McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-25

confirmed by the Senate) as follows:
i. Those classified in the depart
ments at Washington shall be desig-
mated The Classified Departmental
Service"
2. Those classified under any collec-
tor, naval officer, surveyor, or APP
praiser in any customs district, shall
be designated 1.-The Classified Gus
toms Service"
3. Those classified under any post
master at any post office, including
that at Washington, shall be desig-
mated The Classified Postal Service"
4. The Classified Customs Service
shall embrace the several customs dis
tricts where the officials are as many
as fifty, now the following: New York
City, n. Y; Boston, Mass; Philadel-
phia, Pa; San Francisco, Cal; Balti-
more, Md; New Orleans, La; CHI
cago, H.; Burlington, Vt; Portland,
Me-; Detroit, Mich; Port Huron
Mich
5. The Classified Postal Service shall
embrace the several post-otlices where
the officials are as many as fifty, now
the following: Albany, n. Y; Balti-
more, Md; Boston, Mas; Brooklyn,
N. Y; Buffalo, N. Y; Chicago, ILL.,;
Cincinnati, o.; Cleveland, o.; Detroit,
Mich; Indianapolis. Ind; Kansas
City, Mo-; Louisville, Ky; Milwaukee,
Wis; Newark, N. j.; New Orleans,
La; New York City, N. Y; Philadel-,
phia, Pa; Pittsburg, Pa; Providence,
X. l.; Rochester, N. Y; ST. Louis,
Mo-; San Francisco, CAL; Washing
ton, ID. G..
NUMBER OF OFFICES TO BE FILLED.
According to the first report of the
Civil-Service Commission, which was
made Jan. 16, 1864:
The number of places included in
the classified departmental service Cat
Washington), and consequently to be
filled from those certified on the basis
of the examinations, is, as nearly as
we can ascertain, 1852.
The classification of the customs Of
fees to which the act at first extends
was made by the Secretary of the Treas
ury on the Goth of March, 1888, into
five classes, of which those in the low
est receive an annual compensation of
5000 and the highest Excluding those
confirmed by the Senate) receiving
salary of 81, 800 or over. The number
of places thus classified in the customs
service at the eleven ports and twenty
five customs offices to which it extends I
is in all 2,573.
A classification of those in the post
offices to which the act at first ex-
tends was made by the postmaster
general into four classes on the 4th day
of April, 1888. The highest class en-
braces those who receive an annual
compensation of $1,000 or over and
the lowest those who receive a COM
pensation of $500 or less, but the lat
ter includes no person employed
merely as laborer or workman. The
whole number of places embraced
within this classification at the twenty
three post-offices (being the largest in
the Uniom was Dan. l, 1889, 5000.
In the three branches of the CLASH
fed service therefore the number of
places to be filled on the basis of COM
petitive examinations is in the aggre-
gate Is 1924. The increase since made,
in the classified service carries the
number above $4,000.
This corresponds to the statement
recently made by Senator Pendleton-
that the Civil-Service law applies to
only about fourteen thousand places
under the government. The whole
number of persons employed in the
United States is about one hundred
and ten thousand, of whom large
proportion are laborers or workmen.
There are about forty-nine thousand
postmasters and there are about five
thousand men in the railway mail
service and five thousand more in the
internal-revenue service outside of
Washington. AT present the Civil
Service law applies only to offices that
have as many as fifty clerks. Whether
it shall extend to those that have less
depends entirely upon the President,
as ample authority is conferred upon
the President by the third clause of the
sixth section OF the act to require the
new system to be extended to other
parts of the executive service when
ever, in the light of the experience
gained, the public advantage is likely
to be promoted thereby"
AS yet the law has not been applied
to the diplomatic service, to the
United States minis, nor to the rail-
way postal service, but the Commits
SloHeIS dle NOW preparing W nave IL
extended to all these. If they sue
ceed, the places to be filled according
to the regulations of the Civil-Service
law will be very largely increased. 1t
may be said that this endeavor will de-
pend entirely for its success on the dis
position of the new President.
HOW PLACES ARE OBTAINED.
Since the bulk CT the office, to which
the Civil-Service law now applies are
to be filed by candidates who have
passed successfully San open, COM
petitive examination" it will appear
at once that these examinations come
to be of great Importance. Rule of
the Commission provides that
ri. The general examinations for
admission to the service shall be linn