Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-10-04
NOT IN AID OF MIR. CLAPP.
What Commissioner Eaton SAYS Of a
Charge Made Against His COlEeag aguc,
DR.. Gregory.

dispatch from this city, published in the Bos-
ton Herald, asserts that Civil Service Commissioner
GregOry's recent letter to THE STAR concerning
the political action of government employees, was
covert attempt to second Mr. Clapps efforts to col
lect money from such employees, and charges Dr.
Gregory with having attempted to secure the sec
retaryshp OF the commission for his son. and fall
Ing IN that, to make trade so as to secure a good
place for his son, besides reiterating former
charges relative to the appointment Of Dr.
GIs2ofys son as a pension examiner. When
oohilnissioner Eaton's attention was drawn
10 tnlS artlcie Dy STAR reporter he said
tnat everything In the article which implied that
Dr. Gregory had any sympathy with the efforts of
Mr Clapp ana Others there referred to In the col
lection or political assessments was in his opin-
Ion, entirely unwarranted. He regarded DR.. Greg
ory as being as strongly opposed as himself to the
whole system OF coercive assessments upon those
in the public service. The statement In the article
that the commission had at an early date divided
It's patronage so that the secretaryship had fallen
TO DE- Gregory was without foundation in fact
Mr. Eaton said he never heard the name OF Dr.
Gregory's son suggested for the secretaryship or
any any o}ner nm Gra@er See under the commission
time urged any person for the office
OF secretary or for any other place under the COM
mission; that when the examinations were about
TO be held for examiners In the Pension Office DR..
Gregory was absent, and that he (Mr. Eaton) be-
lieyed that the doctor did not know that his son
had applied 10 be examined from Georgia until
after the examination had taken place: that the
papers were mailed In the usual way by the eXamf-
noi S III. NIeSoIy having no more TO 90 With the
application, the examination, the marking, or the
appointment OF his son than any stranger outside
or the commissions and that Dr.. Gregory's son had
been for more than sixteen months a resident
at Atlanta, Ga, engaged In a business partner
ship with the son OF the late Senator BENJAMIN
Hill, OF that state; that only three persons
were iound qualified among the applicants from
Georgia, and young Gregory received much higher
grade than either OF the other two; that all those
who passed the minimum from the several states
were certified together in the final certication for
the pension service. and the selection OF young
Gregory was made without any knowledge on the
part OF the appointing power, so far as Mr.. Eaton
KNOWS or mas any reason to believe of the fact that
young Gregory was son OF the commissioner
The successful candidate in the civil service ex-
aminatlons is not always sure of position in one
OF the departments There is often time for many
things to happen before he receives his office.
Appointments are now being made OF candidates
who passed the examination over year ago Last
month secretary Lincoln selected Stephen A. NC
Carthy, OF California, for $1,000 position in the
ad1utant generals Office. Notice was sent to his
ADDRESS, and reply was received that he had been
dead 1or nine months. It often happens that the
successful sue candidate becomes tired OF waiting for
his appointment and drifts into other business so
that the Office is declined when offered