McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c., July 20, 'S4.

Journment for the appointment of ont
hundred and fifty special examiners il
the Pension Office in addition to tn,
number now employed. What peculiar
qualifications are necessary for an intel
ligent discharge of the duties of an exam
liner don't know, but the Civil Service
commission is going too hold its class
meetings all over the country, beginning
next Saturday, for the purpose of exam.
lining into the proficiency of the proposed
examiners. The delectable feature OF
the business lies in the fact that there
are some hundreds of applicants for
Governmental positions who have al
ready passed an examination by the COM
mission, and, of these hundreds, just
four have been provided for, only one
of whom has found place in the Inter
ior Department From this statement
it can be ascertained to some degree of
accuracy how much of a show there will
be for the hundreds of applicants who
will present themselves for examination
for this position of special examiner, a
position, by the way, which will doubt
less be filled as all the rest of them have
been, by drafts upon the Census Bureau
and relays from other departments.
The withdrawal of Wilbur F. Storey,
of the Chicago Times, from the field of
journalism may not be serious matter
now, when the newspaperhas practically
perfected itself in it's great mission, but
to MIR. Storey more than any other man,
living or dead, is the credit due for the
tremendous enterprise which has been
brought to the making up of the great
journals Of the day. 1t was always the
aim, as it was the pride and boast of Mr..
Storey, to get the news and lay it before
his readers before all competitors. For
the accomplishment of this he spared
neither labor, expense, diligence or du-
bious methods. in which money consid-
erations too often entered, and thus was
he enabled to inaugurate system of
newspaper work which every large
paper in the country was compelled to
adopt, and the great public was the
gamer by it. For some years Mr.. Sto-
rey has taken no active part in the man
agement of the Times, nor was it nee
essary, for every writer upon the paper
knew exactly what the old mans no
lions were, and governed themselves
accordingly. Mr.. Storey, of course,
made a fortune out of his enterprise, to
take care of which it has recently been
become necessary to appoint conserv-
ltor, as the old mans brain has soften
ed, and his days of usefulness gone
forever.
The usual muddle caused by the in
lecent haste with which measures are
rushed through Congress in the closing
hours of the session, is developed in the i
vacation bill, which |
gives these employees fifteen days of jun
leting without making appropriations
or the payment of their substitutes for
more than seven days. There is no
more propriety in bestowing a half a
months time upon this class of en-
oloyes than there is for paying any other
lass of Government laborers twelve
md a half months pay for twelve
months of labor, which the Solicitor of
he Treasury has solemnly declared that
he Government has not the right to do.
While it may be admitted that the letter
carrier is eminently deserving of any
md every privilege that the Government
las the power to grant, he cannot expect
% receive favors that must necessarily
work detriment to the public service.
He has good salary, is morally certain
If retaining his situation so long as he
behaves himself, has no locked time on
recount of weather or holidays, and
lltogether he is about as well provided
or in the line of receiving favors as
cascnable person ought to expect. 1t
S a notable fact besides, that almost
rom the time of the Inauguration of
he system of mail delivery, these letter
arriers have been organizing and COM
lining among themselves for increased
'ay, and ether privileges which the
Government has as regularly allowed
hem, as it has steadily refused them to
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