United States Department Of State
Published: 2018-09-24
Total Pages: 1170
Get eBook
Excerpt from Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879: Preceded by a List of Papers and Followed by an Index of Persons and Subjects In a former message I invited the attention of Congress to the subject of the reformation of the civil service of the government, and expressed the intention of transmitting to Congress as early as practicable a report upon this subject by the chairman of the civil-service commission. In view of the facts that, during a considerable period, the Govern ment of Great Britain has been dealing with administrative problems and abuses in various particulars analogous to those presented in this country, and that in recent years the measures adopted were understood to have been effective and in every respect highly satisfactory, I thou ght it desirable to have fuller information upon the subject, and accordingly requested the chairman of the c.vil-service commission to make a thor ough investigation for this purpose. The result has been an elaborate and comprehensive report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
