Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-01
HOSTS AFTER OFFICE.
A Civil ServiCs MOdifiCatlont0 GiVs
All q Fair Show.
APPLICANTS DROPPED FROM RECORD
TO Give Those Patriots in the Rear
Show for Their White
Allies.

Show for Their White
Allies.
. WAsHTSGToS, December 3l-Commis-
s;oner Eaton has ust made the following
report relative to dropping applicants from
the Civil Service records:
2 81, was snticlpated when The Civil Ser
vice examinations we're provided for hat
the time would come when, Tor various
States and offices, there should be SO great
and needless number of applicants as to
make necessary some limis Of the time
they should be allowed to retain their
places Don the recos1 books Kept of those
seeking - De examined. AS the commission
is required with certain small exceptions
to notify ali applicants :o- examination in
the order Of entry Of their names upon
these records it is plain that So large nun.
bers might in short time have their
usme5 entered therein as TO prevent for
years perhaps any other persons being
reached fo- examination, To ensble the
commission 10 prevep: 80 unreasonable
monopoly, rule Is authorizes it to provide
by regulation tor
DRoPPJys ECJ THE RECORDS
Applicants whose names have been thereon
ior slx months or more without having
been reached ia due course :or eSamina-
lion 4 regulation OF that kind, whils pre-
venting such monopoly, would allow
equal chances 10 all for being examined.
It auy of those dropped desire any chance
Of oeiug reached for examination they can
make an application to be entered on the
foot OF the record 1t hardly ueed be
stated
TIE oBJE,TO. EXAMINATIONS
,s not primarily 10 examine al of those
who may apply, however excessive the
numbers, but to give all applicants equal
opportunities for examination, and to ex.
amiga so many Of them ss are required 10
secure . sufficient number OF them to make
the selections Of number Of competent
persons for filing vacancies in the
pU0ac service. The number examined is
suse to be many times greater than the .
umber appointed. 1t would obviously
q waste OF the time Of examiners ard
l. adless labor 70 90 on with unlimited ex
a nations regardless Of the public needs
D. "hicn tho chances of everyone exam
IN | tor an office would DO made more and .
nc remote. Ii may tak- !
son. time 10 cause the
rrLY AND DEHANn IE THE NtTTER
OF the nations and appointments TO
adjust 10, 90 10 each other. but with n
rruner rcyUlA-.. II drOpplns applicants
rrom he record, " need not De doubted
tasr 10 tL,. matter - IN all others such
a.g adrIsrmgaJ will before long ue reached
&. mo.t Of the States thus Tar the number
.. apghcsnts has not bsen beyond
-Is number needed az the examinations,
-..st-. ,n aauna-aiGras ana Rlsn u sEFaral a.
the uOs;otiCgs AID custom oihces ana III
tue District ot Columbia especially thr eN
cess has become. considerable. II was
natural that solicitation tOI places Snd
skill IA secuUu. them should be most &c.
yrlopei III iocal'i"s near Washington.
The natural result has been that ia these
localities rha number Of applicants is eN.
cessiye The primary OF Get Of the pro
Vision il the civil service ect thas appoint,
nan;s thereunde. shall be sppordoned
among the States apd Territories
IL TKf RATIO or gorrLATIcN
was doubtless 10 prevent natural coase-
quanCes Of those 0tiica seeking habits near
ina Capital, bat it is q spirit none the less
apprecia6la for oince.seekIng in o'her
States. On the .T5r OF November las! tie
records of ire Commission showed the io''
loving .sc,s. The District Of Co!umo'a Is
entitled to only toGr appointments out OF
N g30. It had - applicants seeEln-
examination. being more than Gny pabiic
:ntsrssr REQUIRES 10 be examined IN ,he
re-t tva Years. Maryland, which is
e,ti;I,j TO nineteen appointment out OF
,bor,a,i had =, applicants On the records
NOR, than cgice the number from the Six
New Fu~lsnd States, with New jersey ana
Delaware added Virginia, which is en-
fj,ici &c ihif;y appointments oGt OF sthou'
snEi hal %Gl applicants or more than
f.,ir,. "a mau7 as all those from Texas aud
All the other States Bordering on the Gu!i
Of Mexico. with those from South Carolina
added Delaware, whicC is entitled to /
three appointments ont Of a thousand
had sa5te applications than Wisconsin,
Nirrrson. Florida, end Vermont com. :
buci Bu, there are other States
y0r So SEAE vASRtNGToN
from which excess is considerable. Penn
svlvari,. which is entitled 10 elghty-sl&
apnoirtments out Of l,0Ge, has 2j- aP' ,
utcln,5, or thirty aiEe more than New
York. which is entitled 10 lO2 appoint
ments out of l.0OO Ohio which - en-
titled TO sixty-lour appointments out OF
/ ,OOu. had 30 applicants OF record.
being twice Gs mauy as there
grs tom the ~.GtS' OF q
NicAiynE. WiscoCsiG, Minnesota,
Iowa MissoiE. ard Kansas Indiana
which is entitled to forty applicants cut 0: I
! 900. had rs applicants on records which Z
exceeds al those from the siN States last c
named. Wes. Virginia and Kentucky are ;
The next States from which he applicants 9
most tend 10 IN excess II is especially i
WORTH OF notice that the excess Of female
applicants ia mach greater that OF males. I