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There seems to be no other way to operate, because of the fact that there is a party problem involved, and it must be bi-partisan. You've got to have more than one person, or everybody thinks she's been cheated. The whole purpose of the Civil Service Commission, the Act and the Commission, was to take politics out of the appointment and assignment of people to their jobs, and have them appointed by the merit system, chosen by merit and assigned by merit

Mitchell was a Democrat, Flemming was a Republican--

And I was a Democrat. There cannot be more than two members of the same party, and you see, you have to have three because two might just have a stalemate all the time. It's been looked into dozens of times, and nobody can see any other way to do it. And it works out all right, if the people are amiable and fair to each other. You have considerable argument and then you vote, and that's that, and you abide by it.

The duties, of course, are to lay down the principles which shall guide the various departments in selection of personnel, of their various personnel; to set up the examinations by which they are examined before they come in; to provide the various departments with the appropriate lists of persons who have been examined in the past, and to see that they are referred in the order, in the legal order, which is