Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-09-20

during The s:me perIOd were less
than $40 100000 IN value. A m"n
doesn't have to be great 6uMcler
10 grasp the idea that this sort OF
thing has got 10 be stopped ia
some way. This country is rich,
but itcan't stand everything. with
this situation before the country 1t
is Ridiculous TO say that Congress
will not touch financial legislation.
Congress has got to do something.
1t is admitted by everybody IN
Washington who is familiar with
the situation that the question OF
another issue of bonds before Con.
gress meets lies, not with Presl'
dent Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle, but with the b Ond syndi-
cate. Will Congress let that con-
dition of aft ,irs continued Not un-
less it betrays the real interests of
the people.
The Civil Service Commission
has given a partial definition OF
what 1t considers "Derniclous &C
tiyity." In reply to letter charg'
Ing that a member OF a civil
Service board Of examiners in one
of the states, had been guilty OF
improper par isan activity IN con-
nectlons with a recent political
convention, the commission IN a
letter to the accused examiner
asking him for an explanation OF
the charge, wrote; awhile at
tendance at political convention
as a delegate is not in itself a vic
lation of the civil service rules, the
commission holds that partisan
activity sufficient TO impair useful
ness as representative of the clyll
service commission Is sufficient
cause for removal from member
ship in any of its boards of examl-
ncrs." 1t would be difficult to state
the matter in amore unsatisfactory
manner then this, so far as those
who believe that true civil service
reform means non partisan Federal
officials are concerned. When the
commission decides Gu vt one of it 4
examiners has been guilt OF
Bipartisan activity sufficient" etc.
it will remove him not from tue
Federal office he has TO hold to be
an examiner, but from membership
in the board of examiners, ald
the commission uses its discretion
entirely in deciding. Lots OF
people had supposed that the
spirit, if not tue letter, of tue
civil service rules was against
off % holders attending political
conventions as delegates, but the
com mission Gays 1t isn't. If there
| is any way OF being more active
IN politics than being \ delegate to
convention the commission should
lose no time 10 pointing it ont, not
ouly for the benefit of the office
holders, but for the edi6c alton OF
those who are striving hard not to
believe the whole civil service
business to be a colossal hum bug.
Senator Call, of Florida, is in
Washington openly booming the
idea of this government recognize.
| Jug the belligerency of the Cuban
revOlutionists. He says the present
position Of this country makes II
practically an ally OF Spain, while
the sympathy of our people is
Overwhelming with the CuOans'
Mr.. Call does not favor the annexa.
ton of Cuba, but its entire indepen
dence of Spanish C)utrOl, and lie
saws be has not doubt that would
at once be accomplished II this
country would recognize the III
surgents. For three or tour days
there have been rumOrs that The
ADM iIstratlOn was contemplating
such recognition, but they cannot
be traced to any one in authority.
The Spanish minister, who returned
ITO " ashingtOn to turn over to the
State Department the drafts for
$l,44s, 900, in pay ment of the Mora
claim, says the Cuban revolution
lI,ts are ia no condition to ask for
recognition from the United States
or any other government, aud that
Spain will in short tine crush
out tue revolt.
B. g. o. Extension.
The Lexington correspondent d
tue Richmond Times says: