The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-06-21

tions shall be held not more than twice in any
one year in the same district except, in Wash
ington, where an examination may be held in
respect OF each department as frequently as the
head of such department. subject to the APP
prova OF the President, may direct; and all
persons SO examined in Washington, wherever
they may reside, shall be entered on the record
of the person eligible for appointment equally
examined elsewhere.
The report of the Civil Service Commission
to Gen. Grant says, among other things that
it appears to be the unanimous opinion of those
at the heads of the departments, that there
has been decided mitigation, under the oper-
alton of such rules, of serious evils that before
prevailed and steadily increased. Mere per-
sonal importantly and partizan intrigue have
diminished in the same ratio; that individual
merit and just rules for testing such merit have
been made the basis of appointments and pro.
motions. The application of these tests has
been gradually extended as experience has
seemed to warrant, and Ill every case with
good results The Commission is convinced
that the success of civil service reform is to be
decided by the intelligent fidelity with which
its friends shall present its true methods to the
popular Judgment. 1t has been their aim to
recognize the right, which requires that VIC
torious party should be able to name officers so
tar down the official scales as their principles
may be justly involved in fair and honest adj
mlnistration. AT the same time we have re-
sisted that perncious theory which insists that
OfCIy ClcIh Ill puDlC ONCE, no naUIGr now SUD
ordinate or how useful, shall mingle as o
partlzan in every contest, and go Oat as mat
ter OF course with the retiring head of the de-
partment. But the new rules they submit will
show that they do not regard the question of
the proper duration of tenure of office OF of
clerkship as one with which civil service re-
form, as now inaugurated, has any other than
an indirect connection,
The more we have been brought into famil-
Iarty with the practical bearings of the great
principles of individual justice and national
sanction of all true methods of improving the
civil service, and the ampler have been our OPP
portunltles OF measuring the allegiance which
such principles command from those whom the
people placed at the head of their great affairs.
the more profound is our impression of the in
estlmabe value of the reform itself and of the
solemn obligations of all its friends to leave no
means untried during the best opportunity our
generation has seen OF may see to place that
reform upon a sure foundation, and to trans
init it in healthy vigor as the greatest political
blessing this generation can confer upon the
generations to come.
(Signed,)
DORMAN B. EATON,
SAMUEL SHELLABARGER,
DAWSON A. WALKER,
E. B. ELLIOT,
JOSEPH HI. BLAcKFAN,
DAVID G. Cox.
Base BALL.
The game between the Atlantics of Brooklyn
and Washington clubs resulted in tie, Is to
IL. When the Atlantics left the field, refus-
ing to play, thereby FORGETTING the game.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day: Currency $6,760, 241 ; special deposits of le-
gal tenders for redemption of certificates of de-
post 32,045, 900; coin $76, 129,6SS; including
$50, 635, 900 in coin certificates; legal tenders
outstanding $356,OOO.00O.
The Transfer of Isernnins of Union Sol
tiiers.
The Secretary of War has decided that the
United States will transfer the remains of such
of the Union soldiers as are now buried in Ever
green Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa, to the Ma
tional Cemetery, IN the same place, upon APP
plication of the friends of the deceased who
have the right to make the request
Indian Matters.
Official information has been received at the
office of the Board of Indian Commissioners
that commissioner to treat with the Sioux has
left Cheyenne for Fort Laramie, where it is
officially reported that 49, goo Ogalla, Brue and
Minnecspor Sioux with Northern Cheyenne
and Arrapahoe Indians are waiting to meet
them.