The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-11-27

ers are being sent out by the Navy
Department 10 about 1000 employees
l)f navy yards I'm the United States.
llotifying them OF increases in sala-
ries, ranging from 4 TO 10 percent.
This is being done in order that the
pay OF these men may be brought up
o those doing similar work in other
branches OF the government service.
The men who will receive this in.
crease are draughtsmen, electricians
and mechanics.
No Salary Increases--After the cab
met meeting last week il became pub
lie that the cabinet members had
been asked by the president TO make
no recommendations in their annual
estimates 10 be submitted to con-
gress for the increase OF salaries in
their respective departments. This
will apply TO government employees
throughout the country as well as at
Washington. The request does not,
Of course, apply TO cases Of automatic
promotion OF employees from one
/ grade 10 another.
No Government Guaranty-Accord.
ing TO sweeping decision by the
commissioner OF patents any label
bearing the inscription guaranteed
under the pure food and drug acts,
| June 30, 1906" where such inscrip-
tion Is intended TO imply that the gov
ernment Is responsible for the purity
of the goods will be refused registra-
ton. II is held by the officials that
the government simply takes the as
sertion OF the manufactures that the
goods are pure and then investigates
+, his business.
Dcpew Sarcastc.-When Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew of New York
left the White House one day last
week he was asked If he had come to
Washington to see the men who he
had recently said were electing the
next senator from New York in Wash.
ington. well, the man who thinks
he Is electing the senator has gone
to Hot Springs" said Senator Depew,
referring to National Committeeman
William L. Ward of New York. There
are three or four New York men who
spend much of their time down here
telling the president who shall be ap-
pointed ambassadors abroad, ire
spective of the New York senator's,
and the rest of their time is devoted
TO electing our senators. II desire
to say that the next legislature will
choose a senator. The 261 members
who compose that body are able, rep
resentative men, who can neither be
driven, hoodwinked nor bulldoZed." !"
Mr.. Depew said that the old "organi
zation" I'm New York is alive and do
ing business at the old stand"
Difference Between Two and g.
Two hundred million two-cent stamps
which have just been printed from o
new plate and issued to postmasters
throughout the country may have to
be withdrawn from circ 'ation. 1t Is
not yet certain that this will be done,
but there is enough doubt raised tC
make that action not improbable. Tho
new stamp. which is one OF the pret!
tiest ever issued by the government,
has the head OF Washington, and be-
meath IL the words Two cents"
There is "A provision of the interna.
tional postal union which says that
the denomination Of stamps is TO be
i'm Arabic numerals, so that the fig.
ures will constitute universal Ian.
guaee for postal purposes. 1t is be.
lievcd that this provision is manda.
tory, but the postoffice department
regards il as suggestive and not ob.
ligatory IL the provision is manda
tory the United States must Of
course comply with all the require
ments of the postal union agreement
aud the stamps cannot be used
IN International postage. Ihat would
not make them valueless for do
nestle postage. but OF course II
would be out of the question to
have two kinds OF two-cent stamps
one for domestic use and the 9th
e." FOR foreign. As the postage
rate 10 NTedl bIlltlu HAS uttu ic
duced TO two cents an ounce and the
bulk of foreign correspondence from
America is with Great Britain, the
I two-cent stamp is internationally a
great deal more important than II
used 70 be.
Presidents Labor Dinner.-Sub
| icctmg his guests, many of whom
were representatives of the leading
| labor organizations Of the country, 70
rapid crosstre OF questions. Presi
dent Roosevelt at n dinner given al
the White House the other night. en-
deavored To find ont what labor wants
from congress and I'm what way he
could be of assistance TO the toilers
of the country. Although the dinner
began at y o'clock. IL was almost mid
night before the gathering broke up
No newspaper men were present and
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