Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-09-04
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Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has
been making an examination OF
how the civil service was conducted
under Secretary Carlisle in the Treas
ury. Carlisle reported to Congress
when called upon by a resolution that
there had been 3q5 removals in the
classified service, 728 in the unclassi-
fed, 376 designations % in the classi-
fed and 200 in the unclassified. Here
are III actual removals in the CLASH
fed service for the designations were
all asked for and 1913 in the unclassl-
fed service, a total of 1850 re-
movals. Besides this there were 347
reductions and 1870 promotions IN
classified service. There were $40 APP
pointments in the classified and LIZA
in the unclassifed service.
All these removals and reductions
with very few exceptions were OF Re-
publicans and all the appointments
and promotions were of Democrats,
with still fewer exceptions. And yet
Mr.. Cleveland is heralded abroad as
great civil service reformer.
Kentucky had only three removals
with IS appointments in the classi-
fed and SO in the upclassified service
and several of the latter were I'M
mediately promoted into the classified
service. Maryland had SO appoint
ments and as many promotions, New
York 18s appointments and 1913
promotions, Virginia had 81 appoint
ments and 70 promotions. A similar
examination would show like condi-
tions in the Interior and Post Office
Departments and in all the depart
ments, and yet the Civil Service hum
bug must be maintained.
A few disappointed ofhce-seekers
are forming or trying to form an
Anti Civil Service league, the object
of which as stated is to secure the re-
peal or modification of the civil
Service Law, but the real object OF
the attempted movement is to secure
positions for the President, Secretary,
Treasurer, Sergeant-at-Arms and EX-
ecutive Committee Of the League.
That is all there is in the matter.
General Miles went to Europe to
take a view of the Greco Turkish
War, but was too late as the war was
over when he arrived. He has how
everssent some interesting reports as
regard the armies of Italy, Austria
and Great Britain The report is
very full on Woolwich where the
heavy guns of the British Army and
Navy are made by the Government
as we'll as the armor plate, projectiles
and all the outfit for the warships.
The report is valuable one.
Two years ago EugeneV. Debs was
looked upon as law-breaker, and
dangerous man. His experience in
the Chicago in the riots and his sub
sequent incarceration seems to have
had a good effect upon Mr.. Debs.
His latest idea is that the ballot is
the most effective weapon in the
| t...lz oc tbo A ,,,ar;Oo,, xyofar aud he
has evolved 1.-the cooperative com
monwealth" as the remedy for exist
ing evils, if any exist His friends
evidently believe in Mr.. Debs for the
American Railway Union, one of
the strongest organizations in the
country, has as body accepted the
| cooperative commonwealth and seve-
raj other labor organizations joined
with it, making an organization
numbering its members by the hun
dreds of thousands.
l. comes to the surface at Washing
ton that Col Richard Hinton, one of
the free state organizers OF Kansas
and now at the head of the colonial
ton committee of the new common
wealth has been industriously at
work. making straight the paths and
easy the roads for the planting Of
colonists in the new states of the
Northwest.
Col. Hinton has given years Of
study to the irrigation problem look
ing to the reclamation OF the arid lands
lying west of the tooth meridian OF
longitude and extending nearly to
the Pacific Ocean and he proposes to
enter upon the work of colonization,
with all the youthful ardor he came
to Kansas in 1856 and 1857.
Such enterprises in the hands Of
Col. Hinton can work no harm to the
Republic for which Col. Hinton is
| radical in all his views; he is intense