Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-05-11
The owl Service RnIes

The New York Times publishes draft of
the new civil service rules which have been
submitted by the civil service commission to
the President, and are understood to meet
with his approval. The first two rules for
bid any official to use his influence to coerce
the political action of any person Or body or
to interfere with any election, and declare
that no person in the service shall be re-
moved or preiudiced in any way for failure
to contribute to any political fund or to rem
der any political service. This is a reaflirma-
ton of the principles of the civil service act
and forms proper starting point for the de-
tailed rules which follow.
The branches of the service affected by
the act are defined in three groups; "The
classified service at Washington" comprising
the departments at Washington; "The CLASH
fed customs service, comprising the offices
classified under any collector, naval officer,
surveyor or appraiser in any customs district !;
and 1.-The classified postal service, compris-
ing the Offices classified at any post Office in
GLIDING Washington. The customs districts,
which, by reason of having as many as fifty
officials come under the rules, are New York,
Boston, Philadelphia San Francisco, Balti-
more, New Orleans, Chicago, Burlington,
this state, Portland Me-, Detroit and Port
Huron. The post offices are Albany, Balti-
more, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit Indianapolis,
Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, Newark,
New Orleans New York, Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Providence, Rochester, st. Louis, San
Francisco and Washington. 1t is provided
that the open competitive examinations for
applicants for admission to or promotion in
the public service shall be practical and shall
have regard, as far as may be, to the special
duties required. The general examinations
for admission are limited to penmanship,
copying and letter-writing arithmetic, fund
amental rules fractions and pc rcentage; in
terest, discount and elements of book keep
ing and of accounts elements of the Eng
fish language, especially photography and the
proper construction of sentences and ele-
ments of the geography, history and govern
mont of the United States. The applicant
must attain ct least Go per cent. in the first
three groups of subjects, and at least 80 per
cent. in the last two. The commission is
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first two groups of subjects, in competition
for places in which lower degree of educa-
ton will suffice, or to hold higher grade ex-
aminations as a test of fitness for special
place or branch of the service No dsclos-
ure is to be allowed of the religious or polti-
cal opinions of the applicants; but every ap-
plicant is required to make oath to sundry
faptg fbapn moral cbar
health, capacity and qualification under the
clause forbidding the appointment of any
person hsbtually using intoxicating bever-
ages to excess. For the classified postal SER
vice applicants must not be under 1G or over
81 years, for the classified customs service or
the classified service at Washington they
must not be under Is or over 40 years, and
no one under 21 years can be examined for
customs inspector. The maximum limitations
of age do not apply in the case of persons
honorably discharged from the army or ma
val service during the last war, and otherwise
qualified.
Provisions are made for examinations at
convenient points in the several states and
territories, and for observing as far as posi-
BILE the apportionment of appointments.
When vacancy occurs, the three highest
names on the register of the commission or
examining board are to be sent to the officer
having the power of appointment, from
which they may select one-sex being disre-
garded, unless the officer designates from
which sex he desires an applicant. Original
appointments are to be for probationary
period of six months, at the end of which
time the appointment shall be made absolute
if the probationer gives satisfaction. Final
ly, any violation of these rules, or of the Sec
tions of the civil service act relating to polit-
ical assessments, is declared to be good cause
for removal.