Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-02-06
PRESIDENT WILSON HINTS THAT
ne Will PROTECT THE CIVIL
SERVICE SYSTEM.
VeT0ES FOR ATTACKS ON IT
T'0oaoiy Sorry That He Yielded in
one instance-Rider on Postofice
Appropriation Bill Has Been
Thrown Out.
BY GEORGE CLINTON

more tnan occasionally is limiting that
Vetoes viii await appropriation bills
or any other kind of bills which con-
tain what can be construed as attacks
on the civil service system. Is it
100 Olunt or too hard a thing to say
mat the president may feel that to-
DAY ne Is paying the penalty OF yield
ing In one instance thereby Civ
ing the clamorers after place their
chance to try to make him yield
again?
Inc house committee on post Offices
and post roads has for it's chairman
representative John A. Moon OF Ten
nessee. Mr.. Moon was IN favor Of
keeping in the post office appropria-
ton bill the provision which exempt
ed assistant postmasters from the OPP
erations of the civil service. Now IL
Is fair to say that when the Repub-
leans were ia power a great many
or them were in favor Of extending
the patronage lists to the depletion
of the civil service lists and so per-
maps it Is only natural that now the
Democrats are in power they should
feel the same way. The rider which
was put on the post office appropria-
ton bill and intended to exempt as
sistant postmasters from the civil
service rules unQuestionably was in
tended simply to give 2,400 more
places to the politicians to fill with
men friendly to the present political
order of things in Washington.
AS had been expected the rider met
with the objection that II was out OF
order, and was struck out, so Mr.. VIII
son will not have to interpose the
veto or give a reluctant sanction to an
appropriation bill which contains a
clause inimical az he believes, to the
civil service.
He Yielded a Little Once.
The president has conferred fire.
Iuently with the Democrats OF the
house, urging them for the sake of
party. and probably for his own sake,
to check the disposition OF some OF
the majority members to attack the
civil service through appropriation
and other measures. Through the
years Mr.. Wilson has declared himself
on many occasions civil service re-
former, one devoted to the spirit as
to the letter of the law, and yet not
long ago he yielded little with ap'
parently great reluctance. 1t seems
bad enough for the president to have
some of the old time civil service sup
porters writing articles on Broken
Pledges" and other subjects intended
by them to show that their former
idol. the president. wobbles little.
1t is probably true that Mr.. Wilson
fully believed when he signed a for
mer bill making exemptions to the
civil service law, that a veto would
have done injury TO the public serv-
ice by delaying work for which the
main part of the bill made provision
In other words, he thought that while
the civil service attack was UNJUST
fable, he must sign in order to con
serve the countrys best interests.
There has been sharp criticism OF
some of the administration appoint.
ments to foreign offices. II is said
some of the congressman. cheered by
their success In breaking down some
of the civil service bulwarks, are
turning their eyes TO the heights
whore the consular service has been
reposlng In supposed security. The
civil service law does not cover the
eonsuIs and consular agents of the
government. but the efforts of two
administration to protect them with
the shirt of the law thus far have
hePu successful.
Consular Service In Peril.
u the Democrats want to get after
she consular service. it will not be
necessary for them to pass a law to
make their work legal In the case OF
tte most Offices they ara compelled 70
farielate and to meet the opposition
IN tha neld OF debate, thereby at
tracting full public attention TO their
aseds. The consuls and consular
agents can be removed one by one
o,,ietIy provided the state department
and the administration shall give
consent.
some at the Republicans are eharg
inc that In many OF the diplomatic ap
nointments of the present administers
ton there hSs been enough to show
th.t the state department is willing to
nav noIitical debts by giving jobs 70
chs faithful. II is not believed. how
svar IN Washington that Presiden;
wilson will allow the bars which
Guard the consular service TO be
Fn~ougu down. The service today Is
On good basis and every man in II
hos heen given TO believe that his
ioh il safe. Some friends of Mr.. VII
s,r are telling him that eventually nc
,,s,.s lob will ia safe II the Demo
erats nut any more anti-civil service
.sdsys on the appropriation bills.
aimed at the Pork Barrel.
,rhere is just as much OF demand
"a. year In both houses OF congress
- nubllc buildings bin, ordinarii,
800, az ne pork barrel btu. as there
"a. IA the years that are passed
n has looked many times as IL pub
lie buildings measures except In shso
,,,,slv necessary cases. were doomed