Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCorrespondence of the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON, July %.

vice rule II: No removal shall Do nlaue
from any position subject to competl-
tive examination except for just cause
and upon written charges filed with the
head of the department or other ap'
pointing officer, and of which the &C.
oused shall have full notice and an OPP
portunity to make defense. he also
amended rule III so as to include with.
in the classified service the employees VI
all custom house Offices without re-
gard to the number of employees.
Hitherto the classification embraced
customs offices where the number OF
em ployees was FIVE or more. This OF
der brings into the classified service
SIXTY. five hitherto unclassihed customs
offices. The President has also amended
rule VI, making exceptions TO exami'
nations, so as to read as follows:
Or cashier in each customs distrlc',
one chief or principal deputy or assls'
talt collector in each customs district,
ono principal deputy collector at each
sub port or station. One employe IN
each internal revenue district, who
shall act az cashier or chief deputy or
assistant collector. as may be deter
mined by the Treasury Department.; one
deputy collector in each internal reve'
nue. district where the number OF en-
ployes in the Office of the collector ex
ceeds four; one deputy collector In
each stamp Tor branch) office. APP
pointments to the POSITIONS named In
this rule in the customs house service
and in the internal revenue service
! shall be subject to az examination to
! be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury, not disapproved by the com
mission, equal to the examination hello
by the commission for positions of like
grade. Such examinations shall be
conducted by the commission in accord
auce with its regulations.
President Mckinley left Washington
O day for a vacation that may keep
MIN away from the city ior six weeks.
He was accompanied by Mrs. McKin
lev, Secretary and Mrs. Alger. Mr.. Por'
ter, Assistant Private Secretary PIuden
and Executive Clerk Cortelyou. The
White House steward and maid SER
want also were along. AS he left the
house he bowed TO the persons who
stood on the portico to bid him good
bye. The other members OF the party
had preceded him to the railroad sta
ton. They 90 from here direct to
Lake Champlain. AT the Pennsylvania
railroad depot crowd Of spectator:
had gathered and through two lines O.
these the President, with Mrs. McKin
ley leaning on his arm. passed to
his car, greeting the crowd with
smiles and dofing his bat. Sec
retaries Gage and Bliss and Attor
ney General McKenna saw the party
| cit. MIR. Mckinley was in excellent
spirits and evidently anticipated much
enjoyment from his trip. He was
dressed in q suit of black with a white
tie. There was juit tiDge of color in
his cheeks. Promptly-at noon the sig
Nal was given and the train pulled out
| on its long run to Bluff Point, on Lake
| Champlain. Tie train is splendidly
equipped special of three Pullmans, the
parlor car Wildwood, the smoker Cse-
sar and the parlor and observation car
Haselmere. 1t is expected to reach
Jersey City about o'clock this after
noon. There it will be transferred to
the West Shore Railroad tracks and is
expected to reach its destination about
6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
State Department officials say that
no new issue is presented by the seizure
of Palmyra Island by the British, re.
ported some days ago by an incoming
vessel, for Gre at Britain has Daintain-
ed claim to the island for the past
nine years. The island is said to lie in
the Polynesian group, and although
| Hawaii has asserted claim to its pos.
session, this government has not been
rongly impressed with the validity OF
the claim. Meanwhile the British, it
is said, not only have asserted claim
to it but have actually occupied II g
is aud for some years past. The island
is uothiug more than barren rock in
the Pacific. distant a thousand miles
from Hawaii.
Though Secretary Gage has decided
that the new tariff bill went into effect
sxteen hours before it became law,
the old law officers of the Treasury De-
psrtment have no idea that that deci-
sion will be sustained by the courts, to
which of course it will be appealed.
A negro having been appointed col
|, ctor of revenue in Georgia, it is said
at the Treasury Department here that
urarly all the negro men in that State
have applied for positions under him.
The President appointed Daniel
Swiney of Ohio, consul at Cork, Ireland,
o.day, and number of other appoint
ments for home service, but none of
them of any interest to Virginians.
1t is rumored at the State Department
that bill to repeal the Clayton-Bulwer
lreaty will be reported early at the
next session of Congress, as its existence
u.ny be an obstacle to the enforcement
Of the Monroe doctrine.
Consul Hanger, at Bermuda. passed
through here to-day on his way home
to Stanton, Virginia. His republican
uccessor has not yet been appointed,
but doubtless soon will be.
A wholesale grocery merchant of
this city, talking to-day about the print
I'd statements of some of the other busi-
u.ss men to the effect that business had
already revived here, looking out on
Pennsylvania avenue, said he saw few
people on the streets and they walk
ed as if they had nothing to do. II
Sc few wagons, and they are empty.