Letter from George B. Cortelyou to E. A. Hitchcock

This item is a letter regarding charges against Charles C. Goodale for violating the Civil Service Act. Also included is a letter from the Civil Service Commission to the President.

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IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO United States FILE No. Uinit Service Commission, AND DATE OF THIS LETTER, Address: "CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D. C." Washingtou, D. . To The President. Sir: The Civil Service Commission charges Charles C. Goodale, Surveyor General for the District of Colorado, with the following violations of the Civil Service Act and Rules, and of his official duty, to-wit: 1. That at divers times during the years 1900, 1901 and 1902, the said Charles C. Goodale, being then an executive officer of the United States, to-wit United States Surveyor General for the District of Colorado, at the city of Denver in the state of Colorado, was concerned in soliciting and receiving subscriptions and contributions for political purposes, both in the rooms and building occupied by said Surveyor General in the discharge of official duties and else- where, from certain clerks and employees of the Interior Department of the executive civil service of the United States, to-wit: Thomas S. Wilkes, Hildegard Ruh, Martha Ballard, Louis Nell, George E. Howard, Bertha Whittington Jones, Michael Howard, Ida V. Spindle, May Keily, Norton H. Brown, Anna Dawson, Minnie A. Lyon, F. E. Frantz, Ella C. Welsh, Ella G. Bodle, Grace F. Welles, Eva Nicholls, Hector C. Northington, William H. Andrews, George B. Slattery, Edwin