Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-27

and has created deep interest. Senator
| Penrose and the entire republican organizA-
| tion Of Pennsylvania stood sold Y back OF
Leib
1t is presumed that Senator Penrose and
| the organization viii put forward a man to
| fill the vacancy. but the Indications are
| that whoever is named by Senator Knox
or Is agreeable to him will receive the ap-
pointment.
The Presidents Letter.
The letter of the President is as follows:
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, November 27 1905
Sir: | have carefully cons dered tie pa
pers in your case and the statements made
by you in your own behalf and by Mr.
Cooley On behalf of the civil service com
mission. 1t appears to me very clear that
there has been a constant and consistent
effort on your part to evade the provisions
of the civil s"vica law to hamper its
workings a. far as possible and to OBJ
struct in ever yway the action of the com
mission. | expect, on the one hand that
the commission shall endeavor not to ham
per, but to aid the other public servants OF
the government in doing their work sue
cessfuliy: atd, on the other hand l expect
in return that the other public servants
Shall cooperate with the commiss on and
aid them in their efforts to carry out the
| civil service law
In your case it seems 10 0e clearly es-
tabllshed that you have sought continually
| to take advantage of every kind of techni-
| cality in order to avoid carrying out the
| law in good faith. BY taking advantage OF
| those technicalities you have kept upon th,,
| roll in almost continuous positions certain of
| your own relatives and at least one person
whose appointment was evidently pressed
merely for political reasons instead OF
making all proper effort to carry out the
| law az 1t applies to appointments within
| the classifled service. 1t clearly appears
| that in one examination held upon informa-
| ton furnished by your office there was such
| clear evidence of fraud that it had to be
| canceled- The evidence as to the fraud
| ulent character of the examination impll-
| Gated your sister, two persons from your
own town, and one person who was at that
| time serving in your Office under temporary
| appointment and who was subsequently
| dismissed from the service for swearing
! falsely
Secretary Shaw's Letter.
| At the time of the canceling of this ex-
animation. you We're addressed by the Sec
retary of the Treasury in letter running
as follows:
'Sir-The department has given careful
consideration to your letter of the 9th ul-
timO, answering the complaint of the civil
| service commission of January j. 1905, rela-
| tive to alleged Irregularities in an eXanlna-
| ton held for your office on August H. 1904
! a copy of which complaint sent you
from this office on the 9TH ultimO
! The civil service commission Cancelled
| this examination for serious irregularities,
and this department believes this action to
| have been fully justified by the facts dis
closed in the testimony taken during its in
| CpStip9fiOrl From tac mi md
| own statement the department NSs reached
| the conclusion that your sister Miss Esther
| 3 Leib, not eligible to take the eX-
animation because she had not had three
| years experience in duties similar to those
| pertaining to the position TO be filed, under
a reasonable construction of the regulations
! governing examinations for the subtreasury
| service. From your sisters own statement
| her claim to have had the experience re-
| quired cannot be allowed The department
| cannot but feel that personal coaching OF
| Miss Leib by you for this examination was
| an act of impropriety on your part, in view
| of your official position and of Miss Leib
| relationship TO you.
| The department is also of the opinion
| that your giving to Miss Lille H. Wagner,
| a temporary clerk in your office and an ap-
| plicant for the examination about to take
place, and known by you to be Such, the
| keys or answers to the note and coln-count-
| ing tests in the form of pencil memoranda
| to be copied by her. was grossly improper
| and cannot be too severely censured Such
an incident. known TO your subordinate
force could not fail to be prejudiclal 10
| good feeling and good discipline in your
| office and could net fail to impair the con-
| fdence of your subordinates in the fair and
| equitable determination by you of questions
| relating to the personnel.
| Altogether your conduct IN reference 70
| this examination is very unsatisfactory 10
! the department, and the department Is CIV
| ing YOU the benefit of every doubtful con-
| sideration in the case in not bringing the
| matter to the attention of the President for
| his consideration and action. Respectfully,
| Il. NJ. SHAW,
| Secretary.
| If the case had at that time been cameo
| to NV attention my belief is that l would
| have then requested your resignation. Most
| certainly after receiving such a letter, 10
! which you failed in any way TO make any
| answer clearing yourself or fraversing the
| faos alleged by the Secretary. IL was your
! duty so TO conduit your office that no pos
| sihle criticism could come upon you. IN
| stead of so conducting it you have contln-
! ned exactly the methods that previously op-
| tanned: your sister, for instance, having
| been again temporarily appointed last Au-
/ gust as money counter, and notwithstand-
| ing the fact that this is permanent posi-
| ton and that there We're two eligibies on
| the register when you were notified that the
| appointment must be made from those ell
| gibleS, you in some manner secured their
! declinations and thereupon, on September
| 81 again temporarily appointed your sister:
| and she is in office at this time, SO far as
the records of the civil service commission
| show.
| in wrongdoing on your part 1t seems to me
| tbara iS M alternative bilt n renloye