...and economy in administration. The provision of law requiring that appointments in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several...District of Columbia upon the basis of population may well be cited as an illustration. It is very doubtful whether the benefits of this particular provision...

...administration will warrant, as follows: Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several...population as ascertained at the last preceding census. GENTLEMEN: The civil-service act, section 2 (22 Stat. L., 403), provides: The above enactments compel...

...competitive examinations. Apportion- Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several...Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained residence at the time of making the application, as well as how long he or she has been resident of...

...Section II of the National Civil Service Law, the appointments in the Departments at Washington are to be apportioned among the several states and territories...District of Columbia upon the basis of population. This, however, as the same section states, is to be done only "as nearly as the conditions of good...

...the service. graded highest, and the apportionment of appointments in the departments at Washington among the several States and Territories and the District...population as ascertained at the last preceding census. The intent of the framers of the act to insure an efficient administration of the affairs of the Government...

...by the act shall be apportioned ii as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant" among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population.l This provision is coordinate with the provision that selections si i all be made "according...

...same time ;44 the third requires that "appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several...of population as ascertained at the last preceding census."45 In regard to the first sort of exception, there can be little opposition unless, as has...

...vast majority of inferior officers are appointed by heads of departments under Civil Service rules. ments at Washington shall be apportioned among the...District of Columbia upon the basis of population — a principle which it is impossible to carry out in practice. 1 (3) In general, private secretaries...

...of January 16. 1883: "'Appointment* to the pi:blic service * * * in the departments at \Vashington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon ihi basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.' "The same section of the act...

...that so far as the conditions of good administration will warrant appointments to the departments in Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia according to population." I want you gentlemen to be apprised of what these attacks...