Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-26


trate, ! once said TO gentleman few
years ago who had large amount oI
bus ness before some of the Department.
in Washington,
AND WHO WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL
In having his claims allowed, how is II
that you almost invariably succeed with
your casesY well" said he, "as am
about retiring from business will tell
you. | manage to see the parties who
make the reports" In answer TO my in
quiry as to his method of procedure, he
said he would make the acquaintance of
the one who examined the case, and draw
up the report for his chief to act on. He
would invite him TO his room; If he came
he knew he had him. Refreshments fol
lowed. intcrsperscd with conversation
upon the small pay of the clerks and q
kind suggestion that they ought TO lay
something by for n rainy day, all oil
which would be kindly received. His
claim would soon be favorably reported,
and allowed, and in due time the pocket
book OF the clerk would not be troubled
with emptiness as much as il was. He
went on to say that the clerk who, to his
knowledge, had thus accumulated the
most, had the confidence of his superiors
more than any other one in the bureau
The class of otiiceholders, where the
facilities for such corruption are the most
easily attjlinable, and where the govern
mcnt can be most seriously harmed, it is
the object of the present civil service to
surround with safeguards against re-
movals for life.
ANOTHER OBJECTION
to the present civil service law is that 1t
directly infringes the powers and rights
OF the president conferred upon him by the
constitution, IN making appointments;
and fully believe, If the question ever
reaches the supreme court, the law will
be declared in conflict with the constitu-
ton.
In making appointments, the first qucs-
tons to be settled are ia the applicant
honest. is he capable; those being settled
favorably, / hold it to be the right of the
party in power to select its own political
friends and supporters for Office. The
administration is held responsible for the
policies of the government, and it should
be allowed to select friendly agents to
carry out those policies. Business men
in the management of their own atfa rs
are not apt to select us agents for carry
ing on their business, those who are hos
tile to it. They prefer to trust it to
friendly hands. Why should not the
government be permitted to pursue the
same common sense course? Again, the
party in power that does not put its own
man that does not stand by his own
friends will ere long go to the wall as
he ought to.
CLEYELAND'S SLOW CANAL PACE EN-
DORSED.
1t was amusing to read the resolution
adopted bv the late democratic conven-
ton at Lincoln, which endorsed the slow
ness of the president in making removals
and appointments. The record of the
mental anathemas uttered by those same
democrats, and of the number of times
would be appalling to behold. And yet
they humbly abase themselves before
him and cry out, "it is all right, Grover,
come round soon as you can" and some
of them adding in II sort of undertone.
but don't let the day of judgment heave
in sight before you move" They remind
me of il party of miners whore one of
the number did tho cooking for the
party, The rule was, that the one
who complained should take the place
OF the cook. The cook became tired of
some of them To finding fault with the
cooking. One morning he mixed up the
biscuit, composed of one-half flour and
one half salt, and baking them, set them
before the hungry miners. One of them,
seizing biscuit planted his molars in it
and set his jaws TO wagging, when he
suddenly exclaimed, "Well, ii these amt
the goldarnd st. safest biscuit, | ever
ate, Just then he thought OF the conse-
quence of finding fault and quickly
added, "but never mind, like 'um. |
likeum any how" The democrats ate
salt biscuit with gusto in that conneo-
ton The object OF that resolution is too
palpable-it is taIfy administered to
Cleveland with the hope that it will in
duce him oput an end to his procrastina-
ton so far rs Nebraska is concerned and
hurry up the appointments. And now
they are looking for the axe to fall lit
tie more rapidly.
FRAUDS BY POsTOFFICE INSPECTORS.
Whether the civil service law includes
the inspectors in the pOstO lice depart
ment or not, do not know, but if that
department desires to ferret ont frauds
upon the government, it had better take
hold of that branch of the public ser
vice. 1t will find that some inspectors |
do not mean all have fabricrtad vouchers
for services never rendered; they have
made up reports of fictitious trips from
their places of residence, their Offices,
their headquarters to points two, three,
five hundred or IL thousand miles from
their headquarters their place OF resi-
dence, when, during the whole time COW
cred by those reports, they did not leave
their places of residence These reports
have been sworn to and sent to the post
Office department and are now on file,
and on these reports the Inspectors max
ing them have drawn their extra per
diem and mileage for those imaginary
trips The proof of the truth of these
statements is in the postollice dnpart-
mcnt, and there are living
witnesses TO the truth of them.
If the department will compare the
reports OF trips alleged to have been
made by some inspectors with the war
rants on which tho same inspectors were
paid the per diem ani expenses of said
trips, the authorities will find that said
inspectors were thus paid ut the places
OF their residences rs shown by their re-
cnipts on the hack of the warrants on
which they were paid, and yet the re-
ports, on file and sworn to, locate the
same identical inspectors on the same
days two, five, or eight hundred miles
away. or, in other words, the reports
and the payments put the same man in
two plnc"s hundred OF miles apart on
exactly the same day:
JOIN NJ. THAYEE.
GRAND ISLAND, Oct 23, 1885.