Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-07
Mr.. MASON'S SCHEME
To Keep MIR Jefreys in Government
job After March !. Creates Consider
able III Feeling.

To Keep MIR Jefreys in a Government
job After March Z. Creates Consider
able III Feeling.
srse,Gl 7eleOrom 10 thS Register.
WASHINGTON, February 6.-Internal
Revenue Commissioner Mason has re-
Gently raised row in his bureau, and
displeased West Virginia Republicans
by attempting to protect particular
friend of his against the storms that
will come after the 4th Of March. No
one would havo objected TO Mr.. Mason's
attempt 10 put his friend in a place
where the Democrats could not readily
cut his head off if he could
have done it without injurionsly affect
ing the interests Of other employees OF
the Internal Revenue Bureau. But this
was not the case, and hence the row.
Mr. Mason's friend is Mr.. Eugene j.
JefTreys, Superintendent OF the Stamp
Vault in the Internal Revenue Bureau,
a place that paid $1,000 year. This
place is not under the classified service,
and consequently if Mr.. JefreYs re-
NAMED in it until after the 4th OF
March, he would have been liable
to summary removal at the
will of Mr.. Mason's sue
cessor. Mr.. Jeffreys wanted to hold
on to q government job and therefore
Mr. Mason undertook to find place
for him in the classified service which,
while paying his salary, would have the
advantage of being permanent, as the
incumbent would be under the protec-
ton OF the civil service law. Not long
ago 81, 600 clerk in the Bureau died
and Commissioner Mason decided to
give the place to Mr.. Jeffreys. But 1t
happened that lady clerk
in the bureau who had earned promo
ton thought she ought to get the 81, 600
place instead of Jeffreys, and when she
heard of the Commissioners plan she
summoned her influence and began
fight forwhat she considered her rights.
If this lady received the promotion,
several other clerks who got smaller
salaries than she would also be pro-
NOTED in succession, and they also
started in to back the play. Thus
formidable array of influence was
brought out to check Mr.. Mason's
scheme for the benefit of Jetfreys. Mr..
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poStulations loud and long, so that his
peace of mind was upset aud his nerves
unstrung. II was said that Mr.. JEFF
ierys, who is from Grafton, w. Va, had
never been an active worker for the
Republican party, and that he had no
claims to the special favor shown him.
Moreover, he was charged with icing
worth twenty or twenty-five thousand
dollars, while the woman who was to be
denied wel-deserYed promotion for
his benefit was poor and depended
altogether on her salary for her
living. Finally the Commissioner,
being tender-heartod man who
hates a row, gave up his plan TO stow
JefTreys away in the 81, 600 place in the
Revenue Bureau. Since then a clerk in
the Revenue Mission Bureau has been
found who is willing TO exchange places
with JefIreys. The latter will thus go
into the classified service after all. The
man who exchanges places with him is
understood to be Democrat, and, no
doubt, expects 10 command enough in
fuence to hold on to the job of superin-
tendeut OF the stamp vault under the
incoming administration.