Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-16 | Page 1 | Demands Enforcement of Civil Service Law

DEMANDS ENFoRCEMENT OF CIVil SERVICE M lAW LA League e Also Recommends ds Extension Extension Ex Extension Ex- Ex tension of Classified Service Philadelphia Dec Dee 16 All All persons Inthe Inthe In Inthe the employ of or the federal government go gunt guilty of ot violating the civil lf service law should be punished promptly Impartially Impartially Impartially and with l ju jut Just t severity se was the tle declaration contained In r resolutions sol u adopted at the cl closing sIng session here this afternoon of ot the ie national c convention OJ of league t th the National ia i I IR R Reform TI The e resolutions further urge that JI lite hIle e penalties be Inflicted upon any executive federal officeholder who sh shall ll use his oHl office e to eon control rol political mo e movements neglect his public duties to engage In politics or cause scandal b by his political activity in violation of or orthe the time orders of Presidents Cleveland eland and Roosevelt I t. t Moreover er the tho movement mo recommends that the time rule prohibiting any partisan n activity be at once extended to all aU federal federal fed fed- eral oral officeholders whose p political opinions ions cannot properly affect their official cial elal duties That such officeholders may have ha no excuse for Intermeddling politics poll poll- tics the league endorses the suggestion suggestion tion of or President Taft TaCt that higher ad administrative administrative ad- ad e offices be included within the classified service Charles W W. Eliot president emeritus of or Harvard university was re-elected re president of or time the league All AU the other officers were also reelected I I