The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-18
ApEMooRAr1o Q REPORT

on an Alleged Rep publican Violation of tho
Civil Service Law is What Night Be Ex-
poetsd.
wAsuISaroS, D. O., June 1.-THE
Democratic majority OF tho house CONF
mittee on reform in tho civil servicehas
agreed upon report drawn up by Re
preventative Boatner of Louisiana, upon
the results of the committees inyestlga-
tion OF the alleged violation Of the civil
service law at Baltimore.
The report quotes tho postmaster
generals statement that none OF The
persons whose dismissal from office had
been recommended by tho civil service
commissioner for violation OF law had
been dismissed or prosecuted and gives
at some length his reasons for falling to
act according to his testimony before
the committee, which reasons the com.
mittee characterize as contradictory. 1t
says:
Il Is singular that the postmaster gen-
eral should have endorsed the idea that
men charged with violation Of the civil
service law were entitled to notice be-
fore any inquiry as TO their guilt was
entered upon, and that they were on
titled to the assistance Of counsel in the
investigation.
The examination OF the testimony
'takon by the inspectors, and upon
which the postmaster general claims to
have acted, shows that neither their
conclusions nor his are supported BY
tho statements Of the parties impli-
Gated. On the contrary, the testimony
reported By the inspectors confirms and
corroborates fully that taken By the
civil service commission, Substan-
italy the same facts admitted to blythe
parties before the commission We're
sworn to before the inspectors, and the
severe structures and criticisms which
the inspectors passed on the work OF
MIR. Roosevelt in making the investiga-
tion are not borne out by any facts
stated by the witnesses on that exam
ination.
"rhe acceptance by the postmaster
general without further investigation
or Inquiry OF the report of the inspect-
ors, which, II proved, convicted the civil
service commissioners of the grossest
official misconduct, is, to say the least,
extraordinary" 49,,
The report continuing, says: "The
replies OF the postmaster general to
many OF the questions propounded by
Your committee were evnsive and utter
ly inconsistent with the evidence on
which he claims to have acted"
1t also comments upon the failure OF
the postmaster general to produce O
written opinion from the assistant at
torney general OF his department 10 the
effect that contributions to theprimary
election, upon which the case was based,
did not constitute a violation OF law, and
doubts whether any reputable attorney
would risk his reputation by giving
such an opinion.
The report holds that the accused
employees were actually guilty OF viola
-tion of the law and that their excuses
were transparent evasions."
The report concludes as follows: :.
ave, therefore find that tlls report OF
the civil service commission recom-
mending the removal of certain em-
ployes In tile post Office at Baltimore
was we'll founded; that the postmaster
at'Baltimore has not removed any OF
these parties substantially by direction
OF the postmaster general; that the re-
port OF -theinspeotors upon hinhs they
were retained Is supported. by the eyi-
dence taken by themselves and indi-
Gates either complete ignorance Of the
provisions Of the civil Service law, or
determination that in this particular
case their violation should not be pun
ishel,