truct United States Marshal Weeks as soon as he has
qualified to proceed at once to execute such writs of arrest as may be
placed in his hands. If he apprehends resistance, he will employ such
civil posse as may seem adequate to discourage resistance or to overcome
it. He should proceed with calmness and moderation, which should always
attend a public officer in the execution of his duty, and at the same
time with a firmness and courage that will impress the lawless with
a wholesome sense of the dangers and futility of resistance. You will
assure the officers of the law and those who have foolishly and wickedly
thought to set the law at defiance that every resource lodged with the
Executive by the Constitution and the laws will as the necessity arises
be employed to make it safe and feasible to hold a Federal commission
and to execute the duties it imposes.

Very respectfully,

BENJ. HARRISON.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

EXECUTIVE ORDER.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 27, 1890_.

_It is hereby ordered_, That the several Executive Departments and the
Government Printing Office be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, to
enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of
the soldiers and sailors who fell in defense of the Union during the
War of the Rebellion.

BENJ. HARRISON.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
_Washington, D.C., May 31, 1890_.

The PRESIDENT.

SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that Special
Departmental Rule No. 1 be amended by adding to the exceptions from
examination therein declared the following:

"In the Department of the Treasury, in the life-saving service:
Topographer and hydrographer."

We have the honor to be, your obedient servants,

CHAS. LYMAN,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
HUGH S. THOMPSON,
_United States Civil Service Commissioners_.

Approved, June 3, 1890.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, July 14, 1890_.[10]

The death of John C. Fremont, a major-general on the retired list of
the Army of the United States, is an event calling for some appropriate
expression of the national sorrow and of a grateful appreciation of his
public services. His career was full of adventurous and useful discovery
and of devoted and conspicuous service both in civil and military
affairs. He opened the passes of the Rocky Mountains and gave value to
his discoveries by aiding