Civil Service Reform in the National Service, 1889-1891: Six Reports of the Special Investigating Committee of the National Civil Service Reform LeagueGeo. H. Ellis, 1891 - 86 halaman |
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affidavits amount of correspondence applications for office appointments depend asked Assistant Postmaster-General attending to appointments average amount candidates Census Bureau Census of 1870 cent chairman character Civil Service Reform Clarkson commissioner competitive examinations Congressional patronage copy County Dear Sir death-rate Democratic election Examining Corps expired Federal enumeration files following answers Fort Dodge FOULKE four furnished GEORGE W Harrison houses hundred and fifty innu inquiries inspector Kiernan law clerk LE MARS legislative duties Long Island City March March 19 members of Congress ment Merrill Moores Murphysboro names NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE number of applications partisan Patent Office patronage system persons petition population position Post-office Department present administration present census President Railway Mail Service received regard removed Republican members Republican party resignation respectfully result Second ward Secretary Senate sent SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE SPECIAL COMMITTEE spoils system statement successor Superintendent supervisors thousand tion Wanamaker WASHINGTON WAYNE MACVEAGH
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Halaman 46 - Republican administration, should be completed by the further extension of the reform system already established by law— to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable.
Halaman 53 - ... division of his district into subdivisions most convenient for the purpose of enumeration; to designate to the Superintendent of Census suitable persons, and, with the consent of said Superintendent, to employ such persons as enumerators within his district, one for each subdivision, and resident therein, who shall be selected solely with reference to fitness, and without reference to their political party affiliations...
Halaman 7 - ... should also shield them from being arrested from their legislative work, morning, noon, and night, by office-seekers. To sum up in a word : the present system invades the independence of the executive, and makes him less responsible for the character of his appointments ; it impairs the efficiency of the legislator by diverting him from his proper sphere of duty and involving him in the intrigues of aspirants for office ; it degrades the civil service itself by destroying the personal independence...
Halaman 65 - In 1870 the population was stated as 38,558,371. According to these figures the absolute increase in the decade between 1870 and 1880 was 11,597,412, and the percentage of increase was 30.08.
Halaman 58 - ... post office address of every voter on the list. After you have done so, I wish you to send the book to me at Canandaigua. I ask you to do this as a personal favor, and to make no mention of the matter to anyone. What I want is a full list of all the voters in your enumeration district. Will you please treat this matter as strictly confidential ? " Very truly yours, [Signed] J. RAINES.
Halaman 48 - ... whole battle against the Garfield bill had been fought on the question of patronage. It was for the avowed purpose of retaining this large body of more or less lucrative appointments in the hands of the dominant party that the United States marshals rallied in Washington, during the winter of 1869-70, to defeat the House measure. They wanted to use these thousands of offices as a means of strengthening their hands in their respective districts, to fight the Kuklux and the illicit distillers;...
Halaman 47 - IV. The census ought to be as free from partisan color as the Judiciary. Otherwise, no one can rely upon the accuracy of its conclusions. To gain the confidence of the people, it ought to be not merely fair and just, but free from even the appearance of corrupt or partisan influence. If the government has a free choice between a non-political and a political agency for taking this enumeration, and chooses the latter, composed of officials of its own political faith, the presumption is against the...
Halaman 47 - And even if it were fair, many would not believe it to be fair. Suspicion is cast on such a census in advance of enumeration ; and if, at the close of the work, inaccuracies are shown, resulting in some cases in advantage to the party by which it is taken, the work is sure to be discredited.
Halaman 7 - One third of the working hours of Senators and Representatives is hardly sufficient to meet the demands made upon them in reference to appointments to office.
Halaman 59 - Act, or shall, without the authority of the Director of the Census, communicate to any person, not authorized to receive the same, any information gained by him in the performance of his duties, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...