Milford chronicle., 1893-05-26
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. MAY q. 1903

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Secretary Carlisle is showing the country
just what democratic professions of reform
ing the Civil Service mean. For many
years there has been rule in the Treasury
Department requiring newly appointed
chiefs of divisions to take a non-competive
examination, merely to test their general
knowledge and intelligence. Several of the
democrats appointed chiefs of divisions by
Secretary Carlisle have simply through lack
Of ordinary intelligence failed to make even
a fairly creditable showing in those examina-
tions aud the examining committee has been
compelled to report them unfit for the posi-.
tions they had been selected to fill. Did
Mr.. Carlisle make other and better selections
in place of these men7 Not bit of it, He
simply exercised his authority as Secretary
and issued an order changing the rule,
making it read that chiefs of divisions in his
department may be excused from taking the
departmental examination at the discretion
of the Secretary of the Treasury. The re
suit Of this order will be that the incompe-
ent democrats will draw the salaries of
hiefs while their work in reality be per-
formed by competent republican clerks un-
der them. No observant man doubts that
reforms are needed in the civil service, but
he who thinks that they will be made by this
administration is doomed to disappointment.
The Geary Exclusion act is to be dead
letter, Notwithstanding the Supreme Court
decision, until Congress meets, if no longer
it having been decided by the cabinet to
spend what money is now available, as we'll
as the $4,000 that will become available
July I, in prosecuting and deporting those
Cinnamon who are in America in violation
of the anti-Chinese law of 1884, aud to let
the unregistered Chinese alone.
There is much speculation as to the influ-
euees the administration brought to bear
upon ex-Secretary Fairchild to cause him to
withdraw his resignation as chairmeu of the |
committee recently appointed to investigate |
the New York custom house, after having |
twice refused In writing to serve on the COM
mittee. Mr.. Fairchild has lost friends by |
allowing himself to be coerced into doing |
something that it is well known he did not
wish to do
The democratic Commissioner Of Pensions
seems to lack the courage of his conviction.
A few days ago it was stated BY his close
friends that he had concluded that the med
ical boards should be made up hereafter
entirely of democrats. There was such
unanimous kick against the mauifestly un-
just proposition that he made haste to make
a halfhesrted denial of his intentions to put
It into effect. He admits that he favors such
policy, but Us that when the sentiment of
he locality in which the boards do their
work favored a minority representative on
The board he would appoint one republican
and two democrats. Ifthere is community
n this country in which public sentiment
avors making these boards political ma
,hines composed solely of the members of
'ne party it is a good community for fair
minded men to get out of.
The Spanish Infauta Eulalia and her suite
Ire in Washington, aud so far everything at
ending their entertainment has moved
smoothly and apparently satisfactorily 10 the
The royal party paid their
respects to Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland by
making an official call at the White House
Saturday morning. In the afternoon of the
anne day Mrs. Cleveland, accompanied by
.Irs. Carlisle, Mrs. Lamont, and several
'ther ladies returned the courtesy by calling
N the IufaHta at the hotel where she aud .
Ter suite are quartered in royal style: To-
morrow evening Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland {
rill entertain the nations royal guests at a =
tate dinner in the White House, the other
uests being the members of the cabinet s
nd ladies oftheir families, members Of the {
npreine Court aud their wives, aud all the
ienbers Of the. Senate aud House commit.
.es on Foreign Affairs who are at present
J Washington. Thursday the Iufauta will i
0 TO New York to accept the social atten-
GUS Of the four hundred" ef that city, and a
10 the Worlds Fair a
No wonder Post Master General Bissell v
id 10 delegation the other day. I'VE are
nebody's menials' he had just received :,
curtain lecture from Mr.. Cleveland because
. had dared 70 make a small appointment q
Georgia at the request Of Secretary Hoke ~
NTH without FRS, having obtained the ap
oval Of Mr. Cleveland. There is no doubt
out Bissel's being somebody's menial.
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