New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-27
THE COMBUSTION ATTACKED.
ANOTHER SENSATION IN THE CIVIL SEX
VICE INQUIRY.

| ANOTHER SENSATION IN THE CIVIL SEN
VICE INQUIRY.
TIFF, CHIEF CLERK OF THE EXAMINERS ofFlOh'
CHARGES THAT THE COMMISSIONS Busi-
NESS Is IN A sTATp OF GREAT DE
MOBILIZATION AND coNFU-
s1oN-REPLY OF PREsI-
DENT PROCTOR.
uasb,rotor Ian G-The Rev. F. d. Bailey.
cbief clerk Of the examiners Office OF the CNl
Service Commission and for many years cohnec'e'
with that body frequently acting as chief examine
submitted some sensational testimony At quay
session Of the Senate Civil Service lnVesusa''ns
Committee 1t was a sequel to the charges ne
made on Monday OF intimidation and interference
nv the Commission with his testimony lie canea
attention 10 the bitter attack made on him theh ny
President Proctor OF the Commission. in Il 'e''''
which ne made public at the Instance OF the CUM
Inittee addressed to Theodore Roosevelt 'n'"
police Commissioner OF New-York. and now Assist
an; Secretary OF the Navy. the Commission WAS
severely criticised. In an accompanying personal
letter he expressed the hope that in any reorganiza
ton the President might deem desirable 10 mako
Mr. Proctor might he retained in his position
This communication. making serious charges ana
which created a sensation. Is In oriet as lo"o"''
"rhe business OF the Commission Is in the greatest
confusion and Is becoming moro and more de-
moralzed for want OF intelligent management.
p.ouis,tions remain Enacted on for months, ana
many complaints are made by the departments Oh
DELAYS and annoyances detrimental TO the ser'ioe
In such cases temporary appointments were ao
thorized and after ninety days mace pe'inA,e"''
although no rule exists permitting such ACTIONS.
Tbesa reouisitions probably cover several hundred
nloces In one batch thiriy-two appointments !"
the Marine Hospital Service were reported 'o'
which no authority existed. and the only eNCus'
wa. the failure OF the Commission to provide reg
,s,ors The Navy Department recently sppointed
fifteen steel inspectors without examination or Ger
,teoo.,or he rho Commission and the Department
bae reouested the Commission TO make the appoint
ments regular by issuing certihcations. 80 '1',o
IN these has yet been taken. The engineer Se.'"e
n, large has made acquisitions 10 MI huiu'e's "
nlaces and no provision has yet been mace 10 nee
tho demands A number of appointments III 'he
sph-Treasurv at New-York have been maze sii'0o
the classification without examination ~ az
tenpt has been made to meet the neeus oi 'no
Ordnance Department. and irregularlue' anu que0
tionahle appointments have been so numerous ''"'
The rules have almost lost their ioree anu ''
ouo,os law ~ necessity is rc8nant ana Want OF
uniformity exists in all the business OF inc
sion. and the greatest uncertainty preFa"S' NV
s,,bordinatcs cannot do their work with commence
because all precedents. practices ana prihc'pi'' ~"
abandoned and nov ones substituted 80
~ roli.v or line Of action exists when can o'
relied on and contradictory action Is IN he
ohGtv u Of he management and can DO no more
tnah 10 I hanoes Thc action taken by the COM
sio Ia mka Continuity and the minutes OF one DAY
cSntrads hPs nS OF 4 4e26Sd Under the recent
ministraton four Of the hVe onCers W. ubo iarked
even the ADVANTAGE OF experience In the DepabbI
mental service some Whose vlsms ,b fbcorrs it,
lie Ices than hostile, and their inexperlehce %i ins
tamaTy grG one a anp' hry thousand offices
ana utterly failed to provide TO meet mn ic bis
The present condition is SIT, 1oF py gmmyeaate REMEDIAL
aStion and M least three changes in the Once
should be made at once. not tor po"'''" '''70''''
o IN I%e asked If Mr.. Bailey had not sen;
copies Pie 1 Of .s TSped that his VIE he
knew, the only other person VINO k"o" u ''' -
hSot that time your friends asked to have the
President appoint you '''' '''
know that the said ReprsTsnta 1a
walker Of Worcester. Mass, where eane - En
had presented my name TO the President rep"e'
Presjd~nt Proctor then took the stand ana Al ine
ouse; sought to show that the sweeping as had
Of the classification Of May 1885, was moi az nm. nng
n0,inned Tor the changed conditions was cohcerhen
PRESIDENT PROCTERs STATEMENT
pr.s,dor, Procter made a statement to the COM
,n,,,ee regarding the charges that ne ana me 'o'
mission had sought TO intimdate Baiiey' ne RAJ.
that when he had spoken to Mr. Bailey anu 'o'
rim Tint hitherto no one had boon suoponaeo o!
,ho chairman Of the committee except those VINO
wore artaeonislic to the Commission ne han IN
his nossession a duplicate copy Of the communica-
ton Of Mr. Roosevelt submitted to-day. II was
furnished by a United States Senator ana nc oiu
not know its author until the first testimony o.
~ p,uov when he suspected him. He had known
for some time that the paper had been passed
around among Senators and made the basis OF an
attack on the Civil Service law. He told MT Bailey
that he supposed he had been suDpGnaed at the
instance of some Senator who had seen the paper
ard that after the complaints were all In he would
ask the committee TO summon people who had
lorg experience in important places In relation 10
tho operation OF tho civil Service law. He had
sad that he wished any one having a knowledge
Of WrongdOng IN the Commission would state al
the facts but there a line to he drawn between
that and a subordinate crticising the adnlnistra-
lion Of the Commission. the departments and the
President. and making suggestions.
What Chief Examiner Server had said to Mr
Bailey had reference TO his testimony. but was
i'm line with instructions that while Mr.. Serven was
I'm the CITY papers from his office must not be sent
down TO The Commissioners without his signature
Despite these orders, given several times in the
last year papers had come down from MI Bailey
Whatever Mr. Server said was In response to Mr.
Railey's questions. He thought the criticisms were
not pertinent a. Mr.. Bailey only the minutes
and not the correspondence and other information
senator Pritchard then said that the fact that
Mr. BAILEY was a witness justified him in making
any suggestions at the instance of the committee.
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