Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Manning Swings the Ax. [ARTICLE]

Manning Swings the Ax.

Secretary Manning swung the ax to-day in a sweeping manner (writes a Washington correspondent). By it there is a decided and material reduction of the force in the special agents’ division, where it is expected SIO,OOO annually will be saved. The services of forty persons in various parts of the country have been dispensed with, and notices to that effect mailed them to-day. The list includes six special agents, twenty-six special inspectors of customs and ten employes, whose names are borne on the so-called “fraud roll.” This action reduces the number of agents to twenty-one, inspectors te twenty-five and “fraud roll" employes to fifteen. It is stated at the department that these changes are made solely in the interests of economy and that no new appointments will be made to fill the vacancies created. 1 Secretary Manning has also decided that hereafter the appropriation for the prevention and detection of Hands upon the customs revenue shall not be used for the puipose of making permanent appointments, bnt shall be confined strictly to paying for Information received concerning revenue frauds, and to enable the department to employ persons in special cases where it is believed frands are being perpetrated.