Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1908 — Crumpacker for Civil Service. [ARTICLE]

Crumpacker for Civil Service.

Representative Crumpacker has refused to make any more recommendations for fourth-class postoffice appointments. Pending the taking effect of. the new executive order placing fourth-class postmasters under civil service, the congressmen axe being called upon, as usual, to name the appointees. Crumpacker received notice from the postoffice department a that the postmaster at New Chicago and requeslng him to suggest a successor. He returned the papers to the department with this Indorsement: “I suggest you refer this matter to the civil service commission." In discussing the matter Mr. Crumpacker said: "The postoffice at New Chicago pays about |7 a year, and I Imagine there will be a fierce rush to take a competitive examination for it’’— Valparaiso Messenger.