Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-05
MANY OFFICIAL HEADS WILL GO
Before the End Of the Fiscal
Year---A Warning to Office
Seekers.
CURRENT GOSSIP At WASHINGTON.


viii pc pretty wei Sicaheu Out Oy tue SA1
of the fiscal year This is to be busy
month in this service. The plan is to begin
the new fiscal year with new Collectors in
nearly every office. How far this will be
possible can not be certainly told, but it
seems likely that there will be few if any
left to tell the tale on July lst. There are
about eighty districts and of course eighty
collectors 1t is not heard yet that the De
psrtment has taken advantage of the priyi-
lege granted by the act of last winter to re-
Guce the number of districts materially.
The report was . month ago that the num-
Der would De reduced about % per cent 3,
but with the pressure that there is for Office
II would be bad policy to 90 cutting down
the number Of offices to be distributed. The
fact that there are but eighty Internal Reve-
nue. districts, does not by any means indi-
cate the number OF changes in Office which
this will give. There are under
every collector q large number Of
subordinstes who are not protected bY civil
Service laws and if they were they would 60
Just the same. These will 90 Just as the
collectors have gone, even more surely IN
fact for the collectors will be subject to
greater pressure than the President and
heads of the departments have been. There
are pro- ably between 5000 and 4, 900 en-
Rloyes uuCer the Internal Revenue Bureau.
They are scattered everywhere. There is
not Q State or Territory where they are not
to be fourd in greater or less numbers. The
result will be that the changes Of these so
collectors viii bring changes to probably
5000 subordinates.
While on tins subject it is interesting to
say something about the progress that is
being made in changes in office. To the
general public who see small lists of ten or
twenty new appointments sent out today
and perhaps none to morrow, 1t may seem
that the work goes very slowly 1t Is well
enough to remember, however, that these
are but q small proportion OF the number
that are going, that there are several days
In which they are going silently, and 1t tIs the
silent class that count, tor they outuumber the
others FIVE TO one, perhaps ten to one. For
instance, it is not at all unusual for the
Postofice Department 70 commission sew
enty- five postmasters in q day sometimes
more, while On the other hand the number
tf Presidential pOstmasters who are ap-
1.-THE of this namJer. In the Interior De-
partment there are large changes Of small
people" who are seldom noted. Aud so 1t
is everywhere Another feature, too, Is that
most OF the men appointed here are to have
the appointment Of from one TO one hun
drti Others, some more than that. lake
the Internal Revenue Bureau, for instance.
II has so collectors and probably 1000 en-
ployes 5000 OF whom can be removed a.
the will ofthe collector The appointments
which you see in the papers are merely seed
soWn by the wayside They will spring up
and produce. some ten, some 6fty and some
an hundred fold. They are of men who
will have the power to remove their suoor-
dtpates and EhO have the will to do 1t.
There have been perhaps three hundred
of these Presidential appointments IN
the ninety days since the Administration
othgrs FIVE TO one perhaps ten to one. For
irsiaree, il is not at all unusual tor the
Postofice Department TO commission seven
ty-iye small pOstmssters in q day, some
times more. Nhlle on Ihs other hand the
number of Presidential POstmssters who
IRE appointed and the names sent out Is but
a 1.-THE of this number. In the Interior De-
partment there are large changes Of small
pecuIs" Who are seldom noted. And 80 It
Is everywhere Another feature, too, Is that
most Of tbe men appointed here are to have
tn, appointment OF from one to one hun
dred Others, IN some cases more than that
Take the Internal Revenue Bureau, tor ln-
stance IL has thirty collectors and prob
. ably ,our thousand employees, three thousand
of Waom can be removed q. the will OF the
\ collector. The appointments which you see
Mn the papers are merely seed sown by the
Eayside. They viii spring upsnd Prodace
Mone ten. some Atty and some an hundred
S,ld They are OF men who will have the
Aver TO remove their sUbordinstes and VINO
We the will 20 DO IL There have been,
Strbaps three hundred of these
q Presidential appointments in the nInty
Sa,s since the administration
took control, but they mean at least 10
changes for each of these, aud in many
GO 25 or even so for each new appoint
mi of eourse in an office where the en-
nIoyes run over so they are blessed under
tbs civil service rules, but even there, where
thsre are hundreds of men and women who
know the habits and history of every man
an5 woman in Office it will be easy to trip
him up on the charge Of "PArnsSns9'P OF
something worse lhe Suo4 50
bsap announced since the Democratic ad-
ynip;srration began meaa perhaps 40, OUV
xsben this Democratic "leayen Wnlen Is
tbns being distributed has had time to
heaven the whole Of the various Jumps IN
which il has been inserted.
A warning to ONCE Seekers.
Here are some cold facts for men who
wart office They are facts which have
come upder the personal observation OF
your correspondent A. Hd can De su6stantissed
Sr;,h S names and d1~ter details, though it is
veil enough I'd ekESa the feelings Of
80 concsrneSr litting names from
49, ,nbEcatio it Is that the man
N ofiee new ny money Is
.,arS 20 o.nss -A;ss NOBODY -. oeea able to PEN
s,,sts hut il is q fact Nat they seldom do.
The case il. point is Of prominent othcer
in one Of the departments who was dis
missed some DAYS sgo with much warning.
he had been receiving salary OF nearly
81 coo per year for nearly three years hls
family was extreme ly small; and besides be
-mansged 10 pick np some money outside OF
/ ofhee hours. 10 ,Be-PFscJice OF profession
which he had leff 70 take this place. de
6ved in n fashionable quarter ofthe city, an
sptertsined largely. Not week passed
S-,,hou, some entertainment ct his residence
7, vas dif6cnh 10 pick up sunday paper
ard run your syedown the society column column
s';,hout SEEING his name and sometnioS
about bi. entersinments of the past week,
-,;,,sn sDSs II most cases by himself or some
of his family Well be received
- a., b,,r5e STEW days ago. de haa oeoss;
M os s@sTse 6e could Dot pay them DE aso
en.,S y. fpTpiivre in Bis houss. which had beer
Scs. ID a. much Of lhs tEIraVasAneSs ...S.. 9 :
: wssh;selon are bought Ice ca paI y @snss aa.I,
ae lesled about - = 90 ~. \.
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