The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-10

popular VIII IN Inc selection OF can.
didstes by political parties.
Civil Service.
Our state supports many institu-
tions for the care of the insane, the
feeble-minded and the criminal class
cs Several hundred people are EN-
ployed in various capacities in these
Institutions. Their tenure of Office
is now at the mercy of factions and
of parties. The duties of many of
these employees require peculiar taste
education and experience. There is a
very general demand that the tenure
of office of such persons shall be free
from the accidents of factional and
party triumphs. The employees of
the state Ghold be encouraged to ac
quire skill education and experience
in the line of their duties, and they
should be given the assurance that
hey will remain in its employment
while their services are efficient, re-
CARELESS of party vicissitudes.
Civil service laws are no longer
looked upon as experiment.. They
are in successful operation in most
of the European governments and in
many of our states. Our national
civil service law has the approval of
the people throughout the country
Both the great political parties in
this state favored a civil service law
in their lsse platforms, The time
therefore, the discussion has passed;
the time for action has come. and the
people will expect you to carry cas-
their will in this regard.
Practice Act.
call your attention to the report
of the Practice Commission appoint
ed by Governor Tanner by authority
of a joint resolution of the General
Assembly On March IS. 1899. Four
out of five of It's members were
recommended by the supreme court,
fhe appellate court for the First Dis.
tric;, the Illinois State Bar assoeia-
tion and the Chicago Bar association.
They held open sittings in each of the
appellate court di1ricts Of the state,
for suggestions by the bench and by
the bar After being in actual SEES
sion fer fifty lays, they issued a pre-
liminary report and sent copies of 1t
INTO every couEty in Illinois. inviting
drod suggested change. enc hundred
and fifty were adopted and submitted
10 The General Assembly. But three
Of The reforms urged were enacted
into law. The work of the commits
sion has now been before the people
of the state for nearly four years. and
little adverse criticism has been made
upon. i; 1t has been published by
the Illinois Sigte Bar association and
the Chicago Bar association, and each
of these learned bodies has special
committee charged with the duty of
urging tina: you take action thereon at
this session.
There can be no doubt of the press
ing importance of this matter, par
ticularly to Cook county. There the
administration of the law has been
attended with SO much delay as to
amount in many instances to denial
of Justice This is due somewhat to
imperfections in our system of prac'
tice. These should be remedied. To
be respected the administration oil
the law should b. euch that, in the
language of our bill of rights, the eli
zen can obtain right and justice not
only freely. but completely and with
out denial. promptly. and without de-
lay" We need in This state TO cult
vate a higher respect for the law and
its administration. and anything that
tends TO secure that end should re-
ccivc che prompt AMI careful consld-
Grafton of the General Assembly.
While il is impracticable at this
time 10 ,lircuss the merits of the var
ious ac5 proposed by the Practice
Commission. / would direct your spec
ial attention 20 those pertaining TO-
the writ of habcas corpus. In recent
years. frcquert recourse has been
had io this writ as a substitute Tor
other legal methods of procedure, and
often times as a substitute for che
writ of error. resulting. in many in
stances. in The discharge of prison
er on points Of law decided adversely
by another judge in some previous