Utopia?

Senator James Couzens of Michigan made a proposal. He drafted it into a bill and presented it to the Senate. He did not say that he expected it to be

passed.

His bill makes the use of political influence in the appointment and promotion of Federal employes a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for six months, or both. This applies to Congressmen, Senators, Cabinet officers, chief clerks, etc. The selection of District Judges, District Attorneys, Collectors of Internal Revenue and Customs, Federal Marshals and their secretaries would not come under the bill. The shades of Plato, Sir Thomas More, Samuel Butler, sighed that none of them had conceived so Utopian an ordinance.