The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-08
The Practical Working of the Rules Will
Prevent the appointment of Women
in the Departments.
Official Statement Of the Number Of
Hostile Apaches.
Ex-Secretary Blaine and His New Book
The Future of Senator Cameron
Notes and Gossip.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Local Examiners Appointed : Instructions
for Applicants.

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for Applicants.
WASHINGTON, June THE civil-service
commission announced the following addi-
tional local boards of examiners: Post
office, Chicago, NJ. j. McGrath, E. P. Upham,
w. D. Rawlins Custom-house, Chicago.
Frank G. Green, Augustus s. Campbell,
Charles D. Stone. Postofice, Milwaukee,
Hamilton Shedy, John Lane, Jerome B.
johnson. Postofice, Detroit Frederick
Woolfen, Stephen J. Griggs, Charles Swan.
Custom-house, Detroit, H. G. Christiancy,
William Garrett, F. A. Blades. Custom
house, Port Huron, Frank Whipple, Edgar
G. Spaulding, George G. Vandlstein. The
civil-service commission gives notice that
competitive examinations for admission to
the public service will be held on June 15
and July at the following places: Chicago,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit indianapolis,
Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee, New
Orleans, Pittsburs, Port Huron, St. Louis
and San Francisco. Any person wishing to
be examined at either of said places for
service in any department in Washington
should send written request to the civil
service commission at that place for the
proper application blank, which will be sup
piled.
The Working of the Rules Will Prevent the
Appointment of Women.
Washington Special.
1t has been decided that the practical work
ings of the civil-service commission will
effectually prevent the future appointment
of ladies to positions in the various depart
ments, and there is no little stir in conse-
quence. Indeed, so furious does the assault
promise to be by the champions of the
women workers that it seems doubtful
whether Mr.. Eaton will not have to apply to
the President at an early day for change in
the famous rules that were so long a bug
bear and puzzle to the reformers and the
cabinet. The way the ladies are to be kept out
is a roundabout one, but none the less effect
ual. For example, the appointment clerk
will, when occasion requires, inform the Sec
retary of the Treasury that there are say ten
vacancies in such and such divisions of va
rious grades. The Secretary will then re-
quire the chiefs of the divisions in question
to certify to him what additional hel p they
need. They will do SO, certifying to him
that they need, respectively, two 81, 200 clerks,
five S., 900 clerks, and three 5000 clerks, and
in every case they will insert the word
"male." The commission will then send to
the Secretary list of names, without giving
their residence or any other particulars, ex-
cept their standing at the competitive exam
ination, from which to choose, Four names
will be furnished tor each vacancy, and
nothing but chance will determine which
shall be taken, unless the Secretary should
think best to take always those who stood
highest to the last decimal, or should happen
to know some of the applicants per-
sonally. He will not be supposed to
know who has indorsed any of them, nor
their residence, all papers being kept by the
commission, and any knowledge he may
have will be of surreptitious nature under
Mr.. Eaton's rules. All he is to know is that
the commission certifies that the names are
of such persons as are believed to be suited
to work he has to do. The Secretary will
select and notify the commission that he has
appointed such and such persons to places
for which they were recommended for
probationary period of six months, and the
first lot of red tape is measured. The reason
that all the chiefs of divisions will call for
male clerks is that they feel at liberty to sub
ject them to discipline, and are not so sub
ject to the influence OF sympathy in their
case as with ladies' There may be other
reasons, but the fact remains and is SO recog-
nized at the departments, that the operation
of the rules will result in excluding female
clerks after the new custom goes into vogue.