Salt Lake Herald | 1893-05-18 | Page 4 | Local News

THERE is a row over Secretary MOR TONS removal of JAS G ELAINES brother from a clerkship in the bureau of animal industry and the appointment of a Missouri Democrat to the place Another An-other row is over the dismissal from the treasury department of a man named STURTEVANT who had been at the head of the stationery division thirtytwo years And some time since there was a row over the removal of a gentleman from the state department who was supposed to be a permanent fixture The truth of the matter seems to be that as to all the departments I de-partments loose and extravagant methods meth-ods have crept in and that radical changes I are necessary for the efficiency of the public service This is genuine civil ser I ice reform The officials dispensed with were not in the classified service and would not have been protected if they had l been Civil service reform means tho coridiict of the public business on the I same principles employed in conducting private business and is not to be construed con-strued as meaning long terms of service I for incompetent or inapt men