The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Civil_Service_Reform_Act" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act">Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act</a>, establishing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Civil_Service_Commission" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Civil Service Commission">United States Civil Service</a>, is enacted by Congress.<sup about="#mwt106" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-18" id="mwwA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwwQ">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt103" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFAdkins2008">Adkins, Randall E. (2008). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=P6E5DQAAQBAJ" id="mwCCk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCCo">The Evolution of Political Parties, Campaigns, and Elections: Landmark Documents, 1787-2007</i></a>. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. p.<span id="mwCCs" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>112. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCCw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCC0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780872895782" id="mwCC4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780872895782"><bdi id="mwCC8">9780872895782</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt103" class="Z3988" id="mwCDA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Evolution+of+Political+Parties%2C+Campaigns%2C+and+Elections%3A+Landmark+Documents%2C+1787-2007&amp;rft.place=Washington%2C+D.C.&amp;rft.pages=112&amp;rft.pub=CQ+Press&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=9780872895782&amp;rft.aulast=Adkins&amp;rft.aufirst=Randall+E.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DP6E5DQAAQBAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>