Show GRANT AND CIVIL SERVICE since the subject of civil service agitating the public mind almost everything is being said pro anacon about the cival bel vice law and its administration george w A a strong d civil service rif arrange mants and authority on the subject in a jofs harpers magazine he recalls soine m coha with the initiation of civil he bays that irwill chief distinctions of j of general grant that it encouraged T f aba first extort for the 4 t t t y i 0 J civil service it was fitting and fortunate that T the military jeader in the war which freed the v v clayca if when huldd to the highest civil positron ili tak ethe e the first eters ta free the civil service from its to party politics when n t ahall be ac complis hed the i af pf thomaa aalen jenckes of rhode island tho tio jajor allus ability and courage the task af the later laborers comparatively easy will among the abat Ba gadous of men like romilia Romi liy who human iced the penal code and abolished the british alave trade sir will be remembered as the father of civil service the united states abc produced trod hia bill into tho house of g Tl lere knowledge of abo subject or interest in it abere had been no popular agitation but mr tp begin the agitation and he did begin ft then and there undismayed by neglect or scorn or appo eitl hind ho opened cor i 1 wf f W english re comeras fo asu renewed his efforts so long agho remained in ilia lastant laS tact asa arnato draw the amendment to the appropriation bill of 1871 thanks to the bendly skill chai cittee mit tee A af pennsylvania vas adopted at the ast moment not from any congressional or desire but merely 0 o save the whole bill thia was ha which authorized of wha known although ft not so designated by the law as the first cibil service on and it was drawn by mr jenckes Jenc kea after consultation with grant to whose military experience and natural good cense iho general reasons of the reform as mr jenckes stated them were at once apparent and conclusive the movement began therefore with the distinct and hearty approval of general grant but he saw and said that although in its nature an executive reform the relations of the executive and the legislature were such that their co operation was indispensable to its general application and after a year or two it was evident that congress was hostile and in his message of 1866 general grant said adjourns without positive legislation on civil service reform I 1 will regard such action as a disapproval of tern and will abandon it hiebo legislation and the reform was suspended but it was not abandoned by the country the general at that time undoubtedly approved the principle of the reform but lie probably supposed ita enforcement t be premature until public support was more assured chair may bo pardoned the narration of a personal anecdote connected with the subject known to general grant and itself which the general is not likely ever to it is a little finx bulent which illustrates in a pleasant way a certain sentiment in general grant which is eo plain sturdy and positive a man might not be the easy chair had been interested in the preparation of the rules and of the first report upon reform after the passage of the jenckes amendment and on the morning that the president acs to send them to congress he bad asked the aisy chair to come to the white house and hear the message which ya to accompany the report when the easy chair arrived the president said that tho message was copying and presently the original in his awn writing interlinked interlined inter lined and cor erected and the fair copy to be sent to tha capitol were both laid before him general grant read the message aloud the listener sitting when he lad read it with the shy air of a dij l ho pushed the aupp raph draught over the table to and said quickly there it worth anything but perhaps djoa would like to keep it and began immediately to speak else |