04/14/1890
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"Again I invite to every branch of the service the attention and scrutiny of Congress."
"After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed on the 15th of June, by which Great Britain undertook from that date and until ..."
"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 the classified service, with a view to placing promotions who..."
"I think the records of efficiency kept from day to day should be open to the inspection of the clerks."