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THE MILAN EXCHANGE. XV. A.. WADE, Publisher. MILAN. TENNESSEE. NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled fronT Varirms Eourcei. CONGRESmOAt, rnOCTrTTT!T09. ' Pkc. 27. In the Senate resolutions were adopted calling (or statement showing tho annual expenditures lor carrying foreign rnnis; sailing for tho number of contested i'.innttenl entries pending. Consideration of thn Pendleton Civil -Serrtee hill m re sumed. Several amendments were adopted Bin! tho bill was passed vea, 29; nays, 5 TIih House hail no quorum and adjourned to (Saturday, Dec. 30. Dkc. 2. In the Senate the bill reported by the Judiciary Committee to prevent Gov ernment ofllcers and employes collecting or paying to caeti other money for political pur- fmses was taken un and passed. The bill for he relief of Uon. Filz John Porter was then considered. PRO. 20. Several bills were Introduced and referred. The bill appropriating JIO.OOO to erect a monument to Karon De Kail) at Annapolis, Md., wai passed. On motion the bill to provide for tho performance of tho du ties of the office of President, in ease of the removal, death, resignation or inahility of both the President and Vice-President to per form the duties of their olllee. was taken up end discussed at tengi h. Consideration of the bill for the tellef of t'itz John Porter was re sumed as unfinished business. After an ex ecutive session the Semite adjourned to Tuesday, January 2. ' Dkc. awin the IIon.se the Senate bill to reform the civll-sorvlco and prevent official assessments was taken from the Speaker's table and referred. Senate bill extending the gillie for tiling clnlms for horses and equip ments lost by otlicatu or enlisted men In the Service of the Unitod States, with an amend ment limiting the extension to one year, was r Kissed. A resolution for a standing comtnit ee on rivers and harbors was referred. Sen- late bill to pay tho .Statu of Oregon $70,000 for expenses incurred in recent Indian wars with un amendment appropriating $1,400 to reimtrirse tun state oi niuornia lor use ex penses, was passed. The llouso adjourned 10 iuesu.ay, uanuury a. PERSONAL AND POLITICAU. The retirement of Pay-Director Ed ward C. Poran, of the Untied State Navy, was announced a few day ago. II. AV. Wuite, a soldier of the war of 1812, died at I)e Witt, Iowa, a few days since, and was burled with military honors Dr. Corvisarl, an eminent practi tioner of Pari9, who died recently, never re covered from the effects of the shock con veyed by the news of the fate of young Na poleon In Ziiluland.' ' The nomination of llobert C. Camp bell , of Louisiana, as United Slate9 Consul at Monterey was confirmed by the Senate a few days afro. " ' M. Leon Gambktta, the Frenob, statesman, died at Paris on the 1st of pyse ma, the result of a trilling wound In the hand received some time aaro. . Elisiu II. Allen, Hawaiian Minis ter, died suddenly in a cloak-room at the White House on the 1st during the Presi dent's reception, s i ;. ::i' GiiovEit Cleveland was . inaug' urated Governor of New York on the 1st. , Ked Cloud visited his grandchildren at the Hampton, (Va.) Normal School a few days ago. . . , , ; ! , . t CRIMES AND CASUALTIES, i The ledoral Grand Jury at Madi son, Wis., indicted General Thomas Key nolds, late pension agent, a few days ago for forging receipts and affidavits. .'