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Brief for the Affirmative.J. J. SHEPPARD and C. M. READE.Best general references: Civil Service Reform under President Cleveland, Baltimore Address by R. H. Dana; Harper's Weekly, '87, '89 passim; Pol. Sci. Quarterly, III, 247. "Good Government...
...carried out the Civil Service Law faithfully. (a) Good choice of commissioners. (b) Removal of recalcitrant officials: Topeka, Baltimore, New York. (c) Slight change in classified service...
...improved and extended the classification of the civil service. (a) Reduction of number on certified list for vacancies. (b) Establishment of rules preventing evasion of law. (c) Promotion allowed upon examination only. (d) Extension of competitive system to independent bureaus of the government. (e) Great increase in classified list...
...Progress of Civil Service Reform inevitably slow: impossible for a president to go far in advance of public opinion, or of his party...
...Cleveland has professed sympathy with civil service reform, especially condemning, (a) offensive partisanship, (b) contributions from office-holder, (c) removals except for cause. Cleveland's Inaugural Speech, Mch. 4, 1885, and his Letter of Acceptance...