The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 1, 1888, Page 2

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Civil-Service Reform the Occa- | sion of a Special Message to Congress. Statistics of the Service—Removals and Changes—Scope of The Commission. The Opposition to a Proper Working of the System—Hopes of Its Ultimate Triumph. Washington, July 23.—The Presi- dent sent to congress to-day the fol- lowing mersage: To the Congress of the United States Pursuant to the second section of chapter twenty-seven of the laws of 1883, entitled: “An act to regulate and improve the civil-service of the United States,” I herewith transmit the fourth report of the civil-service eommission, covering the period be- tween the 16th day of January, 1586, and the 1st day of July, 1887. While this report has especial ref- erence to the operations of the com- mission during the period above mentioned, it contains with its ac- companying appendices, much valu- able information concerning the in- ception of civil-service reform and its growth and progress which can not but be interesting and instruc tive to all who desire improvement in administrative methods. During the time covered by the report 15,852 persons were examined for admission in the classified civil- service of the government in all its branches, of whom 10,740 passed the examination and 5,106 failed. Of those who passed the examination 2,977 were applicants for admission to the departmental service at Wash- ington, 2,547 were for admission to the custom service and 522 for ad- mission to the postal service. Dur- ing the same period 547 appoint- ments were made for the eligible lists to the departmental service, 941 to the customs service and 3,254 to the postal service. Concerning separation from the classified service the report only in- forms us of such as have occurred among employes in the public serv- ice who had been appointed from eligible lists under civil-service rules. When these rules took effect they did not apply to the persons then in the service, comprising a full com- plement of employes, who obtained their positions independently of the new law. The commissioner has no record of the separations in this nu- merous class and the discrepancy apparent in the report between the number of appointments made in the respective branches of the service from the lists of the commission and the small number of separations mentioned is, toa great extent, ac- counted for by vacancies, of which no report was made to the commis- sion, occurring among those who held their places without examination and certification, which vacancies were filled by appointment from the eligible lists. In the departmental service there Occurred between the 16th day of January,1886, and the 30th day of June, 1887, among the employes ap- pointed from the eligible list under | civil-service rules, seventeen remov als, thirty-six resignations and five deaths. This does not include four- teen separations in the grade of spe- cial pension examiners, four by re- moval, five by resignation and five by death. In the classitied customs and postal Service, the number of separations among those who received absolute appointments under the civil-service rules are given for the period be- tween the tirst day of January, 1886, and the 30th day of June, 1887. It and regu!ations governing violations ment of the statute more effective and greatly increase its usefulness. | Among other things, the scope of | examination of those who seek to en- | ter defined and made more provincial, the number of names to be certified ing officers from which a selection the classified service to forty-five years has been changed, and reason- able provisions have been made for the transfer of employes from one department to another in proper cases. A plan has also been devised providing for the examination of ap- plicants for promotion in the serv- ice which, when in full operation, will eliminate all chances of favorit- ism in the advancement of employes by making promotion a reward of merit and faithful discharge of duty. Until within a few weeks there was no uniform classification of em- ployes in the different executive de partments of the government. Asa result of this condition in some of the departments, the position could be obtained without evil examination because they were not within the classification of such department, while in other departments an exam- ination and certification were neces- sary to obtain positions of the same grade, because such positions were embraced in the classifications appli- cable to those departments. The exception of laborers, watchmen and messengers from examination and classification gave opportunity in the absenee of any rule guarding against it, for the employment, free from civil-service restrictions, of persons under those designations, who were immediately detailed to do clerical work. All this has been obviated by the application to all the depart- ments of an extended and uniform classification, embracing grades of employes not heretofore included and by the adoption of a rule pro- hibiting the detail of laborers, watch- men or messengers to do clerical duty. The path of civil-service reform has not at all times been pleasant or easy, the purpose of the reform hav- ing been much misapprehended, and this has not only given rise to a strong opposition but has led to its invocation by its friends to compass objects not in the least related to it. Thus, partisans of the patronage system have naturally condemned it, those who don’t understand its meaning either mistrust it, or when disappointed because in its present state it does not apply to every real or imaginary ill, accuse those charg- ed with its enforeement with faith- lessness to civil-service reform. Its importance has frequently been un- derestimated and the support of good men has thus been lost by their lack of interest in its success. Besides all these difficulties those responsible for the administration of the government in its executive branches have been and still are, often annoyed and irritated by the disloyalty to the service and inso- lence of employes who remain in place as the beneficiaries and the relicts or reminders of the vicious system of appointment which civil- service reform was intended to re- place. And yet, these are but the inci- dents of an advance movement, which jis radical and far-reaching. The people are, notwithstanding, to be congratulated upon the progress firm, practical and sensible founda- | tion upon which the reform now appears that such separations in the | customs service for the time men- tioned embraced twenty-one remov- als, five deaths and eighteen resiena- | tions, and in the postal service 256. removals, twenty-three deaths and | 469 resignations. More than a year has passed since tion of the period covered by the report of the commission. Within the time which has thus laps: importan t a e in furtherance of reform in our civil-service. The rules rests. | With a continuation of the intelli- | |of the law upon the subject have | been completely remodeled in such} a manner as to render the enforce- | ter the classified service has been bet- | from the eligible lists tothe appoint- | is made, has reduced from four to| three, the maximum limitation of the | age of persons seeking entrance to! which has been made, and upon the | {the civil-service law can not fail to! ultimately answer the hopes in which it had its origin. Grover CLEVELAND, { . 