The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-10
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Amended Rules Governing Appointments
to and Removals From the Civil Service
Promulgated to Take Effect March Il
Liberal Exceptions in Favor of HOnOra-
bly, Discharged Union Soldiers and Sail.
0rs.
WASHINGTON, Feb 4-President CIeve.
land yesterday approved and promulgat
ed the new Civil Service rules which ara
to go into effect on the 1st of March. The
rules have been carefully considered by
the President and the commission for
nearly year. The CiviI-Service regula-
tions have also been revised.
The most important features of the new
rules are as follows:
The general rules are nine in number,
and are applicable, except in one or two
particulars, to all parts of the classified
service, and some parts of the service not
| yet satisfied under the law of rules. By
these rules it is made an offense
punishable by dismissal in any officer
of the civil sservice to use his
| official authority for the purpose of in
| terfering with the election or controlling
the results thereof, or to dismiss or cause
| to be dismissed, or to use influence of any
! kind to procure the dismissal of any per-
son in such service because of refusal to
| be coerced in his political action, or be-
cause he refused to con tribute money for
any political purpose. or to render polite
| alsservice; and it is especially provided
| that any officer, clerk or other employe who
| shall violate the section of the Civil
! Service act which prohibits any such
officer, clerk or other employe from re-
ceiVing or being in any manner concerned
| in soliciting or receiving any assessment,
subscription or contribution for anypolitic-
al purpose, whether from any officer, clerk
| or other emplOye of any department,
| branch or bureau of the public service or
| from any personreceiving any salary or
! compensation for moneys derived from
the Treasury of the United States; or
] who shall violate the section which pro-
! vides that any person who shall in any
! room or building occupied by an officer or
employe of the Government or in any
navy yard, fort or arsenal solicit in any
manner whatever or receive any contri-
! button Of money or other thing of value
| for any political purpose whatever; or
| who shall violate the section which pro-
| videsz that no officer or empIoye
| of the United States mentioned
/ in the iviLService act shall dis
! charge or promote, or in any way change
/ the official rank of any officer or employe,
or promise, or threaten to do so, for Civ
/ ing, or refusing, or Withholding, or neg
1ecting to make any contribution of
money or other valuable thing for any pO-
] litical purpose; or who shall violate the
| section which provides that no officer,
/
! shall, directly or indirectly, hand over to
! any other officer, clerk or person in said
! service OF to any Senator or member of
I the House of Representatives or Terrific
| rial Delegate, any money or other valua-
/ BILE thing on account of, or to be applied
| to, tho promotion of any political pur-
| pose whatever, shall be dismissed from
| the service.
1t is ais o provided that no ques ton in
any examination shall be so framed as to
| elicit the political or religious opinion, or
| affiliation of competitors for place, and
that if any appointing or nominating
officer, who shall make inquiry concern.
ing or in any other way to ascertain the
| politics or religion of any person who
passed an examination, or who shall dis
eriminate in favor of or against such per.
! son shall be dismissed from Office.
| By the general rules several non-com-
| petitive examinations are provided for,
and compulsory examinations for pro-
motion are directed. The compulsory
examination provision, as suggested by
| the commission, was amended by the
words: But persons in the classified
service, who were honorably discharged
| from the military or naval service of the
| United States, and the widows and
orphans of deceased soldier and sailors
shall be exempt from such examination.
Another important feature of the gen.
| eral rules gives authority to an appoint
ing or nominating officer to whom the
commissioners may send the names of
| persons declared by them to be eligible to
a certain place, to object in writing to all
or any one of the persons thus certified,
stating that for reasons to be particularly
| specified. such persons are not capable of
performing the duties of the vacant place,
and the commissioners are directed
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the objections are ascertained to be good
and well founded. The general rules
also provide that soldiers and sailors who
have been hOnorably discharged because
of sickness or wounds, shall be certified
for appointment in preference to other
persons of higher grade in the examina-
tion, and that in making anv reduction of
force in any branch of the classified serv-
ice honOrably discharged soldiers and
lors, and also the widows and orphans
of deceased soldiers and sailors shall be
i retained in preference to others.
The maximum age limitation of forty
five years is abrogated and the minimum
limitation is raised from eighteen to
twenty years.
Soldiers and sailors who have a claim
Of preference in civil appointments are
left in at sixty five per centum, but in all
other cases the minimum grade of eligi-
bility has been raised from sixty-f five to
seventy pet centum.
The number of names to be certified to
an appointing officer from which to select
for an appointment has been reduced
from four to three.
One important addition to the rules now
in forces indorsed by Messrs Lyman and
Oberly, reads as follows: "Whenever a
dismissal from the executive civil service
is made, written statement of the cause
of the dismissal must be fled in the de-
partment or Office from which the dismiss
sal is made and become part of the record
in such department or Office"
Commissioner Edgerton opposed the
adoption of this rule, and in this he was
supported by President Cleveland, and i {
was therefore excluded from the new
rules
Assigned but Solvent
| NEW YORK. Feb 3-George Keves .