Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-22
FARMING REPORTS
The Agricultural Department Will Pub
Iish Results of Experiments.
CIVIL SERVICE APPLICANTS.
Over $4,000 Want to Be xamined to Test
Their Fitness to Hold OGice-Govern-
ment Wins suIt-Relisf of
Mall Clerks.

WASHINGTON, April 91.--Secretary
Wilson is pushing things at the de-
partment of agriculture. In addition
to his programme for capturing the
English butter market, his plan for
sending out sugar beet seeds, in order
to develop home sugar industry, and
his efforts to preserve the forests, he
Is trying to bring about cooperation
between the various agriculture ex-
pertinent stations. 1t often happens
that results attained by the expert
ment station of some state cannot be
made available for the use Of farmers
outside that state, because there are
no funds with which to send out the
reports. The agricultural societies
of Great Britain, Canada, Germany and
even Australia have made good use of
experiments carried on in our state
stations by means Of reprint of the
original documents, while American
farmers, as whole, have been left in
ignorance thereof. Secretary Wilson
now proposes to make the department.
of agriculture sort of clearing house
for the publication of important state
reports, When a really valuable re-
suit is achieved he intends to publish
an account of the process and send it
out to farmers all over the country.
Want Civil Service Places.
WASHINGTON, April 21.-There are
now on file with the civil service COM
mission in this city over $4,000 applica-
tions for examinations which have
been approved, all of which applicants
will have their fitness to hold public
Office tested during the coming spring.
This number is quite three times as
large as the number Of applicants who
went up for examination last spring,
and is more than the entire number
examined last fall and spring by the
commission. This large increase of
the work of the commission is simply
due to the fact that there ars-now 4O,-
200 places within the classified service
that were excepted year ago, tits
also discovered by the commission that
many of the applicants are men and
women who Immediately after the
election discovered that political inhu-
ence was Of no service in getting them
places, and that the only way in which
they might get on the rolls of the gov
ment was through an examination.
The Government Wins Suit.
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.-The IA
nous hat trimmings case, which In
directly involved between S9O,0OO,0OO
and sos, OOO 900, and which has been
postponed from time to time during
the last three years, was finally de-
cided in favor of the government by
jury in the United States circuit court
yesterday afternoon. The suit was
brought as a test case by Myer q Dick
inson, big importers of this city, who
sought to recover from the United
States government difference of 30
per cent. in customs duties The firms
contention was that the importations
in question consisted solely of hat
trimmings, on which the duty under
the Mckinley tariff act was only 20
per cent, but the federal officials in
their argument maintained that the
merchandise was used chiefly for
dresses and dress trimmings, and that
the duty of so per cent. levied by the
government was proper.
Relief OF Mail Clerks.
WASHINGTON, April 2l.-The post
office department and the National AS
ISOLATION of Railway Postal Clerks will
make vigorous effort to secure the
passage Of bill for the relief of in
jured and disabled railway mail en-
ployes by the present session of con-
gress. A bill of this character was in
troduced at the last session and passed
the senate, but did not get through the
house, though the postal officials said
yesterday that 95 per cent. of the mem
bers of the house favored the bill. 1t
is proposed to press the passage Of a
bill which will not be liable to objec-
ton on the ground that it creates
civil pension list, as all moneys to be
paid to disabled clerks will be paid
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