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 to create an American State on the Pacific Coast.

It is therefore ordered, That the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the buildings of the Executive Departments in this city until after the funeral shall have taken place.