Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-05
THANKSGIVING DAY is SET
The Annual Proclamation Ar
rives on Time.
THE. KATAHDlN is A FAILURE
Her Speed Still Further Reduced by the Final
Calculations.
PROMISED TO ExTRADITE A. K. WARD
The Edmunds-Tuck kerAnti-Poly gamy Act Is
in Force in the District of Colum-
bia-A Move to Extend the
Civil Service.
PROMISED TO ExTRADITE A. K. WARD

Washington, Nov 4.-The customary
Thanksgiving proclamation was issued
by the president today as follows:
A proclamation by the president of the
United States: The constant goodness
and forbearance of Almighty God which
has been vouchsafed to the American
people during the year which is just pass
ed call for their sincere acknowledgment
and devout gratitude To that end that
we therefore may with thankful hearts
extol the loving care of our Heavenly
Father, l, Grover Cleveland, president of
the United States, hereby appoint and set
apart Thursday, the 2Sth day of Novem-
ber, as day of thanksgiving and praise,
to be kept and observed by all our people.
On that day let us forego our usual occu-
pations, and in our accustomed places or
worship join in rendering thanks to the
giver of every good and perfect gift for
the bounteouS returns that have rewarded
our labors in the fields and in the busy
markets of trade, for the peace and or
der that have prevailed throughout the
land and for our protection from pestl-
lence and dire calamity and for other
blessings that have been Showered upon
us from an open hand. And with our
thanksgiving let us humbly beseech the
Lord to so incline the hearts of our people
unto Him that He will not leave us nor
forsake us as nation, but will continue
to us His mercy and protecting care,
guiding us in the path of national pros
perity and happiness, endowing us with
rectitude and virtue and Keeping alive
within us patriotic love for the free instl-
tutions which have been given us as our
national heritage, and let us also on the
day of Thanksgiving especially remember
the poor and needy and by deeds of char
aty, let us show the sincerity of our great
itude
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington this the 4th day of
November, In the year of our Lord 1885,
and in the 12Oth year of the indepen-
dence of the United States.
GROVER CLEVELAND
BY the president:
RICHARD OBNEY, Secretary of State.
The final result of the Katahdin's trial
shows that the calculation made some
further reduction in the speed, bringing
the figures down to 161 II knots instead of
II, as imperatively required by the con-
tract. The Katahdin did wonderfully,
however, in horse power development,
making 200 more than was estimated.
Secretary Herbert will take no action
on the failure of the Katahdin to attain
the required speed until the official re-
port of the trial has been considered. 1t
Is likely that the secretary will delay dis
posing of the matter dntil congress
meets, in order to give the Bath Iron
works, the contractors for the vessel, an
opportunity to secure a modification of
the explicit language of the contract
that If the vessel fails to make IL knots
she shall be rejected, instead of allow
ing her acceptance, as is customary, at
reduced price proportionate to the fall
ing off in speed.
AS result of a conference between the
secretary of the interior and the civil
service commissioners arrangements for
being perfected to send to the president
for his approval an amendment to the
civil service rules, especially to the clas-
sified service for the assistant Secretary's
office and the assistant attorneys in the
general land office of the interior depart
ment.
There are about seventeen of the
former. whose salaries range from $4,000
to s2250 per annum. The salaries of the
latter class are about $4,000 year. Expe-
rienced attorneys are required for these
positions.
Such clerks in the Indian bureau
are not now under the protection of civil
service rules will be included in the
amendment.
act. as amended by the act of 1887 is in
force in the District of Columbia, and
persons guilty of adultery as defined
therein are subject to it's penalties for
that offense. So the district court of ap-
peals decided today in an opinion read by
Chief Justice Alvery upon case grown
out of a crusade began last spring by
the district officials against violators of
the law Two of the offenders appealed
from the Judgment of conviction in the
criminal court, alleging that the law was
not in force in the district. In the opin-
ion the court says that the first five Sec
,tions and the tenth section of the act are
applicable to the district. These include
all the vital ones which make an unmar-
ried man living with married woman
guilty of adultery as well as she, and
makes husband or wife competent wit
nesses against the other to prove the fact
of marriage.
At the request of Secretary Olney the
government of Honduras has promised
to extradite A. K Ward, the alleged
Memphis embezzler, who was captured
in that country recently. The United
States has no extradition treaty with
Honduras and the favor extended in
Wards case emphasized all the more the
friendly feeling of that government to-
ward this country, through the fact that
this government could not reciprocate If
Honduras required an extradition of one
of it's criminals from America. 1t will be
necessary for the state of Tennessee to
send an officer to Honduras for Ward, as
the federal government has no fund for
that purpose to be used in state cases.
The comptroller of the currency has de-
clared the first diyidend of Is per cent
In favor of the creditors of the First Ma
tional bank of Ocala, Fla.
The contract for constructing the ap-
proaches to the Charleston, S. c., public
building was today awarded to the Stew
art Contracting company of Columbia,
S. c., at s7075.
The president today appointed Claude
N. Bennett of Atlanta. Ga, a special
agent to make allotments of lands in sew
crafty to the Indians.
Under authority of an act of congress
providing for the joint Canadian and
United States commission to inquire into
and report on the feasibility of establish
Ing deep water ways between the great