The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 4

IRUSES FRENDS OF SERIE ASHARDINGFOLS sat hligenaais ‘ormer Commissioner Says Reform League Plots to Dis- credit Administration. 1E BLAMES FOULKE. \dds That Wilson Regime Acted to Favor Partisanship in Public Office. Special Despatch The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 28.—™e larding Administration's attitude to- vard the Civil Service system was Jternately assailed and defended at \ mass meeting here last night of Jovernment employees under the wuspices of the Civil Service Reform ieague. William Dudley Foulke, who verved as Chairman o the Civil Ser- Ace Commission under Roosevelt, ind John H. Bartlett, Acting Post- master General, who served for sev- ral months as Chairman of the Civil Service Commission under the Har- ding Administration, were the prin- cipal speakers. H. W. Marsh of New York, President of the league, was on the platform. When Foulke had rendered his in- Gidtment of the Administration for the summary discharge of thirty supervisory officials of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, without no- tice as required by law, Bartlett de- nounced “the cranks who are stir- ‘ring up all this trouble’’ with such vehemance that he drew hisses from a few of the Government employees. Bartlett insisted that there had been no violation of law on the part of the President in the Printing and Engrav- ing Bureau cases, an denied. that the Harding Administration was com- mitted to the spoils system, Youlke began by citing the declara- tions of Attorney General Daugherty, Secretary of Labor Davis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Elmer Dover, Senators New and Moses and otter Administration supporters against the merit system and gave it as his opinion that these state- ments indicated a.common purpose to fone re ee mene ja ng = ae me cna ements break down the competitive system in] conceded, and I think he must realize the Government service, “Dover has been made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to ‘Har- dingize’ the service, we are told," sald Foulke, ‘Not ‘back to Methuse- lah,’ but back to the days of Mark Hanna and the full dinner pail "In the case of the Printing and En- graving Bureau employees it would scem that the axpress letter of the law was Violated, Many of the men discharged do not know to this day the reasons for which they were re- moved from their places.” Foulke sad the provision in the civil service law that no one In the classified cervice could be removed except on charges preferred and sub- stantiated wag Inserted on recomme satian of Hvesident McKinley, who had a strong senye of fur play. When Bartlett got the floor, after Foulke's preliminary presentation of the Civil Service League's case against the Administration, he was sputtering under high tension, “Iam more for civil service than vou Mr Foulke and all you cranka,” ne snouted. “ivere is no more use in building up a fire under the Pre dent of the United States on this mi ter than there is to build a fire the North Pole to warm the seals. The speaker charged that the Civil Service Reform League was antago- nistic to the Harding Administration, but he was reminded by Foulke of imstances where the Wilson Adminis- tration had been criticised by the league, especially for modifying the Taft executive order so as to make fourth-class postmasters subject to Congressional indorsement. Foulke said he had a debate with former Postmaster-General Burleson at New Haven on this subject, and had so incensed Burleson that he left the platform and had never spoken to him since, Bartlett said he was Acting Post- master-General and had 800,000 civil service employees under him, and he complained that “it ls damnable and crue) to send out all over the coun- try the word that these people are in: pert! when they are not.” “When you send a new adminis- tration down here to accomplish cer- tain things ,and do not give them he people to back them up, then you are limiting popular government,” he said, Bartlett claimed that he was being denied sufficient time to complete his remarks, ‘I will stay here und com- plete my speech ufter the others ure through If the janitor will leave the lights on, and I will pay for them,'* said, but this did not prove necessary. In his rejoinder Foulke said: “If this question is to be decided by voci- feration 1 would feel that I um crushed, The gentleman thinks he has been prematurely cut off, The gentleman wishes to be heard in op- position to the purposes of the meet- ing in # speech that’ would consume all the time, and I think it will be No Connection With Any Other Establishment in the World WORTH THIRTY-FOURTH STREET Featured Saturday Misses’ Fur Collared Canton Crepe Wraps Six smart new models offered ‘ far below their regular prices at 25.00 Deeply Silk-Fringed Some are deeply bordered with silk fringe. All are beautifully lined with con- trasting crepe de chine. Collared with Flattering Fur These wraps are especially wonderful values because of the collars of black caracul or white or gray contrasting fur. Misses’ Sizes 14-16-18-20 ‘and in sizes for small Women tha the is ask.ng the Civil service Re- form League to concede a great deal when it allows him to do that, “A British nobleman once suid, 'Vir- tue is @ splendid thing when confined to the lower classes,’ and this appears to be Gov, Bartlett's Idea of the Civil Service. The gentleman complains that his position has been misrepresented. I read from a statement of his given me from pickiig my own assistan‘s und I want to go outside to pick then: ! am willing to go to the Americas people with Mr. Foulke on that issu» Mr, Foulke is jealous of the Civil Service because he helped give birth to It. He is like an old grandpa who doesn't want his favorite grandehili licked,"” At the conclusion of the rpeech making a resolutiond rawn by the out through Post Office Department] executive officers of the Civil Service publicity cha Rartlett say: gone too far. Admin stration spokesman's ment that the Civil Service Leag would like to extend the class.- fied service until it Included tne President and his Cabinet, me sald he ha? never heard any merit 3 els and you heard Gov vice has} supporter take that position “There is not a single place in thy Civil Service that ought to be taken out,’ said Poulke. ‘Do you mean that both the great. political purties which through these fong years in their platform declarations have said that the Civil § co ought to be up- held and extended, w t sincere? Foulke quoted Roosev: ement that the great mass of governmental offices ought to be set apart from poll- ties und should be protected by the Civil Service. “Gov. Bartlett believes that, like morality, the merit system ought to be confined to the lower classes,” he sald. “Did [ say that,"’ Interrupted Bart- lett. . “You said it had gone too far,"* re- sponded Foulke. “1 found only one position in the Post Office Department where I could put a man who was loyal and could be trusted, and the only man I could appoint was a $1,800 clerk," retorted Bartlett. “I say, a8 [ said before, that these Civil Service eccentrics prevent yf ayat League, calling on President Harding to keep the prosent Civil Service merit Intact and to remove no other employees from Civil Service protec ton, was adopted. The resolution set ort htat the league “views with ap prehension” the ratds on the Civ Service by spollamen. elec JRGE THAT HAYTI BE FREED. 24 Eminent American Lawyers Ansall Course of United States. WASHINGTON, April 28.—An ap peal for restoration of self-govern ment fo the Haytian people and im nediate withdrawal of American troops was filed at the State Depart ment yesterday by a committee of lawyers and representatives of the Voreign Policy Association of New York and the National Popuiar Gov rrnment League of Washington. A report signed by twenty-four em- inent lawyers charged that the “seizure by the United States of the Republic of Hayu was in violation of yur Constitution, our treaties and ot nternitional law." [t further de- clared the action of this Government n maintaining a ‘mandate’ over Hayti constituted ‘usurpation of power through mere Executive action unauthorized by law. LADY FOSTER FRAZER TAKES DIVORCE STEP Vins Decree for Conjugal Rights —Lady Belper Obtains Final Decree. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by ‘Prews Publishing Company. 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