The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

connected with the management Of
cases in courts and certain cashiers
and deputies in the customs, internal
revenue and postal services" of these
exemptions the civil service commits
sion itself approved. Mr.. Cleveland
would probably have made them had
he stayed in Office longer.
But at the same time the president
took three distinct steps forward. He
struck out that part Of Rule III, which
limited the classified customs service to
customs districts where five or more
persons were employed, so that now all
the customs employees, save the cash
iers and assistants already referred to,
are included. Next he ordered that
hereafter applicants even for the ex-
empted positions in the customs and in
ternal revenue services should be Sub
ject to an examination to be prescrib
ed by the secretary of the treasury not
| disapproved by the commission, equal
to the examination held by the commits
sion for positions of like grade. Such
examination shall be conducted by the
commission in accordance, with it's reg
ulations." Finally, came the much
quoted and highly welcome order that
mo removal shall be made from any
position, subject to competitive exami-
nation, except for just cause and upon
written charges filed with the head Of
| the department or other appointing
officer and of which the accused shall
have full notice and an opportunity to
make Defense
The issue of these orders did not
cause any diminution Of the pressure
upon the president, and he was duly
warned by members Of both senate and
house that he would have the privilege
of signing an anti-civilservfce reform
| bill before the coming session was over,
unless he retreated from his position.
His answer to this threat was in the
tail of his message of Dec. 6:
Much, of course, still remains to be accom-
plished before the system can be made rea-
sonably perfect for our needs. There are
places now in the classified service which
ought to be exempted and others not CLASSIFIED
may properly be included. ! shall not hesitate
to exempt cases which l think have been I'M
properly included in the classified service, or
include those which in my judgment will best
promote the public service. The system has
the approval of the people and it will be my
endeavor to uphold and extend 1t.
This is equivalent to saying-or as
nearly equivalent as would be possible
for man OF Mr.. Mckinney leHlpeTa-
ment-"Now, my friends, go ahead; let
us see which of US comes out best"
The congressman accepted the chal-
lenge. They have been trying ever
since the session began to agree upon
some policy in which all could join.
How we'll they have succeeded may be
judged by the flourish of trumpets with
which Representative Pearson, of
| North Carolina, organized his great
Republican revolt, and the tame con-
clusion which it reached when his con-
ference resolved that it did not want
to do away with the civil service law
after all, but only to modify some of
it's provisions" speaking, as one of
Dicken' people did, with a cheerful
generality, and not specifying what
provisions were meant-probably be-
cause nobody present knew. In the
senate the same sort Of canvass was
made, though not so openly and boldly.
The fruit of that was the little parcel
of advice given to the president the
other day by five senators and self
constituted leaders Of the Republican
party, that he must retreat on the civil
| question or wreck the party!
] Is it possible that any reasonably