The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-01-07
CIVIL SERVICE.
Bal Drafted to Make Sweeping Changes
IN the Law-The Most Important is the
establishment of a Five-Year Tenure of
Od3ce

establishment of a Five-Year Tenure of
Once.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Senator Mason
| Wednesday introduced bin fixing a
special tax upon the manufacture of
mixed -four, manufacturers being re-
| quired to pay 500. Mixed flour is de-
fined by the bill to be the food product
made from wheat and mixed with
ground corn or other foreign sub
stances. A fine of 81, 900 is imposed for
the manufacture of this product with
out paying the tax and like heavy
fines are provided for 9TH
er violations. An internal revenue
tax of four cents for each ten pound
packages in addition to the customs
duty is imposed upon imported mixed
| -four.
Among the numerous bills intro
duced Wednesday were the following:
By Mr.. Lodge, granting right of way
through Alaska to the Alaska & North
western Railroad company from the
! Lynn canal via Chilkoot Pass to the
northern boundary of the territory.
Representative Johnson, of North
Dakota, Wednesday introduced bill
to repeal the law which has just gone
into effect relative to pelagic sealing
| and the importation of sealskinS taken
| by pelagic sealers.
The bill for the reform of the civil
service law which has been drafted by
special committee of republican
members of the house of representa-
tives opposed to the system in it's pre-
sent form. makes sweeping changes
in the present system, the most impor-
tant of which is the establishment of
five year tenure of office
| for those government en-
| plOyes who are brought within
the terms of the bill. The measure
limits the application of the civil serv-
ice system to the departments in Wash
ington and to such other localities
where the total number of employs ex-
coed %. All appointees are commits
missiOned for five years, with the
power of removal clearly regulated
and vested in the appoin ting power
1t is provided, however, that no remov-
al shall be made for political or
religious causes, and in case of removal
the causes shall be specified and the
papers made record of the Office.
All persons now in the public service
are to terminate their service five
years from the time that the act takes
effect. The measure recognizes the
general eligibility of these persons
for reap-pOintment.
1t includes in the civil service postal
clerks and letter carriers in offices hav-
ing over ten employees, exclusive of
subordinates 1t limits the civil service
regulations to clerks whose compensa-
ton is from 5000 to 81, 800 per year and
includes as clerks, copyists, cOmputers,
counters and draughtsmen.
1t is pointed out that the essential
idea of the foregoing bill is to take out
of the civil service all responsible and
important officers, limiting it only to
clerks in Washington and certain large
cities and in these cases fixing a ten
ure of Office of five years. The MEM
bcrs of the special committee framing
the bill are well pleased with their la
bors saying that the original purpose of
the civil service has been retained and
that its radical expansions have been
cut off.
duced a bill making the gold dollar the
sole unit of value, directing every ma
tional bank to redeem its notes in dol
lars of such value and restricting the
denominations of treasury or national
bank notes to ten dollars or it's null
tipleS; those outstanding of less de-
nominations being called in and
standard silver dollars given in ex-
change and certificates DESTROYED,
while after July, l, 1900, the treasury
is to refuse all such certificates as pay
ment of public dues. The national
bank acts also are amended to charter
banks with paid up capital stock of
$50, ZOO, which may issue currency to
the amount of the face of their securi-
ties they deposit with the government,
the tax on circulation to be one-half of
one per cent. payable annually in jan
uarN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Senator Teller
(CoL) Wednesday introduced a concur
rent resolution declaring that the
bonds of the United States, principal
and interest, should, at the option of
the government, be paid in standard
silver dollars, and that such payment
is not in violation of public faith or in
derogation of the rights of the public
or creditor. The resolution was re-
ferred to the finance committee
There was a very large attendance
in the hall of representatives when
the house recOnvened Wednesday after
the holiday recess. The galleries
were crowded. 1t was noticed that
with one or two exceptions, the mem
bers of the Ohio delegation, both dem
ocrats and republicans were absent.
Without any preliminary business, the
house went into committee of the
whole to resume consideration of the
legislative, executive and judicial APP
preparation bill. All the features of
the bill had been disposed of except
the appropriation for the civil service
commission upon which, by previous
arrangement, there was to be an in
definite general debate