Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-03-20

of Civil Service Commission which has
just ended Will lead to no satisfactory
conclusion either ~ay. The House
committee is very apt.to take the grouad
that the business which they have nam
ly in hand is to search impartially into
the workings of the system, and accord
ingly it is quite likely that they may re-
gard the administrative mishaps which
some of the Commissioners have INCUR
ed of slight Importance, and as of hav
little BEARING "n the general question.
Beynnd doubt Commissioner Lyman
favored his brother-in.law, Campbell,
bat in such circumstances men will ACT
similarly to the close Of time-whethel
there be any Civil Service law or nc
Civil Service law is immaterial. Be.
You'd question Mr. Roosevelt was only
half-informed in tte affair of the Mil
waukee post-mas1ershit, ont good
deal Will be forgiven to TIE new zeai
and freshness of knowledge In relation
to official management. But the stra-
nge and utterly inadequate method BY
which the Commission undertook to try
important officials and report upon their
efficiency or non-eficiency their conform
ity or non conformity to law, cannot b,
easily explained. Their mode of pro-
ceeding in this matter will strike the
average mind as being unfair and un-
American, and the censure which will
probably weigh most heavily on the
Commission will be on this account
Whatever co iclusi0n the committee
may arrive at tne investigation will i'm
press the people at large with the belief
that the present Commissioners are not
thoroughly efficient. Whether this
belle, in tbei. in .fiicienc, IS due to their
want OF knowledge of, or their want OF
harmony with, the spirit Of real civil
service ref9rm; Or is owing to mere per
sonal lack of discretion, is difficult to
determine 1t would n t. however be
surprising If the present contention
should lead to some changes In the
Co mmission.
Everyone has heard Of old grandma
searching all over the house for the
spectacles which were very conspicuous
on her own FOREHEAD, and of little
johnnie laughing at the old -swoman's
vain chase. 1t seems to me that the
Senate in searching for the leakaged
Senatorial, secrets is very much like
the aid woman looking for her specta-
cles, and it is very little wonder that
the Johnnies laugh Senators ought
to know that fully one-third Of their
number, at one time or another, give
to the newspapers full and detailed &C
counts of the proceedings had IN secret
sessions, that much larger number are
always willing TO tell, in general way.
what has been zone, and that there L.
hardly member of the Senate VIII, vii.
not accommodate a NEWSPAPER reporter SO
far as to tell him that certain thing
has not been done if it has not Apart
from this, which is a moderate estimate
of the general politeness and obligiv-
eness Of United State Senators, every
body who knows anything knows that
it is poor newspaper man that doesn t
own Gown his Senator, as the phrase
goes The members If the Senator
Doiph's Inqulsition seem to be oblivi
Gus Of the fact. that generally speaking,
every Senator has newspaper corris
pendent f'.r private secretary. They
also ka.w tsat This private secretary
never does any Of the
work of private secretary and that h,
never receives any Of the pay, bnt that
it is simply an arrangement under which
the Senator is to help the corrispoLd
ent t., news, and that the corriponden;
will beip the Senator to fame
Every stranger who visits Washing
ton rmarks upon the hovel-place appear
ance OF tbs city. On almost every
hand this half-ouilt feature is brought
10 their notice. On prominent residen-
&c streets and busy thoroughfares the
view is the same. Our great Capitol
building iuclosed BY its beautiful park,
is surrounded by small one story shops
and tumble-down frame shantles. Rep
Henderson new house, one
If the handsomest in the city, is sur
rounded by novels. Senator Sawyer's
residence is likewise crowded
N by Objectionable frames, and adjoin-
ng ex-speaker Carlisle's home is an
'ther eyesore. AND thus it runs over
he entire city. Sixteenth street, over
ooking the White House, Lafayette
Square, and Scott Circle, is one hun
lred and sixty feet vide, and should be !
'ur most beautiful street. However,
IS very center is stifed by old frame
houses; prices are held high, and very
ew people have the courage to pioneer
Iuch district.
American judges as rule, receive
mall salaries. The House bill raising
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