Word: civile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican politicians were anticipating the 1930 census with relish when the Senate last fortnight voted 42 to 37 to put all census employes under Civil Service. This proposal, sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner, rallied his Democratic colleagues and enough insurgent Republicans to wreck, at least temporarily, the G. O. P.'s delight in census legislation...
...regular Republicans grumped about overburdening the Civil Service Commission with unnecessary work and prayed that the House would knock this "reform" provision out of the bill. It remained for a Democratic Senator, South Carolina's Blease, to put into words their true sentiments about this innovation...
Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...
...Justice Holmes fought in the Civil War, was thrice wounded...
Work Done. The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Debated legislation to take the 1930 census and to reapportion the House of Representatives; adopted (42 to 37) an amendment to put 100,000 temporary census employes under Civil Service. ¶ Barred press association newsgatherers from the Senate floor as part of its controversy with the press on secret sessions...