Proceedings at the annual meeting of the national civil service reform, Issues 9-181889 |
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... American institutions demand its recharter and permanence . Or we must try to figure Republican Senators and Representatives of the last generation arguing the justice and humanity of the Fugitive Slave Law , and the Republican press ...
... American institutions demand its recharter and permanence . Or we must try to figure Republican Senators and Representatives of the last generation arguing the justice and humanity of the Fugitive Slave Law , and the Republican press ...
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... American government ? Was he so poor a creature as to derange the business convenience of the metropolis of the ... Americans are not the scoun- drels that the common spoils theory assumes . What Mr. Pear- son was , in honesty and ...
... American government ? Was he so poor a creature as to derange the business convenience of the metropolis of the ... Americans are not the scoun- drels that the common spoils theory assumes . What Mr. Pear- son was , in honesty and ...
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... American institutions . 8. The League warmly approves the appeal to the clergy of the United States to commend to the people the moral aspect of the question of reform . The promotion of public honesty , and the stay of increasing ...
... American institutions . 8. The League warmly approves the appeal to the clergy of the United States to commend to the people the moral aspect of the question of reform . The promotion of public honesty , and the stay of increasing ...
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... American Review for Oct. , 1889 , by Ex - Postmaster- General Dickinson , recommending this division into postal districts , with respon- sible division superintendents . complain of on the reports of your civil service inspectors 38.
... American Review for Oct. , 1889 , by Ex - Postmaster- General Dickinson , recommending this division into postal districts , with respon- sible division superintendents . complain of on the reports of your civil service inspectors 38.
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... American nursery of political re- form of the fundamental American principle that good morals and good politics are inseparable , has seen all the vicissitudes of early reform and of uncompromising reformers . Here they have ADDRESS.
... American nursery of political re- form of the fundamental American principle that good morals and good politics are inseparable , has seen all the vicissitudes of early reform and of uncompromising reformers . Here they have ADDRESS.
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Popular passages
Page 96 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead past bury its dead ; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God o'erhead.
Page 68 - Him in whom it lives, showing first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.
Page 19 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 106 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...
Page 50 - ... discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this state, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section.
Page 27 - ... no removal shall be made from any position subject to competitive examination except for just cause and upon written charges filed with the head of the department or other appointing officer, and of which the accused shall have full notice and an opportunity to make defense...
Page 72 - ... election, applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such election applies at the same election for a ballot paper in his own name.
Page 25 - ... extension of the reform system, already established by law, to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable. The spirit and purpose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments, and all laws at variance with the...
Page 22 - ... in this: the President can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it. What will be the motives which the President can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be impeachable by this House, before the Senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.
Page 88 - No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties.