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THE CIVIL SERVICE IN PORTO RICO.

he act of April 12, 1900, the United States civil service supplanted the ervice in Porto Rico. Inasmuch as the executive officers and employees s act became a part of the executive civil service of the United States, they ly subject to the provisions of the civil-service act and rules. On July 5, Secretary of the Treasury, with the President's approval, issued an order g and including within the provisions of the civil-service law and rules the d employees in and under the Treasury Department in Porto Rico, exceptns appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate and persons as mere laborers or workmen. On August 29, 1900, the Postmaster-General the commission that the United States Post-Office Department, on May 1, med control of the free-delivery service at Mayaguez and San Juan. The on approved the lists of carriers transmitted therewith and authorized the of the offices as free-delivery offices.

THE CIVIL SERVICE IN HAWAII.

y 5, 1900, the Secretary of the Treasury issued an order classifying the s of the Treasury Department in Hawaii. The order is similar in scope age to that of the same date relating to Porto Rico.

THE PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE.

tember 19, 1900, the United States Philippine Commission passed an act, for the establishment and maintenance of an efficient and honest civil the Philippine Islands." The act provides for a civil-service board of sons, which is to prepare rules for appointments and promotions according and by competitive examinations so far as practicable; for the selection of according to the priority of their applications, by such noncompetitive ions as may be practicable. Competitive examinations for appointment notion are to be held at Manila, Iloilo, and Cebu, and also in the United nder the auspices of the United States Civil Service Commission, for appointment. Provision is made for transfer from one branch to another, the Federal classified civil service; for reinstatements; for examining 1 applicants in Spanish and native applicants in English in cases where I deems knowledge of both languages essential; for a physical examination ants in the United States; for an age limitation, 18 to 40 years, for entrance owest class; for temporary appointments, and a few exceptions from ion. t applies to all appointments of civilians to executive positions under the governor and thirteen specified departments, bureaus, and offices. The be formulated will prescribe the method of appointment to the Manila police A fire department.

ard has power to administer oaths, summon witnesses, and require the proof official books and records, and to prevent payment of salaries to persons rvice contrary to the act and rules.

THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

ublic Printer has charge of all business relating to the public printing and He appoints the officers and employees of the Government Printing Office, chases all necessary machinery and material.

hief Clerk has general supervision of the clerks and clerical work of the He conducts the correspondence relating to public business, and performs er duties as may be assigned to him by the Public Printer.

Foreman of Printing has charge of all matter which is to be printed. His ent consists of the following divisions: The Document, Job, Specification, Folding, Stereotype, and Congressional Record rooms, as well as the various Offices.

Foreman of Binding has charge of the Bindery, in which division all work g binding, ruling, or marbling is executed. The binderies of the branch re under his supervision.

uperintendent of Documents has general supervision of the distribution of all ocuments, excepting those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress Executive Departments. He is required to prepare a comprehensive index of ocuments and consolidated index of Congressional documents, and is authorsell at cost any public document in his charge, the distribution of which is cifically directed.

THE COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES.

(Northwest corner of Sixth and B streets SW.)

The United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries was established by joint resolution of Congress approved February 9, 1871. It is placed in charge of a Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, who is required to be a person of scientific and practical acquaintance with the fish and fisheries of the sea, coast, and inland waters. Reports are made annually to Congress.

The scope of the work of the Commission covers (1) the propagation of useful food fishes, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and their distribution to suitable waters; (2) the inquiry into the causes of decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, the study of the waters of the coast and interior in the interest of fish culture, and the investigation of the fishing grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources and the development of the commercial fisheries; (3) the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations.

In the prosecution of its work the Commission has 34 stations, situated in different parts of the country, 5 fish-distributing cars, 2 steam vessels, and I sailing vessel.

THE BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES.

(Organized September 4, 1890.)

