Abstract

The Week

This article focuses on several developments in the U.S. and around the world, as of August 20, 1885. The representatives of the various political parties, which supported General Benjamin Franklin Butler for the Presidency last year, met at Saratoga, New York last week for the purpose of repeating the annual operation known as "forming a People's Party." The birth of the new party was postponed till September 9, 1885, when the convention will reassemble in Saratoga. Another development focuses on the Civil Service Law of Massachusetts. The law goes a step further than that of New York by including within its scope the city laborers, as well as those holding clerical positions, in Boston. The experiment has been in operation for four months, and the results have been satisfactory.