Arizona republican., 1916-08-10
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 ASKED T0 QUIT.
Republican A. p. Leased WIreJ


 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug a. Charles E. Hughes, replying to Sec retary Redfield's telegram denying that E. Dana Durand was forced out of office as director of the census, today read to a large audience here d letter from MT. Durand in which MT. DuIand said that he had told Red- field he would resign but wanted to remain and that Redfield replied that the administration had decided on change.
 In his speech here. MT. Hughes said in part:
 Tn my speech at Detroit I took oc- casion to refer to the fact that fin q very important bureau. the bureau ot census, an eminent statistician, man of conspicuous expertness and fitness for the place, had been retired. and q man had been appointed in his place without qualifications for that inn portant technical work. You must know how important that census bu- reau is. In the proper collation. of those statistics is furnished the op- portunity for many investigators to dtect important tendencies in our life It is work thot must be done ex rertly.
 Now. my statement that E. Dana Durand was relieved, as I said. in effect. and his place given to a poli- tician has been challenged by Sefre- tarv Redfield. Secretary Redfieid telegraphs me that I was greatly mis- . informed He says 'Durand was not , removed or retired, but resigned vol untaTily unasked. l was glad to en- dorse him for present employment "E Dana Durand happens to be q professor in the University of Min nesota and I am going to read the letter which he has written me today ! in respect to this matter He says; 'Inasmuch as the truth of your statement with regard to the change in the directorship of the census have been challenged. I think it is only fair ! to you that I should make this state meDt My resignation as director was ! distinctly a forced resignation. Al 1 the first conversation I had with Sec ] retarv Redfield I told him that [ would resign. but that I hoped I i would he permitted to remain. He at once told me that the administration wanted to make a change. l believe. to create a vacancy were his words. The next that I heard of 1T was an announcement in the press that my once wrote out my resignation
 In that same speech I referred to a technical bureau known as the coast and geodetic survey and to the fact that in place of an eminent i scientist there has been appointed q man whom I regarded as without proper qualifications.
 Exception also has been taken bN- the distinguished secretary with re- gard to that man. the nominee con tinued. Now I am not in a position to state of my own Knowledge and circumstances with reference to the retirement of the eminent scientist who occupied that important place But if may assume tfat he retired voluntarily. my point is not so much the retirement of a man who went hut the character nf the man by whom he was succeeded.
 He went there from his stool farm and took charge.
 . After he had been there a couple
 of years he was nut in charge of th' coast and geodetic survev. Nov th'
 administration says that he is a won derfully competant man.
 , Tn that speech I called attention : .o the manner in which the rivIi ser 2 vice laws were disregarded stated : that in the year ending about April
 1916 there had been removed iron
 the operation of the civil service rnle
 bv snecial legislation about 104 Tha
 of these 10i twenty were appointed
 without requesting the opinion Of tn
 civil service commiss.on. That i
 twenty-two cases the civil servic
 commission was asked for it's opinior
 and approved. and that in sixty-tw
 eases the executive order was mad
 directly in the teeth If the disap
 proval of the civil service commiS
 sion
 But I stand hv the stater1en
 which I thcnght I made which I nol
 make, that there was in that yea
 ending about April 1916. 104 of thes ! executive exemptions: tfat sixty-tw of these were made against the advio of the civil service commission. an T, , twenty of them without reauestin u the judgment of the commission. Nj . authority for that statement is yer |. excellent review of this rarticula .l matter by Representative Gillette ( a Massachusetts. He reviews first tt two years precedin~ and it is thei e that in the first two years of .t
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