That uniform usage in regard to geographic nomenclature and orthography shall obtain throughout the Executive Departments of the Government, and particularly upon maps and charts issued by the various Departments and Bureaus, this Board is constituted. To it shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names which arise in the Departments, and the decisions of the Board are to be accepted by the Departments as the standard authority in such matters.

THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS.

The Bureau of the American Republics was established under the recommendation of the International American Conference in 1890 for the prompt collection and distribution of commercial information concerning the American Republics. It publishes translations of the tariffs of the countries of Latin America reduced to the United States equivalents; also handbooks of these countries, a monthly bulletin containing the latest information respecting their resources, commerce, and general features, and The Commercial Directory of the American Republics, an international publication. Replies are also furnished to inquiries in relation to the commercial and other affairs of the countries, and items of news giving recent laws of general interest, development of railways, agriculture, mines, manufactures, shipping, etc., are given to the press. The Bureau is sustained by contributions from the several American Republics in proportion to their population.

INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.

(Bliss Building, 35 B street NW.)

This Commission was established by act of Congress approved June 18, 1898. It is composed of nineteen members-five Senators appointed by the President of the Senate, five Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, and nine civilians appointed by the President of the United States. The duties of the Commission are to investigate questions pertaining to immigration, labor, agriculture, manufacturing, and general business, and to report to Congress and suggest such legislation as deemed best upon these subjects. It shall also furnish such information and suggest such laws as may be made a basis for uniform legislation by the various States.

THE JUDICIARY.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. (In Capitol Building.)

VILLE WESTON FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States, was born usta, Me., February 11, 1833; was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853; law, attended a course of lectures at Harvard Law School, and was admitted ar in 1855; formed a law partnership in Augusta, Me., and was an associate editor emocratic paper called The Age; in 1856 became president of the common , and served as city solicitor; removed to Chicago, Ill., in 1856, where he ed law until appointed Chief Justice; in 1862 was a member of the State connal convention; was a member of the State legislature from 1863 to 1865; was ate to the Democratic national conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880; the of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Northwestern University and by in College in 1888, and by Harvard in 1890; was appointed Chief Justice April 8, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took the oath of office October 8, same year. N MARSHALL HARLAN, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme was born in Boyle County, Ky., June 1, 1833; was graduated from Center Colentucky, in 1850; studied law at Transylvania University; practiced his proat Frankfort; was elected county judge in 1858; was elector on the Bell and t ticket; removed to Louisville and formed a law partnership with Hon. W. F. x; in 1861 raised the Tenth Kentucky Infantry Regiment and served in Gen. H. Thomas's division; owing to the death of his father in the spring of 1863, gh his name was before the Senate for confirmation as a brigadier-general, compelled to resign; was elected attorney-general by the Union party in 1863 led the office until 1867, when he returned to active practice in Louisville; e Republican nominee for governor in 1871; his name was presented by the lican convention of his State in 1875 for the Vice-Presidency; was chairman delegation from his State to the national Republican convention in 1876; ed a diplomatic position as a substitute for the Attorney-Generalship, to which, he reached Washington, President Hayes intended to assign him; served as a er of the Louisiana commission; was commissioned an Associate Justice of the States Supreme Court November 29, 1877, and took his seat December 10,

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RACE GRAY, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, orn in Boston, Mass., March 24, 1828; was graduated from Harvard College in ass of 1845 and from the Harvard Law School in 1849; was admitted to the 1851; was appointed reporter of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts 4 and held the position until 1861; was appointed associate justice of the ne judicial court of Massachusetts August 23, 1864, and chief justice of that September 5, 1873; was commissioned an Associate Justice of the Supreme of the United States by President Arthur December 19, 1881.

