Show P W WAS AS PACKED d FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES i Scorching Report of Chairman Charman Proctor of the Civil Servi e Made Public I Appointments Not Ma Made e in the Interest of the Public Service or on Account of Fitness l Jve vy V Proctor l eC the cf corn 1 mINIon tody submitted to Po Po t t I master P Payne yoe the report report made by the t comm at Ute the request ot of i ithe the r general with reference I to the cha charge of of the civil in the The Inquiry Included the tle 1 1 Whether an all if f the out ont Si de e the th force oC e carrion were rep regu regularly In the aDd zId to their Z 2 w whether er Civil rales had been lit in the and of labor laborers laborers ers and jd I 2 whether there had Men been a general of o Ute the civil servIce eMice law w and rul La in the administration or of the during durin the th Incumbency or oC the pr prevent nt post postmaster master In addition to the report and aDd a ot of the te U mony taken Mr lr Proctor presented II ft of the findinge This SU ry concludes II as follows Gross Gro s Favoritism A departure fron the observance of the civil rules appears In the of certain employee in the Washington po which have ave been directed by the department ot of efficiency are neither re requested quested or rEceived by the depart department ment A e case In point is that ot of a lad W who ho wa nominally appointed In N J po but never left the Washington po postoffice who owed her ber to the cIA ca Cation tl n transfer method was promoted from Sept 1 1 to July 1 1901 1101 from to 1600 1100 per annum by direction or the department and Is 18 doing doln the Work formerly done by an who a compensation ot of only 1 lOW per annum Public Interest Suffers i P rhe disclosed ed by the In seems to warrant the state slate m nt that to In the on J without examination by the deVIous method of app In small 11 us un or In about to t tb tob b con ad nd subsequent trans UDa fr a aid the 0 o these Ia bor rs who were nd ep epS S rated during the Sr r thE p prent po postmaster show wIde I Id d Its i In policy from trona a agard Sr iE gard for the public lD t an at af afford atford ij ford that e department at atU Q U used the Washington for poI po political and personal purposes es to an Ii ex t which Ie left tt the authority ot of the Postmaster ter In transfers and appoint appointments I ments ot of this sort wt but little more tn than and placed the office In many I respects In the relation or of a bureau to the department Department to Blame The investigation seems to sho shot show t fly that moSt of the Irre Irregularities reIn set et forth were dirEcted by the I or requested or suggested ted I Iby by b high departmental and In incase case came to the po ter j with all Ute lbS force of It a WIth 3 I h exception o of the appointment of II 4 J laborers afterwards separated tiree e clerks clerk appointed to offices office about I to tn b be and one apo ap pAInted In the Good Hope Hupe f 1 just before Its I It appears that Post Postmaster master Merritt did not Initiate ny any anyo or o th these Improper appointments or at as j and his responsibility for I them appears to be secondary and de dependent pendent upon the extent to which a subordinate Is In protesting I agaInst the ord orders rs or or of hIs official superiors Many Were t The investigation indicates that the employee who en entered the sErvice b transfer and ad without examination on are i ITt in general Inferior to those appointed through competition The tion by the commission shows that many of f the persons who entered the I by transfer had bad tailed failed upon competitive exam were from s states ta tf 8 which were itt ot or t lbs e I or had bad not passed paNed with high gradEs to be ched I for t appointment by the rego regular ineth It Is ue the observation ot of the commis commission I sion nion that where a service or an T maln there Is always a tendency to Increase the number of 1 employee beyond the number actually I for the transaction or of I bust In n s I Among the employee employ In the depart or In the service who WEre brought Into the erv k within the last few years by having been appointed with without out examination under the rules were thirty war emer emergency ncy classi fled by the act of April 1 1902 h twelve I nade permanent under paragraph 17 of I rule rulf VIII and classified In the rural free delivery service sence on Nov 7 I 0 1901 The total number ber ot of employee I in these three classes who entered the I service upon oUter other than as by competitive examination was Par Purposes es Nearly aU all of the clerks and messes gem gers In the rural fret free delivery service h were converted Into the In positions In Washing Washington ton D I One hundred and thirty three of them w were re appointed prior to 0 July 1 1901 t were appoint appointed Ed in fn thE tour four preceding the and fiftysix were ere ap In the tw twentysix days das ing classIfIcatIon How man many of these Were ere appointed appoint d for r ons other tuan I the needs of thE service it is or MurFf I T I impossible for the commission to de I but that the service was packed with in the 0 or of Is b by the fat fact that the number of f appointments i in inthe the month of classification tion sas as more I than twice tlc as great at as for the pee ceding tour four This assumption Is I strongly supported by th fa fact t that I during the entire eighteen months that I this servIce has there have been ell pt for to t p within the District of as against x clerks messengers ap I pointer during the twentysix days ing the dat classification i There was no n f Sity of the of