Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-16

and that should you hereafter be satisfied as
you must be when fully informed that have
been faithful to the sacred trust confided to me,
ana upright in all things, you will do me that
justice which you alone can do, and which your
nigh sense OF honor and fairness viii dictate |
nave the honor to be very respectfully your
obedient servant w A VIN6EST,
The President and BIS New Civil Seryiee
Commission.
WASHINGTON, November 10th. - The
President is evidently disappointed in his
new Civil Service Commissioners. The prin-
clpal reason for changing the old Board was
thas he believed he could more readily i'm
press upon the new members his own
ideas OF Improvement in the administra-
ton o! the civil service law. The old
Board had practically created q system, and
had become accustomed to a certain
routine in the performance of their
duties, and Were thus less liable to
adapt themselves 10 any change,
SO 1t was decided to get new members
where the balance of power would be of
the same political faith as the Administra-
ton, and who, it was thought would
readily become jmbued with the Presi-
dents views. The President believes that
there should be g broader construction TO
the law than now obtains, and that other
qualities besides that of merely being able
TO answer correctly Il series of questions
should be taken into consideration in the
matter of selecting persons for apDoint-
ment. Fitness for the position. CAPACITY
iOr handing men and technical knoWl-
edge of the duties required were as neces-
sary in the Sterling case as high rank in
the written examination, and hence all the
names OF those who passed the examina-
ton were submitted to the Collector This
should be the course in all cases, and not
coniine the certificatiou to the four high
est on the list. This is the Presi-
dents idea, and he has so pub
hcly expressed himself, and vet the
new Commissioners. have taken occasion
TO say that their action in the Sterling case.
so far as relates to certifying the whole list.
is not Il precedent of what they will do in
the future, and. hence the Presidents dis
ppointment nay the members have failed
to grasp his idea upon the subject of civil
service reform.
The Colorado Catastrophe
DENVER, November 15th.-A Silver Cliff
special to the NelcS says The removal of
the dead miners from the Ball Domingo
began ats o'clock last night, the last being
brought to the surface about midnight.
Robert McGregor and Thomas Armstrong
alternating in going down the 500-foot
shaft. A rope was attached to pullevs to
bo,,1i w. 10 80 o,'d H. - a 0oL pse M5s
~tI,,.l - - - GU 'uoIl 'Ie Sulue
ri, iH d up % tne rope
- tIls ueau Pouy ana
vi. ~ =" s'io SUI ~ py ne steady
pu't Gt SooIss y, 5le ne victims were
F l1 ~ NithII an IlVur al most
bo d -l ootS lliu LII Tem I1uu WIN thelr
struggle for life. Westfall and Iaube left
short letters. the former 10 his sister, as
signing his insurance in the 4 O L W to
her and two orpban niaces The Latter
wrote To his narents and vito Tho caying,
in of the shaft necessitafed the rem0voi G}
more than fifty feet of debris hence the
DELAY of thirty hours in tbe recovery of thc
bodies. Determined threats Of Iyncbin@
II. w. Foss, the Superintendent are in
dulged in, and no doubt would have been
put into effect had not prominent citizens
gone to the mineand induced the infuriated
relative and friends of the dead TO stay
their rash intentions until the fact could be
Seltleu SA tIlat / oSs deserved such late
e,.,y CulonGt Hui ne cal5el an inquest To-Day
III 1iie JuIy 4'leIitllIeu the podleS, ana
''J''ii iie'' uil'ii ~ clocN to-hiorroW'
p,,.,. -, ,--I
of in0nest in the casa of Mr. irlia So J3
who was shot and kiIIad hv bor LrSbond
William + Stone ON Fr;doI, n,-a,1iuo, +l;I
evening returned vcrd;ct Of fl nrJor. .tior
arainst the husband stone is Of +bo boS l,sl
piioI and to-n;rht was nrononnced in r,c1 o,,
imnroved condition As Soon oS bo ;s in