Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1883 — CIVIL SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

CIVIL SERVICE.

Commissioner Gregory Enthusiastic. [Washington dispatch.] The Civil Service Commissioners have resumed their work in Washington Dr. Gregory says that the different Commissioners have been very successful in organizing boards of examiners in all the cities They have called upon Postmasters and Customs Collectors to designate for the work clerks of sufficient education and of known probity, and they have been successful in securing persons not only qualified for these places, but who are enthunastio in the work. Mr. Gregory says that, as a matter of fact, the postolfices in large cities are conducted in great measure on divll-servioe principles now. The Postmasters, for the most part, receive appropriations for carrying on their offices in bulk sums, and are rea aired to employ the best men they can at le lowest prices. Dr. Gregory finds that the persons engaged in the poetofflees and postal-service are required to de more laboiious and exacting work than those of any other department of the public service, and receive less compensation. He consider! their pay inadequate to the services rendered. The system of checks upon mistakes in the postofflee service he considers as excelleift and says that the country generally very little appreciates the efficiency end value es this branch of the service. The readiness with which the officials in the leading cities everywhere co-operated with the commission was very gratifying, and indicates, Dr. Gregory thinks, the certain suocesrfof the civil-service system.