Arizona republican., 1899-06-07
NO BARS LET DOWN
A Great Many Place Hunters
 are Disappointed.
When inc President Chsngtd inc
 Scope of inc Civil Service Rule $ He Did Not Mean That He Was Furnishing FdvorifeS Positions.

Washington, June 6.-Those who declared that the president in his civil service order was letting down the bars and putting in office hordes of clerks that are now carried on the temporary rolls, have found that they read the order wrongly, and that the bars are not to be let down so very fast The special section to which
 the rabid civil servics reforme-s took so much exception was the one allow ing temporary clerks to be transferred
 to the regular rolls by the appointing power. This was thought to affect a large number of clerksappointed in the war department during war times, and was taken as a text by the civil service reformers to preach an awful sermon as to how the president was going backward. Since the order was is sued, Secretary Alger, at the war de- partment, and Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn have been besieged by the temporary clerks with requests to he placed on the regular rolls. To their amazement, all these clerks have bsen told that it was not the intention Of the president, DOT the mfaning of the change in the rules, to transfer them to permanent places. This would be creating new clerksfips, a thing which the president never intended, nor would the law allow. The order sim ply meant that when there was va cancy in the regular service the ap- pointing power in the department might appoint one of these temporary clerks, if he saw fit, to the perma- nent roll. In other words, the order instead of letting down the bars and appointing all the clerks, simply meant that these clerks, having served a probationary term, might be con- sidered as being on the list Cf eligi- bles, and could be transferred to the permanent rolls without further civil service exam1nation and to fill va cancy Gradually, the truth is dawn ing upon the hundreds of temporary clerks in Washington, and, hike many others, they are beginning to see that the presidents civil service order IS really a step forward in clearing up the obscure status of many of the clerks and correcting the apparent favorftism and partisansh;p shown i'll Cleveland's famous blanket order, is- sued just before he retired from office.
 The lobby that has been working 80 long to get the president to call for volunteers, so that places can be pro- vided for men who are anxious to serve their country and at the same time receive a handsome salary, has started afresh to try to force the hand of the chida execttive. For a time tt seemed as if it would make some impression. The wires even as far as Manila were worked for dis patches, all saying that General Otis was in need of more troops. But the war department seems to know better, and again it is denied that the presi- dent is even thinking of calling for volunteers at this time. The inter | views which have been published with | officers returning from Manila are given by men who left there over two 1 months ago, before the reinforce ments of regulars began to arrive, nd | things have changed considerably in | the islands since they left.
 Western men are elated over the ap | parent advantage General Henderson has secured in the race for the speak ersEip. The action of several western 1 state delegations as well as New York in declaring for has caused this feeling. The same combine which controlled places and offices in the house organiza- ton in the last congress is trying to secure all the prizes in the next con gress Pennsylvania is at the front again in this contest under the gu;d- ance of Matthew Stanley Quay He wants Pennsylvania to hold its own in the house organization, So he can keep control in certain sections of his state by providing places for his fol- owers at Washington. Then, again, le is looking for votes in the senate D secure his own seat, and where he an help a state secure a senatorial vote he is going to do it.
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