VID JOSIAH BREWER, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, orn in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 1837; is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and a A. Field, sister of David Dudley, Cyrus W., and Justice Stephen J. Field; his was an early missionary to Turkey; was graduated from Yale College in 1856 om the Albany Law School in 1858; established himself in his profession at nworth, Kans., in 1859, where he resided until he removed to Washington to upon his present duties; in 1861 was appointed United States commissioner; 1862 to 1865 was judge of the probate and criminal courts of Leavenworth y; from 1865 to 1869 was judge of the district court; from 1869 to 1870 was y attorney of Leavenworth; in 1870 was elected a justice of the supreme court State, and reelected in 1876 and 1882; in 1884 was appointed judge of the cirourt of the United States for the Eighth district; was appointed to his present on, to succeed Justice Stanley Matthews, deceased, in December, 1889, and was issioned December 18, 1889.

NRY BILLINGS BROWN, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the d States, was born in South Lee, Mass., March 2, 1836; was graduated from College in 1856; studied law for some time in a private office; attended lectures

both at Yale and Harvard law schools, and was admitted to the bar of Wayne County, Mich., in July, 1860; in the spring of 1861, upon the election of Mr. Lincoln, was ppointed deputy marshal of the United States, and subsequently assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Michigan, a position he held until 1868, when he was appointed judge of the State circuit court of Wayne County, to fill a acancy; held this office but a few months, and then returned to active practice in partnership with John S. Newberry and Ashley Pond, of Detroit, which continued until 1875, when he was appointed by President Grant district judge for the eastern istrict of Michigan, to succeed Hon. John W. Longyear; on December 23, 1890, was ppointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Samuel F. Miller; was unanimously confirmed December 29, and took the oath of office January , 1891; received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Michigan in 1887 and rom Yale University in 1891.

GEORGE SHIRAS, JR., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., January 26, 1832; was graduated from Yale Colege in 1853; attended the Yale Law School in 1854; was admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania in 1856; practiced law in Pennsylvania till his appointment to the Supreme Bench; received the degree of LL. D. from Yale University in 1883; was ne of the Pennsylvania Presidential electors in 1888; in July, 1892, was appointed to ucceed Justice Joseph P. Bradley; took the oath of office October 10, 1892.

EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in the parish of Lafourche, La., in November, 1845; was ducated at Mount St. Mary's, near Emmitsburg, Md., at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and at Georgetown (D. C.) College; served in the Confederate army; was censed to practice law by the supreme court of Louisiana in December, 1868; elected tate senator in 1874; was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana 1 1878; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James B. Custis, and took his seat March 4, 1891; while serving his term as Senator from ouisiana was appointed, February 19, 1894, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and took his seat March 12, 1894.

RUFUS W. PECKHAM, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United tates, was born in the city of Albany and State of New York, November 8, 1838; is father was a native of Albany County, and had been district attorney of the ounty, justice of the supreme court of the State, and, at the time of his death in e shipwreck of the Ville de Havre, November 22, 1873, was one of the judges of e court of appeals of New York State. The son was educated at the Albany cademy and at one of the schools in Philadelphia; he studied law in the office of is father, who was then in partnership with Lyman Tremain, attorney-general of e State, practicing law under the firm name of Peckham & Tremain, in the city f Albany; he was admitted to the bar of the State in December, 1859; his father as in that year elected to the bench of the supreme court, and the son formed a artnership with the former partner of his father, under the firm name of Tremain : Peckham, which continued until the death of Mr. Tremain in December, 1878. n 1866 Mr. Peckham was married to a daughter of D. H. Arnold, an old New York erchant and at that time president of the Mercantile Bank in New York City. In 368 he was elected district attorney of Albany County; was subsequently cororation counsel of Albany City, and in 1883 was elected a justice of the supreme ourt of the State. While serving as such he was elected, in 1886, an associate judge f the court of appeals of New York State, and while occupying a seat on that bench e was, in December, 1895, appointed by President Cleveland an Associate Justice f the Supreme Court of the United States.

