Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-01-08
Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Jan. 4. :


ton of the Civil Service Commits
sion to drop from the records the
names of applicants which have
been thereon for six months or
more, withou. having been reach
ed in regular course of examina-
tons, fell as chilling New Years
gift to thousands of poor people
seeking employment in the public
service. This is done, as Com
missioner informs your correspon-
dent, TO prevent those applicants
who entered early from blocking
the way of others less fortunate
seeking to be examined, but whose
names might not be reached for
years if such large numbers of
earlier entries were permitted to
take continual precedence. Each
person whose name has been thus
dropped will be notified at once,
SO that new application can be
made if desirable, but the names
of renewals will be placed at the
bottom of the list. The records of
the commissioner which | was per-
mitted to examine shows some in
teresting facts. While from most
of these states applications for
:, Office thus far, have not been in
. excess of the number needed at the
> examinations held therein. in
others the excess has been quite
large. The District of Columbia,
which is entitled to only appoint
ments out of one thousand, had
= . 255 applicants seeking examina-
" ton; Maryland entitled i'll like
manner to 10, had 2S4, more than
, twice the number from the sly
New England states; Virginia en-.
Is titled to 30 appointments had 81
'e applicants, or more than twice the
; number from Texas and all the
u. other gulf states, and irrepressiblt
'n Ohio entitled to GA appointment,
ol to the one thousand had 232 appli
~ cants, almost twice as many a
Ill Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota
It. Iowa, Missouri and Kansas com
Of bined.
ps While there is nothing discredit
ed able in honorably seeking employ
re ment in government services, th
- number competing for place an
l' = the uncertainty of success make
" it about the most unpromisin
d pursuit the citizen can engage il
is For a single minor consulate re
H. Gently given to an Ohio man ther
were on file no less than $50 appl
e- cations at the state department
no and there are now on file from th
in single state of Kentucky fourtee
- hundred applications for differe1
- positions. If these appallin
It's figures indicate that 1.-The confeC
he crates are again in the saddle"
is. also shows that most of them wi
ig be unhorsed and disappointed
=: their efforts to reach headquarter
iiS However, the excess of female az
ry plicants is now always much create
is than that of males, and this no
nv withstanding six times as mo
bv men as women are requested
=, ~ the departments for appointp lent
he a subject over which the ci-,il Sc
vice commission has no suthori
of whatever.
,od Much bitter feeling exists he
against Gen. Rosecre ms grown
I'm out of his villifcatioJl of the la
~ Gen. Grant, and thre ats are fee
ct ingly made that the Senate m;
las be induced to re fuse to confr
,or the former in his position as regi
y ter of the treasury. When his s
us tention was to-day called to Il
lor feeling he ha6. aroused the Re
ra- lister spoke very defantly of Il
lat matter and reiterated his charg
.od against the dead General, addi1
~ that Grant was humbug al
py had confessed to him (Rosecran
lot that he Grant, was ignorant
ith military matters" Abiding
las the connection of Grant with Fr,
A. Ward, the Register said it demon
VI strated that either Grant was a
he idiot or knave, and then declare
WI he was not afraid of anything h
lily friends could do to injure hin
he He may, however, have occasiC
~ to change his mind, as neither Il
=" country nor the Senate has so SOC
nS forgotten the public services of Il
do old commander, and neither is pr
ise pared to receive with complacenc
,r the ill-natured and slandero,
- structures of Rosecrans, who
"h disgraces his position by aspersi1
4st the character of his former chic
st. the latchet of whose shoes the fo
mer was never worthy to unite.
he The latest example of servi,
reform under democratic admin