The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-03-27
WHEY Musr ALL 90.
Tho Leading Bureau oaleers will DO Dis.
missed To Make Room for Amateurs.

Tho Lending Bureau OmeeFB Will DO Dis
missed to Make Room for Amateurs.
WASHINGTON, D.. g., March e6.-1t is
evident that the leading burean officers
will have to go. This is toreshadowed in
the following statement, which also gives
the reason or preteIt that will be assigned
for these wholesale removals: The nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Me- cConyilIe as Sixth Auditor
OF the Treasury was received at the Treas
ury as are indication that all the Auditors
are TO be promptly superseded. The present
incumbents are generally political ap-
pointees, and in some instances, at least
subordinate officers arethe realheads Of
the bureaus, Mr.. McC Conyille is not known
at the department. The appointment
causes the retirement Of Judge Crowell, ol
Minnesota, who was made Sixth Auditor
less than a year ago. His appointment
as chief OF division in the bureau was
made few years ago over the heads Of
many employees OF long experience. He
subsequently became Deputy Auditor,
and then Auditor. A prominent civil
service reiormer, who enjoys intimate
relations with the President said to-day
that tie changes. in Authorship weresto
be expected. i 4
There was nothing more absurd, in his
opinion, than for the purely political ap-
pointees oil Hayes and Garfield to now
claim protection in their places. The ap-
pointmepts OF the present Auditors were
violations Of the spirit CT civil service re-
form, and there was no good reason for
their retention. President Cleveland did
not intend that all chiefs OF bureaus
should be changed. On the contrary, he
intended that all efficient and experienced
ones ahould be retained. The trouble Is,
in his opinion, that the chiefs OF bureaus
appointed under Republican rule are not
competent and efficient. 0fthe Treasury
chiefs great majority are political APP
pointees, who have done theirwork no
better than 1t will be done by the men
whom Mr.. Cleveland will select. In many
eases the service will be improved by the
changes. There are butone ortwo Treasury
chiefs OF bureaus who should, in his
opinion, be retained under the most strict
construction OF reform ideas. The only
thing to be regretted about the changes,
he said, was that efficient subordinates
could not be promoted in cases where they
have efficiently and faithfully performed
the duties OF their superiors. While this
result Is very desirable and embodies the
highest principle Of reform, neither prece-
dent nor justice requires the new admin
istration 70 adopt It. This gentleman be-
lieves that none Of the enforced retire
ments OF bureau officers have. been or will
be OF men who haye heep faithful or etti-
oient and whose places cannot be equally
well filled. This is a semi.authoritative
explanation Of the wholesale removal Of
bureau officers that is in contemplation.
1t seems that the Republican officials are
TO be classed as inefficient
The Washington Poa, organ OF the
Democracy, editoriallY insists thatthe civil
service rules ought not to be, extended TO
the chiefs Of divisions, ndsays:
at would be better TO lot the statue go
by the board and become dead letter
than to havei made the meansof afbi-
tarily imposing upon the members of the
Cabinet men Of whose honesty, capacity,
and merit they have no peFs0hal know
ledge nor option Of forming their own
judgment. = It Is said that Mr..
Lamar and Mr.. Eaton differ materially on
this point. The Secretary Of thell Interior
proposes 10 know OF his own knowledge,
and not through secondhand Information,
who the principal clerks Of his divisions
are 70 beH - Sss