The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1905-10-27
PRESIDENT hAKES(HAh(ES
r. Civil Service Rules TO dis
charge Employees.
ROOSEyELT VISITS SOUTH.
Panama Canal Commission Re-
port is Ready.

port is keaoy.
WEEKLY LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
The most important event Of the
week from a local and even national
mint Of view has been the order by
| me President changing the civil
service rules and making It possible
for tile heads Of departments to dis
chuslsa Government employe pre-
.wp,o,ily and dnally,-. provided the
ueaic!sncy OF such employee shall
come under the personal Knowledge
10, the head Of the department. Here.
u.ose ii has been necessary when u
sure.!or otlicer desired to. discharge
sn incompetent employee, to give
|h.m due notice, with a written state-
uent uf the cause OF his discharge,
|snd also 40 opportunity To reply and
protest against the discharge. The
order otithe President. lt.wili be seen
ha. a tendency to placelthe Govern
|ment departments upon q business
|llke basis giving the manager or
"boss" II you please, the right to dis
charge precmptorily those whom he
|Ae knows to be inetiicient. No busi-
ness house or organization can work
Economically without such ;power and
there is no reason why the greatest
b, all business houses or corporations
should Dc embarrassed by an inability
to set rid Of idlers and shirks. There
a.e over twenty Thousand Govern
ncnt employees In Washington and
! may be said that nearly the entire
city IA dependent directly or Indirect.
y 90 the Government, and this order
pas produced uneasiness. not to say
ronaternation In many households.
The President has left the city for
A's aoathern tour, to all appearances
he greatest and most significant
pip, ia a political sense. that he has
evet undertaken. He is, slated to
make addresses at many important
points In the South and it Is expect.
ID iaat he will have something to
'ay. A distinguished publicIst has
Eald that Theodore Roosevelt is not a
pan who wears his heart on his
'eeve, bat that hc wears his mind
here and that there is no possible
funcealment OF what he thinks on
Hny subject. This is literally true
pod is we'll known by certain news
paper correspondents to whom he Il
AccesslOle, and with one of whom hi
pas an appointment every day while
Y Washington. This correspondent
'a"eyer, finds it impossible to inter
lew him satisfactorily, because ths
resident occupies the thirty minutes
[alklng necessarily about things in
efest'ng to him and not permitting
ne correspondent to get In ques-
Ion edgewise. President Roosevelt
vii doubtless at Richmond, Raleigh
Atlanta, jacksonville, Mobile, Tuske
zee, Montgomery, Birmingham, Lit
Ne Rock, and New Orleans, tell th'
people what he thinks and what b
*auts about railway rate legislation
'ae tariff the Navy the Panama Ca
W. the population OF the Unitet
'Ntes and several other subjects. "
lad scarcely left Washington be:or
ece'ving notice Of the sudden deatl
the brother OF the Governor o
North Carolina, which will intefer
WITH the social program arranged a
Raleigh.
The members Of the last Panam
'lal Commission have returned ant
We expecting to have report read
'0f the President soon after. his re
'u'a from his southern trip. The
'nnot be induced to express a
p'nion as to whether a lock or a sea
e'el canal will be recommended
'aey claim, however, TO have made
e'y minute inspection Of the Cana
Uute, and find IL free from yello'
Fe'er, there being not case In Colo
Panama and only one case on th
''hmus. They speak in cncourag
w terms both OF the sanitation Z
Oe country adjacent to the cans
uute aud Of the amount Of wor
aat Is being CARRIED on bothip dig