The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-27
uEppES,s RETURN.
To Plnd the Civil service Question Nor
Troublesome Than Ever.

To Plud the Civil service Question More
Troublesome Than Ever.
NEw YoRs, August 26.-Collector He'd:
den returned to hisoffics to-day from his
briet season Of political wire;pulling at
Saratoga. A p.culiar circumstance is
Just now agitating the Collectors Office.
Section 4ot Rule 16of the Presidents
regulation has been quoted in the case Of
costisau, who passed an examination, but
whose name has not been t9rwadred TO
the appointing powers by the Civil Ser
vice Examiners.
The Collector claims that another por-i
tion OF the same section has been set
aside by the Civil Service Commission. a
portion OF the section says: Nor shall
any one remain eligible more than one
year upon any register, except as may be
provided by regulation Its claimed in
the Collectors office that the last exatai-
nation made Of the candidates for clerk-
ships was in October, 1884, and the list
wonld haye BECOME imperative next Dc.
tober. Bya special regulation from the
Civil Service Commission this October
Ilist was extended to next January. This
special regulation was passed two
days before Mr.. Hedden enter
| ed upoa his duties, and he
claims Il at 1t is illegal, as the regulation
fixing the term for one year was made by,
tne President, and overrldes any rsgula.'
| ton made by the Commission, which is,
underthe not, subordinate to the Presi.
dent. From this alleged illegal apt Of the
Commission he Is debarred from making
any changes except by selecting from the
extended list. Mr.. Hedden said that he
did not care TO discass the question of the
appointment OF civil service examiners,
nor any other questions that have arisen
| In the conduct OF the custom house, until
he had talked with Commissioner Eaton.
Mr.. Eaton was not at the custom house
to-day, apdit isprobable that he will not
visit lie city uitil to.m9Yoy. The case
OF Mr.. Costigan has given rise to consider.
able discussion among the officers and
clerks in the custom house. Said one
oiEice-holder:
f"Itis certainly a question that interests
every one anxious 70 see the civil service
rules carried on infthe spirit. Here Is q
man who passes q better examination
than, any OF those examined atthe same
time; yet because the immediate prede.
oRasor OF the Collector refuses TO appoint
him after his Aaue has hsetl forwarded
four times, his nameis not again sent In,
and the new Collector has no way Of show:
| ing that his name Is among the list oi
1 those eligible for appointment. In this
special case Judge Robertson had, no
II ,ia,hk t,rnd raasnI1a q in5hfR NUN mind for
refusing to appoint this man, bat the rule
might easily work great harm. Suppose
that q dozen applicants on the eligible
Hist Of candidates should be referred 70 Q
Collector for appointments four times
Iwithin d month OF two OF the Splfatipn
tef his term Of Office. For political reasons,
he might reject oil ol these names,
and, according 10 this rule, they, could
not be put forward again until hey had
passed another examination, \, OF tie new
\ Collector should ask specially for theil
names The new Collector might, Us u
1.-THE present case, be of the opposite
faith, and these men who had
been jeeled might he Just the men hs
lwefe on the eligible list, although III
Iwouldihaye no wayot gaining that inlor
mation. 0i course, alter o Collector ha.
'rsjected the application Of 4 man foul
times, there is III ne use sending his nalnl
IN again but what 1 elaimis, that an IN
eomhig Collector representing . changeii
lthe administration should be Furnished
with afnll list Of alltheapplicants onih
civil service list Tor any position under hi
control.