New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-02

have not heard OF the ORDER IN CounciI oi low anu
ought to send TO the Commissioners for doeu-
ment!
zone who Knows admits that am correct down
to 1870. But Mr.. Eaton eulogi7 the system De-
fore 1870. Zone who Knows'.says that the service
cas revolutionized in 1870. But MIR. Eaton reyo-
lut:onized it IN 1855. Zone who Knows SAYS,
BY Her Majesty's Order in Council made June a,
! 1870, all situations were thrown open to COM
petition The Westminster Bepier of April, 1876,
| saws The historic Order in Council of 2lst May,
1855, formally interdcted lie future admission OF
any person INTO the Civil Service except through
competition "and speaks of the last twenty years as
the time during which pure competition had been
applied to admissions to the Civil Service
If. as The Hestmiaister Rcriec says, the Civil
Service may be said to have been reconstructed
upon new footinG"by the Order in Council OF 1902
and it, as zone who Knows" says. 1t was revolution
lzed again by the Order in Council of 1870, what Is
its condition nowf If, as The Westminster Rerioo
sad tine Order of 1855 disqualified any act OF adj
mission by patronage" and il the service was revo-
utionlzed in 1870 y"One who Knows" ii must have
been revolutionized IN favor of patronage. Throw
ing open The service to competition i'll 1870 could
not have rovolutonized it, if it had boon conducted
! on {" pure competition" ever since 1855.
| The Order IN Council of 1870 is part Oh
| the common history of the English civil
! Seryice-so common that l did not suppose
it was necessary to cite il formally 1t Is q
! part of the groundwork of Mr.. Eaton's REFORM no
mentions il and quotes from it. neither deny nor
ignore it, but say that partisanshiD and patronage
! exist along with il rot such partlsansflp ana
patronage as had existed previous TO 1S55-not
such as gave places to the dependents and ncapabes
of great families whether not they knew how 10
| read and write-England revolutionized such
patronage out of her Civil Service IN 1892 ana we
never reyouionized it out of ours, because II never
was in. l prove by the official hand-books that
| patronage-such as we know twas in full force
down TO SCI though all that time Mr. Eaton speaks
of the service as system that had discarded seish-
ness and the English Teformers speak OF 1t as one
that had discarded patronage The English REFORM
era are right and the American reformcr is wrong.
! COmpared with the old system the English service
had discarded patronage and introduced great re-
form compared with our serviceit had not discard
ed patronage and had introduced no reform NJ all
Even in England competitive examination is by no
means closed question: and the difference between
the two peoples and the two governments makes IL
and its companion question, tenure of office, still
more questionable here.
: By the continuous information Of the newspapers
by the stock situations of literature, by personal
| testimony from tho docks TO the dukes, showed
| authorities do not
| sit on the thrones in purple subllmity. 90,
Aud grind down mems bones TO pale unanmny
| nv connective examination, bat that likes and
dsliEes. kin and friendship, wealth and self,
| greed and gain have exactly the same kind OF IN
| nuence that they have here ard no documents
of Civil Service Commissioners prove the contrary
My nameless inspectors are not proof, but they are
lust as much proof as nameess contradiction III
l,rfr ont la
Liverpool dock tells me that his examination was
easyand that must have ''recommend' II want
to get into the Civil Servicel give him just as much
credence as would give to newspaper writer IN
Jersey CITY who tells me that the examination Is
| severe. and that recommend would not be re-
| ceived Nor would all the Commissioners dOcu-
| ments in Cannon-Tow weigh down the actual ex-
perience Of actual officers Theories are not PROOF
of practice. .
Does President Hayes's letter of acceptance or Mr.
Geo. William Curtss Civil Service Report prove that
Marshal Smythe did not walk out aud Marshal
Fitzsimmons walk in at the direction oil Senator
Gordon or that the Editor Of HdrPe''S Hees'y did
not CRY with great and bitter cry for the removal
of Conkling's men from the New-York Custom
House
"But English Civil Service rules like English laws,
orc made TO be Observed says "One who Knows"
We're they7 Well what does Trollope-who, from
his long official life may perhaps be One who Knows
No much of English politics an anonymous writer,
what does he mean when he says. III words
already quoted, In these days of snow
white purity - the laws stringent
against bribery at elections that an unfortunate
candidate may easily become guilty, even though
actuated by the purest intentions. But not the
less on that account does any gentleman, ambitious
of the honor of serving his country in Parliament,
1...,., ton
vide a round sum of money at his bankers.
candidate must pay for no treating, no band OF
music. He cannot safely ask any one to share his
hotel dinner If huzza be uttered in his favor, it
! NAV be necessary for him to provo before com
mittee that it was the spontaneous result OF British
feelnc in his favor and not the purchased result OF
| British beer But not the less on this account does
| q moor man find that he is quite unable to encOun-
! fer the difficulties of a contested election"
| And what of the Order in Council of February
10 1876 which not only cOntradicts itself but also
conflicts both with the famous Order of 1850 and
with that Of June a, 1870, in sanctioning the adj
mission of persons to the Civil Service by patron
ape' How can English Rules be obeycd when they
| conflict with each other aud with ihemselvesf
| Mr.. Eaton's washerwOmans heir has, thank
| Heaven, far better showing now than he had be-
fore 1855, but he has in no respect better showing
pnder' the banner of st. George than he has under
! the Stars and Stripes.
writer whose initials give no sign, but whose
personality and politics are, beyond question: pure
| womanly. thus demonstrates:
"How dare you attack Professor WeirY DO you
know him? i judge moi, from the manner you speak
| Of him. He is graduate of West Point, man of
fine taste of great culture of extensive travel and
| a man who ought to know whereof he afirms."
| None of which things distinguish man from the
original type of Pharsoe, which never was poor
white trash