Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-01-17

the Senate" to make their appointments
complete. I would have il govern not the
tenure, but the manner of making all ap-
p0intments. There is no duty which so
much embarrasses the Executive ana neaos
Of departments as that Of appointments
nor il there any such arduous and thanklees
labor imposed ON Senators and Representa-
tivesas that Of finding places for constituents
The present system does not secure the best
men, and often not even BIT men Tor pub
lie places. The elevation and publication OF /
the civil service Of the Government will be
hailed with approval by the whole OF the
people OF the United States"
Ia view Of the facts, we submit that IL 10
hardly correct 70 say that Mr. Trumbuil s
ill, compelled the administration to give us
the beginning of service reform. The com
pulsion seems to have been rather on the
other side.
As the FREEMAN is not devoted TO Senator
TrumbulI's fortunes any more than 1t Is to
Gen. Grants, but stands ready 70 praise or
criticise either a. we think their conduct
merits. we very readily give the views of our
sotemporary place in this paper. While
We have little knowledge respecting Senator
Trumbull's motives, we have no doubt we
are as well informed 10 that respect as the
editors Of the Free n~.sI, and onr cOtempora-
IN must excuse VI for not placing much
confidence in its " reliable information
Even the New York Tines, which two weeks
or more since threatened to crush Trumbull
BY some very damaging exposures OF his mo-
tives, has as get failed 10 redeem It's prom
ise perhaps being admonished not TO take
/ upon trust what i; at first deemed reliable
+ information" by the attempt it recently
made to snnhilate Senator Schurz, and
which that Senator characterized in the Sen
ate a. q a most remarkable case Of cumu-
lstiyc. intrepid, and shameless lying, >
and. what Is more, proved it too. We may
be quite sure if the report, which the Free
F.. Press credits 70 a reliable informant, had the
shadow og truth 10 it. it would long ago have
been paraded and ampifed, aud printed in
staring capitals IN many Of the specially
commissioned organs Of the administration.
The fact, however. remains that 70 Sena-
TOR rrJmbull. aud not to any one Of those
especially charged With the business Of sup
porting the administration, Is due the credit
81 introducing and procuring the passs &c of
the law under which the President has acted !;
and before this session Of Congress closes, il
indeed it has not already become apparent,
it viii be still moro evident that civil service
refo-m will ind its warmest advocates and
supporters among those who have not only
been charged with hostility TO Gen. Grant
bat With political treason to the Republican
party.
We were aware that President Grant had
10 his messages, rec Commended civil servic-
.eiorm, bat 1t was not put in operation until
nearly a year after Senator Trum bulls law
vent into effect; and inasmuch as il was IL
the power Of the President, at any time zinc,
p ne came into of5eo. to refuse to remove off
nails except for cause. and 10 Danish partisan
nip and political prescription from appoint
aents y and rem )vals from off.e, it Ia rdly
seems a violent presumption - credit the
-ef1rm we now have largely to the law an
public opinion. But we ought to be To
thankful that we have got it at all to criti
else any body who has had any share il
3 ringing IL about, and We shall therefor
) nave no further controversy with those VIII,
believe that the idea originated with Gen
Grant, aud, illogical as the conclusion ma,
-een. that Senators Sumner, Trumbull an
schuTz have been advocating one Of the Presi
lent s pet measures merely to spite the man