Benjamin Harrison actually said...

I now direct that in your Department a plan be at once devised and put in operation for keeping an efficiency record of all persons within t...

I think the records of efficiency kept from day to day should be open to the inspection of the clerks.

In my opinion the examination for promotion of those who present themselves should be chiefly, if not wholly, upon their knowledge of the wo...

I have suggested to the heads of the Executive Departments that they consider whether a record might not be kept in each bureau of all those...