Today marks 100 years to the day that Britain joined the First World War.
The United States Civil Service Commission was a government agency of the federal government of the United States which was created to select employees of federal government on merit rather than relationships.resident Hayes' successor, James A. Garfield, advocated Civil Service reform, but was assassinated by a rejected office seeker, Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau wanted a job via the spoils system, also known as patronage.
By the 1830s the spoils system meant the systematic replacement of office holders every time the government changed party hands. The Civil Service Reform Act is an 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission.It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called  spoils system ..he Civil Service Reform Act is an 1883 federal law that abolished the United States Civil Service Commission.