The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-23

the supervision of the civil service commits |
sion, to promote informity in preparing for
conducting, reporting and grading the ex-
aminations by said boards at Washington,
and to prepare for attend, supervise and re-
port the examinations herein provided to be
held elsewhere thar at Washington. The
district examinations shall be held not more
than twice in any one year in the same dis
trict except In Washington, where an ex-
animation may be held in respect of each
department, as frequently as the head of
such department, subject to the approval
of the president, may direct, and all per-
sons so examined in Washington, where
ever they may reside, shall be entered on
the record of persons eligible for appoint
ment equally as If examined elsewhere.
The report Of the civil service commits
sion to President Grant says; Among
other things, 1t appears to be the unani-
nous opinion of those at the head of those
departments that there has been decided
mitigation, under the operation of such
rules, of serious evils that before prevailed
and steadily increased. Mere personal i'm
portunity and partizan intrigue have dmin-
ished in the same ratio that individual mer-
it and just rules for testing such merit have
been made the basis of appointments and
promotions. The application of these tests
have been gradually extended, as expert
cncc has seemed to warrant, and in every
case with good results. The commission
are convinced that the success of civil scr
vice reform is to be decided by the intelli-
gent fidelity with which its friends shall
present its true methods to the popular
judgment 1t has been their aim to recog
nizc the right which requires that the vic
torious party should bc able TO name Off
GERS so far down the official scale as thei
principles may be justly involved in fai
and honest administration, at the sam,
time that we have resisted that perniciou
theory which insists that every clerk in
public office, no matter how subordinate o
how useful, shall mingle as a partisan il
every contest, and go out, as matter o
course, with the retiring head of the de
partment But the new rules they submit
will show that they do not regard the ques
ton of the proper duration of tenure o
Office or of clerkships as one with whc
civil service reform, as now inaugurated
has any other than an indirect connection
The commission say in conclusion wv
ought to bear testimony to the attentio
and cooperation with which the executiy
| and members of the cabinet have aided on
labors, and the more we have been brougl
into familiarity with the practical bearing
of the great principles of individual justic
and the national sanction of all true mt
, thods of improving the civil service, an
7 the ampler our opportunities have been {
l measuring the allegiance which such pril
: ciples command from those whom the pee
: pie have placed at the head of their gre;
f affairs. the more profound is our impre
t sion of the inestimable value of the refori
ITSELF and of the solemn obligations of a
b, its friends to leave no ends untried durir
Q this, the best opportunity our generate
: has seen or may see, to place that refor
5 on sure foundation, and to transmit it
n healthy vigor as the greatest political BILE
r sing this generation can confer on the ge
erations to come"
p DoRMAN b. EATON,
D SAMUEL G. SHELLABARGER,
DAWSON A. WALKER,
A. b. ELLIOTT,
q JOSEPH II. BLACKFAN,
|, DAVID G. Cox.
it The signature of A. G Cattell, one of Il
C members of the commission, does not a
a pear, in consequence of his absence in Z
II rope.