Excerpt from The Outlook, Vol. 67: A Weekly Newspaper, January-April, 1901 Representatives whose selections the President has ratified, and that while good men have been secured under this system, the vast majority of the appointees are active local politicians, who create a serious obstacle to the satisfactory administration of civil service rules. Among the Presi dential ofiices in the general branches the changes have been almost universal. In the consular service during the first year of the Administration more than ninety per cent. Of the salaried offices were refilled, and during the same period in the Indian service more than sixty-two per cent. Of the agents were changed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.