The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-28

The civil service reform bill finally
amended and passed, is, in its full text as
follows:
BILL TO REGULATE AND IMPROVE THE
IL-sERvICE- OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS, Common justice requires
that, so far aspracticable, all citizens duly
qualified shall be allowed equal opportuni-
ties on the ground of personal fitness for
securing appointment, employment and
promotion in the subordinate civil-service
of the United States, and
WHEREAS, Justice, to the public like
wise requires that the government shall
have the largest choice among those likely
to answer the requirements of the public
service and
WHEREAS, Justice as well as economy
efficiency of integrity in the public service
will be promoted by substituting and
uniform competitive examinations for the
examinations heretofore held, in pursuance
of the statutes of 1858 and 1855.
Therefore, Be it enacted by the senate
and house of representatives of the United
States; American congress assembled:
Sec. /. That the president is author
lied to appoint, by and with the consent Of.
the senate. three persons, not more than
two of whom shall be adherents of the
same party, as civil-service commissioners,
aud said three commissioners shall con
stitute the United States ciyil-service com
mission
SEC, 2. Said commissioners shall hold
no other official place under the United
States.
SEC. 3. The president may remove any
commissioner, and any vacancy in the
position of the commission shall be so
filed by the president, by and with the
consent of the senate, and to conform to
said conditions for the first selection of
commissioners.
Sec. a. The commissioners shall each
receive salary of %, 500 year, and each
of said commissioners shall be paid for
his necessary travelling expenses, incurred
in the discharge of his duty as a commits
sioneF
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said
commissioner to aid the president, as he
may request, in preparing suitable rules
for earring this act into effect, and when
said rules shall have been promulgated lit
shall be the duty of all the officers of the i
United States, in the departments and
offices to which any such rules may relate,
to aid in all proper ways in carrying said
rules, and any modification thereof into
effect; and among other things said rules
shall provide and declare, as nearly as the
conditions of good administration will
warrant, as follows
Fdrst-For open competitive examina |
tions for testing the fitness of applicants |
for the service now classified, or 60 be
classified here under, that such examina-
tions shall be practical in their character, |
and so far as may be, shall relate TO these |
matters which will fairly test the relative |
capacity and fitness of the person exarnin-
ed to discharge the duties of the service |
into which they seek to be appointed.
Second. That all offices, places and EN- /
pleyments, so arranged or to be arranged |
in classes, shall be filed by selections, |
according to grade, from among those
graded highest as the results of such com
petitive examinations.
Third.-That the appointments to the
public service aforesaid, in the depart
ments at Washington, shall be apportioned
among the several states and territories
and the District of Columbia, upon the
basis of population, as aseertained at the
last preceding census, and every applica- Z