The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-09

| sor will soon be sent into the Senate.
IL the President allows the other assist
ant postmasters general to finish their
| four years term Of office, First Assistant
! Jones will remain until May TO- as he sue
| ceeded II. Clay Evans of Tennessee on
| that date. Second Assistant Nelson sue
| ceeded j. l.. Bell. who resigned on Sept.
| l3. 1898, and Kerr Craige, the third as
sistant, succeeded Gen. Hazen, May TO-
1898.
In the interior department First Assist
ant Secretary Sims was appointed March
81, 1888; Assistant Secretary Reynolds,
April TO- 1898; Commissioner Lamoreux Of
the general land office, March 2S, 1898; Com
missioner of Pensions Murphy, May 2S, 1896
succeeding Judge William Lochran resign
| ed, Commissioner Murphy has been em-
! ployed in the pension bureau since March
lS, 1871, with the exception of a few years
| Commissioner OF Patents Seymour was
appointed March 81, 1S93 and Commis-
| sioner OF Indian Affairs Browning, April
H. 1893.
Secretary Long started in at the navy
department to-day with an appointment
which meets general approval from all
who, like Secretary Long himself, believe
In civil service reform. lie promoted BEN
jamin Franklin Peters OF Harrisburg, Pa.
to be chief clerk of the department. Mr.
Peters was appointed a clerk of one of the
| lower grades in the department sixteen
ommendation OF Senator j. ID. Cameron.
| He now occupies the position of appoint
| ment clerk, having risen by merit to that
| rang through the various grades.
| He was member of the
board to revise the business
methods of the navy department Under
| the immediate direction of the Secretary
of the Navy he prepared the regulations
governing the employment of labor a navy
| yards, and has had charges OF their en-
| forcement. He devised the card record
! system In use by boards of labor employ
| ment at navy yards, and has been the con-
fidential and general utility man of Sec
| retary Whitney, Secretary Tracy and Sec
retary Herbert. The new chief clerk as
sumed the duties at once IN addition to his
other work.
The navy department viii, In all proba-
| bilty, Issue advertisements for armor for
| the battleships Alabama, Illinois and Wis
| consln, upon which congress placed limit
| or $500 per ton. IL Is understood that no
| time for the delivery of the armor will be
| specified which will permit concerns with
| out the required plant to compete for the
work and install the necessary machinery
| as the delivery progresses.
EX-Secretary Carlisle has made no def
mite plans for the future. He will remain
in Washington for some time yet.
| Secretary Sherman has signed extradi-
| ton papers applied for by Sir Julian
| Pauncefote authorizing the delivery of
Lee Waller" better known as Frank But
Ter now held at San Francisco to the Aus
/ tralian authorities
The diplomatic corps have been notified
| that the foreign ambassadors, ministers
| secretaries and attaches will be received
| at the department of state by Secretary
| Sherman at IL O'Clock a. m. on Wednes-
day, and that the President will receive
them at the executive mansion at noon
on the same day
Steps have been taken by the war de-
partr1ent TO further guard the seacoast
defenses from inquisitive inspection by
| persons who ought not TO know what pre-
/ cautions the United States have taken for
1 protection In time of war. The rigorous
| regulations already In force during the
building of the fortifcations have, now
| that many works are approachineg COM
| pletion, been supplemented and empha-
sized by the following general orders from
| Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the army,
| which, though signed March /, were not
| issued to the service until to-day:
mo persons, except officers OF the army
| and navy of the United States and per-
| sons In the service of the United States
| employed in direct connection with the
| use, construction or care Of these works,
| will be allowed to visit any portion of the
| lake and coast defenses of the United
States, without the written authority of
| the commanding officer in charge. Neither
written nor pictorial descriptions of these
works viii be made for publication with
| out the authority Of the secretary of war,
nor Will any information be given con-
| cerning them which Is not contained IN
the printed reports and documents of the
| war department
| Commanding generals OF departments
will see that this order is carried into ef-
feet, and that the permission to visit the
| defenses referred to Is only given for
| proper military reasons.
| Commanding officers, ordnance SER
| geants and others In charge Of fortihca-
| tions, or of any lake or coast defenses,
| will exercise great care IN acting upon
| applications to visit the works. and will
| grant such only as may be warranted for
/ good and sufficient military reasons.
Commanding generals Of departments
concerned will give to this matter their
continued personal attention to the end
/ that any dereiiction of the duty herein
| enjolned may be Immediately observed
and promptly met by discipline"