Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1883 — TAX-GATHERERS DISMISSED. [ARTICLE]

TAX-GATHERERS DISMISSED.

The Order Consolidating the Internal* Revenue Districts. The Number Cut Down From 12ft to 82. [Washington Telecram.] The President has issued an order cutting down the number of collection districts from 126 to eighty-two. This pruning process has been in contemplation for seme time, and political bosses, place-holders and Government employes in expectancy have been besieging the President, crying to him and threatening him. But he was obdurate. Then he was reminded of the great Influence of collectors at election time, and hints were slyly put forward about the utility of these offices in working up an Arthur “boom” This little artifice was asuseless as tears and threats had been. The President had decided upon forty-four decapitations, and upon the annihilation of forty-four useless offices. The new- order of things begins July 1, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Illinois loses two districts, The Second and Third will be consolidated, and will be known as the Second. Lucien Crooker will be Collector, with headquarters at Aurora The Seventh and Eighth districts will be merged under the name of the Eighth, with John W. Hill as Collector. The following are the changes in neighboring States: a Wisconsin— All east of the dividing line is to be known as the First district, with Irving M. Bean Collector. His headquarters wilt probably be at Milwaukee. - All weat of the dividing line will be known as the Second district, with Leonard Lottridge Collector. Indiana— The Tenth and Eleventh districts are* consolidated to be known as the Eleventh, with Thomas M. K rkpatrick Collector. The First ana Seventh are consolidated to be known as the Seventh, with William W. Carter Collector. He will probably continue his headquarters at Terre-Haute. The Fourth and Sixth are consolidated under the name of the Fourth, with Horace McKay as Collector. He will probably have Ids office at Indiananolis. * lowa—Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones. Linn, Muscatine, Scott, Louisa, Washington, Johnson, Keokuk, lowa, Benton, Mahaska, Powesheik, Tama, Marion, Jasper, Warren, Polk, Madison, Dallas, Adair, Guthrie, Cass, Audubon, Pottawattamie, Shelby and Harrison counties axe consolidated into one. district, to be known as the Second, with John W. Green Collector. All that portion of the State south of the counties named is consolidated into one district, known as the Fourth, with J. W. Burdette Collector—a new appointment. All that portion of the State north of the counties named is constituted one district, known as the Third, with James E. Simpson Collector. Michigan— The State is to be divided bye line running north and south which now marks the boundaries of the United States judicial districts. All east of the line is to be known as the First district James. H. Stone is Collector. He will pronably have his headquarters at Detroit. All west of the line will be known as the Fourth district, with Charles Wt Watkins, Collector. He will probably be located at Grana Rapids. , Missouri— The First and Second districts are consolidated, with Isaac H. Sturgeon Collector. He will probably make St Louis his headquarters. The Fifth and Sixth are consolidated, with Phillip Doppler Collector. Minnesota— The First and Second are consolidated, with William Bickel.Collector. He will probably be located at St Paul. Ohio— The Third and Sixth districts are consolidated, with George P. Dunham ’Collector. His headquarters will probably be Dayton. The Seventh and Eleventh are consolidated, with Marcus Boggs Collector. His office willprobably be at Chillicothe. The Fourth and Tenth are consolidated, with John P. Kumler Collector. The Fifteenth and Eighteenth are consolidated, with Worthy 8. Streeter Collector. His office will probably be in Cleveland.