The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-09-07
PRESIDENT AND CABINET
To Be Consulted Before Attorney Gen.
eral Mckenna Announces His Opinion
On Section 22 of the New Tariff Law Re-
lating to Discriminating Duties-Few
Candidates for the Regular Fall Civil
Service Examination for Offices.

service EXam1naCIOn Tor OmceS.
New YORK, Sept. GA special to the
Herald from Washington says:
President Mckinley and the entire
membership of the cabinet will prob
ably be consulted before Attorney Gen
eral McKenna announces his opinion
as to the construction to be placed on
section % of the Dingley law imposing
discriminating duties.
The attorney general had expected
to announce his report this week, but
now the understanding is that it is To
be held back until next week, and iii
the meantime the president will cut
short his outing and return to Washing
ton. 1t is probable that the question
will be the subject of a general ex-
change of views at a meeting of the
cabinet before the opinion is written.
The questions involved are so impor-
tant that all the light possible is to
be thrown on them before the admins
tratiOn is committed to construction
which might demOralize the entire for
eign commerce of the country and
which involves a matter of about $30.-
100000 per year in customs revenue, ac-
cOrding to the calculations of the Off
Gals of the treasury department.
This calculation is made on the basis
of last years imports and on the as
sumption that the imports under the
discriminating duty would be practi-
cally the same in value and would
come in ships of the same nationali-
ties. British ships bringing goods
from other countries than British ter
ritOries in Europe would be the heav-
lest sufferers, and it is expected that
one result of the imposition of this
duty would be the transfer of many
British ships to the flags of nations
having more favorable treaties with
the United States.
The general assumption is that on
account of the imposition of these
duties on goods coming into the United
States, through a contiguous country,
tranS-cOntinental roads of the United
States would be benefited at the ex-
pense of the Canadian Pacific road,
but when it is taken into consideration
that the steamship connections of most
of these roads would be unfavOrably
affected, it appears that about the only
road which would gain any decided adj
vantage would be the Southern Pacific,
which, having connection with the
American line of steamships from San
Francisco, would have the advantage
of discrimination in favor of it's steam
ship connection, as well as against it's
| Canadian rival.
| About the only cities that would gain
any decided advantage would be Hall
fax and st. John, as the effect of the
discriminating duty on goods brought
| into the United States over the Cana
dian Pacific would tend to take up
the transit of such goods through New
! England to the seaboard and divert
! this traffic to those ports in British ter
ritory.
! WASHINGTON, Sept, 6.-The regular
fall civil service examinations through
out the country for all classes of gov
eminent offices, will muster only about
a quarter or third of the usual num-
Der of candidates. This is the predic-
ton made by the civil service commits
sion, and Chief Examiner Serven at
tributes this falling off to the unusual
number of applicants examined during
the spring, when a high water mark
was reached, the number of applicants
examined then being an increase of 100
per cent. over the preceding
fall or spring. This rush was
due to the change of administration
and the civil service extensions made
by President Cleveland. AS a result
and in view of an inadequate examin-
ing force the commission is far in ar
rears in marking the papers, and II, 900
of them, all submitted during the
spring examinations, have yet to be
reached for marking. This aggregate
includes 1885 relating to the railway
mail service and 1,451 to the clerk
cOpyist places. This unprecedented
arrearage has been a great factor in
lettering applicants from applying for
eXaminatiO at this time.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Mr. Fl. Clay
Evans, the commissioner of pensions,
is i'll at his hotel in this city Col.
Evans has been under a great strain
for almost a year and upon
his return here few days ago
from brief vacation he had
an attack of malaria, complicated
Friday with Indigestion, But he passed
a very comfortable night and his physi-
clan reported him greatly improved
Saturday. His condition is not consid,
cred in any way alarming, and he is
expected to be at his desk again in
few days. Col. Evans family is at
Mystic, CT, visiting friends.
Reunion on the Battlefield.
GETTYSBURG. Pa, Sept. 6.-The vet
Grams and friends of the 73d New York
and 124th New York REGIMENTS and the.