New-York tribune., 1877-07-07


these intense internal questions is of account to
the Administration. but that il cannot send man
Spain unless il has itself selected him. and taken
strenuous pains to guard against sinister design
carry of Cuba in his waistcOat pocket
That English service which is held up to our ad-
mirng imitation is especially noted for the contuu-
ty of service which It grants, requires. from its
diplomatic corps. The old man dies in the same
wee which the young man entered. The very point
where our Administration dismiSscs the rules and
follows its own sweet Will, is the point where the
English Civil Service eliminates. Its diplomats are
kept steadily IN position, and promoted steadily
from country TO another, from the lower TO the
higher station, so long a. health and strength re-
main and pensoned in the end for faithful service
up to threcscore years and two. or amply paid for
still long r service If they desire and desired to
remain. Now, we are told that while the dignity
and honor of country qure that the clerk shall
be kept perched at his desk counting up figures all
his life the same national honor requires tnat the
men who fill the and delicate position of rep
rcsentative of the whole ma ion at a far foreign
court shall be called home, and a fresh batch of raw
recruits sent out every four years.
am not quite sure of my gTound, though IN any
respect, for the next paragraph says:
But th dec prevent the appointmcnt Of
IN. bsf man ior thc position II will apply clerk
slips in the departments at Washington or eiscwn're
(why notO. to Offices which require special training
/ am afraid we shall have to give it up! After oX
empting from your rules the people who do not re-
Ouire any special training for theIr work, and the
people who do, ! cannot see who IS left. Rules
that are to apply to all branches Of the Civil Service
throughout the country but are not to apply to
clerkships or special offices anywhere; postmaSters
who are TO be kept in permanently, and turned ont
at the end Of eight years but kept IN II YOU want
tbem-all this is too high for me. cannot attain
IC hot nd Cgl II
reforming ont all that the Administration wants ont
and refornincin all that the Ad uuStratiOn wants
in If If is not using the Reform simply an excuse
for doing what the leader, please; or as the hriofh
Reporter himself gngeTl putS 1t, "a plan not dehed
bv rigid rules but largely 1cterminedby the circum-
stances" why, then, Judgment has He'd to bruliSh
beasts and men have lost their reason. IhlS ramp
ing Lion of Reform appeared npon the scene ana
made the welkin ring wi IN his roarincs No appoint
ment except for fitness, NO promotion except I'r
merit. no dismissal except for cause; and IN two
months ne had grown 50 deadly SICK that ont OF ms
banCinciavy came only the feeble wall not defined
by rigid rules but largely determined by the circum-
stances" Not word of the statements nave
ouoted NAV be true; but every word OF them comes
from the only source whence we. the people derive
information--the newspapers; from the very source
whence we derived our intense disgust with the last
Admlnistration-the Reform newspapers. II the
fragmcntiry statements of the Reform papers, peced
into perfrct whole are TO be- believed, then, under
the hons hide OF Reform exists exactly such an Or
panisln as was its predecessor, barring the le"hhe
airs whi-h deceive only the mwary. When onr
Civil service Reform is cut down to "a 0lan not de-
fined bv rigid rules, but largely determined by the
circum stances" we exactly whore we were ne
fore and the augurs VINO are prdctlcmg thelr ih''"-
tations over it in the presence of the people cannot
IL wouId : en- look s0betly into each others eyes
D. ,ha4s Vho
us the Mystic Rules winch were to greatly check,
mot toentir.1v stop ofce-sceklue" long ago. forgot
their prophecies and by April 2f reported that The
pressure at single department was s" great tha'
cover three hundred persons sought interviews with
the Assstant- Secretary today relative to appoint
ments" '.No provision has been made rs yet Tor
any spccial examinations of apphcant and appoint
ents are ~ be made solely for political reasons, as
heretofore"
So la,e as june 13. the cry is still they come!
Every morning 2 crowd of eae,r lacc-scckerS invade
thr EA'eniv m'. ,P' ices and rc R, mn 10 friga
Iirs.'ous IXrcp the -ho time lkru by Cabinet meet
S "" ,I no ,rloic If I6c Pls.dcns w KING hou.,
rr q EN-, dc,o.cd to the buSn SIS OF dist eu lu' ircs
II would seem. them that the Rulcsw'ich were 70
greatly check If not To entirely sop oiurc-S'eknG
have utterly failed of their end if indeed they have
emerged from protopIa~m Their severe not to say
ou>terp rniditv has uttcr.y failed to impress Itself
,,pon the pnbic mind. The resonant and vigorous
integrity which herc-ly rcitcrates hat the lreS
dent is determined i0T the ture that his pledges OF
Civil Service Reform shall be executed 90 the lei e.
that "the President is thoroughly in earnest IN tre
whole business Of Civil service Reform do moi seem
10 haves, practical and powerful m influence Oh Tire
oilcr-Seeling element the report Of Col Aycrquet-
~ oueuchcd ont Of the Philadelphia Custom House
Commission under cover of the dust and amor raised
by tie hallpoing and Mr. SimonS quietly marched
in: or of " Mr. John Q. Howard, of ONO, who wrote
n biography of President Hayes" silently slipped
into the New York Cuso House. while all the
Reform mob is shouing with one voice, Great IS
Reform and President Hayes Is its Prophet" |; is
inspiring 10 hear that Secretary Eyars Is inr'dnc-
ing q system of Civil Service Reform rs regards the
an,o,ptments of consular clerks" bat when this
er,at system" whose advent and progress are thus
beralded ON the wings of lightning, is boiled down
IN the next sentence into " clerk who has been three
wear. in the state Department yesterday passed
sati factory examination and assigned to Homo
luluv the proof of the pd ling must be conf to
be very minnie and against the rapid change OF
l,se among both home and foreign officers, that one
lone Honolulu clerk sailing over the Pacific seas
seeu,s A. "a system" to piss in music ont of sight.
So when tne gratifed Refomer sitting calmly on
tl, ruins of George H. Bltler and Mr. Key, frater-
nal letter. announces with preternltural CAVITY
that cit is cred table to Mr.. Key, that the rs5 i'm
portant appointment he has had to maks IN his u
pertinent : filled by the promotion of the most
Ieteut subordinate of the retiring officer instead
of calling in a politician unsked IA the duties If
the Office the vulgar oficc-seeker does moi prostratc
himself in alteration before Mr.. Keys wisdom and
;utecrity with the alacrity anj enthusiasm that
Int 4lt,re fl. eoqr r-plE