Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. [ARTICLE]

THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.

The special committee of the Senate which investigated the workings of the civil service law, presented a report Wednesday. It is very lengthy, and reports numerous gross violations of the civil service law; that there have been wholesale removals for partisan reasons; that. the Government employes in numbers attend and take part in conventions and primaries in defiance and violation of law; that they are expected and directly required to contribute to campaign funds and are encouraged in such acts by the President and his cabinet. The report recommends that the present Legislators examine the law and see if the Presi • dent has not violated it by his alleged contributions to the campaign fund. The reports find that the most flagrant violations of the law have occured in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Indianapolis, that sjpandals arising therefrom have been very great, and in no way punished by the administration.