Arizona republican., 1899-03-26
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every position. It is absolutely non partisan in it's spirit and contains the
 true platform of true civil service re- i form.
 Something like one hundred and
 twenty republican members Of the i house of representatives held a consul tation in the early part of 1898 and
 formulated and agreed to stand to- gether for the Evans bill. That bill is a better civil service law than the present one, for the simple reason that it places the law back to where it was 1 before partisan politics manipulated the organization. It turned back the statute to the place where Pendleton and his coadjutors intended it should stand when they passed 1t, with hose additions to the scope of it which time had demonstrated the propriety of, and the true friends of sound civil service in this country stand by that principle. They are not spoilsmen; they are not in favor of selling the in tegrity of the official force of the gov ernment by the appointment of unit men or retaining incompetent men in office, and this census law has come to illustrate to the people of the United States what can be done by the apDli- cation of the true principles of civil service reform outside of and indepen- dent Of an encroaching bureau that un- dertakes to dominate and control and dispense the political power of this government.
 "The nauseating testimony coming from the investigation of the bureau of engraving and printing, and which is but an index of many other situations in the country under this domination of a bureau, has opened the eyes of the public to what is going on. A copy of the testimony unexpurgated could not be published in the newspapers and sent through the mails probably with out a violation of the postal laws, but the people are coming to learn what has been going on during the past six years in that bureau, and they trace back readily the source from which 1t came, the powers that have protected the schemes that have festered there:n, and they see in this the evidence that this system cannot be upheld. This civil service law was understood to be 9 tentative measure in 1883. The de- bates show that it was intended as an experiment, with a purpose to amend, change, alter, as time should suggest. Hundreds and probably thousands. of
 
 gross from that day to this to repeal or modify or amend CT enlarge CT ex- tend this law, and yet not one of them has eyer been reported from a com mittee-not one Of them. The com mittee of the house of representatives has stood with a flaming sword of majority and refused to permit the representatives of the people to be heard. The census law came, and the peoples repre- sentatives were heard, and Gen. eraI Merriam is able to execute this law himself, without the aid of any body holding the position of chairman of the civil service commission, and to tender an offer to aid in this way IS a gross insult to him. Congress in tended that the census bureau should be independent of the civil service commission, and congress, think, will resent the attempt of this organization to irterefere when congress has said they shall have nothing to do with it. For myself, I am delighted that the people of this country will have an opportunity to contrast the admins tratiOn of the census bureau with the administration of the bureau of en- graying and printing.'