Abstract

The Week

The article discusses issues related to politics in the United States. There is little or no purely political news of the week. One of the most important bits of it from Washington consists in renewed assurances of the President's enthusiasm in the cause of civil service reform, which may be well founded, but people are bound to say that his way of displaying his zeal is very peculiar. The Commission is said to have prepared a body of rules, but people judge that it depends entirely on the President to carry them out. Senator Carl Schurz has been lecturing during the past two or three weeks on civil service reform, and last Thursday discoursed on the subject in New York City. He gave his discourse the benefit of the practical experience he has himself had of the way in which the present system works at Washington, and announced certain conclusions, which the audience heartily applauded, and about which people imagine not many thinking men throughout the country will differ with him.