JOSEPH MCKENNA, of San Francisco, Cal., Associate Justice of the Supreme ourt of the United States, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 10, 1843; attended t. Joseph's College of his native city until 1855, when he removed with his parents › Benicia, Cal., where he continued his education at the public schools and the Colgiate Institute, at which he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865; was twice ected district attorney for Solano County, beginning in March, 1866; served in the wer house of the legislature in the sessions of 1875 and 1876; was elected to the orty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses; resigned from the st-named Congress to accept the position of United States circuit judge, to which e was appointed by President Harrison in 1893; resigned that office to accept the ace of Attorney-General of the United States in the Cabinet of President McKinley; as appointed, December 16, 1897, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the nited States to succeed Justice Field, retired, and took his seat January 26, 1898.

ENCES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

designates those whose wives accompany them; the designates those whose daughters ny them.]

. Chief Justice Fuller, 1801 F street NW.

· Justice Harlan, Fourteenth street and Euclid place NW.

ustice Gray, 1601 I street NW.

ustice Brewer, 1412 Massachusetts avenue NW.

ustice Brown, 1720 Sixteenth street NW.

ustice Shiras, 1515 Massachusetts avenue NW. ustice White, 1717 Rhode Island avenue NW. ustice Peckham, 1217 Connecticut avenue NW.

· Justice McKenna, 1705 Rhode Island avenue NW.

OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT.

-James H. McKenney, 1523 Rhode Island avenue NW. y Clerk.-Charles B. Beall, 1259 Kenesaw street NW.

al.-J. M. Wright, Metropolitan Club.

ter.—J. C. Bancroft Davis, 1621 H street NW.

CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Judicial Circuit.-Mr. Justice Gray. Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

ircuit Judges.-Le Baron B. Colt, Providence, R. I., and William L. Putnam, Portland, Me.

d Judicial Circuit.—Mr. Justice Peckham. Districts of Vermont, Connecticut, Northern New York, Southern New York, Eastern New York, and Western New York.

Circuit Judges.-William J. Wallace, Albany, N. Y.; E. Henry Lacombe, New
York City, and Nathaniel Shipman, Hartford, Conn.
Judicial Circuit.-Mr. Justice Shiras.

Districts of New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Circuit Judges.-Marcus W. Acheson, Pittsburg, Pa.; George M. Dallas, Philadelphia, Pa., and George Gray, Wilmington, Del.

th Judicial Circuit.-Mr. Chief Justice Fuller. Districts of Maryland, West Virginia, Eastern Virginia, Western Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Circuit Judges.-Nathan Goff, Clarksburg, W. Va., and C. H. Simonton, Charleston, S. C. h Judicial Circuit.-Mr. Justice White. Districts of Northern Georgia, Southern Georgia, Northern Florida, Southern Florida, Northern Alabama, Middle Alabama, Southern Alabama, Northern Mississippi, Southern Mississippi, Eastern Louisiana, Western Louisiana, Northern Texas, Eastern Texas, and Western Texas.

Circuit Judges. Don A. Pardee, New Orleans, La.; A. P. McCormick, Dallas, Tex., and David D. Shelby, Huntsville, Ala. th Judicial Circuit.—Mr. Justice Harlan.

Districts of Northern Ohio, Southern Ohio, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and Western Tennessee.

Circuit Judges.-Henry F. Severens, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Horace H. Lurton, Nashville, Tenn., and William R. Day, Canton, Ohio.

enth Judicial Circuit.—Mr. Justice Brown. Districts of Indiana, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Eastern Wisconsin, and Western Wisconsin.

Circuit Judges.-W. A. Woods, Indianapolis, Ind.; James G. Jenkins, Milwaukee, Wis., and Peter S. Grosscup, Chicago, Ill.

ghth Judicial Circuit.-Mr. Justice Brewer. Districts of Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Southern Iowa, Eastern Missouri, Western Missouri, Eastern Arkansas, Western Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah; Indian Territory, Northern; Indian Territory, Central; Indian Territory, Southern; and Territories of New Mexico and Oklahoma. Circuit Judges.-Henry C. Caldwell, Little Rock, Ark.; Walter H. Sanborn, St. Paul, Minn., and Amos M. Thayer, St. Louis, Mo.

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