Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-10

''In that same speech 1 referred to a technical bureau known as the coast and geodetic survey, and to the fact that in place of an eminent scientist there had been appointed a man whom I regarded as without proper qualifications.
 Exception also has been taken by the distinguished secretary with re- gard to that man." he continued. Now l am not in position to state of my own knowledge and circumstance with references to the retirement of the eminent scientist who occupied that important place. But if I may assume that he retired voluntarily. my point is not so much the retire ment of the man who went put the character of the man by whom he was succeeded.
 ''I am now told that MT. Jones, who succeeded him, was promoted after being deputy commissioner of fisher 1 ies. But he was appointed to that place, also involving the need of technical skill and training by his ! administration. He went there from | his stock farm and took charge of the bureau.
 Wonderfully Competent" After he had been there a couple of years he was put in charge of the coast and geodetic survey Now the administration says that he is a won derfully Competent man.
 Tn that speech called attention to the manner in which the principle of our civil service laws had been dis regarded and after going over a num- Der of matters which I shall not now undertake to repeat. l referred to the special exemptions by executive order on the operation of the civil service rules that is appointment taken out of the civil service by executive order I stated that in the year ending about April, 1916, there had been removed from tEe operation of the civil serv- ice rules by special executive exemp- tion about 104. That of those I04 twenty were appointed without re- questing the opinion of the civil serv- ice commission. That in twenty two cases, the civil service commission was asked for it's opinion. and ap- proved, and that in sixty two cases, the executive order was made directly in the teeth of the disapproval Of the civil service commission.
 Unfortunately in the published re- ports of those remarks, by running two sentences together, that state ment was made to refer to the cost and geodetic survey. l had just re- ferred to that bureau in connection with the appointment previously de- scribed. I had not intended that this mention would relate to that bureau. And the department very pIoperly ob- jects 60 that construction being put upon it. This was wholly uninten- tional
 Stands Pat
 But stand by the statement which l thought l made, which I now make, that there was in that year, ending about April, 1916, 1O4 of these execu- tive exemptions; that 62 of these were made against the advice of the civil , service commission and 20 of them without requesting the judgment of the commission. My authority for that statement is a very excellent re view of this particular matter by Representative Gillett of Massachu- setts He reviews first, the two years of the present administration there were 137 personal appointments authorized by executive order. which waived the requirements of the civil service In all except eighteen of these 137 the executive requested the judgment of the civil service commis- sion. Forty-one were approved by the commission. Seventy eight were ap-