Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1886-01-08
Our Washington Letter.
w WAsMlNGTON. Jan. 1.

! nom the records the names OF appli-
cants which have been thereon for six
months. or more, without having been
reached in the regular course of
the examination, fell as Il chilling New
Years gift to thousands of poor people
seeking employment i'm the public ser
vice. This is done, as a commissioner
! lnfolms your correspondent. to prevent
those applicants. who entered early
/ from blocking the way of others less
/ fortunate. seeking to he examined. hut
! whose names might not he reached for
years if such large numbers of earlier
entries We're permitted to take continual
precedence. Each person whose name
has been dropped. will he notified at
once. so that q new application can be
made if desirable. but the names of TO-
newals will he placed ut the bottom of
the list. The records of the commits
sion, which was permitted to examine,
show some Interesting facts. While
from most Of the states applicatiors for
office thus far. have n@t been i'm excess
nf the number needed at the eXamina-
tions held therein. in others the excess
has been quite large The District of
Columbia. which is entitlrd to only four
appointments out rf one thousand. had
22l5 applicants for examination: Mary
land, entitled i'm like manner to 10. had
22Sl. more than twice the number from
the six New England states; Virginia.
entitled to 80 appointments, had psi APP
plicants, or more than twice the num-
ber from Texas and all the other gulf
states: and irrepreSsible Ohio. entitled
to 81 appointments to the one thousand.
had 2$2 applicants, almost twice as
many us Michigan. Wisconsin. Mime
sofa. Iowa. Missouri and Kansas, COM
bined.
While there is nothing discreditalle
III honorabIy seeking employment i'm
government service. the number com
peting for place, and the uncertainty of
success. make it about the most ul,-
promising pursuit tine citizen can en-
gage in. For a single minor consulate
recently given toan Ohio man. there
We're OH file no less than $50 applcations
at the state departments: and there are
now on file from the single state of Ken
tucky. l,4OO applications for different
positions. 1t these appalling figures
indicate that "tlle conf+dera,es are
again in the saddle it also shows that |
most of them will be unhorseI. aud dis .
appointed in their efforts to reach head
quarters However, the excess of fe-
male applicants is now always much
greater than that that of males. and
this notwithstanding six times as many
men as women are requested by the
departments for appointment. a subject
over which the civil service commission
has no authority. whatever.
Much bitter feeling exist here against
Ge0eral Roseclans, growing ont of his
of the late General Grant:
and threats ale feelingly made that the
may lie induced to refuse to con-
firm the former in his position as regis
ter of the treasury. When his atten-
ton was to-day called to the feeling lie
had aroused. the register spoke very de-
family Of the matter, and reitered mis-
charges against the dead general. add ,
ing that Grant was a humbug and had /.
confessed to him ltosecrans) that lie /.
Grant, was ignorant of military mat. /,
Lers." Abiding to the connection of
Grant with Ferd Ward. the register =
said it demonstrated that Grant was
either an idiot or klave. and declared
,e was not afraid of anything his friends !,
could do to injure him. He may. how :.
ever. have occasion to change his mind,
rs neither the country, nor the seEate,
lave forgotten the public services of .
he old commander. and neither is pre- ,
'ared to receive with complacency the :,
ll-natured and slanderous STRUCTURES of :"
3osecrans. who so disgraces his position Il
~ aspersing the character of his former t,
lIief, the latchet of whose shoes the :
ormer was never worthy td.unt.e.
The latest example Of clvi1@ service re-
orm. under a democratic -adminstra- n
ion, has just occurred, in the removal II
one OF the most efficient employees in d
he postotfice department, r. w. Gree "
ey. the originator of the free delivery /
ystem. and who has ever since been it's W
cad, and under whose tireless manage b'
lent the system has grown to it's pres "
Mt splendid proportions. The place e'
as been given to Col. John a. Bates. III
Dubuque, Iowa, a manager Of an in pl
france company. and who was CHAIR W
ian OF the Iowa delegation in the Chi
lgo convention. The salary is $500.