Items of Interest November 25, 1905 Issue

Items of Interest

With the purpose of offering a permanent career in the diplomatic and consular service to competent young men, and of improving those branches of the Government service so as to make them more valuable than they are now to the business interests of the country, the President announces that hereafter any applicant for appointment as Secretary of Embassy or Legarion must possess a knowledge of at least one other language than English, and must be otherwise examined as to his competency; and an examination will be required of such consular officers as are limited in compensation to the maximum of $2,500 per annum and a minimum of $1,000. The result will be to take the consular service away from political preferment and to make promotion as well as appointment dependent upon absolute merit, and is in line with English practice.

The Attorney General denies unqualifiedly all but one of the statements made by the packers in the eight pleas in bar filed by the defendants in the Government's Beef Trust prosecution, and in regard to the eighth plea he admits the facts as stated, but denies that they form a bar to criminal prosecution. The Government will proceed with the prosecution, the pleas in bar filed by the packers to be decided by the District Court.

The association of presidents of State universities which was in session in Washington, failed to come to any agreement in regard to endorsing or condemning football as it is played in American colleges. A resolution introduced by the president of the Ohio State University, deploring the "brutality and waste of time" resulting from the game, was tabled owing to wide differences of opinion.

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