§ MR. MACDONALDI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether a correspondence has been proceeding for upwards of a year between the War Office and the Treasury upon the subject of promoting the writers in the War Department to the position of abstractors and assistant clerks; and whether he can now state what decision, if any, has been reached?
§ MR. WOODALL(who replied) said: It is understood that a decision has been arrived at by the Treasury. I expect to receive it very shortly.