Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-08-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. O., July 30. 07.

1tS tlsAl Hu0IlC
after his departure on his vacation, are
the most important made since there
was q civil service law. His first
amendment provides that no removal
from the classified service shall be
made except for cause and upon writ.
ten charges of which the accused shall
have notice and an opportunity TO
make defense; his second amendment
includes the employees of all custom
houses in the classified service, and his
third except from the civil service
rules the following places In the Gus.
toms s~ervice-one cashier in each dis.
trict, one chief or principal deputy in
each district, and one principal deputy
collector in each sub port or station.
Internal revenue service, one employee
in each district, who shall act as
cashier or chief deputy or assistant
collector, as may be determined by the
treasury department, one deputy col.
lector in each district where the mum.
Der of employees in the office Of the col
lector exceeds four, and one deputy
collector in each stamp Tor branch
office. 1t was expected that the chiefs
OF divisions in the executive depart
ments would be excepted, but they
were not. They may be later on.
Assistant Secretary Howell, of the
Treasury, who has a high reputation
as a tariff expert. and who will have
Immediate charge of the enforcement
of the Dingley tariff, has been study
ing the new law very closely and as a
result says Of 1t: "The new tariff is
particularly free from antiquities,
which, despite the most careful efforts,
are liable to creep into such measures.
Ii is a revenue measure and, in my
opinion, will produce at least S1S5, OO0,-
600 during the present fiscal year, and
| look for it to produce at least $780,
OOO,OO during the next" Mr.. Howell's
estimates are close to those of Senator
Allison and Chairman Dingley as to
the amount of revenue the new tariff
will produce.
Secretary Long decided that the bat
tleship Indiana should be locked and
. -
cleaned at Halifax, Nova Scotia be.
cause 1t was not considered entirely
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 q 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 in
dignation in naval circles.
1t is regarded as practically certain
that Secretary Long will find ii neces-
sary to appoint a board of naval officers
to frame a plan for the establishment
of a government plant for making ar
NOR plate for our vessels. He is only
waiting to hear from a number of ship
builders who have been asked if they
wished to furnish armor plates ut the
stipulated price, $500 a ton, as the Car.
negie and the Bethlehem Steel com.
panies have already refused to do so.
At first the decision of the treasury
department, that the tariff law signed
on the afternoon of Saturday by the
President went into effect at midnight
of Friday, strikes you as being wrong,
but the more you study it. the stronger
it becomes. The law does not recog.
nize any fraction of a day, and the
tariff bill having provided that thelaw
was to take effect when signed BY the
President. 1t must necessarily take eff.
feet from the first second of the day
upon which 1t was signed. Such has
been the decisions Of the courts and
the treasury officials are confident that
they will be upheld in the appeals that
have been taken to the courts. The
amount of money involved is not over
$500, 900.
Secretary Wilson, ever on the alertin
behalf of the farmers of this country.
has sent two agricultural specialists
abroad to obtain information as TO
what, II any, effect the opening of the
Trans Siberian Railway, which travers.
es the fertile grain sections of Siberia,
expected to take place in 1900, will be
likely to have upon the interests of
American wheat growers. 1t has been
claimed that this railway would put
Siberian wheat in European markets
at a price with which Americans could
not compete. Secretary Wilson hopes
to ascertain whether there is founda.
ton for the claim.
Only those who are ignorant of ex.
listing conditions can be made to be.
lieve there is danger Of wal with Japan
because of the annexation of Hawaii.
There ism the remotest danger of our
any trouble with japan. No
nation in the world is more diligently
our friendship and adopt,
ing our methods than Japan, and that
accounts for much European envy and
lying.
The strength which comes to us from
nourishing food is better than
stimulation, because it is new strength.
The health which belongs to q strong
body, well nourished by proper food
properly digested,) ia the only health
that is lasting. The difference between
Shaker Digestive Cordial and other
medicines Is simply that it helps ma.
ture 10 make strength. 1t does not
profess to cure sickness, except as that
iCknees Ia n rpault of vaatnaoo cousad