. ' A fireman was killed and three others were seriously injured at the burning of ' an extensive flour mill at Belfast, Ireland, the other day. Property valued at 40,00.) was destroyed. A sugar refinery at Greeuock was burned, causing a loss of 30,000. , , . At a political meeting in New York City a few days ago some persons dropped a bomb, which' Exploded, blowing the en tire front of the store away. ' y ' At the house of Edward Capron, who resides about ono mile south of Fnrley, Iowa, Miss Mary Capron was sitting under a banging lamp holding, on her lap a little son of Mr. Capron, the other day, when the lamp fell and set their clothing on fire. The child was bnrnod to death and Miss Capron severely Injured. -- A, resident of ! Salt Lake, ' Utah, narned Sullivan, carried a broken neck for a week, but die t a few days ago. Some robber, strangled a passenger in a compartment of the express train be tween Nice and Marseilles, France, a few. days ago. - Charles Banks, i of Laona,' " New York, was killed by the falling of a large icicle, which pierced his brain the other day. ; ' -V ; ' While Henry King, a farmer aged about eighty years, was driving homo with his son In Sc'nrca Township, O., a few days ago, the team ran away, precipitating both to the ground.'' The father's skull was frac: tured and he died in half an hour. The son received b!Jht injuries. ... $ ' Five children broke throngh thp.ice' on a brook hear Hyde Park, Boston, Mass., the other morning. -Three were drowned. N. L. Dckes, who shot and killed A. C. Nuttat Pittsburgh, Pa., recently, was released on $12,000, bail n few dayago. A BOILER In a factory at'Dison, Bel glum, exploded few days' Bgo while the building was full of work people.. ,A num ber of persons were killed. Three bodies had been extracted from ths ruins, ( James TiBUETTS,ln attempting to ad- Just a belt at a saw-mill iu Tippecanoe, lnrt., was caught by the belt and thrown againtt a circular saw the other day. He died la a few hours af:erward. " A breaker of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, at Plttstown, Pa., was burned the other morning; orlgiu of the fire un known. Lou, $150,000. A woman who was dying of con sumption In Knox County, (., a few days since, made a confession of three murders her first bibajid, her daughter ud a etran- ger; also that she bad tried three times to kill her present husband. She said her mother and brother had been her accom plices. At Lancaster, Pa., the Fulton cotton mill, No. 5, operated by George Calder, the other day suspended operations owing to tbt dullness of trade. Two hundred opera tives were thrown out of employment. A ranch near Matamora, Mek., was raided by bandits recently anil thu proprie tor, Don JW Trevlno-was Killed, nnd his son was carried off. Several other persons were wounded dariug the lixhU. .A new Mayor was inducted into oflica at Salem, Mass., on the 1st. The out going Mayor hanged himself immediately on laying down the duties and cares of office .-- w- .-- Ex-Couurr Commissioners Walk er, Lhrtnan and Wilmoyer were arrested at Lebanon, Pa., the other day for malfeas ance in office. i i A girl in New Philadelphia, O., fa tally shot a young man who tried to break Into her room, a few days since. Angel IIermosillo, member of Congress, and Senor Colina fought a duel with swords at I'achuca, Mexico, the olber day. HermoBilio was morlaliy wounded. Btrne & Smith's extensive bleachery at Lodl, N. J., burned the other morning. Loss, $200,0f)0; partly insured. Friend Bkos.' wholesale clothing house burned in Milwaukee, AVIb., the oth er morning. The loss was over riX),OO0. The adjoining firms of Lindauer fc Co., wholesale dry goods and notions, and Straw, Ellsworth it Co., wholciale hatters, suffered to the extent of $100,000, making the total loss $000,000. A large steamer sank in Cork har bor, Ireland, a few days since and the steamship Chlopas foundered at Queens town. Br an explosion at WeeksviUe, Mon tana, the other day, three Chinamen were instantly killed and three others were se riously wounded. A quantity of giant pow der was being thawed out when it exploded. MISCELLANEOUS. ' ' About four hundred 5 tobacco-grow era of New England held a meeting at Hart ford, Conn., a few days ago, and adopted a petition to Congress to Impose a duly of $1 a pound on all foreign tobacco except from Cuba. . , , ' The secretary of the New York Cham ber of Commerce the other day reported that the exports for the year by American vessels aggregated $107,"So,5G0, while for elgn vessels carried away goods valued at $708,813,709.'" . i Z. Chafke, trustee of the Sprague estate, petitioned the Supreme Court of Rhode Island for leave to disburse fS00,000 to holders of trust mortgage notes a few days Blnoe, For forty-five years a Thiladelphian had struggled through the world bearing the name of N&than Ruzanowakowski, but songht and obtained relief a few days since, a court granting hi petition to change his name to Nathan llosenau. Ucm Sing, the first Chinese mission ary from this country to China, left New York a few days ago on his way to his mis sion. ,::.' - 1 ! The bark Gembok, which arrived at New York a few days ago, reported that October 9 a ball of fire passed across her deck, injuring three seamen, and exploded like a rocket when twenty yards away.' Half a dozen Dakota and Wisconsin , lawyers ' were ' rccebtly disbarred from practico befora the Interior Department on account of their connection with land fraud, j There were l'J3 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended December liQ,' against 197 for the previous seven davs . : The French Minister to Switzerland the other day Informed his Government that a considerablo quantity of dynamite had left Switzerland for France. It was aid there had been several arrests of dyna mite conspirators in the Department of the Rhone, ,, Frightened depositors at Rochester, N. Y., the other day drew $75,000 from the Monroe 'County Savings Bank and $41,000 from the East Side Savings Bank. . '' ; It was reported a few days ago that the Milk River country was overrun with white hunters who were slaughtering the buffaloes. The Indians were becoming re-it-less and the Agent feared trouble,. The presence of the military was requested. .liATiriCATiONS of the convention of the United States and Belgium for the ex' Chango of, money orders after ' January 1 were formally 'exchanged between the Postmaster-General and the Belgiaft Minister a few days ago. j ( ;i .( ' 'Before the New York Senate Com mittee on corners, the Secretary of the Smadard Oi! Company the' other day testi fied that its capital was $3.!i00,000; that it had not bought or sold large quantities of oil, to affeot the market, and did not deal in futures. , , . , I .. ', ! Recent advices stated . that .twanty oup'pllgrims djed of cliolet.. between Mecca and Medina, Arabia. There were said to be ten deaths daily from the disease at Medina. Uecent rainfalls had "caused floods In the midland counties In Enuland. There was great mortality among sheep in North J amptonshire. Nolinghsmpsbira and. Leices tershire. " , , . A t Tuere was a renewal of the recent floods in various parts of France, December '28.' Several streets in Lyons iwere sub murged. Besancon was much damaged, and Lisieux was inundated. It was estimated thai fully flfty-flve persons hud perished in the floods in Germany. " " , '; ' The French Chamber and Senate was prorogued December 29th, , . ., t Returns of the Fire Marshal at De troit, Mich., recently submitted, show that city to have spent over three and a quarter millions for building juiprovemeuls during the) ear. t block of land in Now York which was bought at auction ten years n;o for $n.0)0 was recently mortgaged for$l, 0)0. The Adjutant-General of Iowa cele brated the thirty-sixth anniversary of the .ndmiitii of the Stats by a salule of thirty- six guns at D.