The sun., 1905-09-10
FEDERAL JOBS GO BEGGING.


OFFI(ES SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
CORN GET IF THEY TRIED.
C.use. Of Their Failure 70 Participate In
Chll Service Con,petitlens-One SEQ.
t,on Of the Country Hhese Thefe
Is shortage ef Omce Seeksrs.
WASHINGTON. Sept. s.-The discovery
made through the personal Investigation OF
commissioner Greene Of the United States
ciril Service Commission that Democrats
,sa class refrain from participating In the
,vil service examinations In the South
ssrves to explain In q measure point which
has puzzled the commission for q long time,
namel,, the difficulty In maintaining regis
,ars of Southern eligihlee sufneiently large
N enable the Southern States TO receive
their proper quota In Federal appoint
ments
This information was obtained by Com
missioner Greene while In Kentucky, North
Carolina and Tennessee on ofnClAl bidnoas.
Commissioner Greene lost no time In
making public the results Of bis investiga-
tion, and now the Civil Service Commission
Is doing all in it's power to rectify this oon-
diton OF affairs.
Various causes are assigned for the reluo-
tsnce Of Southern Democrats 10 enter the
lists for Federal plums. Mr.. Greene OBJ
tanned the impression that the main cause
was the prevalence Of . fesling that. despite
academic assurances to the contrary, the
spoih still belong TO the victou, and that,
therefore, a Democrat, however good .
showing he might make In q competitive
examination, stands but little show Of ap-
pointment. To correct this impression Mr..
Greene has used the columns OF several
newspapers of tho North TO call renewed
attention to the non-partlzan oharebtef
Of appointments made under the Civil
Service act and to cite the fact that the only
reason why Republicans arc in 20 large
majority in the minor Federal offlccs Of
the South is that Democratic have stead
thereby leaving the commission. . List com
posed entirely OF Republicans from which
to make the Federal selections.
without general participation Of The
public Of all classes and par ties tn the COM
pethve examinations held for filing posi-
uSos n ths css:sdh a. seTyse ntsn; sPs tss Sf% T
- cannot 81 Xfyied out. II. hoNsssr.
therS IA that general participation N tne
Southern States which prevails tn the Nortn-
en- Gkatss, the Civil Service Commissioa
are are made % II the classified servics Without r.
gard 10 the politics Of eligiblcs.'
The civil service rules positively prohibit
embodying In any examination paper
any statements OF recommend dations when
will disclose the politics o. the applicant
on pain Of having the exsrninatl1n csnoeiea:
The pspers are forwarded to Warrington
and graded by non-partixan board Of OK
aminerG who have no means OF ascertaining
the politics Of those whose papers they are
marking.
From these papers registers arc made up
Ipr the various States, and from these
7 ssster names are certified TO the several
eIartments in the order Of the grade OBJ
aimed. II when q selection Is made for
Southern State the successful competitor
J 10 nearly every instance Republican,
It does not mean partisanship on the part OF
any one, but that only. Republicans have be-
come eligible for appointment.
pstitors from Southern States i. lower than
that OF the Northern States. The Demo-
Gntic party, being tho dominant party,
Of course comprises the better intelligence
Is whole Of the community. 1t is there
fore evident that II the Democrats - class
ment the standard Of eligiblss would be
raised and more Democrats than Rspub-
loans would be appointed, because there are
more Democrats than Republicans In the
South who have the required quaue
The arrears Of the Southern States are
partly due to the large number q CALI that
and for filing positions requiring technical
Qualifications. The Northern States fur-
Nah much larger proportion OF eltgtbleA
having technical Qualifications. With .
view OF bringing up the quota Of The South
en States, examinations were held through
out out the South on May and last for clerks
were examined, Of whom lcs took tho book
keeping examination. OF the 800 examined,
IN we're women, twelve Of whom were ex-
amined for bookkeepers.
The result Of the examinations Is enoour-
esMy. Is 1t adds s42 TO the eligible rsgbtar
!or bookkeepeS. Az cais are. received
{of Mlns vacancies from tho clerk or book
Eseper register In any d the departments
slgibles from the SouthaFn States viii Be
mt certified, 1t being the rule to oerttfy the
sSss os sm ;t:nsas Ss . ahss 4s e &: s Ss.
~ the least share Of appointmente.
4 this time Ia Louisiana. Il Win take twenty
nue appointments from Louisiana to bring
n9p INTO the list OF Northern States IN the
ordef Of apportionment. Unless Q Special
suoft had been made to induce applicants
rom Louisiana TO come forward and take
tne examination 1t would have run further
maats.
.,Ait is, eight mon and i've women passed
"a. - examination for clerk, and ono woman
esed for bookkseper. II will bo OBJ
s0ved, however, that this does not provide
noily enough elgibles 10 give Louisiana
''r que share Of appointments.
me State next In turn for appointments
is.si Louisiana Is Alabama. This State
ll ce entitled to thirty five appointmsnts
10 bring it up to the shars which Illinois
~ has The May examinations provided
sMe men and six women eigiblee for
: An Sn..a, n, but this Ii not nearly enough to
Following Alabama comes Mississippi.
R@s State Is entitled TO have tWenty-three
antnents to bring II abreast With
,otA. 1t Furnished only seven men
~ hree women for the clsrk register
4 Sc man for the bookkssper register.
ong the remaining 6outhsrn Stat -
order in which they aye entitled 70
appointments, they are Arkansas,
Georgia Kentucky, Tsnnessae,
,fsNn South Carolina and North Caro-
These States are each entitled to
nlteen TO twenty appOintms0ts 70
a. NJ their quotas and npsle 9tsnoEraph.
SsM have an especially good ch6nOe Of
xDDnint - n