The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
WILL THE COMMISSIONERS ACT,

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WILL THE COMMISSIONERS AcTi
A long suffering public is anxious to
know whether the Civil Service Com
mission has back bone enough or not
to hold the Public Printer to an ac-
counting for his many fragrant viola
tions of the civil service laws and reg
ulations, or whether it is in business
simply for the dollars and cents there
is in it.
In view of the specific charges set
forth in an article published in a re-
cent issue of The Sunday Globe
wherein it was pointed out that two
sons Of Captain H. T. Bryan, foreman
of printing, were at the present time,
and had been for months, illegally and
fraudulently carried upon the classi-
fed rolls of the Government Printing
Office, would it not be in order for
the said Civil Service Commission and
the several members thereof, as guar
dams of the political ana public NOR
ais Of this great nation to investigate,
and if the facts are found as stated,
to demand from the Public Printer
their immediate separation from the
service?
Would it not also be in order Mr..
Commissioners, to require him to ex-
plain why it is that a certain indi-
vidual, from the city Of indianapolis,
with particularly unsavory moral SEN
sibilities, as also shown, in a recent is
sue of this paper, is kept in charge Of
the job press room, where dozens Of
respectable and virtuous women and
girls are compelled to associate with
him, and be subject to his orders.
Section of rule V, provide that the
Civil Service Commission may, in their
discretion, refuse to examine an appli-
cant, or certify an eligible who has
been guilty of infamous or VIGOROUSLY
disgraceful conduct, and that it shall
be good cause for the removal Of an
eligible from the service after his ap-
pointment In the name OF all decen-
cy, what can be more notoriously dis
graceful than a man knowingly living
with a wife who keeps a house of pub
lie prostitution? Yet this man has
so lived with his wife for more than a
quarter Of a century. Even when he
was assistant foreman Of the main
press room, under Mr., Palmer's form
er administration of the G. p O., his
wife remained at Indianapolis, and
with his knowledge and consent car
ried on her nefarious business.
Has the Commissioners no power
under the Civil Service laws, or exec
utive orders of the President, to de-
mand that the service shall be freed
from such moral cancers?
If not, then most truly it is a dismal
failure, and shouiu be wiped from the
statute book.
No wonder that the departments are
little better than plague spots" to
public morals.
Mr.. Commissioners, give us a high
er, better type of manhood and you will
have a noble, purer type of woman.
hood in the departmental service.
If anything more were needed than
has been said to show Mr.. Palmer's
total and absolute unfitness for the po.
sition of Public Printer, one would
only have to call at the crossing of
North Capitol and G streets long
enough to give a momentary glance at
the b. & o freight yards and coal
dump which he has allowed to be To-
Gated within a hundred feet of the
main entrance to the new building
without registering a protest against
it.
Can any one doubt that the District
Commissioners would have failed to
object to the location Of these yards
and dump at this point had the Public
Printer protested against it?
Is there another department or bu-
reau in the city that would have suf-
fered such a thing to be done without
objection?
When it is wet, the streets and
walks in front and for squares around
are covered with a thick coating of coal
dust and mud, ground into a paste
through which men and women alike,
must pick their way as best they can,
in going to and coming from their
work. And when the new building is
completed and ready for occupancy,
what will be the ccndiuon of affairs
in the Office during the heated summer
months with all the doors and win
dows open? Each breath of air will
whirl the dust from dumping cars and
| filthy street into the faces ears, eyes
and noses of the luckless employe
of the largest printing Office in the
world, until they will resemble a lot
Of coal beavers more than government
/ clerks.
But what more can be expected Of
one who has neither back bone or NOR.
al courage enough to run his own Of
flee, but retains as foreman of printing
an arrogant, sef-willed, insulting
individual, who seldom, if ever, gives
a civil answer to a subordinate on any
subject, and often uses language when
addressing them that would deserve
and beget a work house sentence, to
any "hobon employing II upon the Dub