The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08
ANDERSON POSTOFFICE
RESULT OF CIVIL-sERVICE COMMITS
SLOWS INVESTIGATION.
Charge of Sales of Positions on the
Eligible List ConHrmed-A Dis
charged Employees Revenge.
neclal to the Indianapolls journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Sept. THE report OF
the Civil-service Commission on the Ander-
son. Ind, postofice was submitted to First
Assistant Postmaster General Heath to-
day and the charges against the office
were forwarded to Postmaster Small. The
finding of the inspector confirms the
charges of the sale of positions on the
eligible list of the Anderson office to appli-
cants lower down. Postmaster Small is
not accused of a guilty participation in this
violation of civil-service rules, but he will
be expected to purge his office. 1t turns
out that the instigator of the Anderson
postoffice row was a discharged employe.
He may not be able to seriously injure Mr..
Small, but has managed to raise quite q
disturbance.
Postmaster General Gary and First AS
sistant Heath are doing a great deal in
quiet way to check the tendency which has
been growing up to hedge in the general
delivery windows at postoffices throughout
the country. In great many offices de-
livery clerks had built up barriers, which
made it almost as difficult for strangers TO
obtain their mail it would be to get
drafts or checks cashed at a bank. Rigid
rules of Identification were enforced great
ly to the Inconvenience and embarrassment
were sent Postoffice clerks will be edu-
Gated to understand that the object for
which the postal service was created was
to carry mail and deliver it to the parties
to whom it is addressed, and not to- devise
ways and means to prevent its delivery.
The order which was issued some days ago
for the benefit of transients will be sup
plemented by other orders along the same
line, and by quiet instructions equally ef-
fective.
Frank Morrison. of Indiana, was to-day
appointed to a position binder in the
Government Printing Office at salary Of
$1,000.
The contract for carrying the mails be-
tween Sharon and Rensselaer, was to-day
awarded to Gardner Combes, of Washing
ton.
Delegate Rumford, of Indianapolis. has
been appointed member of the credentials
committee of the National Convention OF
Postal Clerks at Baltimore.
The controller of the currency has in
structed Bank Inspector Packard to ascer-
tain if the affairs of the Greensburg Bank
cannot be settled without receiver. the
plan suggested being for another bank to
take the assets and pay off the indebted
ness
The Postoffice Department is informed
that Postmaster Stull, at Mount Pleasant,
Ia, and Postmaster Hamilton, at Warren.
Ind. who declined to surrender their Of
fees when removed. on the ground that the
recent civil-service order covered the cases.
have both surrendered their offices to the
inspectors.
Coming Sale of the Union Pacific.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7-Senator ]. B.
!,
to-day. He is chairman of subcommittee
of the Senate committee on Pacific rail-
roads, which is charged with the tnNestlga-
ton of several matters connected with the
Pacific roads. among them being the condl-
ton of the sinking fund held IN the Treas
ury on account of the Union Pacific road
and the alleged fraudulent patenting of
lands to this company. This is under a
resolution introduced by Senator Pettigrew.
which was passed by the Senate at the last
session. The other members of the sub
committee are Senator Harris of Kansas
and Senator Stewart of Nevada. Senator
Stewart Is in Washington and called on
Senator Foraker this evening Senator
Harris is expected to arrive tomorrow.
The meeting may be wholly informal. The
subcommittee will confer with the. attorney
general regarding the sale of the Union
Pacific which has already been ordered by
the Circuit Court of the Eighth circuit.
Senator Foraker says. that the sale will in
means the sinking fund. and If the sub
committee makes any investigation OF the
sinking fund 1t must De done before tho
sale takes place.
Promotions in the Navy.
WASHINGTON, Sept. THE following
appointments have been announced from
the White House: Commander Royal b.
Bradford. to be chief of the Bureau OF
Equipment, in the Department of the Navy,
with the relative rank of commodore: Ma
val Constructor Philip Hichborn. TO be
chief constructor and chief OF the Bureau
of Construction and Repair. in the Depart
ment of the Navy, with the relative rank
of commodore Albert Martensen. TO be
vice and deputy consul at Bordeaux,
France.
General Notes.
WASHINGTON. Sept 7.~-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance. $2l5. 46S. SEA:
gold reserve. $l44 446, 967.
The controller of the currency mas author
lied the Mendoza National Bank, OF Mendo-
Ia H.. to begin business with capital OF
$50 600.
= Commissioner of Pensions Evans has de-
cided 10 postpone his trip 10 Chattanooga
as he is rapidly recovering from his recent
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