Show E TO REmOVE I ANY NO ab assistant In the New York customs house rouse are known to have hac been I Implicated or are arc under suspicion In inthe I the tho sugar mar trust frauds This Is set forth In a statement to tonight tonight I night b by Chairman Black and and Washburn of the Civil I Service commission to In answer to charges that appointments and re removals In the New York customs house were at the dictum of the trust The sl of the lon ers i Is largely elj m designed to lo show the tho caro taken In the allon and rating of examination papers and how It by reason of methods In vogue ogue It Is lIy Impossible for forth forthe th the commission examiners in Vash VashI Inton ington to show favoritism In rating I Authority Is given gim to appoint officers to examine into antecedents of bles bies and to remove place holders whenever the public Interest so 80 re rc The o came from the New York customs house hous Two of the assistant were appointed without h by the commission the remaining twenty having bt been en appointed b by certification from 1886 to 1907 There are arc now em at Now New York YOlk assistant her Examination by which these assist assistant assistant ant have been beon chosen In Uw tine last fifteen years says the commis slon have been prepared and rated at Washington Tune The examinations them themselves 8 selves are conducted b by local boards at New York or elsewhere The statement of the tho commission concludes What the commission desires to emphasize to the press Is that It has not on only I all of limo tho precautions possible In the selection of It its liS elig but bul It has len left In the ment power of sifting such appointments when once made to the thc bottom hollom anti and exercising the tho power of removal at al any that the inter asLe of the public service requires |