Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-21
CIVIL SERVICE.
SENATOR RLAoKBURs SUBMITS A
SWEEPING misoRrry REPORT.
Abuses that Were an Inheritauee-how
the Administrstion has Carried
0us the Law.
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waSHfNGroN. d. C.. October Ex-senator
BLACK burn to day submitted yoluminous
minority repor; from the Committee on the
Operations Of The Civil Service. and asked
thai II De priated with the majority report
The very elaborate report 81 TIE majority,
Paws toe ulnority, gives evidence OF many
months OF careful PREPARATION. No niorma.
tiol. Il y declared. was furnished the MI
norify Of The committee oi the purpose TO
close che case, nor was it even lniimaied that
tbe end had been reached aud the matter
summed up. For thus reason The minority
was unable in ~ tCw days allowed them 10
follow out In detail the tediously stated case,
but it would endeayOr 10 illustrate NOR
than the majority had done. 10 IS
declared that the effort had per.
sisleutly been made by the majority
sgslnsl the protest Of The minority 10 limit TIVE
inquiry % 'be time covered by the present
Administration. and 81 efforts 10 bling out
the facts az 10 the operations Of The law un-
der previous Republican administrations
were invariably denied by a strict party
vote. Despite TIE efforts ~ the majority,
however. the report declares II appeared
from the testimony Of several OF their wit
pesses that all the evils and abuses COM
plataed Of TO-DAY cane down 10 ibis Admin
i,iratiou a. "a Inheritance. The ieyying OF
assessments upon Government officials for
partisan purposes was in general II not uni-
veTxal pTsctics prior 10 Narcs, 1925. and
discrimination IN tho mstlor % appoint
freDt because 81 political views was proven
90 he by 10 means novel feature nor one
which hsd been introduced by the present
Naturalization.
The testimony with regard % the New
York custom house, u j. declared, SHOWS
that nine tenths ~ the witnesses who tcsii"
fled Vore dismissed officials anxious 10 air
their grievance md 10 tel whsi outrage bad
llen perforated ~ reason ~ their dismissal
from Office. The minority replied ihat after
reading The majority report carefully me
conclusion is ee'!-uich irresistible That no
{rproyemcnt ~ the civil service Of tie
country wa. not tie idea kept I'm view, and
fbai TIE pn-p0se ~ tht trainers was not 10
nielfcn the country ts was proposed i'm
She resolution. Nr9rly hny typewriter p1ecs
a. tie report arr devoted 20 an auslysis 81
fhs testimony taken with respect 10 New
TorK. PenD.yyanis. Maryland, and Indiana,
aud tine points made in the majority report
SIRE discussed ~ irugth. The report con-
cludes III Obi, proof, taken from
four cities or from four Staic', is
80 De- scecptfd os evidence ~ Tee
present condition ~ ihe public SER
hice 'hIo"f'ou, t"' ''u"''f '"''lI- '"v VI. "
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to-day, niter nearly four years ~ Dcmocr1'ic
rule, there arc ten Republicans holding office
uul drawing pay from tbe fCfcral Treasury
where there was one Democrat Iu service GA
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