U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois September 15, 1897 (Carr v. Gordon)

JENKINS, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The importance of the question presented, and the far-reaching effect of the conclusion which may ultimately be reached with respect to it, require the careful statement of the provisions of law which hedge about and govern the civil service of the United States, so far as they may have bearing upon the particular question upon which the