Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-01-25
to say that his whisky and his pack
Of cards were conhscated.
A TO Senate Leadership.

Of cards were con1scated.
AZ to Senate Leadership.
The United States senate when It
comes together for the first session of
the Sixty second congress viii be only
in part recognizable to the people who
sit IN the galleries. In fact, ii Will
be In large measure a new senate.
There seems to be an impression in
the country that the senate changes
with slow pace. and yet So senators
who were in office less than five years
ago will not answer to their names in
the chamber when the first roll call is
heard after March t. In the last
two years there nave been "a changes
! in the senate
The Republicans already are dis
cussing the question of who is to sue
coed Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of
Rhode Island in the leadership OF the
senate when he retires from Office in
March. Senator Hale of Maine. who
ranks next to Mr.. Aldrich. also will
leave the senate.
The next Republican IN point OF
long service is Frye, also of Maine.
but Mr.. Frye is an old man, and
while apparently still vigorous, it is
known that he does not feel strong
enough to undertake the labors OF
leadership.
CuIIom Wouldn't Undertake II.
Next to Frye comes Cullom Of ILL
nois, who has been many years in the
| service of the upper house; but Sena-
tor Cullom, while still strong, also
is an old man and there is no likeli-
hood that he will be willing to shout
der the burdens of leadership, for the
director of the party cOunsels not
only has work to do, but he has all
kinds of troubles due to the racking
factional difficulties which frequently
beset the majority which happens to
be in control.
The old guard of the senate has
in part been mustered out of service.
Ultra-conseryatism in the Republican
party is losing its senate grip. 1t is
probable that when the next senate
meets there still will be more so-called
conservatives than progressives on
the Republican side of the chamber,
but the leadership and the spirit of
the ancient conservatism will be gone
and it seems likely that the leader
ship will be given to a man who has
occupied a middle ground between
the two factions and who is acceE liable
| personally to both.
Postal Service and Politics.
President Taft is trying to remove
/ the postoffice department bodily from
the field of politics. The Democrats
| say that President Taft in his civil
| service ideas is much like Grover
Cleveland. There is some resentment
among both Republican and Demo
cratic members of congress because
of the seeming set intention of Mr.
/ Taft eventually to secure con-
! gressional authorization for the plac
ing of all presidential postofices I'm
! der the governance of the civil serv-
/ ice.
| 1t was just a year ago that Wash
ington heard that before long civil
service order would be issued which
would bring establishment and per
haps chagrin to the politicians of both
parties. In the summer an order was
! issued. which became effective about
a month ago, putting the positions OK
assistant postmasters in all the first
/ and second-class offices of the country
under the classified competitive sery-
/ ice The order also included all cler-
4 ical positions in first and second-class
/ offices which had not been classified
/ up to that time. Now virtually all
| the positions in offices of the first
and second class, except those of posi-
! masters, are under the rules of the
civil service.
Little Left for Job-Hunters.
/ Today all that there is left for the
I politicians friends who are looking
for jobs in the postof1ce department
are the postmasterships of the pres
! idential class 1t is Mr. Taft's ex-
! pressed intention to remove these
offices from the field of political in
/ fiuence if he can do it.
Even the presidential postmasters
| in a sense now are under the protection
/ of the spirit of the civil service. The
! department chiefs refuse to remove
postmasters when their time expires
provided they have done cre0itable
| service for the government. If
member of congress wants a removal
made and favorite appointed. he is
called upon to prove that the in
1 cumbent has been incompetent. The
department keeps record of the
work OF each postmaster and if the
member of congress succeeds in find
ing some reason why a man should
be displaced, it is generally some rea-
son which the investigation OF the
department have failed to disclose.
The extent to which the civil service
spirit governs in appointments of
/ presidential postmasters may be
known when it is said that last year
2.57S presidential postmasters were
| commissioned and more than three
fourths of them were reappointments.
Miraculous!
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