Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-13
~ SHlNGTON ETTER.
Wdshinoton Sent g. 1897

OOner OmclalS are just as deeply IN
terested in the suit brought against
Postmaster General Gary and First
Assistant Heath, by John G. Woods,
Supt. of mails in the Louisville, XIV.
post-office, to determine the right
heads of departments have to remove
officials in the classified civil service,
as are the gentlemen directly con-
cerned. A temporary restraining
order, forbidding the removal OF
Wood was granted returnable last
Saturday, and directing the Post
master General and his first assistant
| to show cause why it should not be
postponed one week from that date.
A test case is to be made as both sides
wish to have the matter definitely
settled by decision of the U. S. Su-
case may be decided, an appeal will
be taken, and when the case gets on
the docket Of the Supreme Court, At
torney General McKenna will move
ing. 1t is also expected that the case
will be SO handled in the Supreme
Court as to get a decision that will
cover other points of the civil service
law than the one directly presented
by this case. It is highly desirable
that heads OF departments should
know the exact extent of their
authority over their subordinates.
M. Patenorte, the French Ambas-
sador, has been consulting with Sec
rotary Sherman with a view to secur-
ing reduction in some Of the duties
imposed by the Dingley tariff upon
products of France, by a commercial
agreement between the two countries.
The articles upon which he is
especially DESTROYS of getting reduced
duties are brandy, champagne, still
wine and vermouth, and paintings,
drawings and statuary, and the re-
auctions asked for will average about
25 per cent. The President has
authority to grant these reductions
without the formality of a treaty,
whenever, in his judgment there are
satisfactory reasons for dong so; all
that is needed to put them into eff
feet being a proclamation by the
President. The Dingley tariff also
provides for reciprocity treaties, but
they must be ratified by the Senate
and approved by the House after
they are negotiated, before they be-
come binding. This is the frat time
that the House of Representative
has been recognized as a part of the
treaty making machinery of the
government.
Those who are Offering to sell the
about examinations, etc.,
which the civil service commission
furnishes to all applicants therefor
free, have grown so numerous that
the commission has issued an an
containing the following
explicit language: "No person has
any information of Importance to APP
plicants, concerning examina tons
which cannot be obtained without
cost from the commission. All claims
to the contrary, therefore, are mis-
representations"
Naval officials believe that the send
ing of the battleship Indiana to Hall
fax to be docked will, after all, be a
good thing, because they think it will
convince Congress of the necessity of
providing for ample docking facilities
of our own. 1t is hoped that it will
not be necessary to send any more
to Halifax to be locked
In Difference to a complaint made /
by the Swiss minister, Secretary |
Sherman has written a letter to the
Governor of Iowa, quoting the fol-
lowing provisions from the treaty be- /
tween the U. S. and Switzerland: ssNo |
higher impost, under whatever name,
shall be exacted of the citizens of one
Of the two countries residing or es-
tablished in the other than shall be
levied upon the citizens of the coun-
Try in which they reside, nor any
whatever, to which the
after shall not DE liable.'' The Swiss
claims that Iowa has laid
AK upon the premium income of Eu-
'opean Insurance Companies greater
han the tax imposed upon the pre-
MUM income of American Insurance
Companies, and that the same is a
violation of the treaty rights of
Switzerland.
Attorney General McKenna will
make public his opinion of the con-
'truction that should be placed upon
5he clause of the Dingley tariff law,
discriminating duties which