Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-09
WASHINGTON.

WAOulNUlON.
WARRINGTON, May 8.-Secretary Teller
says there was nothing in the presidents
order Saturday, extending the boundaries
Mexico, that could serve as foundation for
the opinion said to be entertained by
friends of Senator Logan that the order
it was sought to reach through his son-in-
law, Paymaster Tucker.
Rear Admiral Edmund R. Calhoun has
been placed on the retired list.
SLIGHT CHANGES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
RULES.
The civil service rules were this morn
ing approved by the President, substanti-
ally as printed on Friday last The rules
as approved are twenty-five in number.
The clause preliminary to the rules con-
tanning formal PRONUNCIATION is recast in
form so that it begins "The President" and
goes on to say that he hereby promulgates
the rules. Rules one, two, three and four
are unchanged. In rule five which pro-
vides for three classifcations of service,
the only change made is to call the first
elias ''the departmental service,'
instead of classified service at Washing
ton," the reason given being that the serv-
ice at the capityl Is all departmental
No changh has been made
in rule six in regard to competitive ex-
to take photography out of the fourth SUBJ
division and put it in the first and letter
writing out of the first subdivision and
mt ~ in tho fO11rth Tho b.
per cent. of complete proficiency in exam
ination is stricken out and Go left as the
per cent. to be attained. A trifing change
has been made in rule eight by adding
two words so that the rules now provide
that no question during examination shall
call for the expression of any political or
religious opinion or affiliations, nor if
known (these two words are added shall
any discrimination be made by reason
thereof. The words eff known" are
believed to make the rule more
pointed and emphatic. Rules nine and
ten are not changed. In rule eleven
slight modification is made, the fifth sub
division requiring the applicant to state
among other things to which he is required
to make both, his own moral character is
stricken out as it was believed best to al
low the commissioners to refuse recon-
mendations of applicants on the subject,
and in addition requiring the applicant to
state what he knows as to the employment
of other members OF his family in public
service, was made to the ~;1les during
the work of revision. In rule twelve the
only change is one made at tia suggestion
OF the custom officers, instead
of providing that one shall
be examined for customs inspector who
is under twenty-one years of age. It pro-
vides that no one be examined except for
clerk or messenger of under twenty one
years of age.
Rules ID, IA and Is are unchanged as
submitted. Rule Is provides that when
any officer shall make request for candi
dates to fill vacancy or vacancies the
commissioner shall certify three names to
be taken in order from the register of those
eligible, and the selection was to be made
from the three so certified. AS changed,
this rule provides that four instead of
three names shall be certified, and fur
Their change is made which provides that
those certified are to be the highest on the
list from the state for which the vacancy
is to be filed, instead of the first on the
list reported.
The sixth ub-division, limiting the power
of the commission so that they shall certify
to some person on the register only 8 times
to the same officer in postal or custom SER
vice and only twice to any department at
Washington remains the same as it was
originally reported. Nochanges have been
made in rules seventeen and eighteen.
In rule nineteen another clause is added
to proide that the heads of bureaus shall
be excepted from examinations under the
rules. 1t also excerpts all examinations for
promotion until the rules can be matured
to regulate such examination. The COM
missioners were of the opinion that it was
not time to promulgate this rule. Rules
twenty, twenty one and twenty-five remain
as originally submitted.