Arizona republican., 1899-03-26
Civil Service Commissions At-
 titude on the Census.
GROSVENOR SCORES PROCTER
Disclosures Regarding inc Bureau of Engraving and Printing Cited as an Object Lesson of inc Present SYSfem-CenSuS Law Will Insure BuSineSS-like r1efhodS in Con- duct Of Census Bureau.

GrOsvenor of Ohio, who is in the city,
 was met by reporter and the question
 was put to him, What do you think
 of the attitude of MT. Proctor, chair
 man of the civil service toward the
 new census law"
 General Grosevenor said:
 'Of course I feel some hesitation
 about talking on this subject The
 public has general knowledge of my
 views on this bureaucratic government
 of the United States; but, nevertheless.
 l can say that I am astonished at the
 declarations made by Mir Procter
 The stealthy. interruptions approaches
 to absolute domination of the political
 power of the government of the United
 States by bureau, which began when
 MT. Cleveland discovered that he would
 not be renominated for the third term, and which were pressed to full devel-
 opment when he discovered that he was to be followed by a republican sue. cessor. and which have been some what baked by the action of congress. have had the effect to throw the head of that organization into the animated condition in which he appears to have been when he denounced congress and charged improper motives to that body, and sneered at the law for the taking of the twelfth census.
 We have this remarkable spectacle now: Here is a commission of the United States created by law the mem-
 bers appointed by the President, who, through its head, rails at congress be- cause congress refused to deliver the power of appointment of this great body of temporary officers into the grasp of this body. This commission, is the creature of congress, and if it has any agency at all. it is the agent and not the ruler of congress. Created by an act never understood by the peo- pie of the United States, and never ap- proved by one-fourth of them. it has gone forward devil-fish fashion until it has grasped practically the entire appointing power of this government, and because the conditions which have grown up have created such revolt in the eyes and estimation of congress that it refused any longer to put ad- diUional power and additional patron age into it's hands this gentleman sees fit to malign congress and ridicule it's action
 The law for the taking of the twelfth census was kept out of the jur- isdiction of this commission by the vote of both houses of congress; in the senate by vote of something like 50 to 19. upon the separate issues pre- sented in the senate last year. It was not done by accident. It was done by deliberate legislative design. The house presented new bill, but with the same features as to the civil service law, and the language of the new bill is not equivocaI and cannot be misun- derstood. Had the entire 356 members of the house voted upon the question of the provisions in the present law, or the relegation of these appointments to the civil service bureau, do not be- lieve there would have been fifty votes in favor of the latter proposition. Even the honorcd chairman of the civil service committee was too wise to try the question.
 Now, what follows? This govern ment official. holding an appointment at the will of the President of the United States, the President being representative of the republican party and he a representative of the demo- cratic party, the opposition party to the administration, sneers at con gress and ridicules it as best he can. and proposes that this law in which the people of this country are vitally and which it is proposed shall be administered upon fair non partisan principles, from true and business standpoint, be held up to tIe people of the country in ridi- cule.
 M. PI octer outside of the pecu- liar positi pn which he is holding under 3 republican administration, is at tempting how to disparage congress sional action and ridiculing law pass ed by both houses after long and ser ious consideration. It shows simply what the control of patronage to the extent of fifty or seventy-fve thou sand offices in the United States will do for an arrogant man, The law for the taking of the census contains a provision for the application of the true principle of civil service reform. It provides that there shall be a thorough examination provided for by the bureau itself of every applicant for
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