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Show BRYAN CONDEMNED FDR LETTER TO IK Caustic Resolution Adopted by the National Civil Service Serv-ice Reform League. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Secretary Bryan's letter asking Walter W. Yick, former receiver general of Dominican customs, for information as to "what positions you have at your disposal with which to reward deserving Democrats," Demo-crats," was disapproved in resolutions adopted by the Council of the National Civil Service Reform league at its annual an-nual mid-winter meeting here on February Feb-ruary 4, it was announced tonight. It was pronounced inconsistent with the merit system, with the Democratic national platform, and with good faith toward the Dominican republic. After through discussion of this letter, which was introduced into evidence taken during the recent hearing in this city regarding the fitness of James W. Sullivan Sulli-van for the of6ce of American minister to Santo Domingo, the governing board of the league adopted the following resolution: The National Civil Service Reform Re-form league profoundly regrets that the secretary of stato appears to have suggested aud advocated and later publicly .lustiiied the use of the customs service of Santo Domingo, constituting a national trust lor the benefit of another American republic and its creditors, credi-tors, to reward partisan services in our domestic politics. The National Nation-al Civil Service Reform league, by its governing board, declares this courso plainly inconsistent, not only with fidelity to the principles of the merit system and with the purpose avowed in the Democratic national platform of 1 912 to make "merit and ability the standard stan-dard of appointment and promotion, promo-tion, rather than service to a political politi-cal party," but with ordinary good faith towards the Dominican republic repub-lic and its creditors. It hereby publicly expresses itsc earnest hope that the president will promptly take such effective action as may prevent the practical application of a policy so generally and justly condemned. |