the service erIt hy by an I number of appointments just I befog for the consists I sk bad registers ot of at that time which were ere ample and also ap appropriate as 8 r Is shown by the fact that aU all bt bitt four sC C the ap ba have ve been made to the na tree free delivery service In the Dt District of and outside since Nov Noy 1 1101 were from registers then In existence The SerVice Suffered The appointments made under the cIrcumstances above set forth requIted In a congestion of the service and when reduction is 18 to be made mad the employs appointed f for r political or per personal personal are cared for sometimes l e at the ex expense nee of persons upon merit and without in In relieving the branches of the service thus crowded with em j transfers are made to other OUIE r parts of the Service to tD the Injury of In Use Une for appointment by reason of their a ascertained s sI I The of oC the war emergency I the amendment of Dec 31 11 ThOi ot of the rule referring to transfers and new I provisions sC of the revised rules which became beaune effective on April 15 lom wilt It is believed nt the continuance of abu abuses e In the tb classIfied service service I ice and the adoption at the earliest practicable date of regulations for foP the employment or of rs In the Wash in accordance with I the executive ord order r of March larch G 2 will there Is reason to hope put the employment ot of on the basis or of and the needs lC of the service Got What He Asked For ForThe The investigation was made In re spouse to the following letter dated I May ay 4 from the to the commission I 1 should be pl pleased If you woul i have one ol of your examiners rs to make an Investigation of the Wash Vash on City po with a vIew of ascertaining whether or not the civil law and regulations have been and are re being complied with in the ad administration ministration of that office Mr Proctor was as In conference with Payne for an hour today regarding the report Later WI Mr Proctor In a verbal statement t to news piper r men mea said that In al all his c with the postoffice he bd had h had less truble trouble line since Mr ro incumbency tb than at ay any other tl time Pye Payne P Hm lf Tb eral re out t the ther r r tei M the mat mattei 1 Att At J Is el t t J my Incumbency o of t the position o 0 I the civil service report that there have ave been I but ten persons transfer transferred to the Washington by appointment from smaller o offices and that the these ten persons rn were ere appointed to their repe plc places six months or me more prior t theIr transfer which is in compliance wih with th the laws las rles rules and regulations of the civil service a as the they now eist exist I it wi will b be noted that the commission reports tt that every person occupying competitive cla ife places In the Washington ton postoffice Is there by I of a certificate regularly isue issued by the civil service commission 0 I Under Old Administration Regarding unskilled laborers which I have nt not been subject to classification it is proper to sy say that tere there hs has b been much consideration of oC te the question on onI I the the part rt or of the civil service commission l ad and the department and mr many confer conferences I ence have been had on thIs subject On July uly 19 an agreement was I reached and regulations which rech and adopted 1 I were ere ged greed to by the civIl service corn com i iI I mission and the department which will m do away wIth aU alt cus cause for complaints as to irregularities In th the appointments i of this clas class of Th The point rais raised by the report re regarding garding the promotion or of cetIn certain em in the office which have ben been directed by the department occurred previous to Januar January 1 19 1902 No such t directions for tor promotion as are referred to have bien n authorize authorized by me since I have been Mr r Payne stated toay today that he ex peeled ted to make public b by Tuesday ot or Wednesday abstracts of the reports of 0 postoffice inspectors who recently in Investigated the Washington office similar report made by the Inspectors during the former Charles Emr Emory Smiths administration and the or of Fourth Assistant Pot Post chr rl Bristow to th the Tulloch following Tb The postmaster announcement generl general toay today made the 0 report of th the cu civil s service commis commission 8 sion Of on th the condition of the Washington having been mad made public to dy day tM the postmaster lenel stared tbt he be b hoped to receive the report o of t the In sto species of the th oft office recently cete completed b by otc Inspectors In tim time t to mak make public it its salient pint points within two or three dys days Howver However If th there I is d delay In receiving thi this report the oth other papers in Inthe th the C case wn will b be rp made public as sn soon u as they cn can b be p oe United Ste States District Atoy Attorney Jo Joint C RO Rem of BIU r was In conference with Mr toy today regarding the of eC McGregor and r ipton ton th the for former rural I t free delivery clerks arte arrested for ale eUn with a pOI postal contractor Miss MissI I Liebhardt chief clerk of te the f ties delivery system ws WaS summoned to Mr otic office to captain some I ur the papers In connection with the case Mr r ROse said tn R sd he be the two men woul would b be tried dU pe tie the present ter tens of tb the et court te I In B which expires July 18 10 Te The pe genrl general toay today tok took o occasion to deny a report that he hd had sk said t the most motU sensational dl ant arrest of the Investigation 1 is abut about to Gr occur |