The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
A REMINDER.
Executive Committee OF the
Civil Service League
Calls the Attention of the Pres
ident to Some Promises Made
BY HIM PERSONALLY
AS Well as by the st. Louis
Platform.
League Is Still Awaiting Their
Fulfillment.

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 15.-At the spec
ia1 meeting Of the executive committee of
the National Civil Service Reform league
a communication which was sent to Pres
ident Mckinley, November t. and not
heretofore made public, was submitted.
It is in part as follows:
''Sir:=The undersigned, members of the
executive COMMITTEES of the National Civil
Service Reform league, hereby respect
fully invite your attention to the follow
ing facts:
IN January. 1899 a special committee
appointed by the league called upon you
for the purpose Of demonstrating agal9st
your contemplated executive order for
ned seIZ-fce ana to this committee YOU ex-
pressed your intention of adding other
han those eScinded. After the proInulga-
consisting of Aiessrs William Dudley
FouIk Michard Henry Dana and Her
bert Webb, addressed to you the follow
ing letter:
To the President: sir-The under
signed, as members of a committee OF the
National Civil Service Reform IeagUe'
which waited upon you IN January, 1879
in regard to your, then proposed order for
excluding certain places from the clasS1-
fled service beg to remind you of the fac
that in our conversation we expressed the
hope that if you found it necessary to
make those exclusions you would at the
same time include within the classified
isl subiect to competitive examination at
least as large a. number of places as those
ommitted, so that it might appear that
no backward step had been taken
q To this you replied that it was your
intention to include great many more
places than those excluded and that you
hoped to make the order so cOmprehen-
sive that the reforms of the civil service
further would need to be done in regard
.. our disappointment, was. therefore.
great when upon the appearance of your
order we found not only that the number
of exclusion was far greater than had
been previously supposed, but that there
We're none of the inclusiOns which you
had assured US it was your intention to
May we not hope that it is still your
purpose to make some substantial and
important extensions Of the present clas-
. we believe that the large number of
exclusions made by your order of May %
animation has been injurious, not to the
civil service of the government only, but
to the country at large and We hope to
satisfy YOU of this by the results of GER
tain Investigations which we intend to lay
before you at an early date and ask you
for a revocation of that order.
s. We beg leave to inquire whether we
may not now look for the addition to the
classified service promised in the Repub-
Hcan platform of 1886 and which we were
then assured it was your intention to
make, and if whether IT will be agree
able 70 you to state at what time such
addition may be expected "
This was signed by George McAneny,
secretary. Carl Schurz. Richard Henry
Dana and eighteen others
Along with the comm unicatiOn to the
president was submitted the following:
Executive Mansion. Nov. Is, 1893.
edge receipt of the letter of the 18th in
slant signed by yourself and other mem
bers of the National Civil Service Reform
league, and to say that it will be brought