| United States. War Department - 1905 - 930 pages
...tirst annual message, in discussing the merit system of making appointments, President Roosevelt said: "It is important to have this system obtain at home,...rigidly in our insular possessions. Not an office should te filled in the Philippines or Porto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services;... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - 1901 - 514 pages
...future we have the following promise, in the splendid sentences of the President's recent message : It is important to have this system obtain at home,...social, or personal influence which he may have at his command ; in short, heed should be paid to absolutely nothing save the man's own character and... | |
| National Civil Service League - 1898 - 576 pages
...message there were other words equally significant and even more specific. President Roosevelt said : It is important to have this system obtain at home,...partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to Ihe political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command ; in short, heed should... | |
| 1899 - 828 pages
...Philippines, has been guided by the principles of action laid down in his first annual message " that not an office should be filled in the Philippines...or Porto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliation or service, with any regard to the political, social or personal influence which he may... | |
| Robert Cornelius V. Meyers - 1902 - 638 pages
...it is, though an imperfect means, yet the best present means of getting satisfactory results. * * * "It is important to have this system obtain at home,...social, or personal influence which he may have at his command; in short, heed should be paid to absolutely nothing save the man's own character and capacity... | |
| 1902 - 644 pages
...employment of clerks should hereafter contain a provision that they be selected under the civil service law. It is important to have this system obtain at home,...have it applied rigidly in our insular possessions... The consular service is now organized under the provisions of a law passed in 1856, which is entirely... | |
| Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...Government, the great gain in economy, efficiency and honesty due to the enforcement of this principle. "Not an office should be filled in the Philippines or Porto Rico with any regard to the man's partizan affiliation or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which... | |
| 1903 - 914 pages
...employment of clerksshould hereafter contain a provision that they be selected under the civil-service law. partizan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence... | |
| United States. President - 1903 - 448 pages
...employment of clerks should hereafter contain a provision that they be selected under the Civil Service Law. It is important to have this system obtain at home,...Not an office should be filled in the Philippines or Puerto Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the... | |
| New York State Library - 1903 - 1286 pages
...employment of clerks should hereafter contain a provision that they be selected under the civil service law. It is important to have this system obtain at home,...have it applied rigidly in our insular possessions. . . The consular service is now organized under the provisions of a law passed in 1856, which is entirely... | |
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