英语翻译President Arthur again appealed for civil service reform

英语翻译
President Arthur again appealed for civil service reform.This time,he got results.The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.This ten percent included half the officials in the Post Office Department.It included most workers at federal customs houses.
The bill also said it was illegal for politicians to ask government employees for campaign money.And it set up a civil service committee to enforce the new law.
VOICE TWO:
President Chester Arthur
President Arthur also found himself faced with an unusual problem.The government was earning more money than it needed.Most of the money came from tariffs -- taxes on imports.Each year,tariffs brought in one hundred million dollars more than the government needed.
The import taxes had been set high to protect American industries from foreign competition.President Arthur wanted to reduce the tariffs.Congress wanted to keep them high.Industrial leaders wanted to keep them high,too.They did not want to compete with low-priced foreign products.
VOICE ONE:
Congress saw no problem with the extra money brought in by high tariffs.It found many ways to spend it.
For example,Congress raised payments to soldiers who had fought in the Civil War during the eighteen sixties.It also approved money to build roads,bridges,and waterways throughout the country.Many of these things were not needed.They were approved for political purposes.They put government money into the home areas of powerful congressmen.
In eighteen eighty-two,Congress passed the "Rivers and Harbors bill." The bill would cost almost nineteen million dollars.President Arthur vetoed the bill.He said it would waste too much money.But Congress passed the bill into law over his veto.
VOICE TWO:
Next,President Arthur urged Congress to form a committee to find a way to reduce tariffs.Congress formed the committee.The committee proposed that tariffs be reduced by twenty percent.But Congress did not consider the
proposal when it began debating a new tariff bill.
President Arthur was more successful in getting Congress to reduce the public debt.During his term,the debt was cut by more than four hundred million dollars.
VOICE ONE:
Chester Arthur's efforts for honest government and lower taxes won him much support among the people.But he could not win the support of his Republican Party.
Arthur wanted to serve another four years in the White House.His name was put before the Republican nominating convention in eighteen eighty-four.The name of Senator James Blaine of Maine also was put before the convention.
On the first ballot,Blaine received three hundred thirty-four votes.Arthur got only two hundred seventy-eight.Three ballots later,Blaine won the presidential nomination.

亚瑟总统再次呼吁公务员制度改革.这一次,他得到的结果.新一届国会通过法案,要求所有联邦政府的职位,将通过竞争性考试来填补的10％公务员.这百分之十列入邮政局部的官员.它包括大部分工人在联邦海关.
该法案还表示,它是非法的政治家们要求政府雇员的竞选资金.它成立了公务员委员会,执行新的法律.
声音二：
总统切斯特.亚瑟
亚瑟总统也发现自己面临着一个不寻常的问题.政府赚取更多的钱比它需要.这些钱大部分来自关税 - 进口税.每年,关税带来了一亿美元以上,政府需要.
已成立的进口税高,以保护美国免受外国竞争的行业.亚瑟总统希望降低关税.国会希望保持他们的高.工业领导人希望保持他们的高了.他们不希望与国外产品低价竞争.
声音：
国会没有看到高关税所带来的额外的资金问题.它发现许多方面花钱.
例如,美国国会提出了争取在18六十年代曾在内战中的士兵支付.它还批准了钱,建立遍布全国的道路,桥梁,水道.这些东西很多没有必要的.他们被批准用于政治目的.他们把强大的国会议员的家乡地区政府的钱.
在十八82,美国国会通过的“河流和港口法案”该法案将耗资近一亿美元.亚瑟总统否决该法案.他说,这会浪费太多钱.但是,美国国会通过成为法律,他否决该法案.
声音二：
接下来,亚瑟总统敦促国会成立一个委员会,以找到一种方法来降低关税.国会组成的委员会.委员会建议,减少百分之二十的关税.但国会没有考虑
建议时,它开始一个新的关税法案进行辩论.
亚瑟总统获得国会,以减少公共债务,更成功.在他的任期,由四百多亿美元的债务被削减.
声音：
切斯特.亚瑟的党风廉政建设和降低税收努力为他赢得了人民的支持.但他却无法赢得他的共和党的支持.
亚瑟想在白宫为另一个四年.他的名字被共和党提名大会前,在十八八十四.缅因州的参议员詹姆斯·布莱恩的名字也被放在之前的惯例.
布莱恩在第一轮投票中,获得三个一百三十四个票.亚瑟了只有两百七十八个.三轮投票后,布莱恩赢得总统候选人提名.
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