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On Monday ox-Congressman W. A.
Rodenberg , of Illinois , was appointed
civil service commissioner to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mark
S. Brewer. This announcement appeared
among many other appointments made
by the president on that day. "Without
further explanation , comment or citation
of Mr. Rodenberg's record as to the civil
service reform , his appointment to a
place in the commission might appear to
bo a matter of commonplace significance.
When it is learned from record evidence
that Rodenborg is more than unfriendly
to the civil service reform , and has
endeavored to make the commission in
effective by voting in congress against
appropriations for the salaries and
traveling expenses of the commissioners ,
the remarkable character of Rodenberg's
appointment is revealed. On February
17 , 1900 , Rodenberg voted in the house ,
of representatives for an amendment to
the legislative , judicial and executive
appropriation bill , which , if adopted ,
would have been equivalent to the
abolition of the commission. The
amendment proposed to strike out the
appropriations for the salaries of the
commissioners and their office staff , as
well as the appropriation for traveling
expenses incurred in the work of the
commission. Rodenberg's acceptance of
a salary , which he thinks ought to be
abolished , and his appointment to an
office whose operations he wanted to
stop by withholding the "supplies , " con
stitute as grotesquely absurd an inci
dent as anything that can bo recalled
in American political life. It moves the
New York World to say :
"President McKinley has apparently
given civil service reform another back
ward turn. He has appointed to the
vacant commissionership ox-Congress
man Rodeuberg , of Illinois , one of the
politicians loft 'out of a job' by the
people , and who , as ho couldn't be
'taken care of as he desired to bo , with
an appointment as one of the St. Louis
World's Fair Commissioners , was given
'something almost as good' in the civil
service lino.
"Mr. Rodenberg's peculiar fitness for
this place and his sympathy with reform
are indicated by the vote that he cast in
the house a year ago with seventy-six
other members to strike out the appro
priation for the support of the commis
sion in which he now finds a refuge with
a salary.
' 'Poor old civil service reform is having
a hard time ! "
In setting the reform on foot , Mr. Mc-
Kinley's presidential predecessors wore
careful to select for the commission
persons who were not virulently hostile
to a non-partisan civil service. Had the
commission been composed wholly of
Rodenbergs the civil service reform
would have died at its birth ; and sure
death awaits it if the commission is to
be conducted and controlled by the