-s Moines on the 2th. The Western N:dl Association, at a meeting held nt; I'itisbui c. Pa., the other dy, aftvf a long (ti-i'cusion, unanimously de cided to shut down all factories from Janu ary 13 to February 10. This an' Ion was taken In view of the unssitWa.'f?fy' condition ' of the trade. At Washington Miss ,.To3ephino' C. Meeker, (laughter of the late N. O. Meeker, who was tortured and killed by Ulc Indians In the massacre of 1S79, die! the other morning of pneumonia. Miss Meeker was a clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Interior. She and her mother were for some time prisoners in the bands of the Uta In dians after the massacre of 1S79. The Indian Bureau naving received information from Cherokee County, Indian Territory, that white men were erecting buildings and. fencing off pastures in the "Cherokee Outlet," Commissioner Price recently addressed a letter to Agent Tufls at Muskogee to warn the white herders to remove with their stock from the reserva tion. ' ' A shock of earthquake was felt in Halifax, N. S., the other night, lasting twenty to thirty seconds. Recently a fatal disease, believed to be a brain trouble, bfoke out anion,' tho horses at Oskalocva, Iowa. The attack usually caused death in from twelve to thirty hours. The Governor of Wisconsin wa3 called upon to appoint all the oilicers for Waukesha County except sheriff, the other day, those elected having failed to file bonds. The receipts of the United States patent oflice for the year were $l,0()i),o:)0. Advices from San Francisco stated that a heavy snow-storm set in there on tho 31st ult., and continued over four hours. Snow fell to a depth of five or more inches. Such a snowfall was unknown within the city for thirty years, and old pioneers of the place stated they never saw a storm of equal violence and duration. A number of jletghs, the first ever seen in the ciiy, were out on the streets. It was said recently that cholera was devastating cities and villages in the interi or of Kurantieng provinces, China. Uosk Goligutlv, a young lady nineteen years of age, skated into a narrow open channel made by a party of ice cutters on the Susquehanna River, near Wilkes barre, Pa., a few days ago and was drowned. At Madison, Neb., the other day, two seven-year-old boys named Tyrell were playing with a Winchester rifla, when the weapon was discharged, striking one of them iu the forehead and completely shat tering his skull. At Worcester, Mass. .Nel son Raymond, sixteen years of ate, while playing with a revolver, killed his brother Joseph, aged ten. Francis Cahvili, & Sox, merchants and ship-owners, London and Lherpool, Eng., failed.recently. Liabilities, ;;00,000. COJiDEXSED TELEGRAMS. In the United. States Senate on the 2d Mr. Garland from the Judiciary Com mittee reported a substitute for all the bills providing for forfeiture of railroad land grants. Mr. Logan resumed his remarks against the Fitz John Porter bill. In the House a bill paused placing tobacco export' ed by rail to Canada and Mexico on the same footing as If exported iu vessels. A number. of unimportant bills parsed. Eliza Manning IIawthornk, only sisler of Nathaniel Hawthorne, died at Bev erly, Mass., a few days ago, aged over ninety. The coinage at the mint in Philadel phia, Pa., during 1S62 aggregated O9,0ti7,ii0 pieces, valued at iS,309,;!95. The amount iticluded double eagles C; eagle 2,324,480, half-eagles 2,151,;'mjJ. .-pieoes 1,54'J, quarter eagles 4,040, dollars 5,04 ). . W. C. Anderson, 'the' young tele graph operator at Lachuto, Cana., who tc cenlly fell heir to TSO.'Oiii) by the death of bis uncle in Scotland, was :v few days ago not I lied of a bequest of another $100,000 by the decease of another uncle. .t , , ; A banquet, ex-Senator Bruce pre siding, was giveu at Washington, the night of the 1st, in Iionor of Frederick Douglass and the anniversary of the emancipation proclamation A number of prominent col ored citizens, attended. , ,i ,, , . , ,i ' In a rcce'ut article on mercantile. fail ures fur 1SS2 a commercial paper says that the business disasters f'r last year num bered 7,f)74, against 5, Ml in am 4,3."0 In 18S0, being an increase in 1882 of 1,615 over the year previous. ' While cutting through high land for a street at Albany, N. Y., the other day, three men were killed' by the caving iu of tho earth upon Iheni.' ; At Little Uide, . East Ilawksbury, Qiiebec,' the other day, a hire ! mau mur dqred It. W. Cooke aiid wife, eldet daugh ter and one