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Dec 5, 1880

The most serious obstacle, however, to an improvement of the civil service, and especially to a reform in the method of appointment and removal, has been found to be the practice, under what is known as the spoils system, by which the…

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Jun 4, 1880

To the Senate of the United States:In response to a resolution of the Senate of the 31st ultimo, requesting the President to communicate to the Senate whether any supervisor or supervisors of the census appointed by and with the advice and…

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Jun 14, 1880

It is made a crime punishable with fine or imprisonment to hinder, assault, or otherwise interfere with the marshal or 'his special deputies,' or to threaten or to attempt so to do.

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May 16, 1880

I concur in the opinions of this report as to the measures proper to be taken by this Government

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