Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-12-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF TIE MONITOR


President Mckinley will, according
to trustworthy though unofficial in
| formation, shortly meet the objec-
tions that exist, in and out of Con-
gress. against present conditions in
the civil service, by issuing an exec
utive order making material modifi-
| cations in the blanket extensions of
the civil service rules made by Mr..
/ Cleveland. during his last year in Of
fee. While the opposition on the
part of republicans in Congress doubt
less was factor in this matter, it is
we'll known that the President has
had it in mind ever since his election.
It will be remembered that he said in
his annual message: SThere are
places now in the classified service
which ought to be exempt and others
not classified, may properly be includ-
ed. 7 shall not hesitate to exempt
cases which I think have been i'm
properly included in the classified
servicen Just when this order will
modification has not been determined,
but it will not be surprising should
the order be issued before the reas
sembling of Congress, on Jan. 9Th.
Senator Hanna has gone to Ohio to
remain until the legislature elects his
successor. Just before leaving Wash
ington, he said EThe stories sent
from Ohio that number of repubIi-
can members of the general assembly
will desert me if am not successful
on the first ballot seems to me absurd.
Every republican county but four has
instructed its legislators, for me; the
party is pledged to me through the
action of the republican state conven-
ton at Toledo, and I am unable to see
what can stand in the way of my cleo
tion.o
Notwithstanding the numerous re-
forms brought about in the practice
before the =. S. Patent Office, as a.
result of the long investigation con-
Quoted by Acting Commissioner Gree
ley with such striking ability, there
are some abuses connected more or
less directly with that office, and di-
rectly associated with it in the minds
of nine out of every ten persons who |
know of them which have not yet
been reached. But Mr.. Greeley is |
m ore than anxious to do SO, and is
now investigating numerous COM
plants against patent solicitors, who
have obtained money from inventors
under the pretense of getting foreign |
patents for them and selling them,
knowing that no valid foreign patents
could be so obtained for them, and
that there would therefore be nothing
to sell. :
HUncla Sam rubbed it in on John Bull
in the bill dealing with open sea seal
ing, which has passed both branches
of Congress and only needs the Presi-
DENTS signature to become law, and
that it will probably get. Canada,
backed by England, has played the
hog right through in this sealing bus
mess, by refusing to join the United
States in efforts to prevent the speedy
destruction of all the seals by agree
ing to cessation of open sea sealing
for even limited time, and the Cana
dams doubtless chuckled with joy,
when this bill which prohibits open
sealing by the citizens of the U. S.
was introduced in the Senate, because
of their belief that it would leave them
a monopoly of the taking of seals in
the open sea. But they will not
chckle, nor will their English sup
porters, when they learn the purport
of section of the bill that was kept
quiet while the measure was pending
before Congress. That section abso-
lutely prohibits the bringing of seal
8 kins into the U. S. from any source.
that the U. S. furnishes
the best market in the world for
seal skins and that the business of
supplying that market has been par
TALLY monopolized as to raw skins by
Canada, and entirely as to dyed skins
by England, the full significance of
what Uncle Sam has done to John
Bull becomes apparent.