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try. I think we should try some other mode of 

 putting men in office." 



Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, said: 



" If it could be known and no one can furnish 

 that information but the Civil-Service Commis- 

 sion, and I think I shall ask for it some of these 

 days how many young men and young women 

 who have left their homes have gone to the cities 

 and spent from $5 to $10 on each pilgrimage to 

 take the civil-service examination, who have 

 passed the examination and have been put on the 

 eligible list, have waited for one year and been 

 dropped from it, and have gone again and been 

 examined and been dropped from it, and have 

 gone again and been examined and dropped from 

 it if the truth could be known and the expense 

 it has been to the young men and the young 

 women of this country could be aggregated, I 

 think it would appal the Congress of the United 

 States, and we can all imagine the disappoint- 

 ments it has brought to these young people. 



" I have in my mind a young lady who passed 

 three examinations, a year apart, in this city, 

 and she passed at a very high rate. She is from 

 my own State. She did not get an appointment. 

 She left in despair and is doing other work ; and 

 all over our country this condition of things 

 exists, and yet the commission are holding ex- 

 aminations all the time. One is scheduled for 

 my city in the near future, and yet the eligible 

 list is loaded down with hundreds and thousands 

 of names that never will be reached for certifica- 

 tion, and these young men and women are des- 

 tined to disappointment. 



" Not only that, Mr. President, but the young 

 man who takes the civil-service examination and 

 passes it nine times out of ten is not worth any- 

 thing for business purposes. He expects to get a 

 Government job, as he calls it, and he waits a 

 year and he takes the examination again, and 

 he waits another year, and he is enervated. I 

 have a pathetic letter in my desk in the commit- 

 tee room from the father of a young boy who 

 took the examination two years ago. He tells 

 me that the boy is not worth anything because 

 he expects to get Government employment, and 

 he appeals to me to get him something to do in 

 the Government service. I have known many 

 and many such cases. 



" So far as my State is concerned I do not 

 know whether it is properly cared for in the 

 departments or not. I know it to be true that 

 the rolls of every department of this Govern- 

 ment, so far as appointments from New Hamp- 

 shire are concerned, are loaded down with people 

 who never have been heard of in the State of 

 Xew Hampshire for the last twenty-five years. 

 The son of a dead Senator from a Western State 

 is on the rolls at a high salary credited to the 

 State of New Hampshire, and the only claim he 

 has upon the State is that his mother was born 

 in New Hampshire. I do not know who put him 

 there. Such men, even if they once belonged to 

 the State, do not come home to vote. They do 

 not contribute for political purposes. They are 

 of no earthly account to the State, and do not 

 belong to the State, and there ought to be some 

 way of weeding them out. But there is not. The 

 Civil-Service Commission say they are there and 

 they have to stay there until they die, and I 

 presume that is a fact." 



The bill passed the House of Representatives 

 Jan. 30, 1902, and was amended and passed the 

 Senate Feb. 17, also without a division. After a 

 conference the measure was modified and ap- 

 proved by the President, March 6, 1902, in the 

 following form: 



"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of. 

 Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the Census Office 

 temporarily established in the Department of the 

 Interior in accordance with an act entitled ' An 

 Act td provide for the taking the twelfth and 

 subsequent censuses,' approved March 3, 1899, is 

 hereby made a permanent office. 



" SEC. 2. That the work pertaining to the 

 twelfth census shall be carried on by the Census 

 Office under the existing organization until the 

 1st day of July, 1902, when the permanent Cen- 

 sus Office herein provided for shall be organized 

 by the director of the census. 



" SEC. 3. That the permanent Census Office shall 

 be in charge of a director of the census, appointed 

 by the President, by and with the advice and con- 

 sent of the Senate, who shall receive an annual 

 salary of $6,000. It shall be his duty to super- 

 intend and direct the taking of the thirteenth 

 and subsequent censuses of the United States and 

 to perform such other duties as may be imposed 

 upon him by law. 



" SEC. 4. That there shall be in the Census Of- 

 fice, to be appointed by the director thereof, with 

 the approval of the head of the department to 

 which the said Census Office is attached, 4 chief 

 statisticians, who shall be persons of known and 

 tried experience in statistical work, at an annual 

 salary of $2,500 dollars each ; a chief clerk, at an 

 annual salary of $2,500, who, in the absence of 

 the director, shall serve as acting director; a dis- 

 bursing clerk, who shall also act as appointment 

 clerk, at an annual salary of $2,500; 1 stenogra- 

 pher, at an annual salary of $1,500; 4 expert chiefs 

 of division, at an annual salary of $1,800 each ; 

 6 clerks of class three ; 10 clerks of class two ; and 

 such number of clerks of class one, and of clerks, 

 copyists, computers, and skilled laborers, with 

 salaries at the rate of not less than $600 nor more 

 than $1,000 per annum, messengers, assistant mes- 

 sengers, watchmen, and charwomen as may be 

 necessary for the proper and prompt performance 

 of the duties required by law. The disbursing 

 clerk herein provided for shall, before entering 

 upon his duties, give bond to the Secretary of the 

 Treasury in the sum of $25,000, which bond shall 

 be conditioned that the said officer shall render a 

 true and faithful account to the proper accounting 

 officers of the Treasury quarter-yearly, of nil 

 moneys and properties which shall be received by 

 him by virture of his office, with surety, to be 

 approved by the solicitor of the Treasury. Such 

 bond shall 'be filed in the office of the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, to be by him put in suit upon 

 any breach of the conditions thereof. 



" SEC. 5. That all employees of the Census Of- 

 fice, at the date of the passage of this act, except 

 unskilled laborers, may be appointed by the di- 

 rector of the census with the approval of the head 

 of the department to which said Census Office is 

 attached, and when so appointed shall be and 

 they are hereby placed, without further examina- 

 tion, under the provisions of the civil-service act 

 approved Jan. 16, 1883, and the amendments 

 thereto and the rules established thereunder; and 

 persons who have served as soldiers in any war in 

 which the United States may have been engaged, 

 who have been honorably discharged from the 

 service of the United States, and the widows of 

 such soldiers, shall have preference in the matter 

 of employment; and all new appointments to the 

 permanent clerical force of the Census Office here- 

 by created shall be made in accordance with the 

 requirements of the civil-service act above re- 

 ferred to. 

 " SEC. 6. That all the provisions of the act of 



