Salt Lake Herald | 1897-12-09 | Page 3 | Change in Civil Service

GHAlsTGE IN CIVIL SERVICE I Petition Circulated Among the Slem bers of the Lower House i j Washington Dec SA paper was I circulated in the house of representatives 1 representa-tives today with a view of bringing about a conference of those members favorable to a change in the present I civil service system The paper was I handled by Representative Pearson of I North Carolina and received numerous signatures The purpose it is understood under-stood is to make the conference nonpolitical non-political in character and to extend it outside of the membership of the civil service committee as some of the men most active in urging a revision of the law are not on this committee General Gen-eral Grosvenor of Ohio is among these