, 1876-08-14
WASHINGTON.
Fraudulent Character Of the Re.
Gently Enacted civil-9cr.
=. vice Reform.
A Reduction OF S1O,5Y4,2O6.8O
III the Appropriations as
Agreed TO.
Probability Of the Adjournment Of Con-
gYess To-Day. !


THE LATGET hEF0NNATOnffAK rALNEp Cf0N
THE rrUrLE.
Epreid| Ditpaieh to TIE TrtbuHA
WAanINoror, u. t., August El-A careful
realing Of tic CivIl.scrylec-Reform paragraph
Of Tho Legislative, Executive, anl:Judirfal A.-
propratlon blil leads l., the belief that It will lo
even less effective than the law enuetcd and par
TALLY carried Into effect Ave Or six years ago.
While clcrks aud other employees Of tho Govern
n,ent not appointed hy the President, With the
advice AMI consent Of the Senate, arc protected
from political assessments when they ute nadc
by other officers Or employees of the Senate, the
new law does not prevent Chafrmpn
OF agents of political comnttees
who arc not IN tue employ. oi The
Government from tnuking assessments upon
clerks, nor docs 1t forbid clerks and othrr Gov
ernment employees frnm paying such assessments
whcu&nulle. Ths ts}
AVERY IMPORTANT OMISSION.
During the last two OF three years, since tic
Administration abandoned rrcn the appearance
of trying u elect 4 systematic civil-eetvce rc.
form. CLERKS IN tile Departments. In Washington
have been annually aasessc,i, but seldom BY
officers or cmploycs Of tile Government. The
ordinary way lif which these assessments asc
male is either by means Of letter from an
officer Of y national political committee,
through which tic clerk Is informed Tint Il
Is considered very desirable that the Republican
party shall he successful In Some State where all
elcctfnr is about to take place, and Is reqlceLrd
to tnclose Bunt which iH mined, anil which Il
certain percentage on lis salary 10 tla writer ot
the clerks ahare Ut the necessary expenses ui
tho campuign. At other ttlncH tic political ts,m.
n,tttce senls it, agents. provided witt, list Of
clerks AMI memOran11,l! Of the amount catIl
one Il expected to pay, through the Executive
Departments, and the money
COLLECTED ON TIE arOT.
Of course, no one IL obliged topay these M
scesments, but, In most u The Uepat tuenis
auy clerk or smployc who refuses to do ~ bo:
comes thereafter marlscI1 INN or wo1nnn. and
tho first time TINT reduction Of the force IT
the Department takes place, surA clerk is gers
iikcly to b. dismissed. ThA text of this Civil
Scrytcc-lacfor1n aection, as it originally pakscG
tue House,
wouLn HAVE srorrEn ALL POLITICAL ASSESS.
NKNTs,
t,ccAusc It made It u high rnidcmcnnnr not only
for officers xnd csnI!oycs OF the Government Il
| make political assessments upon rlerks, or pay
! thum to other Government employees, hnt Il n!st
included al other persous il. the prohtb1tiDn Th
words or other perfunsn were stricken of Ut tllt
section IN tho Conference Committee, and this
ns las airrady been shown, tlestroys thc tutir,
effect OF the act. Tile following Ia
TIE fEcr10N
rs It passed:
That al! executive ufi'cer! os employer of tn
United htat:s, 1,nt nppontsd ly thr President VIZ
cd from re4ssstug: giving 70. ~, receiving f,on
my meaey, q property, -; .; sther thing u yaia
poyc Vic shai! ofIuld W aeal.. liz tic tic % prost,ious 20
tllts aertInn ellail be at once discharged tron til
service q thc Jailed Statcs. unh to shall e' b
&rcthed GUILTY Of q m!AlcniuAnoI, Hnd. on conTlc
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