Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-14
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Another Heavy Silver Debate in the
Senate.
CLASSIFICATION OF CEREALS
The Senate Civil Service Committee
Scores Some Members of the
Commission-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE HroosD-usIos.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The House Committee Scores Some of
the Commissioners.

| The House Committee Scores Some o.
the Commissioners.
WASHINGTON, June 13th.--The House
committee on Reform in Civil Service
which conducted the investigation into the
| charges against the Civil Service Commits.
| sion, held meeting to-day and agreed
upon report. The committee says: 1--WE
| find: First-Commissioners Roosevelt and
Thompson discharged their duties with
entire fidelity and integrity. Second-The
official conduct of Commissioner Lyman
has been characterized by lsxity of disci-
plinein the administration of the affairs
OF the Commission, and is therefore Gen.
surable.
Your committee will at once investi-
gate the workings of the system and pre-
sent subsequent report when the investi-
cation is completed
The committee submitted resolution
that copy of the report of the testimony
be submitted to the President.
Regarding the case of Alexander Camp
beil, Commissioner Lyman's brother-in-
law, the committee says it was clear that
Campbell copied the questions furnished
Flynn, who gave instructions to persons
desiring examinations, and that the aues-
tions were not obsolete. Campbell should
have been dismissed. His retention indi-
Gated gross laxity in discipline, and his
promotion would seem not to have been
defenslble. The committee cannot accept
as satisfactory the answer of Messrs. Ober-
iy, Lyman and Doyle that they delivered
questions which were obsolete. The omis.
sion to ascertain the truth was as repre-
hensible as to have disregarded it after it
mad been ascertained. The committee
does not share the view that Commission.
ers Roosevelt and Thompson are deserving
OF censure for not having taken action in
the Campbell case, when their attention
was called to it. There was concurrence
OF statement to them that the matter had
been fully investigated, and in not taking
further action the committee thinks thev
were thoroughly justified.
Respecting the course of the Commits.
sion. in the case of Shidy, the Mil
waukee Postoffioe employe, who was
elscnarged by ex-Postmaster Paul
for exposing frauds, the Commission
says that it was apparent to the Commits
sion that Shidy was being punished for
exposing the truth, and they felt it their
duty to aid him by their influence in Sc.
curing employment, and thereupon recon-
mended him for employment in the census
Office. The committee is unable to find
anything to criticise in that behalf. The
investigation OF the alleged irregularities in
the Milwaukee Postoffice, conducted by
Doyle and Webster, disclosed an utter dis.
regard OF the civil service law in that Office.
The failure to submit the result of that in.
vestigation to the President indicates either
disinclination to discharge an odious
duty or fear that such report would subject
the Commissioner 10 cepsure. On the re-
organization of the Commission by the ap-
pointment of Roosevelt and Thompson an
investigation into the abuses and irregular
tiles OF the milwaukee Postoffice was held at
once and thoroughly.
1t is learned that Alexander Campbell
has resigned his position as Clerk to the
Commission.