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Show f POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF OFFICE-IMS Special Committee Files Report of Its Findings After Investigation of Newspaper Charges. Charges Are Sustained In Part, a Notablq Exception Being the Al - legations That Roosevelt Coerced Co-erced Office-holders Into Support Sup-port of Taft. New York. Tho report of tho special spe-cial committee appointed for tho National Na-tional Civil Servlco Ucform league to investigate the political activity on tho part or ofllco-holdors, wns made public Sunday, April 4. Tho conclu slons of the committee briefly Btated ure that charges mado by certain nowspnpers to a great extent, aro sub talned. A notable exception Is reported re-ported In the allegations that Mr Itoosovelt coerced certain federal ol tlco-holders Into the support of Mr Taft for tho Uepubllcan nomination. The committee finds Hint ovldpnct to sustain tho charges made Is whol ly lacking. On tao contrary, Mr Itoosovelt Is credited with advancing civil service reform by so amending tho civil servlco rules as to prohlbl dinployes In tho competitive sorvici from taking part in political cam palgns. On thu broad question of office-hold crs purnlclous activity In politics however, tho commltteo finds that n most undeslrablo situation exists. Ol the more than 300,000 general officeholders office-holders one-third are not amenable tc civil service classification. Theso of ten exercise a powerful Influence In politics and constitute, In thu opinion of tho coininlttoe, a menace to free Institutions. Tho remedy Is to bo found, tho com mittec believes, In extending" the classified competitive service and n clearer definition of the executive or der governing political activity In the unclassified service. |