Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-11
A sHAm REFoRmEH,s RECORD.

 Shameful Corruption In She Civil Ser. vice Disclosed Ely she Senate Tnves. tiGat1ng Commlteee-Wha1 the Presl. dent Promised Four Years Ago and What He EAas Done-PartIsan Re- m0vals-E1ectfen Corruption - Civil Service Asse9sments-Au Contrary To the President,s Pledges.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-Senator Hale to- day submitted to the Senate a report from the special committee to examine into the present condition of the civil service. The report makes 8 printed document of fifty pages. It discusses elaborately the testimo- ny taken in New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and concludes with the following general summary: ''The investigations made by the committee, and the facts therein brought forth establish these things beyond controversy:
 'e1. That partisan changes have been made in the federal officers in wholesale way un- der no pretense that the good of the public service demanded such changes. In most marked instances, as in Philadelphia, Balti- more, Indianapolis and New York, these changes have been followed by scandals in the public service, which has been rendered less efficient by reason of the changes.
 s'(2.) That federal officials throughout the country, contrary to the directions sf the President as found in his letter of July IA, 1886, have freely and openly participated in political conventions and primary election movements, using their official influence. In Pennsylvania the entire machinery of the federal service was put in operation for the purpose of controlling the Democratic organ ization in the State in the interest of the ad- ministration forces as against the friends of MT. Randall. The State conventions were dominated and controlled by the federal off, cials and the chairmanship of the State conn., mittee was secured by the offices bestowed by the administration upon members of the committee who changed their allegiance from MT. Randall to the President. In no case does the committee find that any federal officer has been disciplined for such interfer ence in politics, but on the other hand such has been repeatedly recognized and rewarded This interference in some cases, notably at Binghampton, NY, was most offensive to the people and amounted to 8 conspiracy to thwart and defeat the pop ular will.
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 "(3) That the system of levying tolls and upon Federal ofhceholders for political purposes has continued without in- terruption since the administration came into place. The committee is persuaded that at present throughout the country offceholders are being generally assessed and called upon to contribute from their salaries to swell the funds of the Democratic party. While these assessments, so generally made and responded to, are is violation of the re- peated declarations of the President and of the fundamental principles of civil service re- form, the committee hardly feels warranted in severely adimadverting upon the conduct of these subordinates for violating the policy by the President, in view of the fact that that policy has been departed from and grossly violated by the President and members of his cabinet in their alleged and uncontradicted subscriptions Of large sums to the Democratic national com- nittee. It is not to be expected that subor- dinates will feel justified in considering as sincere declarations of policy which are so repudiated by their author, and the fact that the President of the United States, in campaign in which he has so great per- sonal interest, contributes, notoriously, one- fifth of years salary for political use, is fairly to be taken by those who depend up~ on him for their tenure of office as not sim ply an invitation, but a command to do like wise While perhaps not strictly the func- tions of this committee, it may not be inn proper for it to commend to the consideras tion of the legal adviser of the President the inquiry whether such subscriptions as made were not in direct violation Of law.
 BROKEN PLEDGES.
 "All these things are contrary to the pledges repeatedly made by the President, both before his election and since, in his let ters and messages and well authenticated in- tervisws."
 The report here makes quotations from the first letter of acceptance of President Cleve- land; from his letter of December 25, 1884, to George William Curtis; from his inaugural address; from his first annual message and from his letter of September Il, 1885, to Civil Service Commissioner Eaton, condem natory of the spells system and enunoiating the Presidents views on civil service reform. It says the investigations made by the committee 'tshow 8 condition of affairs as diametrically opposed to what the President has promised ss it would be possible to imagine" To show "how these promises have been kept" the committee quotes the concluding paragraphs of the report of the Civil Service Reform as- sociation of Indiana, "composed largely of gentlemen who supported the President in 1884; " commenting on which the committee says: 'fThe committee can appreciate the condition of mind in which these gentlemen of Indiana must have been when confronted with the facts brought out by their investi- gation, many of which have been also estab liahed before this committee