Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-12-02
Appointing Paymasters
According To Merit

Washington, Nov IA competitive
examination will be held at the navy
yard In this city during January next,
TO MI twelve vacancies in the grade OF
assistant paymaster In the Navy. APP
plications for permission to take this
examination will be received by the
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy up TO
and including December 18th.
The merit system recently inaugural
ed has been found so successful that
the Navy Department announces, in
securing the best material for Navy
pay officers that Secretary Bonaparte
has determined to continue the plan
and hereafter will Ill all vacancies in
the pay corps with sole regard to the
personal merit and apparent aptitude
of the candidate without reference TO
any consideration whatever. Applica.
lions are being received in consider
able number from young men all over
the United States who realize that IL
they are within the legal age-more
than 81 and less than 26-of fair edu.
cation. good intelligence, perfect ply.
siQue and unimpeachable character and
antecedents, their own merits will de.
terminc whether they pass and also the
rank they shall secure"
An assistant paymaster Is a COM
missioned officer in the Navy and has
the rank of ensign, which corresponds
in grade and pay to a second lieuteu-
ant in the Army, the pay of an assist.
ant paymaster being $3.50 per annum
AT sea, or $1,000 per annum and quar-.
tiers or communication thereof at s24 per
month while on shore duty.
among those who opposed his election,
and he received many assurances of
support. District Attorney Jerome eX.
pressed himself In terms Of strong ap.
proval OF Mr.. Hearst's program and de-
clared that he would Immediately In.
stitute a searching investigation Of the
alleged Democratic frauds.
He also ordered the returns from
the eighteenth and sixth districts to be
carefully guarded.
Ira G. Darrin, the newly.elected dis
trict attorney of Queens county on the
Republican ticket, made similar
statement. VIM. NJ. WINS, the defeat
ed Republican candidate for mayor.
also commended Mr.. Hearst's action
and expressed the belief that recent
count would show that Hearst had been
elected
After a secret session OF the eXecu.
tive committee of Tammany Hall, held
this afternoon, the following statement
was issued The executive committee
of the Democratic organization pro.
tests against the outrageous published
threat of the defeated candidate of the
Municipal Ownership league to over.
throw the will OF the people, as ex.
pressed by the vote cast on election day
and directs its law committee to exert
its best efforts and take such steps and
institute such proceedings as will safe.
guard the election OF Mr.. Mcclellan as
mayor of New York.
I'VE also call on the commissioner of
police and custodian OF the ballot to
preserve the same intact from all In.
reference by any unauthorized per.
sons"
Some Of the leaders OF the meeting
expressed the opinion that the returns
showed Censure of Mr.. Murphy's lead.
ership and that he should. as a result,
step down aud out and make room for
, a man against whom nothing could be
charged, They thought that II was
/ time for Geo h, Mcclellan to assume
the leadership himself"