Show unprofitable special post office agents postmaster general X jewell owell has discovered that many of the special agents in his department were not earning their ka salaries laries and bm hab already discharged some and threatens to go through h the aholo liht list searching out tte the buiners bum ners lers and starting them out to seek a livelihood by some kind of honest work ir if there ther is such a possibility as their attempting anything of the tho kind but with secretary bristow alid slid mr lur jewell thus inaugurating a system or of civil service reform t that 5 lat means something where are tho the and the dead elead beats of politics es to find comfortable billets with high pay and nothing to do the special agent and set sel ret service department of tho the 1 I 1 reas treasury tiry and the post office der dep have been the favorite hiding places for these sorts of peo e congressmen who have dep deper evident lent relatives la li tives or people that it would not urt do to appoint to some home office have forced them into these there special agencies and had them sent away into localities where nothing was known about them the service has thus been made a refuge for in ca tables Eables and the disreputable until it has as become a general byword by word of reproach ch in no single point is ia there more need of reform in our civil service sy system stern and secretary bristow in introducing ng a change and mr jewell in following it up are doing the best work that could bo be devised baltimore ame american rican |