The St. Johns herald., 1897-09-18


 our entire foreign commerce It is un derstood that MT Mckinley has prom ised to return shortly, but has set n date. Attorney General McKenns nrobably thinking it reflection upol his legal ability to have the public knoy that this matter is to be discussed b, MT. Mckinley and his colleagues of tn cabinet, has made public denial tha the opinion was being held back t, await MT. McKinley's return. All tn, same, nobody expects the opinion to bt rendered until MT. Mckinley returnl and approves of it.
 A Kentucky democrat = John G Woods, of Louisville-ha has put portion of the adminlstra ion on pins and nee dies by bringing suit against the post master general to prevent his removal a;thout cause, from a ..tian ill thg classified civil service. As obtained 3 temporary restraining order agaiIat hif removal, and the hearing was to fave taken place Saturday, but the govern srnment asked for continuance of ore week. and gotit The case will proba bly, be appealed to the United States Supreme Court, no matter how it may | be decided.
 According to advices just received, Senator Burrows has spent the entire summer Tn trying to smooth the wa! for his own return to the senate, and in placing obstacles Tn the path of Cover nor Pingree, who thinks he would fill that senatorial chair much better than Burrows does, and he is not yet easy in his mind. Pingree has got Brrrows where he has all the other Michigan re- publicans-afraid of him.
 The Civil Service commission has re- ceived such an avalanche of fcorrespond- ence from the army of would-be recruits for Uncle Sam's civil service, concern ing offers made to furnish information, for fee, by private parties, thit lthas issued circular letter containing the following pointed announcement "No person has any information of import ance to applicants, concerning examina- tions which cannot be obtained without cost from the commission. All claims to the contrary, therefore, are misrep- resentations.
 The receipts of the government for the month of August. under the Ding lev tariff law, were $6,53S ,5Ss less than the receipts for August, 1896, under the Wilson tariff law. It may be that the claims of the republicans as to the rev enue-producing qualities of the Dingley tariff bill will be realized al sometime in the future, but the aboYe figures show ,rst shev are, as vet long waY from being realized.
 The republicans are showing how com n.ln. ,-ey a.e Of carrying Ohio by col onizing voters from West Virginia and other adjacent states. The democrats are fully aware of what is being done in that line, and Boss Hanna's henchmen will find It much easier to carry men into Ohio and give them temporary work than it will be to register and vote them.
 The Spanish minister is still keeping the revenue cutters of the United States government busy hunting for Cuban fil- ibusters. He informed Secretary Gage that the filibusters had abandoned Flor ida as a starting point. and were pre- pairing to send several expeditions from the Carolina coast, and Secretary Gage obediently issued an order to the com manders of all revenue cutters in South ern waters to keep an extra close watch on the Carolina coast for filibusters This sort of work must be more or less disgusting to the officers and men in our revenue marine service, but they have no choice in the matter. They must obey the orders of the secretary of the treasury, even if those orders are dic- tated by the Spanish minister.