The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-01

81 200 OOO will be received up to 3 p III.
January II. and allotments will be
made February 7. 1904.
Louis A. Dent, registrar of wills for
the District of Colum bia. has resigned,
to take effect ADsil /. II is under
stood that Corporal james Tanner,
formerly commissioner of pensions. is
to succeed Mr. Dent.
Columbia Typographical Union has
appointed committee to go before
Congress and enter an earnest protest
against the installation of typesotting
machines in the government printing
office The claim is made that the ma
chimes cannot do the government work.
Five hundred children. youthful sons
and daughters of members of the Cab
met. senators, representatives, mem
bers of the diplomatic corps assistant
secretaries of departments, army and
navy officers and Washington newspa-
per correspondents. were the guests OF
Mrs Roosevelt at the White House on
the afternoon of December 10th.
The Navy Department is making ar
rangements for the better accommoda-
ton of enlisted men in the navy when
they are ashore. The English system
is being carefully considered and the
canteen looked into The department
accounts for the many and FREQUENT de-
sertions by Jack poor treatment
when ashore.
The postmaster general has award
ed the contract for leather straps for
letter carriers bundles, to Headley
Farmer. of Newark, New Jersey. the
prices for the three sizes used being
4. and & cents each. or about one
third, ii is stated at the PoStofflce De-
partment, the amount paid for the
straps by A. w. Machen, former super
intendent of the free delivery system
The brief of the state of Minnesota
in the suit of that state against the
Northern Securities Company has been
filed in the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States by Attorney General Doug
lass and Messrs. Mum and Wilson.
| They contend that the merger of the
| Northern Pacific and Great Northern
companies into the Northern Securities
Company was for the purpose OF sti-
fling competition.
The secretary Of the treasury author
ICES the statement that the Philippine
|
ed for government bonds now held as
security for public deposits on condi-
tion that the government bonds thus
released be used as security for addi-
tional circulation whenever in the
| judgment of the secretary of the treas
ury it is desirable to stimulate an in
J crease in national bank circulation.
Rear Admiral Wise. commanding the
| training squadron, has been ordered to
take his ships from New Orleans to
! Pensacola, where they will spend some
/ time in exercises The work of the
squadron has been interfered with by
the recent festivities in which 1t has
| participated and for that reason it has
been found necessary to decline the in
vitation from the city of Galveston for
the squadron to visit there in January.
In reference to the alleged interview
| attributed to Maj Gen. II. c. Merriam
to the effect that proposed promotion
of General Wood would be harmful to
the army, Secretary Root has received
telegram from General Merriam,
| dated Denver, in which he declares
that he has not authorized any publ
| cations on any subject. 1t is under
| stood that the generals statement
will be regarded as satisfactory at the
/ War Department.
The President has denied thirteen
applications for pardon, has granted
four pardOns to restore civil rights,
and has exercised clemency in eleven
other cases. David V. Rieger. who
was convicted in Kansas City OF mis-
! applying certain credits of the Mlssou-
ri National bank of Kansas City, of
which he was president. is pardoned.
He was convicted in 1899 and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment in the Mis-
souri, penitentary for six years.
At the personal request of President
Roosevelt, Clifford Pinchot and +. II.
Newell, of the public land commission,
will attend the conventions of the Ma
tiona Live Stock and National Wool
Growers associations, to be held in
Portland, Oregon, January 1lth to 18th.
1t is the Presidents wish that Messrs.
Pinchot and Newell obtain all inform
alton possible from the discussions of
forestry, irrigation and public land
questions before the conventions, which
will be participated in by delegates
from western states. Land Commits
sioner Richards. Vresident of the COM
mission, is unable to attend the con-
ventions by reason of pressure of du-
ties in his department.
Frank NJ Higgins, chief examiner of
tha Civil Service Commission, in his
annual report says that during the last
fiscal year there were 1l2.625 persons
examined for the classified service of
the government and 40,423 appoint
,ft
OF the appointments twenty-four per
cent were purely clerical positions.
three per cent. to professional. technic-
al or scientific positions. thirty-eight
per cent. to mechanical positions. re-
quiring no education at examination.
and seven per cent. to skilled labor po-
sitions not exactly mechanical in their
character, but requiring no education
al examination. OF all those exam