Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-15
WASHINGTON, June l3.

WASHINGTON, June l3.
In response to certain inquiries touching
the eligibility of clerks in the classified serv-
ice for promotion. Secretary Graham of the
civil service commission, today states that q
$500 clerk who was appointed in August,
1857, without examination. is now eligible
for promotion without examination under the
civil service rules, and may be promoted to
higher positions in the same service without
examination. except such as the department
Itself may require. He also saws that a chief
clerk or chief of division appointed to his
position from fourth class clerkship prior
to the passage of the civil service act NAV,
without violation of that law, be appointed to
a vacant clerkship in the classified civil serv-
ice. The commission has repeatedly held
that Chief clerks and chiefs Of divisions, hold
ing such positions before the promulgation of
the rules, may be appointed to other places
within the classified service without examin-
ations, as the positions held by them were
not excepted positions previous to the adop-
tion OF rule 10. A person appointed to any
excepted place subsequent to the prOmulga-
tion of the rule making it an excepted place
cannot, of course, be transferred, promoted
or appointed to any other than an excepted
place.
WASHINGTON, June l4.-In the address re-
Gently delivered by Secretary Bayard, be-
fore the students of Missouri University. he
Is reported as having said that when in con-
sequence of the tie between Jefferson and
Burr in the Electoral College the election de-
yolved upon the House of Representatives,
his grandfather, federalist, instructed by
Jefferson, the great chief of federalists,
cast his vote for Thomas jefferson This
statement in the report of what Secretary
Bayard said having been denied and sharply
criticised, reporter called at the residence
of Secretary Bayard and asked him if he had
seen these attacks.
"Oh, Yes," replied the secretary. 81 have
read them. They were intended as an attack
upon me personally. They are ungenerous
and unjust, but do not care for that; but
that effect, if it should be to call attention to
the history of that period, greatly gratifies
me. If it shall but be the means of leading
my country to learn the lesson of that epoch,
l shall count myself fortunate if l have by
any means been the cause of that result Now
the facts are, that having listened on this
occasion to the beautiful and glowing eulogy
ON Thos. Jefferson by Senator Vest, in which
between him and Alexander Hamilton was
sharply drawn somewhat to the disadvantage
OF the latter, rose to speak without the least
premeditation and consequently without
praised, but thought it ought to be forgotten
and ought never to go unacknowledged, that
Hamilton, when the occasion arose, was su-
perior to the party he knew. The character
of the nominee of his party, of the man. who
seven years after was tried for treason, and
the country did not know it, he did not pro-
claim it. This is the point was making !:
That there was time when it became the
duty OF the patriotic men to sacrifice the
party for the country, and was strong in it
by the great example of Hamilton. Natur-
ally referred to James A. Bayard, for he
stood nearer Hamilton's counsel than any
other federalist. My crime is that he was my
grandfather, and now l do not think l said
he case his vote for Jefferson, but whatever
l may have said in my address l delivered
say now that my grandfather contributed
more than any other man, except Hamilton,
to the defeat of Burr and the election of JET
ferson, and that he voted in such way as to
secure that result could not have said his
vote was positively cast for Jefferson for that
would have been an historic error. In the
sixth volume of Seferson's correspondence
are letters in which he urges Bayard to break
with the federals and vote for Jefferson and
there are extant letters of my grandfather
bearing date previous to these letters of JEFF
ferson in which he declares his intention of
doing that very thing"
In defending his grandtsther's action, Sec
retary Bayard said his grandfather declined
the appointment to the French mission, be-
cause to accept an Office under jefferson
would impugn the motive which had activated
him in securing his election.
II endeavored to wholly Danish partisan
politics." said the secretary in reference to
his western trip, "it was simply visit to the
educational centers of the west
At Kansas City 1 was introduced to
people in a hearty cordial way by
Senator Plumb, and after the banquet Gov.
Robinson. in the course of his remarks, said
it was the first time that the people. ire
spective of party. had joined hands to receive
and welcome man occupying any official
position"