son. Another son had a thigh broken and Fannie Cooke, going to her brother's assistance, received " a severe wound, iu the breast, but would recover. WlTHiNj twenty-four hours from the time of liljnx her bill iu Chicago, recently, Slarit; Louise Dillon secured a divorce from John Dillon for desertion and hubitual drunkenness. , , . U. II. Dudlet i CO.,. Drokcrs m canned goods, Now Y'otk City, made an as signment a few days ago. Liabilities said to b froBi$ioo,o()'j to .yjoo.ooo. I Tub Common Council of V'ionna, Austria receully approved the scheme fur the embankment uf the Duuube, costing 10, 000,000 Burins., . s , Miss Elizabeth Lambert, of Cam bridge, Mass., who was bedridden for years, recently claimed to have been perfectly healed by prayef . SOUTHKKX LK AN i XGS. The Ktookholders of the Matthews Cotton Factory at Solma, Ala., held a meet ing recently, and resolved to Increase the capital slock fnm $100,000 to $300,0s). Kx tenidve plans for enlargement have been de termined on, and they will be conimensurato with the amount of increased slink taken. It wa proposed to add a new picker room, to enlarge the elot rt room building, an lan addition made to the main building. Anoth er hundred-horse power engine would be needed, and about ' 2.7) operatives In" all would be required. The City Council of Louisville, Ky., the other night formally Impeached City Auditor Phil Ilinkle, Assistant Fire Chief Oorge W. Levi, and two of the City Hall officials are under indictment for frauds In the Assessor's and Tax-Collector's otllees. The managers appointed to conduct the im peachment reported articles to the Board of Aldermen. Diphtheria was creating some alarm in Austin, Tex., a few days ago. It was said a few days ago that the cotton receipts at Greenville, Tex., had av eraged two hundred bales dally for some weeks. Ribbon cane in Yan Zandt County, Tex., made 3 10 gallons of sirup to the acre this season, it is said, and those who raised cane have found ready sale for the sirup at fifty cents a gallon. J. M. Sturtevant, Superintendent of tho Tennessee Blind School for thirty years, and well known as Instructor of the blind, died at Nashville, Teun., a few nights ago from paralysis. A man in Warren County, Ky., re cently climbed a tree to shake down an opossum that his dogs had treed. A rotten limb caused his sudden descent, and before the dogs learned that he was not the 'pos sum he was badly chewed up. J. V. Graham, of Kemper County, Mississippi, this season ral.se 1 on a little over one acre of ground four hundred bush els of sweet potatoes, which, valued at tiflv cents a bushel, amounted to .2 K). General Henry R. Jackson, President of theSesqui-Ccntonnial General Committee of Savannah, Ga., recently issued an ud dress to the people of Georgia inviting them to Join the citizens of Savannah in celebrat ing the 105th anniversary of the landing of Gen. James Oglethorpe and his English colonists. There is a girl in Holmes County, Mississippi, who is half white and half black. Her nose, ears, eyes, and parts of the chin are white and the rest of her face black. Her hands are small and shapely like those of a white woman. The girl is twelve years old, and It is said tha white is spreading. Her mother, a pure negro, has four other children, allot whom are black. Mr. Trotter, of Gulf Hammock, Levy County, Fla., recenily in one week killed five bears and Mr. Elzy a panther seven and a half feet long. The Coleman Fulton Pasture Com pany of Rockport, Tex., the other day filed in the office of the Secretary of State a reso lution increasing the capital stock from $500,000 to $I,5'J0,000. The Merino Ranch Company, capital stock $100,000, also filed charter! object, to raise merino sheep, with principal business ollice at Weathe.rford. Officer Lauzhlin and George Port- wood bad a difficulty In Lawregceburg, An derson County, Ky., the other night when each shot tho. other In the breast, i Laughlln was killed