New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-27
APPOINTMENTS IN TIE TREASURY.
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WAsHINGToN March 2G.-The system OF civil
service rules which is be adopted for the Treasury
Department has for It's legal basis the following SEC
ton of the Revised Statues:
SEC. 16l No clerk shall be appointed N any depart
reut in either OF the four classes above designated uHl
!e has been examined and Ionnd qdai.d ni D.i'H Ol
three examiners, to CONSIST OF Tue clti 90 We @
Office into which sIch clerk 10 DE aP'GhlcL ana tHV
other clerks 10 DC selected ny lhc heau OF the ueV
mcnt.
This section was passed March 3, 1893. 1t was
followed in the Treasury Department during !'or-
ton of the war and for sometime subsequently be-
fore the Grant civil service system was introduced
1t was dsregarded most OF the other departments,
the appointments in whcA were made for political
reasons, without any examination of any sort, not
withstandng the law explicit that cXaailnations
should be had The law does not prescribe any
such system as that which President Grant has
recently characterized as one of " blackboard
examination" 1t simply left the method OF exami-
nation to the hoard of examiners. 1t seems not TO
be the present intention of the Administration to
adopt much more definite rules than are prescribed
by this section. The legal basis upon which the
new system is rest is the section above quoted and
the resolution of the XLlIId Congress declaring that
other things being equal, soldiers should be given
the preference in appointments.
TIRE CODE OF RULES ANNOUNCED TO GOVERN THEM.
WAsHINGToN, March 26.-Thc Secretary OF
the Treasury to-day issued the following regulations
governing the appointment ana employment Oh persons
in the Treasury Department:
First: The force employed in the Department ana N
each Division aud Bureau VIII DC cafeIly Alittd 10
the and grade fixed by law and the appropria-
Second When the law does not fix the number or com
pensatOn employees IN the case OF temporary CLERKS
or persons paid from appropriations for specific pui-
poses number at no time snail exceed we demands
OF tue service the compensation shall not exceed the
rates paid similar service in pIlVd ESTABLISHMENTS
Third Each head Of Bureau in this Department VIII
he strictly holden 10 the enforcement OF the foregoing
res and Will report in writing this Office within ten
days and from time TO time thereafter the names OF al
persons employed under his direction, who by reason OF
inconpetency bad habits. neglect OF duty, or any DINER
cause ought to be retained longer III te service.
Also those whose services no longer required LOT te
conduct of business ntrustcd To their charge when
vacancy in any grade above that of Class One occurs IN
any Bureau, and the pubic service requires that ~
sb1uId he filled the head Bureau will report In
writing 10 this Office the names VI me persons OF oNer
grade, who, by reason O industry mtegily ana compe-
{ency are most deserving OF recognition ny promotion
fourth Appointments TO this department OF tempo,
rary clerks Will hereafter he made only for limited
time not exceed the exigency wnlcl calls I9r tler
employment, the reIOd oi sefNice " "e s'"0u III "0
'E EGb HarrafIer no person will be appointed
ployed IN this department unless written application
Tor the appointment or employment, and al papers ana
Pef, lam hn ed IN the appoinIment
division OF this Office and merely VeiDa Applications or
recommendations for appointment OF piomouoh VIII not
SIN Under the requirement OF the Joint resolution
NJ Congress approved March B. 1865, preference Tor APP
pontment win necessarily be gwen 10 hon0faoy us
charged soldiers sailors OF the United states ana
uder the provisions Of the act OK March 1870 direct
~ The an0inmeuts OF this department To be ar
ranged as to equally distributed between the several
states of the United States the Territories ana the DIS
trct Of Columbia according TO population, no PERSON
whose legal residence Is In any DIVISION OF the country
above mentioned which has received already us i mum
her of apponmens, accordance with the Distribution
directed can be appointed IN ms department. am al ar
v the vi section 1884, Revised Statutes OF the
United states.