...agreements." 2 Wall. 54. Ou another page he states : " It is sufficient to observe, generally, that all agreements for pecuniary considerations to control...the appointments to public offices, or the ordinary conrse of legislation, are void, as against public policy, withont reference to the question whether...

...lead to inefficiency iu the public service and to unnecessary expenditures of the public funds. * * * All agreements for pecuniary considerations to control...government or the regular administration of justice, or the appointment to public offices, or the ordinary course of legislation, are void as against public policy,...

...lead to inefficiency in the public service and to unnecessary expenditures of the public funds. * » * All agreements for pecuniary considerations to control...government or the regular administration of justice, or the appointment tu public offices, or the ordinary course of legislation, are void as against public policy,...

...affected by its operation. — Barth v. Pock, Mont., 155 Pac. 282. 64. Contract — Public Policy. — All agreements for pecuniary considerations to control the business operations of the government are void as against public policy, without reference as to whether improper means are attempted or...

...found in the opinion in Tool Company v. Morris, (2 Wall., 45,) in which Mr. Justice Field says : " All agreements for pecuniary considerations to control the business operations of the Government, * * * are void as against public policy, without reference to the question whether improper means are...

...any more readily sustained. The law has been declared upon this subject, and it is to the effect that "all agreements for pecuniary considerations to control...government, or the regular administration of justice, Megnire v. Corwine. or the appointment to public offices, * * * arc void as against public policy."...

...Tool Company v. Norrit, 9 Wall. 48, 56, " that all agreements for pecuniary considerations Syllabus. to control the business operations of the government,...means are contemplated or used in their execution," so we say of agreements like the one in this case ; they are against public policy because of their...

...the public. In this view, we cannot think It good policy for the courts to enforce such contracts. "All agreements for pecuniary considerations, to control...policy, without reference to the question whether im proper means a re con tempi a ted or used in their execution. The law looks to the general tendency...

...tendency of such agreements; and Justice Field remarked: "It is sufficient to 'observe generally that all agreements for pecuniary considerations to control...administration of justice, or the appointments to public ortice, or the ordinary course of legislation, are void, as against public policy, without reference...

...expenditures of the public funds." It Is also there held that all such agreements — "are void as agninst public policy, without reference to the question whether...means are contemplated or used in their execution." No language at our command can more fitly express the duty of public officials, or the tendency of...