outright and. Porlwood died tihort time afterward. Bent Elam, a wealthy farmer, but lawless man, who has been iu a hundred broils the past few years, and whose fines in lhat time would buy a good plantation, got Into tin altercation at Uallas, Tex., recently with Henry Daniels about a payment for some drinks, and stabbed him to death Flam escaped. ' " ' S. II. Sanders, a resident of Arkansas, was arrested in Dallas, Tex., a few days ago on suspicion of being a train-robber. Con cealed about his person were found eight pistols, two pair of brass-knuckles, aud large bowie-knife. Longview, Tex., has" a plow factory which can turn out 100 plows daily. : i Eighteen hundred acres of land ten miles south pf Tallahassee, Fla., belonging to the estate of the late ' John D. Branch were Mild at probato sale the. other day at $2 10 per acre. . . , . . ine colony oi tuisstan reiugees m Middlesex County, Va., composed of eighty people, has been prosperous from its start, several months ago, and will next year be self-supporting. The colonists, who are said to make good citizens, will soon be Joined by another large party. Ross R. Winans, of Baltimore, recent ly completed the finest residence in the Southern States, 61ix7f feet, five storic hiuh, at a cost, of $500,000. , , ; The other night eomo white men went to the house of a negro named Gray, living in Hawkins County, Tenn., for the purpose of whipping him, charging him with steal ing hogs. They demanded, admittance which was denied. ' They fired on Gray' cabin, aud the tire was rcturnod. In the battle (iray was mortally wounded and bad since died. His step-son had a thigh broken bv a balk A white man, Jim Williams, was shot in the .bead, and. was. said to be mortally wounded. ' Another white man named Orrlck, was alio wounded. ' I W. L. Shaw, a deserter from the reg ular army, surrendered himself to a civil officer at Charleston, the other day. Shaw deserted from Camp Omaha, and being un able to obtain employment he became dis couraged and gave himself up. ' Col. Samuol Hamblin, of Hot Springs, Ark., was the other day appointed by the Secretary of the Interior Superintendent of Hot Springs Reservation, . . . . It is reported that at Columbus, Tex., a few days ago a son of Capt. Stafford was shot and that friends of Stafford had hung the (hooter. ' Santa Claus baa gone. ( IVlL-hLUYU n CEI ON.'I. r.nsago of the lVmllrtoii mil in the l ulu cl i,Ui' n ate Tli- ,M:tln IVntiirri oftlie I.nac t mrnt Cnmpet it n I x.tml imtl.ui l r.ivll.il for, nnd l.litlc.il At if tsiiirms Kot-hiililfii. Tho fill ovi'lnfr are- the pr ivet, ns pf tho ("i'll-S'crvlt- Id f rm b II a finally p-i si y Ibi I'll txl Hate SimimU": Thi' Mill; fntitl A 11 11 ti H yrti it" and Inipmvii thu Civil" lci- e 'it :ho Ui,,t il Suite;." It'urnvii.is tor the n;niinttnitit hv th I'ri'it ii nt hi tlnu ; pi'i s mi. ti .t ni..i c tlian two f hum -ti:i!( t'.' it the snnii i) i rt v . its (il- K'fVils n nirl.i nni-r. wtin sii..ll ec : -; , l u t .3 the 1 niiiM Mutes t v II S.t . t ( n-ntm-nlo'i. l'nwer Is Kiveu tne Prc-nl, nt to r n. vp nnv oiii,iiiss,,.iicr 'li t till m va unev, 1 v an I wii 1 tin- eini-" tit 01 the Svn iti;. 'I'll kiImi m' sa d 0111 in .ssi.me. s is li.xi ii at l,.0 leurh. i.er ve.ir. anil nil in o. s ' ii v tni ( I ,n(f e oimis . Mji't o.i i pi 0-C1 ities tuo ilui.t gol i-Mi.l (, m 1 -.ii.m is wh.i h hit, or fhy. tnai-l Hie I'n s, ,'iit m iir 'iiariiijr em. at lo 1 u es lor I'Mi'rvniir t li s im t Into i tfi rt: hihI when aM ru. a simll tune lii'i'ii pmiiiuiriiti"it. it shu.l lie Hi ilmv uf all o leers il ilio I niteil Mates in ih'Piiriinc n;g itiiil olliees to winch iiii.v such r.ili-s uuiy reiiiio t ai'l ill nil propr w.is. In ciuiy- mir Fii:d rules ami nuy liie.l lie.itioti. hi ri ot into eilect. r-ii 1 1 ru,es n ill pr .v.uo lor open, fiimp t tive ex nil nut mn or testing tne 11 1 111 ss iii iijipne 1111s ti r p iiiiio fervice: sueli exanuntit mis s;iail lie praeticil