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Show SCORES PRESIDENT FOR CIVIL SERVICE Former Commissioner Foulke Points to Change of Attitude on wil- I son's part. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 5. Criticism Criti-cism of President Wiisou for his alleged al-leged attitude toward civil service was made tonight by William Dticlley Foulke. former United States civil service ser-vice commissioner, in an address at the closing session of the thirty-sixth annual an-nual convention of the National Civil Service Reform league. Mr. Foulke declared that appointments appoint-ments to fourth-class postmasterships had been contrary to the federal stat- ; ute covering civil service, in t'nat congressmen con-gressmen hud been asked to recommend recom-mend choice of candidates in their districts. dis-tricts. Albert S. Burleson, postmaster general, gen-eral, speaking of the appointments made under his administration, said that in Ms latest report he had recommended recom-mended that all classes of postmasters should be placed tinder civil service. He pointed out that 70 per cent of the fourth-class postmasters had been retained re-tained under his administration. |