The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-23
Order Relieving Him From Com.
mand Modified.
HAWAIIAN POLICY UNDECIDED
Secretary Bliss Statement of the
Changes Made by Mr.. Hoke Smith
in the Clerical Force of the It.
terror Department. Long LIST of
Applications for Positions.

| by Hoke Smith. This document is intended
as a defense against the charge that the
present Secretary is more ruthless in the
matter of dismssais and reductions than
was Hoke Smith. The statistics gathered
! aud compiled by Secretary Bliss follows:
Statistics relative 10 all Classes III the
Interior Department between March 4
| 1898, an1 June 3, 1896:
! Removals, 654; reductions, 66S; deaths
| 1885, ignations, 541; appointments,
1929; reinstatRments, 1926; promotions,
| 1868
Statistics regarding soldiers and sailors
in the Interior Department between March
A, 1898, and June 8, 1896:
Appointments, II; reinstatementS, SO;
promotions, 81; reductions, 200; re-
| movals, 2l6; designations, 90, and deaths
Al:
al connection vita THESE chaa g1sit should
be born in mind that siXty-eight occurred
in the General La al Office on July / / 1913,
| and / 20 III the Pension Office on July
l S95, by reason or reduced appropriations,
wnIie flTJy-JLe were Ia the census nsIsiOu
subsequent To March i, 1895, on account
of completion Of work. There was no com
ployes appropriated for during This period
Under Mir. SMITHS administration some
OF the disFnissaIs were: Special examiners,
81; clerks, 1872; copyists, TO; messengers,
Is; assistant messengers, Al; waJcnmen,
40; Iaborers, 1879; messenger boys, l 6, and
charwomen, 3.
The number Of tlismissais of people APP
pointed from the District of Columbia was
I32. The number Of District people reduced
was 16T. The hu nbcr of Yirgihians rcnioy-
ed by MIR Smith was %; the number of
Marylanders was 20.
The Navy Department has modified the
order relieving Rear Admiral EeaTdslee
from command of the Pacific squadron
May 3, and he is ordered 10 retain his
command until July. II is said at the
Navy Department that this order Indicates
that the Ha waiian policy mas not been fully
determined uI Oh 10y this Government, and
that as soon as IL is, perhaps in two OF
three weeks, Rear Admiral Miller will lie
again directed 10 10 10 kA&hli #nu re
lielr Rear admiral BpaIdslrG The belief
is general in the der ar tment aud by those
well informed ON what is trausl iring in
the State Department that this Govern
ment oontcinplates a vigorous policy in
regard to Hawaii and that annexation is
more than mere probability.
Rear Admiral Miller will, it is expected,
be summoned to this city a an early date
and will he placed in possession of orders
to carry out the determination of PTesi-
dent Mckinley and his Cabinet in regard
TO Hawaii,
EnsIgL HI. II ward S detached from the
Maine and ordered 20 thu Bureau of Navl-
CATION; Ensign J. Il. Edie, detached from
the Columbia, April rs, and ordered 10 the
New York; Lieut.. f. w jenkins, detached
from the New York and assigned 10 the
Maine. pril IS; Assistant BOatswain A
Whipkey, detached from the Vermont and
ordered To League Island for duty on
Iowa
Tie list of applications for appointment
to office, suhr, ted to Secretary Gage to-
day, contained tie following:
l. NJ North. Boulder, Cdl. to he auditor
for the War Department Mt Washington,
u. c.; John r. Lynch, Was mngtoa, ID. &,
TO he auditor for the Navy Department at
Washington. u. c.; w 6 Webster, Chicago.
III, to bc deputy auditor for the Navy be
parchment at Washington, u. CD. l. Tucker,
0neota, n. Y, TO lie deputy auditor for
the State Department at Washington, u.
c.: B. Tomb, Williamsburg. Pr. Ia be
deputy auditor for the Postoffice Depart
inent at Washington, d. c.; Cutler Smith,
Florence, Ala, to be Register OF the Treas
ury at Washington, ID. c.: Ajtert Bail,
San Francisco, Cal, to lie superintendent
OF the mint at San Francisco, Cal; c. b.
Wilson, Denver. Col, to he smelter in the
sr.,l. = 1,.lr nrn Il
lyn, n. Y, to he superintendent OF theassay
office at New York city; McA. Dejan, New
Orleans, La, to lie collector OF customs at
New Orleans, La; Din Dickson, Denver,
Col, to be surveyor OF customs at New Or.
leans, La; J. NJ Jenkins. New Orleans,
La, to lie assistant appraiser OF customs at
New Orleans, La; w K Cornish. Birming
ham, Ala, to he collector orinternal revenue
at Birmingham. Ala.
With the entrance of China into the Uni
versaI Postal Union. that great postal ALI
ance will be whatits name indicates it To
be-the Universal Postal Union. With the
coming of China, there will be but one gov
ernnIent which is not partner in the
union That one is the Orange Free
State
The conditions covering the interchange
of mails are believed by the postal off
Gals of this country to be abont complete
Like the territorial extent of the Postal
Union the international postage rates and
conditions have very little room for change
in the nature Of improvement.
Under existing conditions a letter may
be sc Mt from aImostan place to any other
place in the civilized world by the swiftest
means of conve vance at the disposal ofthe
governments of all the countries through
which it must pass from origin to destina-
ton without unnecessary detention at any
point. the sanctity of its seal being every
where recognized and respected, and being
forwarded from place to place and country
TO country in case the movements OF the
addressee should render that course neces-
sary
China will be d very decided acquisi-
ton to the Postal Union, because of the
mass Of matter passing between that and
this country. BY utilizing the fast steam
ers sailing once or twice a month from
Tacoma, Wash, as well as the steamers
sailing regularly three times month
from San Francisco, the opportunities for
the exchange of mails with China have
been increased to not less than four and
sometimes five dispatches a month. This
is an actual gain in the last two years
of one or two dispatches month.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt will tomorrow
go to New York. He will return Monday
morning and be at the Navy Department
early in the day 1t is said that his trip
is purely one of personal and not public
business.
william Bailey Fogerty, of Cincinnati, O.,
has been annninted an alternate cadet to