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Page 215 - There are perhaps few men who can for any great length of time enjoy office and power, without being more or less under the influence of feelings, unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their public duties.
Page 219 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in R'S..«ec.i763.
Page 215 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 213 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few; by resignation none.
Page 215 - He who is removed has the same means of obtaining a 11 living that are enjoyed by the millions who never held office. The proposed limitation would destroy the idea of property now so generally connected with official station...
Page 178 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 17 - The proper duty of a representative assembly in regard to matters of administration is not to decide them by its own vote, but to take care that the persons who have to decide them shall be the proper persons.
Page 215 - No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is a matter of right. The incumbent became an officer with a view to public benefits, and when these require his removal they are not to be sacrificed to private interests. It is the people, and they alone, who have a right to complain when a bad officer is substituted for a good one. He who is removed has the same means of obtaining a living that are enjoyed by the millions who never held office...
Page 400 - Upon their determination being certified to the Interstate Commerce Commission, said Commission shall at once give notice of the standard fixed upon to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States by such means as the Commission may deem proper.
Page 387 - Means for securing to the workpeople a greater share in and responsibility for the determination and. observance of the conditions under which their work is carried on.