Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24
SERVICE FACTS.
MINORITY REPORT. OFF SENATE COM
AITTEE OF IsQUIRY.

a1aon-Sepubltcans Angry Because
They do Not Hold all the Onices,
WASHINGTON, October 10. Senator
Blackburn submitted q v~oluininous mi.
norlty report from the committee on the
operation Of the civil service, and asked
that it be printed with the majority report.
The very elaborate report Of the majority.
says the minorityf gives evidence of many
months OF careful preparation. No inior-
nation, it is declared, was furnished the
minority OF the committee OF the purpose
to close the case, nor was it ever intimated
that the end had been reached, and the
matter wa summed up. For this reason
the minority was unable, in the few DAYS
allowed, to follow out in detail the "tedi.
ously stated case" but it would endeavor
to exhibit fairness in dealing with
Testimony than the majority had done.
lt Is declared that an effort had persist
emily been made by the majority against
the protest OF the minority to limit the
inquiry to time covered by the present
administration, and all efforts to bring out
the facts as to the operations OF the law
under the previous Republican administra-
tion were invariably
DENIED BY A STRICT PARTY VOTE.
Despite the effort OF the majority, how
even, the report declares it appears from
the testimony Of several of their witnesses
that all the evil abuses complained OF to-
day came down to this administration as /
an inheritance. Levying assessments up-
the Government officials for partisan I
purposes was in general, if not universal, |
practice prior to March, 1885 and discrimi-
nation in the matter Of appointments be- |
cause OF political views, was proven by no |
means to be q novel feature mol one which 1
had been introduced by the present
administration.
The testimony in regard to the New York
house, it is declared, shows that
OF the witnesses who testified |
we're dismissed officials anxious to air
their grievances and tell what an outrage
had been perpetrated by reason Of their
DISMISSAL FROM OFFICE.
The minority declared that after read
ng the majority report carefully, the con-
was well nigh irresistible that the
Of the civil service OF the
was not the idea kept in view
hat the purpose OF the trainers was not to
'nlighten the country, as was proposed in
he resolution.
Nearly fifty typewriter pages of the re-
,ort are devoted to an analysis OF the
estimony taken with respect to New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana, and
'ther points made in the majority report
Vere discussed at length. The report con-
ludes:
If this proof, taken from four states, or
rom four cities, is to be accepted as evi.
Ience OF the present condition Of the public ,
ervice throughout the country, intelligent
will realize and honest men will admit ]
hat to-day, after nearly four years OF Dem
'cratic rule, there are ten
REPUBLICANS. HOLDING OFFICE II
nd drawing pay from the federal treasury {
here there was one Democrat in the
ervice on the fourth of March, 's5. Under .
Democratic administration it is not to :
% wondered at if, considerations being
quail, Democrats had given Democratic
pplicants for Office the place demanded.
10 system of government nor code of law
ad ever been devised by human wisdom ]
hat was perfect. Whether the civil service
els the admission that it's execution had
cen Ii
MORE JUST AND FAIR X
nler this administration than ever before. $
the fidelity with which the Presi-
emit and his subordinates have sought to
bserve this law, raj wise, may be dis 4
uted, but the honesty of purpose with
'hich he and they have endeavored to exc '
ute it, cannot be tr%uthfully denied. ;
An army OF holdover Republican officials :
to-day drawing it's mathematician the v
reasury Of the country, and, if current re. b
ort be true, contributions from their "
alaries' are being received by the Republic ( n
IN campaign committee. No effort has
cen made to dislodge them from power by
hose at whose sufferance they hold their
laces. r
In respect to removals from the l.
NEW YoR CUSTOM HOUSE tC
n political reasons, the minority says: r
.nclusive proof is given in the testimony l
OF only of Democrats, but of Republi. u
ms, that no removals were made for any +
olitical consideration whatever, and that
every instance where q removal was
Iade, charges were filed and sustained
zainst the man removed.
OF the Indian inquiry, the report says @
le testimony cannot properly De 30 viewed
) the aim of the committee was satisfied
calling but two persons who cannot be
;yled witnesses, and the production Of e
,rtain essays based on newspaper reports. !
hat such matter should be accepted as a y
asis Of grave charges against the Presi- !
and other public officials to the |
sandal of our government, is a most glar-
10 exhibition of that blind and reckless =
which the committee o~stensi-
ly condemns. l.