Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-12-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
CIVIL SERVICE.

(From Our Regulsr Correspondents
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. 1897.
President Mckinley will. according
to trustworthy though unofficial infor-
lation, shortly meet the obi ections
that exist. in and out Of Congress.
az ainst present conditions in the civil
service, by issuing an executive order
making material notifications in the
blanket extensions of the civil service
rules made by Mr.. Cleveland during
his last year in office. While the OPP
position on the part OF republicans In
Congress doubtless was = factor In
this matter, it is well~known that .
President has had it in mind enc
since hin election 1t will r. ever
bered that he said in bis % rsmem-
sage; "There are y annual mes
classified service slSces nov IN the
exempt ard oth which ought 10 De
properly be -ers not classified, may
itste TO included. shall not hes
have exempt classes which think
ri Oeen improperly included in the
.asslfied service" Just when this or
der will be issued or the full extent OF
the modification has not been fully de-
termined, but it will not be surprising
should the order be issued before the
reassembling Of Congress on January
9th.
SENATOR HANNA's SUCCESSOR.
| Senator Hanna has gone to Ohio to
remain until the Legislature elects his
successor just before leaving Wash
4 ington, he said: THE stories seat
from Ohio that q number OF the repub-
licAn members of the general assem-
bly, will desert me If am not success
full on the first ballot seem to me alb
surd. Every republican county but
/ L.. -. L. a.. g.
me the party IL pledged to me through
the action of the republican state con-
vention at Toledo. and ] am unable 10
see what can stand in the way Of my
election"
PATENT AsUsnRs.
Notwithstanding the numerous re-
forms brought about in the practice
before the United States Patent Office,
as result of the long investigation
conducted by Acting Commissioner
Greedy with such striking ability
there are some abuses connected moro
or less directly with that of1ce, and di-
rsctly associated with it in the minds
of nine out of every ten persons who
know of thsm, which have not yet been
) reached But Mr. Greedy is more than
anxious to do so, and is now investi-
} eating numerous complaints against
patent solicitors, who have obtained
: money from inventors uuder the pre-
tense OF getting foreign patents for
> them and selling them. knowing that
no valid foreign patents could be OBJ
|, tanned for them, and that there would
therefore be nothing to sell.
sEALNa.
/ Uncle Sam rubbed it in on John Bull
= in the bill dealing with open sea seal
4 ing, which has passed both branches
4 of Congress and only needs the II resi-
: dents signature to become . law. and
J. that it will probably get Canada, back
b ed by England, has played the hos
: right through in this sealing business.
by refusing to join the United Sister
n in efforts to prevent the speedy de-
II struction OF all the seals by agreeing
to . cessation of open sea sealing for
i even q limited time, and the Canadian
e doubtless chuckled with Joy, when this
! bill which prohibits open sea sealing
I. by the citizens of the United States
II was introduced In the Senate, becaH se
OF their belief that is would leave
> them q monopoly of the taking of sealr
J. in the open sea. But they will moi
d chuckle, nor will their English ann.
porters, when they learn the purSor,
N OF q section Of the bill that WIS Yen,
quiet while the measure Was pendine
IL before Congress, That section ah.o
<. lusely prohibits the bringing of saa
g. skins into the United States from an,
source. When it is remembered tha.
m the United States furnishes the larre1
and best market in the world for saa
ut skins and that the business OF sunniv
~ ting that market has been parf,aIi,
to monopoliEed as to raw skins bV Cans
nt da, and entirely as 10 dyed sk,nr -
&c England, the full Significance Of wbs
Uncle am has done to John Bull be
re comes apparent.
III KLoNDIKERs.
VI The act for the relief Of those Amer
-, leans who are in the Kiondike Rold =.
IA gons, and who, it 10 believed. wiJ; :
:. IN pressing need of food before sD,;a.
was AZ promptly signed BIZ Prss;dare
- Mckinley a. II WAS paGeed bv Concra.
and 1t now onlv remains to get tbs -
:. lief to the sufferers in order e. m.Ss
>" snectiVe. This IL ia the hands Of Ne.
Rotary Alger, and il success is poss;6I
e he viii achieve it, a. his sympathv -
she Klondikers IL OF the active Kind
30 active that he offered weeks 400 .
o.. advance the money out OF ria o-.
= pocket " send relief il any pTsctie,