5 "20 | Executiye Mansion, July 23, ‘88. Rheumatism and Neuralgia cured in 1103 days for 75 cents by Detchon’s | “Mystic Cure." Do not suffer and waste money on other remedies. This abso lutely never tails. Sold by W. J. LANs- | DOWN, Druggist, Botlers Mo. 8-6m. Sam Jones on the Situation. | The Picturesque Preacher Says Cleve- land is Going to Get There. Chautauqua, N. Y., July 15.—Sam Jones lectured here to-day in the amphitheatre to an audience of near- ly 5,000 people. He was as sensa- tional as ever but he never created abigger sensation than he did on this occasion, when he predicted the re-election of President Cleveland. He said: “I will lecture on how to get there. When we get there so- cially we have not got very far. I like a live man. I like anything that is live. I like courage. We need grit and courage. If I hada prayer for the United States I should pray: ‘Oh, Lord, give us every four j years a President who is brave, a man who has a backbone like a cir- cus pole. Wehave got to begin at the top and work down to reform. Most any preacher can jump on a few dummies, but when he jumps on a President or Governor or Mayor, he will need grit or he has got to git. “A man or chicken without sand in his gizzard is a failure. God Al- i will not let a preacher be 99 per cent.amanand1 per cent. a A preacher ought to be the br:vest man in the community. Tam not a Democrat or Republican ora third party man. Iam one of these ‘one in a hill’ kind of fellows. I believe in prohibition, and I will tell you what will happen. In No- vember the Democrats are going to re-elect their man. But in four years we will have an issue. prohibition or whiskey, heaven or hell. I ama Southerner, andI tell you you can never have anything but a solid South by shaking a bloody shirt at them. But if you can get an issue you will break the solid South. The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that the Demo- crats come right out and say ‘we fa- vor whiskey.’ The Republicans don’t say so, but they do just the same.” preacher. Itch, Mange and scratches ot every kind on human or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wooltord’s Sanitary Lotion. This never tails. Sold by W. J. Lans- down, Butler, Mo. 11-6m The Bible Proves Itself. One of the proofs of the divine or- igin of the Bible is its capability of enduring the test of close and thor- ough study in its every portion. The more a man knows about the Bible, the more he values the Bible, and the more a man studies the Bible, the more he finds in the Bible that is worth studying. ‘Lhere is always something that is fresh and that is deserving of fresh attention to be found in any and every text of the Bible that is brought under fresh examination. This isthe unvarying testimony of every intelligent Bible student, and the fact that this is so isan added reason why the Bible should be studied systematically and persistently. Gladstone's Golden W. edding- London, July, 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone celebrated their golden wedding to-day. Testimonials in the shape of letters, telegrams and presents poured in upon them by hundreds. The couple were given a reception at the residence of Earl Spencer this afternoon and were presented with portraits of themselves painted by ; Messrs. Frank Hall and Hubert | Herkomer, and also with three large | Silver cups and an address signed by ig gent fidelity which has hitherto char- | | acterized the work of the commis- | Sion, with a continuation an increase | of the favor and liberality which have | lately been evinced by congressin the proper equipment of the commission for its work. with a firm but con- Servative and reasonable support of the reform by all its friends. and with the disappearance of opposition which must inevitably f ter understan ‘ ollow its bet- g. the execution of 150 members of parliament. Lord | Granville made the speech of pre- sentation. A woman in Indiana has been ar- jrested for killing her husband by | pouring carbolic acid in his mouth while he “sweetly slept.” She was reported to be jealous of him, but it is more probable, under the circum- stances, that he was snoring. If so, the crime was justifiable “and the | woman should not be punished. CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR IT. Candidate Francis Talks of the “Times” | Opposition. | Mayor Francis and party | The party consists of Chris Ellerbe, | the attorney for the state insurance | department, T. T. Lewis, of St. | Louis and John B. Francis, father of | Mayor Francis. They are stopping | at the Centropolis hotel. “All interest in state politics is | now centered in Jackson county,” said Mayor Francis, “and myself and friends are here to look over the sit- uation.” When spoken to in regard to the opposition of the Times, Mayor Francis’s fine-looking face lighted up with a good humored smile as he yentured the assurance that he was not losing much sleep over the af- fair. Said he: “Iam unable to account for its unreasonable and unfair op- position. However, I think the fight made by that paper has been more beneficial than injurious to me wherever the paper is read, reasons for which can better be understood by the people living in Kansas City. Its influence in this community and its congressional district was made manifest two years ago, when its ed- itor was a candidate for congress, without opposition, and yet was bea- ten for the nomination. Its course later in knifing the democratic nom- inee has not tended to strengthen it with the party. In its attacks of this morning upon some of my friends who came from St. Louis to look over the local situation and who are gentlemen and travel at their own expense, it evinces a narrowness would better comport with a provin- cial town than with a metropolitan city like this, with a population of 250,000. “The people of this city are too broad and too intelligent to allow their local prejudices, if they have any, to be roused by such a petty warfare, aud I find among the rep- resentative democrats of the city a disposition to resent such unwar- rantable attacks. The Times per sists in calling mea grain gambler and publishes an affidavit of a man from St. Louis, who is entirely un- worthy of credence. It would make the impression on the people that the commission house I established in St. Louis is a bucket shop, when it is really the largest handler of grain in the St. Louis market. That house is loading on barges to-day 70,000 bushels of wheat for export to Europe via New Orleans, and has en route between St. Louis and Liv- erpool 300,000 bushels of corn. I believe the farmers of Missouri are too intelligent to permit themselves to be prejudiced against a man who has always been engaged in finding for their products the best market the world can afford. “Here our interest are centered until after the primaries, and I am here to take a look over the field. I find my support as strong as I had expected, although there is a strong fight being made against me, it seems to he strictly an anti-Francis class, a strong wing using Glover’s name very much, but making all efforts to head off my support. Wherever I have been throughout the state, I have seen evidence of this combina- tion. I do not say that the gentle- men themselves know anything about it, but the combination surely exists. However, if Iam a judge I would say my chances are excellent. 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