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THE WHITE HOUSE,
WASHINGTON.
February 28, 1906.
My dear Mr. . Secretary:
The President finds that he has been making
a number of exceptions to the classified service
in the matter of appointments recently. He does
not desire to do so any more and he requests that
each Department endeavor for the remainder of this
year to get on without making any such exceptions.
Then at the end of the year he wishes a report made
to him if there are any specially moritorious cases
as to which exceptions should be made. The diffi-
culty is that while in each case there seoms to be
a good reason for the exception, and as a matter of
fact there is a good reason if that case is taken
by itself, the cases in the aggregate tend to mount
up to an improper degree.
Sincerely yours,
thank Secretary
to the President.
Hon. E. A. Hitchcock,
Secretary of the Interior.
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