Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-01-02

SS"e"io, VIZ Anoio ouioiy promote
purity and efficiency Of the civil serv.
ice the country most earnestly de-
sires. 1T that sanction should be de-
layed, the rules adopted for his action
by the President could not bind his
successor; but unless we are wholly
mistaken. reform would SO vindicate
itself to the good sense of the coun-
try that the people themselves would
reject any party or any candidate
that proposed TO relapse into the
present practice. The improvement
of the civil service is emphatically
the peoples cause, the peoples re-
form, and the Administration which
vigorously begins it will acquire a
glory only less than that of the sal.
vatiou Of the free Union"
(Signed),
GEORGE w. CURTIS,
ALEX. G. CATTELL.
JOSEPH MEDILL,
DAVIDSON @. WALKER.
Z. b. ELLIOTT,
JOSEPH IL. BLACKBOARD,
DAVID c. cox.
The following are the rules sub
mltted by the Commissioners
!: No person shall be admitted 10 any no.
sition IN the civil service within the appoint-
nent OF the President or heads of departments.
who IS not citizen Of the United States, who
shall not have furnished satisfactory examin-
ation IN speaking, reading and writing the
English language
2. An advisory board of suitable persons
10 De employed by the President under the
ninth section OF the act of March 3, 1871, en-
tillea IAN act making appropriations for sun
dry clVli expenses OF the government for the
ilscai year ending June 80, 1872, and for 9TH
eI purposes snail, SO far as practicable,
group The positions in each branch of the Of
hclal service, according 10 the character of
the duties to be performed, and each grade
shall group from the lowest TO the highest.
ior me purpose OF promotion within the group.
| Admission to the civil service she'll ALWAYS
be TO the lowest grade of any group and 10
such positions as cannot be grouped or gra-
ded, admission shall be determined as proyid-
ed for the lowest grade.
3, vacancy occurring in the lowest
grade oil any group of officers shall be filled,
alier due public notice, from all applicants
VINO shall present themselves, and who shall
nave furnished evidences, and satisfied the pre-
urinary examination already mentioned, and
who.shall have passed public competitive ex-
animation to test their knowledge, ability and
| special qualifications for the performance OF
| Tue duties ofthe office. The Board conduct
Ing such competitive examination shall pre-
| pare Under the names of Supervision of the adj
Vlsory Board list of applicants in the order
! Oh their excellence, as proved by such exam
lnation, beginning with the highest, and shall
then certify TO the nominating or appointing
| power, as the case may be, the names stand
ING at the head of such list, not exceeding
'hIee, and from the names there certified the
appointment shall be made.
d vacancy occurring in any grade of a
group OF officers above the lowest shall be
hiled by competitive examination of appli-
cants from other grades of that group, and
! me list OF names from which the appointment
IS 10 be made shall be prepared and certified
as provided in the proceeding rule; but if no
such applicants are found competent, the APP
| pointment shall be upon an examination of all
| applicants, conducted in accordance with the
| provisions for admis sion to the lowest grade.
.: Applicants, certified or otherwise
| quallhed Tor appointment as Cashiers, Col
| iectors, Customs Cashiers, Assistant Treas
urers, .Postmasters, Superintendent of the
Money Order Division in Post Offices, and
such other custodians of large sums of money
as may hereafter be designated by the Adyis-
DRY Board, and for whose pecuniary fidelity
another officer is responsible, shall never:he
less, not be appointed, except with the APP
proval of such other Office.
3. A postmaster, whose annual salary is
less than 5000 may be appointed upon wri-
ten request of applicants, with such evidence
of character ard fitness as shall be satisfacto-
ryto the head of the Department,
/ ha rs -.
the civil service in accordance with these reg
ulations, excepting persons appointed by the
President, by and with the advice and consent
OF The Senate, appointments OF Postmasters,
and persons appointed to any position in a
foreign country, shall be made for the proba-
honary term of six months, during which the
conduct and capacity of such persons shall be
tested, and If, at the end of such probationa-
ry term, satisfactory proofs of their fitness
shall have been furnished by the Board OF
Examiners to the head o. the department in
which they shall have been employed dur
ing the said term, they shall be reappointed.
8. The President will designate three per-
sons in each department of the public service
to serve as Board of Examiners, which, un-
der the supervision of the Advisory Board,
and under the regulations TO be prescribed
by ii, and at such times and places as it NAV
determine, shall conduct personally, or by
persons approved by the Advising Board, all
Investigations and examinations for a1mis-
sion into said departments, or for promotion
therein.
8. Any person who, after long and faith
full service in department, shall be incapa-
ciated by mentally or bodily inhrmities for
the efficient discharge of the duties of his po-
sition, may be appointed by the head of the
department at his discretion, to position ei
less responsibility in the same department.
10. Nothing in the rules shall prevent the
| appointment of aliens TO positions in the Con-
sular service. which by reason of small COM
pensation or of other official cause, are, in
the judgement of;he appointing power, nee
essarily so filled, nor the appointment of such
persons within the United States as are in
dispensable TO the proper discharge of the
dutie, of certain positions, but who may not
be familiar with the English language, or le-
galy capable of naturalization.
IL. No head of department or subordinate
officer of the government shall, as such officer,
| authorize or permit, or assist in levyng any
assessment or money for political imposes I'M
der the form of voluntary contribution or 9TH
erwise, upon any person employed under his
control, nor shall. any such person pay any
money so assessed.
~. The Advisory Board shall at any time
recommend to the President such changes in
| luSse IuleS as IL Iudy COnStueT necessary 10
secure greater efficiency of the civil service.
10. Fsom these rules are excepted the
heads of the Departments, Assistant Secreta-
ries of Departments, Assistant Attorney Gem
era, and First Assistant Postmaster General,
Solicitor General, Solicitor of the Treasury.
Naval Solicitor, Solicitor of Internal Revenue,
Examiner of Claims in the State Department,
| Treasurer of the United States. Register OF
the Treasury, First and Second Comptrollers
of the Treasury, Judges of the United States
Courts, District Attorneys, Private Secretary
Of the President, Ambassadors and other pub
lie Ministers, Superintendent of Coast SUI
ysy, Director of the Mint, Governors of Ter
ritories. Special Commissioners, Special An
nual Visiting and Examining Boards, persons
| appointed 10 positions without compensation
for services, Dispatch Agents and Bearers Of
Dispatches.
rN-Since Satan was kicked out Of
Heaven, there hasn't been such an
extraordinary tumblelas this ofJames
Hammond. Jr', in Providence. Be-
ing in the fourth story, aud also in
toxicated, he went over the railing