St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-02
sHIDY'S SHYsTERING.
Rewarded for Making False Ger
tiiiCatiOns i'm a POStOffice.

Att@AtOeu IOt MAKING RAISE Ger"
tiiiCations in POStOffice.
WASHINGTON, d. C., March AT
tliC opening Of the session of the house
committee investigating the charges
against the civil service commission to-
day Representative Ewart read a teIe-
gram from eX-Civil Service Commits
siouor Edgerton saying that the charge
81 at Campbell had given ont civil SER
vice questions was never made known
e. him (Edgrrt0n) until the evening be-
fore he wrote his letter To the president;
and the reason why 1T was withheld was
best known to those who cOndOned it.
Reconnaissance 0berly had testified
tie other day that Mir. Edgerton refused
t. have anything to do with the charge
acainst Campbell. Superintendent Of
tie Census Porter was the first wit
ness called, and gave the committee
his story of Shidy's appointment
t. a clcrkShip in the census office.
Commissioner Roosevelt had come to
him and said that he tRooseyeltl thought
6hidy was unjustly dismissed from the
Milwaukee p0StOf1ice, and asked him to
appoint Shidy to a position in the cen
sus bureau. Before his appointment
Shidy had passed only fair eXamina-
sentative EWart, Mr.. Porter said he
would not nave appointed Shidy to the
place had he been told that he had
MADE FALSE QUALIFICATIONS
H. the Milwaukee pOStOf1ice. In answer
to further questions. Mr.. Porter said
that Shidy's appointment had not taken
place until six weeks after the request
OF Mr.. Roosevelt and that protests had
been fled against his appointment. He
further rec0lgcted, he said, that Mr..
Roosevelt had said to him that Shidy
was a weak man and had yielded to CO.
eTciOh, and that Postmaster Paul
had turned him out because
he had testified to the TRUTH
Commissioner Roosevelt was then called
and gave the committee a history Of
tile last Investigation of the Milwaukee
postollicc. He said that Shldy, though
reluctant, had come forward at once to
testify. The commission told him that
IL would do all in its power to protect
him from the consequences Of telling
the truth, but not from the cOnSe-
QUeuCcS from his WrOngdOng in the
Office. Mr. Roosevelt then related how
tie commission had made efforts to
have Shindy rcinstated and, failing in
that, to have him appointed in the cen
sts Office. 'Remember," lie said, THAT
Study was not dismissed for doing
wrong, but was dismissed for trying to
atone for it ny doing well, and he had
confessed and expressed deep, humble
and apparently sincere regret for what
he had done" He (ROospvelO felt, he
declared, that the government must
PROTECT ITS OWN WITNESSES
who are prosecuted for telling the
truth. He would not interfere with the
punishment of these men for their
wrong doing. Commissioner Thompson
having taken the stand, said that
after hearing Shidy's testimony of yes
terday, he did not think he was man
who ought to have place under the
government for the reason that he
showed a moral Obliquity which unfit
ted him for employment in the govern
mcnt service. In his testimony before
tile commissioner, Shidy freely con-
fcSsed, and said he would not commit
such a wrong again. although yeSter-
tCrday he had said that he would do the
same thing again under similar cir
CumSianceS. Such man was not to be
trusted. Commissioners Lyman testi-
fed that the preliminary report made
in the Milwaukee postOitice case by
McsSrS. Doyle, secretary, and Webster,
tha chief examiner of the commission.
previous TO the reorganization of the
commission, lldd not been acted upon 10y
the commission because he Nyman)
could not get Mr.. Edgerton to cooperate
with him. He did not feel authorized to
act upon it himself, because of the con-
flict IN the testimony of the various wit
ncsses. Commissioner 0bcrly. his col
league. had then been appointed TO the
commissiouership of Indian affair.
When he Nymanl 'ccame solo commits
Bioucr, the work upon him was
OVERWHELMING AND CRUSHING,
leaving him but little time to attend to
tie matter EX- Commissioner OberlY
also made Statement: concerning the
preliminary report. saying that 1t was
Submitted in writing after he had left
the office, although he had known its
nature shortly before he left. lie caused
q good deal Of laughter by saying that
when Postmaster Paul. of Milwaukee,
had been appointed by President Cleye-
land, he was vice president OF the
milwaukee, Civil Service association.