in their eliarucier. anil, a 1 1 iir as 111 . i.e, sliiill e ale to those matters wliielt will l:irtv test the teliitive capHo ty 11111I titnen 11; .. r ns x11111.it ''I to (lisetini'tre the iliue s ul tin t serv ice into which tucy se k to b 1 nppoitiiv I. It f 11 n In r in i I'les 1 11.1l there -Mull lie 11 per nil of ni'oluiT inn lM'Inre tiny ntis'ilnt 'iii'jvjinitneiit. uii'l mIsi I or! he proinntii in Irotn lower o 111 in r grailei upon tne liMsi-t of n.erit nnl i-om- pei.titm. I'lovicliM tlia. persons 111 111" punno rvue are therebv turner no oui'artti on to contriliutu to an y politleal fu:nl or periorm any political seivtee, una mill no snail 11 n no einoveiloi otti rmso iir . junie a 1 ir rei usnnf txloso. J- oil). (Is tho use nt oiliei 1 aiithoi- ity 1 1 inllttuniti or ooti'Cd tlie pul.tii'iu action oi any appo.ntf . 11 al-o proviiloi tor iioiwompet iive ex- nminntion in cases wiiero com 1 eient persons do not appear after not ce, u 1 In cases where cotnpetii ion may not be found pi net cable. A s ) I'ruvi'les lor tun ti ilineuiion to 1110 Commission by the (iiipointliiir now, r ot those si-leeti'il Ini-f-inployniciit amoiw iliose fxaiuin frt; of the place of residence ot such persons: of the re.n c 1011 01 a; y suoh peis.ni niter ptona lion; of traif 'i'1, iTsiriations niel ieinonls, nni of the date thereof, atvl u r. eord of tlie saino shall bo kept by mild I otnmiss.on. fa d Commission Shalt be subject to rules that may be tuml ' by thu rreslilent; make reirul itions for tiivi havo control of such exuniiiiatiniis, nu t thriiii;h its meinbers or exiuinn rsitsiiuil superti-e an I iireservo tho records of too Hiine; anil shall teep tho minutes of its owa pmcuedinire; 111 uk 1) h nil tin I riorts to tho fiesnlent, lor transmission to Congress, sliowMi .tsuwn ac ton, rules and rornlatimis and exception tnereto ill force, the praetieal eilerls thereof, unU any eiiKtfeslions it mtiy ap)roe. MM lmn l urovldes. tor tun einiil ymoni ot al'hiof Kx iiiiint'r whoshnll rH;ei e a salai y of :j,tli per year, and 11 Cecrotnry at a salary of H.HiiO ier yniir, nnd also, when ncc ssui y. a stoiioif i'M)liei and messenger. Tne Commis sion shnu meet at vv a.shniuton nnd 111 nn or mure inaees ill each State and i'01 ntory w nero cxnmiiiati. ns are to tako place, d -sixuuto aud Fiiloet k suit ible numlier of pers Mis, not less th. in three in tho ollienll sorvico of IJ10 linited Biateg, res diii iu gal l Mato or Territory, after consulting' said department, orolliee, in which such pei sous sen e, to bo the member ot tiiNir.isot bxainiuors.aud inav.atany t.imvtuu- etitute any other pers ms in sanl service.liVlntf in atich ' territory, in place of any one so selected. Such Hoard of Exam tiers shall be 7 lo' ated as to make it reasonably couvun iet ami inexpons ve for applic iuts to iittond before them; and where there are p rsons to be exatulue.1 iu any .State or Territory exami nations shad bo hel l therein at b a-t twice in each year. The use of any room iu any public buddin is allowed tho t'oiniinssion or such lloards of Examiners by tho provis.ou of this seel ion. Section 3 directs tho Secretary of tno In terior to pro ide suitable rootim in Wnshinsf ton for headquarters; and to supply the ueoes siiy stationery aud prinlliiK' lor 1 110 Commis sion. Section 4 provldos that any Co.nm sslouur. Examiner, oonvist. or mnssenccr. or any ver- son in public S TV ieo V h i shall wilfully and corruptly deceive, or obstruct any person in respect to his or her rijrhtof exumination, tr wno snail wiiiuny. oorroptiy nnn laisety mark, irrade. esittiinte. or report upon the ex amination or protiar stMiidinir - of any person, or ho .shall wiUtilly. aud..taifi;upliy, iUM" uuy false repre-s titi. lions eonceriMiin tlie same, or conccrnintt tho pors n exiim nod. or w ho shall wilfully and corruptly furnish to tiny person any special or secret lntonnntion iortiie pur pose 01 either improviinr or iujnritu the (nos iiccls or chiinecs of uuy p rson so examined peiiiK appointed, ee7ipiyle proW'ff shall liir eac h huch (i'it BSt) be y eprtj,' I '.' 