The third has been a cigar maker but does not pretend to know anything about the tobacco business except a little experience in making cigars from tobacco purchased by others, and that in a very small way. He is in my judgment wholly unprepared to protect the revenues of the government against the frauds continually attempted by unscrupulous importers, who pursue the line of least resistance, and bring their tobacco to the port where deception is least likely to be detected. He is equally unprepared to protect the honest importer from competition with the unscrupulous. In kindness but in honesty let me say that the man who conducted the examinations has no conception whatever of the qualifications needed in a tobacco examiner.... These applicants may be nice men, and they may wear good clothes, and they may speak good English, and may be men of integrity, but no one of them is fit to hold the very important position to which he aspires, and for the simple reason that he knows nothing at all about the only thing he needs to know anything about, to-wit: Tobacco! Very respectfully, LESLIE M. SHAW. The balance of the correspondence is unimportant in view of the Commission’s statement in its letter of Dec. 9, 1905, quoted page 173, that after three examinations the President on request had excepted one tobacco examiner and the place had been filled independent of examinations. APPENDIX D Correspondence between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Civil Service Commission _in re_ Trial Lawyers. Treasury Department, Sept. 20, 1905. To the Civil Service Commission: Gentlemen: I wish you would hold an examination for special agents at the earliest possible moment. As I explained to your Mr. —— the other day, the Department needs some special agents with legal training. Not all special agents need legal training, but there are many times when cases have to be prepared for presentation to the Board of General Appraisers, or to the Court, where legal experience is almost essential. I will give you an illustration: Not long ago I needed to send a man to Europe to investigate alleged undervaluations in crockery and chinaware. I had the matter investigated by three special agents and special employees with no satisfactory results. They did not know what was essential, and did not seem to know evidence when they saw it. I then appointed an experienced lawyer as special employee and sent him over. The evidence he collected ought to secure a fifty percent advance on these goods.