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CIVIL SERVICE FOR
POSTMASTERSHIPS
Report Given Out bjr Postmaster
General Stirs Up Hoi^et's
Nest in Capitol.
Washington, March 19.?Postmaster
General Burleson announced today
that after April 1, the appointment
of all postmasters of the first,
second and third class would be subject
to competitive examinations.
Nominations will be sent to the Senate
as in the past, but in making the
selections the President will be
guided by the results of examinations
and will send in the names at
the head of the lists.
Whether the Civil Service Commission
under which fourth-class
postmasters are chosen will conduct
the ^examinations has not been determined.
The President's forthcoming order
will provide for a form of modified
civil service classification under
which all vacancies, whether caused
i by resignation, removal or death,
will be filled by competitive exami
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will continue without examination
until the expiration of four years'
terms beginning with their last appointment
and then will, it is understood,
have to undergo the competitive
test
Hornet's Neat.
A hornet's nest was stirred up by
the announcement at the Capitol,
where scores of members were in
their offices preparing to leave for
home. The order was roundly denounced
by some of the Democratic
leaders and several members
construed it as a move to get combined
Democratic and Republican
support in a politically uncertain
House.
Representatives Rainey, of Illinois;
Carter, Oklahoma; Harris,
Mississippi; Wilson and Aswell,
Louisville; Vinson, Georgia; Carlin
and Glass, Virginia; Dixon, Indiana;
Rouse, Johnson, Kincheloe and Sherley,
Kentucky; Decker, Missouri;
Gray, Alabama; and Sims, of Tennessee,
were in a group of Democrats
who called on the Postmaster
General today and who were told
about the plan. Democratic Leader
Eitchin of the House delayed his de
. parture for Norh Carolina to goto
the Poatoffice Department to register
his protest
Most of the Congressmen who saw
Mr B.urleson .went on the latter's
invitation to discuss the new plan
for systematizing postal accounting
by establishing central auditing
postoffices in county or district
' groups. This subject was oversha/
dowed, however, when the news of
the civil service order was broken.
One Southern member asked if
tfte Postmaster uenerai bad called
them there to ask their views or to
tell them what had been done.
, What I? Going to Happen.
"I am telling you what it going to
happen," he replied.
v THe Postmaster General is quoted
as having told them that it was too
late to protest as the order had been
determined upon, and would be carried
out. He intimated that he was
not the author of it, but that was a
measure of efficiency and economy.
Another member suggested that
' the order would put many Republicans
in office, as many of the more
atctive assistant postmasters are
Republicans retained by the Democratic
postmasters, and still another
wanted to know what would happen
of the one man certified from the
examination were a negro. The Postmaster
General, according to those
present, replied that the examinations
would have to take place and
there would be "no special privilege
to anyone."
A Western Democrat asked why
the order, if issued at all, should not
provide for certifying the three
highest in the examination as eligible
to postmasterships, as was done
when the fourth class postmasters
were blanked into civil service, instead
of confining the choice to the
one person who happened to stand
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$aid that Congress had had the opportunity
of legislating to that effect,
but did not do so.
In the discontent voiced by members
after the conference some of
them complained that the order
would take out of political life some
of the most active supporters of the
representatives in Congress.
A majority of the Republicans
joined with Democrats recently in
rejecting a proposition for putting
all postmasters uryjer the civil service
when an amendment to that
effect was offered to an appropri
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Republican Leader Mann and a few
others favored it.
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Long Cane, March 19.?Missei
Clara and lone Beauford spent Sun
day evening with Mr. and Mrs. W
S. Bosler.
Mrs. Oscar Cochran and children
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of Cold Springs, spent Thursday <
with Mrs. J. A. Stevenson.
Mr. Evans Hunt was a business
visitor to the city Thursday.
Miss Nina Beauford was shopping
in the city Saturday.
Mrs. A. L. Drennan of Iva, and
Miss Clara Beauford spent Wednesday
with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bosler.
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ping in the city Thursday.
Misses Eva and Estelle Finley
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with Misses lone and Viola Beauford.
Mr. Lewis Bosler of Calhoun Falls
spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. ]
W. S. Bosler. 3
Mrs. W. D. Beauford and daughters,
Mrs. A. L. Drennan and Misses
lone and Viola Beauford spent last
Tuesday with Mrs. L. F. Finley and 3
family.
Mr. Oscar Black of Johnston,
,spent Thursday night with Mr. and
Mrs- R. H. Stevenson. ]
Mr. and Mrs. John Martin and '
children spent Sunday evening with :
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Finley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McKellar of
the city, spent Tuesday with Mr.
and Mrs. L. F. Finley. ,
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spent a few days of last week with
Mr. Simpson and family.
Miss Azalee Creswell and Fred
Carroll of the city, spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Finley.
Mr. John Stewart of Cold Springs i
' community, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stewart.
Mr. Albert Mcllwain of near Due
West, spent the week-end with Mr.
k and Mrs. R. H. Stevenson.
k Mr. and Mrs. Ben Metts of near
t Hodges, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Botts.
i Mr. Edd Keller spent Sunday with
- Mr.. Thompson Beauford.
W?c TnVin MoMghan and rhilHren.
of the city, spent the week-end with
, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. King.
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Jharter No. 8421
EKPORT OP THE CONDITION
NATIONAL BANK OF .
At Abbeville, in the State of South Carolina, at the cl<
RESOURCES
1. a Loans and discounts (except those shown on band
Total Loans
2. Overdrafts, secured, $539.69; unsecured, $467.47
a U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par vi
Total U. 8. Bonds ? ? ?
7. Stocks, other than Federal Reserve Bank stock.
8. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subsci
9. a Value of banking house (if unencumbered) .....
11. Real estate owned other than banking house
12. a Net amount due from approved reserve agents in 1
Chicago and St. Louis ? ?
b Net amount due from approved reserve agents in
serve cities ?
L3. Net amount due from banks and bankers (other thi
ed in 12 or 20) .? ?? ??? ?
L6. a Outside checks and other cash items
b Fractional currency, nickels, and cents
L7. Notes of other national banks ???
>0. Lawful reserve in vault and net amount due fron
Reserve Bank ?
SI. Redemption fund with U. S. Treas. and due from U.
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LIABILITIES.
23. Capital stock paid In ?
24. Surplus fund ? ?
25. a Undivided profit! ? -?? ? ?
b Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid.....
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28. Circulating notes outstanding
B3. Individual deposits subject to check
34. Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 dara.
36. Cashier's checks outstanding
Total Demand Deposits .... ......?--?
Total ? ?
STATE OP 80UTH CAROLINA, Couhty of Abbeville, a
I, H. G. SMITH, Cashier of the above-named bank,
statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day .of
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Corbict?A ttut:
A. M. SMITH,
AMOS B. MOBSE,
W. M. BARNWELL, Directors.
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28,261.81
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1391,539.90
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30,000.00
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4,011.14 4,769.28
18,750.00
280,851.84
81,136.27
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