11 Jt v of a liiiBdeineanotvnnd upou'cmiyis t 01 tnt-rcof shall be punished by a lino of in t b'-s than Hilt) nor more than $l.0J I, ir.bv im,,ri onnieiit not len limn toil days. nor mm ,i ! letii one year, or by both, such line and imiiri-n rent Section 5 directs the Secn-tar ot tiie Treas ury w thin sixty days al ter t passntre of tho bid t ) cl ssity ull oliii e;s in the employment of tho Treasury Jlepuitnignt, Ktnt.J'eV ''t tho sani" to tho l'r. sldeiit and in-tiinT the l'ost niastoicienaral and thi heads ot nil. other de partments to inn ko snn l.ir claa-siiiuaiiuiM and reports. - Section 6 provides that nf ter the expiration of six months from the p:iuso "f Ui S 'act, no ollieer or clerk shall be appo;ii:cl, n;el 110 per son shaii be employed to enter or bo p omote 1 in ci her of said classes now existing i t' tlmt may be Rrranpfed hereunder pni'sumit to Baid rules, until ho hits pus-ed c.eio.naiion or shown t 1 Tie B'cl:illy exemp e I 1 rum such ex aininul ion in conformity h r.jwlih; but noth iuir con: amed in said act shall be er.wti eeil to take fmiiL those honorably dischiuned from the mllltHry ov nnval service tin' prefer nee eonferrei by the l..'.4tli s leti.ni of th" Kevised Statutes n ir take from the I'l esjdeiit any au thority not inconsistent with this aotennloi i ed by tho 1.1,'iid Biictioii of sail Mbrjuies. .Vor simll any oltieer n in fhrt eernt:ve tntineh of the lin urnmout. or any pei-s n tm r ly em ployed ns a nil orer O'' workman, lie re iuin d to tie classilled hereii'ider; nor, uuioftN by direc tion of ti e Semite, shall any person who has been noininitet for confirmation by tho Sen ate 1 e reipiired to bo elaasllied or plss exami nation. , Section proviiles thrt nnt mons ihan ono liieinber of a family alvdl lie elifibie to ippoint nient to any (rrade. 8"Cth,n provides -that no re-exnminiillon of Senator or K presentHtive, exeept as to character nnd resld "nee, h HI be considered, ill miikiner exenii"t mil or tippolittnien s. Seetieu provides rlmt tin pi rsmt haliininl ly usinir in oxlcatlnif bevenii,'.'H in excess shall be appo nled to or r tuine I jn any nilico, bus.neas or cniployintmtt wtutU tio provis ions of thin act are upp cublo. , Section 10 providO) tbnt no Scntpor or Kep reentt1vo nor any employe of eillmr house, an 1 11 1 executive, judicial, military, or iinval ollieer of tho C'n'tcd tat eg, itirfl ,uo clerk or employe of any depai tment, bnnn.uor bin can of thu executive, Judicltl. or military, or naval service of tho Tnltid Ststes.' 8I.11II, clirei t,y or indirectly, solicit or receive, or bo in nnv 11'inn ner concernod In solicit iiur or re oiiinirany assessment, subscription or coin 1 tbittion for any political purpose whatever fren any ollieer, clerk or employe of ths Unit' d Stun s, oreny department, brunch or bureau hereof, or from any person receiving uny salary or compensation Ijom monov ilymyii trom the Treusiiry ot the CniUd States. , , Section li provides that n offlrn r or em ployes of tho United States sluill d.sehararo or promote, or dcarudu, or in any umiiiuir chunire the nftiulul rank or coiupe.tLsat ou id H'iv olber oltieer or cm ployo, or iiromisu tr threnten so to do, for irmnif or withholding or neglecting to make any 0 ntribtition of money or other valuable thing for nnv Political dui dosh. Section U prohibits tlm giving ot presents o Senators and lU'prescntalivcs tt prcr;ota pditical objeetti. Seciion i;i provides' that an v person who shall hi found guilty of violating any provis ion of the four foregoing Bedims shall bo deemed guilt v of a Oiidenu asinr and shall, on conviction rhsroofr bo puni h d by tine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or bv Im prisonment for a term not excluding three, jeers, or by such fine and ImprUoiuneut both,, in the discretion of tho court. 1