Proceedings at the annual meeting of the national civil service reform, Issue 2; Issues 4-81882 |
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... Term and Tenure of Office . By DORMAN B. EATON . 8vo . Per copy , 25 cts . Per 100 , $ 3.00 108 pages , $ 15 00 VI . Documents relating to the Removal from Office and Indict- ment of General N. M. Curtis for Levying and Receiving ...
... Term and Tenure of Office . By DORMAN B. EATON . 8vo . Per copy , 25 cts . Per 100 , $ 3.00 108 pages , $ 15 00 VI . Documents relating to the Removal from Office and Indict- ment of General N. M. Curtis for Levying and Receiving ...
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... term the President has made 874 appointments and 49 removals . Assuming the removals to have been made for ... term . It is obviously a cardinal principle of efficient service that the mere expiration of a term shall not be equivalent to ...
... term the President has made 874 appointments and 49 removals . Assuming the removals to have been made for ... term . It is obviously a cardinal principle of efficient service that the mere expiration of a term shall not be equivalent to ...
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... term cannot affect the in- cumbent's qualifications . Not to reappoint an honest and com- petent officer to a ... terms , generally of four years , have expired , the President has reappointed 428 and has not reappointed 397. The ...
... term cannot affect the in- cumbent's qualifications . Not to reappoint an honest and com- petent officer to a ... terms , generally of four years , have expired , the President has reappointed 428 and has not reappointed 397. The ...
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... terms had expired . The public loss neces- sarily resulting from such a vast proportion of dismissals is evident . No great private business would tolerate such changes . The President's action upon the principles that he has laid down ...
... terms had expired . The public loss neces- sarily resulting from such a vast proportion of dismissals is evident . No great private business would tolerate such changes . The President's action upon the principles that he has laid down ...
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... term executive in the second clause , and thereby , by necessary implication , extended it to all officers , legislative as well as executive . We have the melancholy spectacle of the Attorney - General of the United States taking up ...
... term executive in the second clause , and thereby , by necessary implication , extended it to all officers , legislative as well as executive . We have the melancholy spectacle of the Attorney - General of the United States taking up ...
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Page 25 - This within certain limits is probably true ; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
Page 44 - ... the enforcement of the provisions of chapter three hundred and twenty of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, being an act to improve the civil service of the commonwealth and the cities thereof...
Page 5 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Page 23 - Good men, to whom there is no objection but a difference of political principle, practised on only as far as the right of a private citizen will justify, are not proper subjects of removal, except in the case of attorneys and marshals.
Page 7 - Oxford as doubledealing and dangerous as any priests out of Rome, and he routed them both. He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace, and ease, and freedom ; the three per cents, nearly at par ; and wheat at five and six and twenty shillings a quarter.
Page 29 - July 2, 1862, enacted that hereafter every person "elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States...
Page 17 - When we consider the patronage of this great office, the allurements of power, the temptation to retain public place once gained, and, more than all, the availability a party finds in an incumbent whom a horde of office-holders, with a zeal born of -benefits received and fostered by the hope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service, we recognize in the eligibility of the President for re-election a most serious danger to that calm, deliberate, and intelligent...
Page 45 - Representatives in that state to give their opinion upon the constitutionality of certain provisions of the act, held that the legislature has the constitutional right to provide for the appointment of civil service commissioners, and to delegate to them the power to make rules, not inconsistent with existing laws, to guide and control their discretion and the discretion of the officers of the cities in whom the appointing power is vested; that the duty of determining and ascertaining the qualifications...
Page 45 - We think the Legislature has the constitutional right to provide for the appointment of such commissioners, and to delegate to them the power to make rules, not inconsistent with existing laws, to guide and control their discretion and the discretion of the officers of the State or of the cities in whom the appointing power is vested. This is not a delegation of the power to enact laws; it is merely a delegation of administrative powers and duties, and there is no provision of the Constitution which...
Page 15 - I wish to communicate ; it is that the door of office be no longer shut against any man merely on account of his political opinions, but that whether he shall differ or not from those avowed either by you or by myself, integrity and capacity suitable to the station be the only qualifications that shall direct our choice. Permit me, since I have touched this topic, to add that whilst freedom of opinion and freedom of suffrage at public elections are considered by the President as imprescriptible rights...