The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-05-12
Smuggling in Army and Navy
Circles in the Island Pos.
sessions Of America.



for the rapid travel of his special learned that
things had been happening the capital and elsewhere which have
significance his administration He learned for the first time full
details of the court decision the Northern Securities suit
and of the that very important by his Attorney
General all of which will possibly affect his political prospects
than single since he entered the White House He also
learned unpleasant things about his and navy officers
Porto Rico and the Philippines who have been smuggling silks wines
liquors and egars and been not only trapped BY the wary
ecutions with being put from
The President heard the details of political
between Senator Plat Governor Od and which threatens
disrupt the organization that the President will lose his state
next year to the Democrats
All Of these matters how rapidly the world forward
reres to inaccessible places the procession of important
events him BY However, the President had been in Wash
of affairs question: people do not begrue
him his splendid outing.
OFFICIAL SMUGGLING
Smuggling Wines liquors. cigars much
have such cases to- deal i snty h for five @ the ha
authorities of the have ated extensively about the
did lessons in honest which teaching to the natives
ideals although
reaching reforms have been naugurated by Americans
government
in such embarrassment by violating the laws which they
Special emphasis has been given the because the
Porto Rico from which the Porto Rcan happen
unfair when they themselves prosecuted severely for like
double duty trying smugg
goods for private consumption whereas those bringing goods with
Porto Rcan is not Calculated to such fine points The
in Porto Rico where grand jury went forward and
prosecution have added significance because they will undoubtedly
of silks and other yaabes at Manila BY army Officer,
had well under before the War Department kow
v have already been rendered The Democratic will
find those matters luscious for discussion the hustngs
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Since President plunged wlds of Yellowstone
Park there has also been important advance in the administration
the law although naug1rated with his full
by Congress about twenty years is now in force with
who doing anything like clerical labor under classified service a'
beyond the reach of political influence This applies large of
but of the cities of the wherever the has
offices for postal customs, revenue, or legal business
Theoretically this has been the for several since
different Presidents extended the classified service various bureaus
which the politicians the dominant party only guarded
great but used diligently for the smuggling of constituents
good places The appointments of unked borers
because could be found them to skilled aborers
~out great dfcy The hundreds of Presidential postoee o
offices where pomasers appointed by the Presidency were also
the classified service and the last three four hundreds
upon hundreds OF clerks have into the service by that
the President not disposed to hold to the letter OF the
President Roosevelt however, is enthusiastic believer the
civil service designed prevent the removal of clerks without
ALL
he has been in full sympathy with the efforts perfect the
have been concealed far practicable code promulgated
recently by the commission and wordd in exhaustive phrases that
The law Offices of the however fully of the
significance OF the code 1t makes the Civil Service Commission
supreme in determining the of the clerical force
of the the heads of department officers That
remarkable state made possible because the
when the salary of clerk shall be off, and
the Comptroller of the Currency officer who
lo expenditure under the law, interfere.
The order of things will make the politicians howl especially
considerable class of them who openly and
onc the civil service However it is almost result
benefits The years
that Mr. Roosevelt is elected President 1904 to the
golden of civil service