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But those urged by the other gentlemen, neither time, effort, nor State Constitutions could enable us to meet, unless, by a liberal interpretation of the amendment, a coat of mail to be worn at the polls might be judged all-sufficient. Mr. Jenckes and Mr.
Thomas A. Jenckes of Rhode Island introduced a bill in the House "to regulate the civil service of the United States."
Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, and other men of much ability, were appointed on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Special committees were appointed on the important subjects of Bankruptcy and the Freedmen. Of the committee on the former, Thomas A. Jenckes was appointed chairman. Thomas D. Eliot, of Massachusetts, was made chairman of the Committee on the Freedmen.
In 1864, he was re-elected to his seat, and in that term was made a member of the Standing Committee on Appropriations, and retained his former position on the Committee on Bankruptcy, the chairmanship of which was held by Mr. Jenckes.
The people of the predominant party generally acquiesced in the opinion of Mr. Jenckes, as expressed in the conclusion of his remarks as above presented. They conceived that the difference between the various views of the whole question was "one of details and not of essence." The question of reconstruction was purely practical.
Alley, Benjamin, Boutwell, Eliot, Higby, Jenckes, Julian, Kelley, Loan, McClurg, Paine, and Williams. The announcement of the passage of the joint resolution was greeted with demonstrations of applause on the floor and in the galleries. On the day succeeding this action in the House, the joint resolution came up for consideration in the Senate.
Raymond's Theory Rebel States still in the Union Consequences of the Radical Theory Conditions to be Required State Sovereignty Rebel Debt Prohibition of Slavery Two Policies contrasted Reply of Mr. Jenckes Difference in Terms, not in Substance Logic of the Conservatives leads to the Results of the Radicals.
He also showed that money was being raised to secure the enactment of the bill, and Mr. Spalding, of the Cleveland district, was prompted by Mr. Jenckes to 'sit down on him. But Gen. Garfield was not to be silenced easily and quite a scene ensued.
In brief, his plan provided for the appointment of employees in the public service on the basis of ability, determined by competitive examinations. After a time Jenckes and his associates achieved considerable success and finally interested President Grant in their project.
Jenckes remarked: "I was alluding to another one. Some of the Southern States, up to the breaking out of the war, had constitutions which prescribed a property qualification.
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