The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-09

Members OF the Same Family in Many Cases
DrawinE salaries from Uncle Sam.

Members or the Same Family In Many Cases
DrawinE Salaries from Uncle Sam.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-Having issued his
long promised civil service order amending the
rules as arranged by his predecessor, Grover
Cleveland, It Is now said to be the intention Of
President Mckinley to overhaul the person
mel OF the various departments, with o view to
wedding out members of the same family, mar
ried couples, and women who have been mar
ried since being appointed. but who have
neglected to inform tho Government Of the
fact 1t is still q question whether the Presi-
dent did not bring within the civil service rules
a greater number of employees than he barred
out. but at any rate, his new order shook
things up o little, and that's what the service
seems to need.
The determination to inquire into the blood
and marriage relationship Of Federal employees
may DO due in some measure, at least, to the
movement SGT on foot by the G. A. r. organiza-
ton to protect the claims Of tho old soldiers to
places In the Government service by wedding
out come Of the married couples and smoking
out those whose marriage has been con-
cealed. The head of every department for
many years past has proclaimed at the begin
ming Of his Administration that not moro than
one member Of Q family should be employed in
his department, but 1t has 30 far been found
~ ~oAAJ oaS tAS SAoNAs
The soldier movement may. however, spur the
department officials into doing something
toward righting tho many wrongs that now
exist. The appointment clrk Of one Of the de-
partments is said to be an English subject, who
spends his evenings hobnobbing with some Of
his clerks who were Confederate soldiers, and
Joining them In denouncing the policy Of tho
Mckinley. Administration that seeks to rein
make room for Democrats under President
Cleveland.
It is not likely that President Mckinley or
his Cabinet Minister'S, who have been in office
but five months, have any idea of the number
Of ex-Confederate veterans and their wives
who hold Office under the Government. 1t Is
quite possible, moreover, that few Of them will
20 disturbed merely because they were Con
cation is made and all the facts obtained as to
the number of married women passing as single,
married couples who have concealed their re-
who draw salaries from Uncle Sam, the Presi-
dent, as well as the public, will be astonished.
Generally speaking. these near relations are
employed in different departments, But this
ment q man and his wife sit at the same desk,
each drawing a salary Of 81, 400. In the Land
Office a bureau, of the same department, there Is
q $1,000 clerk whose wife draws $1,000, a year
in the Navy Department. Three members of
a prominent Democratic family Of a Southern
State, all men. are employed one in the Navy.
one in the Interior, and another in the Treasury
Department.
These are but sample cases of many that ex-
LIST In all the departments. In almost every
bureau there are married women who are borne
many cases their husbands hold lucrative
places, either in the Government service or in
private business concerns. The old soldiers
think the abuse and discrimination has gone al
ready too far, and they mean to lessen 1t or stop
1t altogether, II possible, in order that more
places may be found for Union veterans.