Thependletonact课题.pptx

;;;;CONTENT;;George Plunkitt, a local leader of New York Citys Democratic Party, defended the spoils system, through which elected politicians filled government jobs with their friends and supporters. You cant keep an organization together without patronage, he declared. Men aint in politics for nothin. They want to get somethin out of it. ;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;点击添加标题;A short introtuction;Structure;First, for open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public service now classified or to be classified here- under. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.;Structure;SEC. 13. No officer or employee of the United States mentioned this act shall discharge, or promote, or degrade, or in manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten so to do, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any political purpose.;Structure;Fourth, that there shall be a period of probation before any absolute appointment or employment aforesaid.;Structure;3;Structure;Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census. Every application for an examination shall contain, among other things, a statement, under oath, setting forth his or her actual bona fide residence at the time of making the application, as well as how long he or she has been a resident of such place. ;;