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Show ,-' i . . , : i . r r : C " . . T : I '- c. :,......-.. .....i :. v i ,i a c! I ; -1 over la a cc ". '. 1 i r, : 2 v,: 1 ; i "3 i: .'. i . . s e .r. "I'd Le n-;d f.'.ad to d t' it, f - .l-r," s .J 1 th-? rofrtrnattir-U...!..!, L-t I can't. I'm hvlrlers." ;:r. "..uctt 1 ar.- 1 a little c!c.er, and cor.tl .. I i.'.i w !.i!-i !. d arun,er.t. H . . . j . v d i.x ZZ... a..3. "I'm Forry, Senator," re'.ied Mr. ray ..,' "tut that r-c-itioit i ur.dr the ci. h'.i-d service. I can't do it I have nothing to do with the caae until the ;;::,; r.t l3 certi.".ed to me." "The f fvll service ." The Fenator brought hi f.st down with a t :r. on the deslc In front of him '1- the civil service." he riled In a voice that made the vhdtora Jump. "It's good for nothing, never wca, and never wi:i te. It's rotten, backwards and forwards, for-wards, crosswaya and F'deways. It keeps desirable people out of, the Government Gov-ernment service and und?rirable and UPflesa people In the eervlce. Don't talk to me about the civil service. I don't believe In it. 2Jo TJ9 for tie Commission. ."I want to eay right here to everybody," every-body," he continued, "that these are not my private views, but my public views, and they ere Just sa strong as I have expressed them. I have heard of honest hon-est gambling: games, where there was a known percentage In favor of the banker, bank-er, where the dealer wraa honest and where everything was run on the square, but In the very nature of things there is not such a thins as an honest gambling gime. But I say right here now, and I believe it most thoroughly, that it would be a thousand times easier to imagine an honest gambling game than to imagine an honest civil service commission." The Senator took his foot out of his hat, brushed the damaged felt, slammed it on his head and continued: "Some day and at a time not so very far In the future, there is going to be a revolution, a political upheaval, that will wipe out this civil service commission." |