
The exports last year, therefore, were
$50, 9S4, 40 in excess Of the imports. In
the previous year the exports exceeded
the imports by $4,5as,9as The exports
Of silver during the last year aggre-
gated $40, a2e,6la, against $9,5lS, s2s in
imports. This is slight falling of
from both exports and imports Of the
previous year During the fiscal year
1895 the number Of immigrants who
arrived in this country was 278, 1879,
against 3ll,6l2 during the previous
year.
A RULING REGARDING PROMOTIONS.
WASHINGTON, July II. The president
has just promulgated new rule modi-
flying the old customs rule Of the civil
service, the effect OF which is to great
ly limit the number Of promotions in
classified customs districts, except after
appropriate examinations. The necessi-
ty for the change in the rule arises from
the fact the extension Of the classif-
cation In the customs service on No
vember ?, last, over positions paying
salaries of less than 5000 opened the
doors for the promotion Of many per-
sons who had entered the service
through personal political favoritism.
The old rule would permit these per-
sons after they were brought into the
classified service, to be advanced to
many Of the best paying positions in
the office without examination.
Under the new rule promotions can be
made only to a limited extent without
examination, and no promotions can
be made from one grade to another
without an appropriate examination.
NO PAY FOR SUNDAY WORK.
WASHINGTON, July l7.-Secretary
Hoke Smith yesterday declined to ap-
prove request for pay for work done
on Sunday by government employees,
Three examiners who were busted in
the Helena, Mont, land office on Sun
day asked that they be allowed their
regular per diem allowance for the
same, but the secretary holds Sunday
is not a day for labor, and that he is
not authorized to pay for work done
on that day.