The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-06-22
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Latest Happenings at the National
Capital
Interesting Points In the Forthcoming Ee-
port of the Civil Service Com mission
Sugar I,ounties- orcign linz
ports-Other Notes.
CiyiI Service Ernnrf.

coming annual report of the United
States civil service commission will
show that the whole number of per-
sons regularly employed in the civil
service of this country is about 200. 900.
OF these approximately one-fourth are
in the classified service, subject to COM
petitive examinations under the civil
service rules. OF those in the unclnssi.ed
service, %, 900 arc laborers, 5000 are APP
pointed by the president. subject to con-
firmation by the senate, 800 are in the
Legislative branch of the government,
and 2,G66 are in the judicial branch.
The civil service act excludes these
classes from classification. The total
number of positions affected by the ex-
tension of civil service rules from
March 4, 1899, to January 3, 1895. was
s.1Si. OF these 5,53. were added to
the classified service by original
classification. and a,6i7 by transfer
of places classified but excepted from
examination TO list of places subject
to competitive examination. Since
January 3 all employees of the agricul-
tural department have been brought
into the classified service except the
secretary and assistant secretary OF
agriculture, a private secretary to each.
the chief of the weather bureau and
his private secretary, the chief clerk
of the department and his private sec
retary, and laborcrs and charwomen.
Sugar Bountics.
WASHINGTON. June 19.-Secrctary
Carlisle yesterday signed regulations
to govern the payment of bounty on
sugar under provisions OF act approved
/ March .. 1895. This act appropriates
seas, ,aso as a bounty to be paid TO Ii
censed producers of sugar in the United
States from maple sap. beets, sorghum
or sugar cane grown or produced in
the United States prior to August 2s,
1894, who complied with the pro-
visions of the bounty law contained in
schedule + of the tariff act of
October !, 1890. The bounty is to
be paid at the rate of cents
per pound on all sugars testing
not less than 30 deg. by the polariscope
and ls@ cents per pound on sugars
testing between so and % deg. The
act also appropriates $1,000, 600, to be
paid under like conditions, as n bounty
on all sugars except maple produced
between August %. 1894, and June 30,
1895; the rate is $40 of cent per pound
on sugars testing not less than so deg
Foreign Imports
WASHINGTON, June l6-The bureau
of statistics. in its report on the i'm
ports, exports and immigration Of the
United States, during the month Of
May and the eleven months ended with
May, shows that the exports of domes-
tic merchandise during the month of
May amounted to So, 100, CPS, gain of
s4, 600, 900 over May. 1894. For the eleven
months, the exports of merchandise
amounted to only sT3c, G51 .937, loss OF
nearly S74, ,O00, 600 The imports of mer-
chandise during May amounted to &c.,
025. .O0O of which nearly S3f zoo. .00C
came in free of duty. The gain for the
month over May, 1894, was about sf0,-
600. 900, and for the eleven months the
gain was about s74, 600. 900, or al
most exactly the amount lost on
exports The exports of gold coin and
bullion during May amounted to s4i6,-
756, and the imports. 81, ,s60,926. For
the eleven months the gold exports
amounted to s64, s3l ,227. and the i'm
ports. $50. .056, ,005. The exports of sill.
yer during May aggregated s5,72', ,04l,
and the imports to s74a, s45
During the eleven months the exports
of silver amounted to SH,3ll, ,448 and
the imports to ss,57d.4Ti. The number
of immigrants who arrived during
May was 49,l44, an increase over May
1894, of about l6, 900. During the clever
months there was falling off of about
$500.
Railroad Statistics.
WASHINGTON, June ls.-The seventh
statistical report of the interstate
commerce commission, for the year
ended June 30, 1891. has just been sub
mittcd. In the introduction especia
mention is called to the peculiar condi
tions affecting the operations of rail
ways during the year, covering /,
period of widespread and unprece
dcnted business depression. 1t show
that on June 30, 1894, l9s roads, oper
ating upwards of $1,000 miles of line
and representing about one-fourth o
the total railway capitalization, wer
in the hands of receivers. The effcc
of these conditions is apparent in near
ly all of the figures presented.
Honors Declined.
WASHINGTON, June 19.-Wilberforc
university, the oldest institution in Tia
! country for the education of negroes
few days ago conferred the degree o
LII. ID. upon President Cleveland. TIL
president has sent an autograph lette
to President Mitchell, of Wilberforcc
declining the honor. In 1t he eN
pressed his high appreciation of the in
. stitution and said that, not being
a college graduate, and having decline
similar honor from one of America
!, great universities, he regarded it a
but consistent to adhere to that course
Two Important Places Filled.
0 WASHINGTON, June l5-The pres
dent has made the following appoint
s ments: Allen Thomas. consul genera
], to be United States minister q
d Venezuela. Emory Best, of the dii
I trict of Columbia, to be assistant con
missioner of the general land Office.
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= Mexican Railroad Disaster.