The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-08-05

fusion TICKET,
Washington Letter.
(From Orr Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. July 80 1897.
President McKinley's amendments
to the civil service rules, made public
after his departure on his vacation,
are the most important made since
there was a civil service law. His
first amendment provides that no re-
moval from the classified service shall
be made except for cause and upon
written charges of which the accused
shall have notice and an opportunity
to make defense; his second amend
ment includes the employees of all
custom houses in the classified SER
vice, and his third excerpts from the
civil service rules the following places:
In the custom service-One cashier in
each district, one chief or principal
deputy in each district, and oneprin-
cipal deputy collector in each SUPPORT
or station. Internal revenue service
One employe in each district, who
shall act as cashier or chief deputy or
assistant collector, as may be deter
mined by the treasury department,
one deputy collector in each district
where the number of employees in the
office of the collector in each stamp
Tor branch) Office. It was expected
that the chiefs of divisions in the ex-
ecutive departments would be expec-
ted, but they were not. They may be
later on.
Assistant Secretary Howell, of the
treasury, who has high reputation
as tariff expert. and who will have
immediate charge Of the enforcement
of the Dinghy tariff. has been study
ing the new law very closely and as a
result says of it: THE new tariff is
particularly free from antiquities,
which, despite the most careful ef-
forts, are liable to creep into such
measures. It is a revenue measure
and, in my opinion, will produce at
least $185. 100000 during the present
fictual year, and I look for it to pro-
duce at least $22O.0000O0 during the
next" Mr.. Howell's estimates are
close to those Senator Allison and
Chairman Dingley as to the amount
of revenue the new tariff will produce.
Secretary Long decided that the
battleship Indiana should be docked
and cleaned at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
because it was not considered entire
ly safe to attempt to dock her at Port
Royal, S. c., and the New York dock
is in bad condition, While Secretary
Long would have liked it better to
have had dock of our own big
enough and good enough to be used
the practice of docking our ships in
foreign docks is old enough to have
ceased to arouse indignation in nava
circles.
1t is regarded as practically certain
that Secretary Long will find it nee
essary o'appoint board of naval Of
ficers 10 frame nlan for the establish
ment of government plant for max
ing armor ship builders who have
been asked if they wished to furnish
armor plates. at the stipulated price
$500 a ton, as the Carnegie and the
Bethlehem Steel companies have al
ready refused TO doso.
At first the decisisn of the treasury
department, that the tariff law signed
on the afternoon of Saturday by the
President went into effect ut midnight
on Friday, strikes you being wrong
but the more you study it, the strong
er it becomes. The law does not re-
cognize any fraction of day. aud the
tariff bill having provided that the
law was to take effect when signed by
the president, it must necessarily take
effect from the first second of the day
upon which it was signed. Such has
been the decisions Of the courts and
the treasury officials are confident
that they will be upheld in the ap-
peals that have been taken to the
courts. The amount Of money invol-
we'd is not over 100000.
Secretary Wilson ever on the alert
in behalf Of the farmers of this coun-
try, has sent to agricultural depart
ment agents abroad to obtain infor-