Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-17
Country Cut Up Into Thir'
teen Districts.
Will Facilitate the Work of Ex-
aiming Candidates.
Fewer Examiners Will Be Required,
and a Smaller Staff Can Handle the
Business in Washington-Detail of
the Changes Recently Made.

Washington June tG.-Thr purpose
for which civil Service Commissioner
Cooley mad. his recent trip to the Pa
Cifie coast ana back has now been sub
stantially accomplished. and the whole
United States is cut up int" thirteen
districts, to- Facilitate the work OF cX-
aiming cindidutcS ana certifying Gle
gibles to the local Federal offices
;rrinkIed over the country, az well as
aid in various ways the operation OF
le commission in Washington. The
Fed OF this sort of division VIII be
pprcciatcd when ii is remembered
at the most common complaint urged
;ainst the existing civil service sys-
by appointing officers. NOR" par
ulariv in places rrmot" from head
trtcrH here. is tn" length "f time 1t
cs t. get 4 now clerk or lctt"r-car-
after the N.lcthcy has occurred.
necessity nf u somewhat elaborate
dependence with Washington. in
ing the forwarding Of tn" particu-
icoucerniIS the person selected ana
return of the commissions APP
FL. often involves the waste OF
o where the new man is - be en-
N pd is situated in Washington state
i Oregon. california or Hawaii. 1t
logo became apparent that some
tn would have to be done to cut
dothiS red tape.
Their trouble that needed mcnding
vac labor and confusion inevitably
reNg from an attempt To- keep III
t"uat headquarters herr. VITA about
l.'ral civil service boards scattered
thrl the many postal and revenue
oin The mere detail of corrcSpon-
dtnonSum"d great deal of clerical
tllnld energy at headquarters. But
CorhndeuCc was only part at the
proIion. From time to tim" tn"
consioH had to- visit and inspect
The raj boards to see how they were
gett on with their work. whether
thercrc any complaints of faVnrli-
ism ther faults against them. how
metEal they were in keeping II"
reco with what sort Of an at
mosle they were surrounded. etc.
SuctSpectionS not infrcquently un-
eartlabusCS which ought not to eX-
Isl. where no downright CorrlIp-
ton charged and the offender was
"hoi nConsCiouS Of doing anything
"fohF"r example, the overhaulinG
Oh ri in Il thrifty New England
'own2overed a secretary-the chief
eNecu officer % the Sroup-who
fdhidccllred that he had been in
oi'Icc, years, and that no Demo-
Gratis Id have any share i'm the adj
hilnlSton of this Government as
n long &c could keep them OUT. Of
'ourSoc commission promptly let
some light in upon his official I'M
Il uefStaiC, but ther" was no way of
'eiiinsw much damage he had al
ready e before lie made this vain
IA siorioHrtisan boast. The fact was.
Ia while big centres like New York
IA ana Phelphia and Boston could be
hispeclat fairly frequent intervals,
IA some o. smaller ones got a satisfac-
Tory vbnly once in series of years.
ana tkommssion could no more
.nan g at what it's boards were do
Ing the
Htill Their defect Of the old central
nAed SIN lay In the difficulty of get
ing Tight men to act as secretaries
VI Inc Boards. On the boards in a
's citke the half-dozen IN New
II .ork' eswas not much to complain
H VI Tor work was so incessant that
'"eSe . though only detailed by the