The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-02
MIR. PARLETT'S OFFICE.

Internal Revenue Collector Parlett has
received official notice of the action of the
| President There are large number of
employees in Mr. Parlctt's district to whom
the order will apply. All are now under
the civil service rules. The collector has
| twenty deputy collectors under him
| who are carried as such and who are paid
| from $500 to $4,000 a year. Six of the
| deputies are war revenue deputies and the
other twenty-three are regulars. There
are, besides, twenty eight guagers, twenty
| five storekeepers and twenty eight store
| keeper-guagers. These receive from 81
| to 81 Gay when working Mr.. Parlett
has always contcndcd that deputy collec-
| tors were improperly included in the class
flied service. He has not appointed any
| deputy collector from the eligible list, but
has not gone outside that list in making
other appointments, which, he says, were
| properly included in the classified service
Collector Stone, when shown copy of
the President order stated that from a
| casual observation of the order, as pro-
mulgated, he failed to see that any of the
positions under the collector of this port
are affected, other than those which are
already exempt from the provisions of the
civil service law"
The only positions at the port Of Balti-
more which will be affected by the order
are those of deputy surveyor, now held by
| Washington Bowie, at salary of $500;
| deputy naval officer, held by William P.
Ryan, at a salary of $4,000, and United
States shipping commissioner, now Albert
| c. kirwan, whose salary is 81 900 and fees.
| Mr.. Charles J. Bonapalte in speaking of
the order says.
''The Presidents order is especially
noteworthy as the first open and admitted
step backward in civil service reform taken
by any President since the Pendleton bill
became a law. Mr.. Mckinley apparently
wishes to be remembered in the same cat
egory with Gov. Black of New York, but
the Inconsistency between his previously
| prOfessed sentiments and his official action
is far more glaring than in the case of that
Governor Mr.. Black did not, on the
whole, advance his political fortunes by
taking the starch cut Of civil service re-
! form; we shall see whether Mr.. Mckinley
| will do this
1T is impossible to discuss the merits of
the order, for it has none. In 4 few cases
the positions it affects could be, perhaps,
| g /
examinations, provided they were filled by
| the exercise of honest conscientious judy
ment on the part of faithful and compc-
! tent public officers thinking only of the
| public interest, but they will not be thus
| filled in the great majority of cases: tLey
; will be treated as current cola to repay
political debts, and the order is intended,
and will operate, to make this easier and
more general"
The board of directors of the Cuban
| Educational Association of the United
| States Of America has held its first meet
ing al the office Of the association, at $50
! Fourth avenue, New York. Those present
were Major Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Prof.
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Albert Shaw,
| William H. Baldwin, Jr., and Gilbert X
| Harronn, only director absent ben :
Alexander +. Orr, who is now on his way
to Europe. Mr. llarroun, who is the
secretary and treasurer of the organiza-
ton, reported that forty young Cubans
had been placed in American educational
| institutions since March, and that more
had arrived in New York, and would be
sent to their destinations within two CT