Extension of Civil Service Regulations to Prohibition Agents: Hearings Before the Committee on the Civil Service, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session on H.R. 3978 and H.R. 3821, February 2, 1926 |
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Page 24 - ... except such executive officers as may be appointed by the Commissioner or the Attorney General to have immediate direction of the enforcement of the provisions of this Act, and persons authorized to issue permits, and agents and inspectors in the field service, shall be appointed under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Civil Service Act...
Page 17 - An act to place under the civil service act the personnel of the Treasury Department authorized by section 38 of the national prohibition act.
Page 10 - I believe that national prohibition, if adequately enforced, would be a great benefit to the families of workingmen and others who have suffered from the evils of intoxication, but in view of your past course I am entirely through with you and believe that you have brought nothing but discredit upon the cause you support and that some better organization ought to take your place. In my speech at the Washington meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League I said, "I here accuse the Anti-Saloon...
Page 13 - The experience has been that employees in this work require summary removal in almost numberless cases and it would be very embarrassing to be obliged to submit charges and establish in each case misconduct in office.
Page 30 - ... enforcement officers in response to criticism of the Anti-Saloon League by Mr. Foulke. He said: 35 "I regret any misunderstanding concerning the attitude of the Anti-Saloon League toward a bill to put Federal prohibition^ agents under civil service. We have never been opposed to it, but have been practical enough to accept the best possible when the perfect best was unattainable. It was impossible to secure civil service except for the clerical force in the original bill. One of the objections...
Page 12 - ... positive commands. This was the bill which Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler, in the debate I had with him in Washington, 35 said the Anti-Saloon was supporting. Mr. Nicholson, the secretary of the League, thus wrote me last December, "We of the Anti-Saloon League feel now that with the experience of the last two or three years, the sentiment in Congress has changed sufficiently for us to get this particular bill and the Anti-Saloon League is throwing itself into the fight for all it is worth.
Page 9 - ... paid out of taxes levied upon the people. I do not at all suppose you understood the immorality of that act, but in any reasonable system of ethics it was far more indefensible than opposing the civilservice law. A man may conscientiously oppose that law but not support its inclusion if he believes that law is right. Your league is not like an ordinary political organization which can compromise and give and take what it will for the sake of expediency, but you are professedly engaged in accomplishing...
Page 15 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That...