Word: civility
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...Secretary of the Navy in President Roosevelt's first cabinet and during the period 1906-1909 was Attorney-General of the United States. He served as an Overseer of Harvard College from 1891 to 1903. Mr. Bonaparte has been president of the National Municipal League and of the Civil Service Reform League...
...application of civil service provisions was extended to the consular services by the Executive Order of June 27, 1906. This means that entrance to the service is dependent upon examination and that transfer and promotion are regulated solely by the merit system and by seniority. For from being subject to the spoils system, the consular service has been rigorously governed by this Executive Order throughout the last two presidential administrations, and it has been intimated by the present administration and already indicated by such transfers and promotions as have occurred since March 4, 1913, that civil service principles with regard...
With regard to the diplomatic service, all secretaries of embassy and legation are likewise protected under civil service provisions by the Executive Order of November 26, 1909, and in this case also it has been intimated by the present administration that the Order is to be respected. Examinations are held in Washington annually, or oftener as occasion may require; candidates who pass the examination are admitted only to the lower grades of the service as vacancies occur, without regard to their political affiliations, and transfer and promotion are governed by seniority and merit...
...unfortunately true that the positions of ambassador and minister are still regarded as excepted from these civil service principles but it must be remembered that the great progress already made in the permanency of both the diplomatic and consular services has been effected within the last few years, after over a century of the spoils system, and that perfection cannot be expected overnight. Taking into consideration the present sentiment of the country in regard to the entire question, there seems to be every indication that the offices of ambassador and minister will eventually be in part if not largely filled...
...remuneration. And the answer to the problem is so simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics, is so far removed from the real advantages of the civil service that men cannot run the risks of sudden unemployment attached to it. There is no doubt but that college men would enter the consular service in as great numbers and of as good character as could be wanted, could the service be removed from the vagaries of changing administrations...