Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-04-05 | Page 1 | Why He Was Removed

WHY HE WAS REMOVED Supplanting of SurveyorGeneral C C Gooclale of Colorado Due to Civil Service Commission Washington April 41he United States Civil Service commission today made public a statement declaring the recent supplanting of SurveyorGeneral C C Gooclale of Colorado by the appointment ap-pointment of J F Vivian to be due to an investigation made by that commission com-mission This investigation was upon complaints against the SurveyorGen cml and some of his assistants for violation of the civil service law by collecting political assessments against employees of the office The commission states that the payments pay-ments were tso regularly demanded that they were called the dog tax and they were apportioned among the clerks sot that so-t each bad to pay one two or three days salary per month as the needs of the campaign demanded Employees Em-ployees paid these assessments Irrespective Irre-spective oC their own political beliefs and under both Democratic and Republican Re-publican administrations I The clerks were also asked to do political po-litical work and some of the women in the office vcre sent from door to door to ask persons who were strangers strang-ers If they had registered etc a work which they found very disagreeable