First, for Open, Competitive Examinations for Testing the Fitness of Applicants

First, for open, competitive examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for the public service now classified or to be classified hereunder. Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Second, that all the offices, places, and employments so arranged or to be arranged in classes shall be filled by selections according to grade from among those graded highest as the results of such competitive examinations.
Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census….
--Pendleton Act, 1883
-Which of the following was system created by the Pendleton Act designed to address?

A) executive privilege -Consider This: Executive privilege pertains to the president releasing information.
B) the spoils system
C) division of labor within the government
D) bureaucratic slowdown in the government