Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-27
Gureka Dailp 5entulel.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 81. 1888.
THE WRONG OK 0ORED.

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On the 10Th instant Senator Sherman
introduced q resolution hat the Senate
proceed to the election of employees
which, Of course, was a matter of mere
form, as the programme had already been
prepared in the Republican caucus. The
resolution gave rise to considerable parti-
san discussion, in which the theory and
the practice of civil service reform were
shown to be two very distinct things.
Mr.. Beck did not hesitate to remind a
number of his Republican colleagues Of
the record they had made in the premises,
and to suggest to them very plainly the
manner in which they were stultifying
themselves by ignoring that record.
Said he:
l happened to be here a few years ago
March "a, 1871 when there was an i'm.
mense amount OF what | then thought
was false pretense or pretended indigna-
tion at the outrage which was said to be
committed when the Democrats elected
a few officers of the Senate, retaining a
very large proportion Of men who be-
longed to the Republican party who
were here then and are in Office yet. l
knew when they pretended to be SO in
dignant at our action and / know now
that the whole so.called civil service re-
form system is recognized by the Sena-
tors on the other side whenever it stands
in their way as being an absolute hum
bug. Their conduct now illustrates it.
They are seeking to remove, and will, OF
course, remove an officer who they know
is the very best the Senate has ever had
in this position, and they propose to put
in his place a man who has never held
any position here, and whose fitness is to
be determined, l suppose, by the number
of the present employees, who are Demo-
Gratis, that he can turn out, and the num-
Der of men he can put in their places. not
because OF their fitness for the positions,
but because of their capacity to aid in
carrying elections for Republican nomi-
nees elsewhere, notably in North Caro-
lima, from where they have brought him,
and in Virginia, where they have secured
such valuable allies.
0S - SRCCillCu Vi bAO ACStAAOo We ~
ceived from the Republican leaders, the
distinguished and generally the most
moderate of all the members on the other
side, the gentleman who has been spoken
of, and l suppose will be made our pre-
siding oficer--I allude to the senior
Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. An
thony]-at that time gave US the benefit
of a speech, in which he said:
Mr.. President, l Am too well aware
that nothing which I can say, nothing
which any one may say, will arrest or
modify the foregone determination to
make a sweeping change of the officers
and servants Of the Senate; a change de-
manded, not by any deficiencies or
neglect Of duty on their part, but by the
inexorable necessities of political parti-
sanship. Yet, as one who has served
long in this body. who has paid some at.
tention to it's rules, and who has q pro.
found respect, nay a reverence, for its
presidents and its traditions, / am un-
willing to see the measure initiated
without recording my protest and utter
ing my unavailing warning to the major.
ity, against the personal discomfort and
inconvenience to which they are subject.
ing themselves and their associates, and
the danger to which they are exposing
the orderly and decorous transaction o.
the business of the Senate.