Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-04
| News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CIVIL SERVICE RULES. An Entire Revision of The ; 6, 4t Code. MINERS ON A FURIOUS RIOT. Novel Case In a Probate
 Court.
 A WDMAN COMES BACK TO LIFE. Germany and Austria Form
 An Alliance.
IA WeMAN COMES BACK TO LIFE.
NEW CIVIL SERVICE RULES.

NEW CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
 Several Important Changes In the Sys-
 tenn of Appointments Upon Tests of
 Fitness Applied to Applicants For
 Places.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The President has ! approved and promulgated revision of the
 civil service rules which makes several very ! important changes in the system of appoint | ments upon tests of fitness applied to appli-
 cants for places in the departments at Wash ington and in the classified customs offices and postofices. The commission has also
 revised the civil service regulations to con- ! form to the new rules. Not one of the old rules or regulations remains in it's original ] form. A few of the most salient features of
 the new rules may be stated as follows: First, they are divided into four parts, general rules, ! departmental rules, customs rules and postal | rules. Second, the general rules are nine in humber and are applicable except in one or | two particulars to all parts of the classified ! service and to some parts of the service not | yet classified under the law or rules. By ! these rules it is made an offense punishable \ by dismissal in any officer of the executive civil service CD to use his official authority or n ! an 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 person from any place in ! said service because such person has refused | to be coerced in his political action or has refused to contribute money for any political purpose or to render political service. And
 it is especially provided that any officer, clerk or other employe who CD shall violate I section Il of the 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, sub- { scription or contribution for any political | purpose whatever from any officer, clerk or other employe of any department, branch or bureau of the public service or from any other person receiving any salary or compen- sation from moneys derived from the treasury of the United States; or @ who shall violate section 12, which provides that any person who shall in any room building occupied l by any officer employe of the government or in navy yard, fort or arsenal solicit in any manner whatever or receive any contribution of money or other thing of value for any DO litical purpose whatever; or (3) who shall violate section 13, which provides that no officer or employe of the United States men- toned in the civil service act shall discharge or promote or in any manner change the off cial rank of any officer or employe or promise or threaten to do so for giving or refusing or
  tribution of money or other valuable thing for any political purpose; or (0 who shall violate section 14, which provides that no officer. clerk other person in the service of the United States shall directly or indi- rectly hand over to any other officer, clerk or person in said service or to any senator or member of the House of Representatives or territorial delegate any money or other valu- able thing eE account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political purpose what ever, shall be dismissed from the service. It is also provided that no question in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit the political or religious opinion or affliation of competitors for place, and if any appointing or nominating officer shall make inquiry concerning or in any other way attempt to ascertain the politics or re- ligion of any person who has passed an ex- animation or who shall discriminate in favor of or against such person, shall be dismissed from office. By the general rules several non-competitive examinations are provided for and compulsory examination provision as
 suggested by the commission was amended by the President, who added the following words:
 But persons in the classified service who were honorably discharged from the military or naval orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors shall be exempt from such examinations.
 Another important feature of the general rules gives authority to an appointing or nOmlnaC1Qg OIhcer LO WuOm Iu0 cOmIAlssLoA- CTS may send the names of persons declared | by them to be eligible to certain place to object in writing to all or any one of the per sons certified, stating that for reasons speci- \ fed such persons or any of them are not ca- pablo of performing the duties of the vacant place, and the commissioners are directed to make certi6cation of other names if the ob- | jections are ascertained to be good and well \ founded. The general rules also provide \ that soldiers and sailors who have been non- | orabIy discharged because of sickness or l wounds shall be certified for appointment ! grade in the examination, and I that in making any reduction of I force in any branch of the classified service honorably discharged soldiers and sailors and also the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors shall be retained in pref
 erence to others.
 l C) The department rules are eleven in number. The rules authorize the classifca- | ton of commissions and independent bureaus as well az the departments at Washington \ and prescribe the examination that must be provided to test fitness for admission to this l branch of the service. They provide thas the following officers may be appointed with out examination: One private secretary or one confidential clerk at the head of each classified department and of each assistant
 secretary thereof and also each head of bu- reau appointed by the President by
 and with the advice and consent of the Sen ate direct custodians of money for | whose fidelity another officer is under bond, disbursing officers who give bond, persons employed exclusively in the secret service of the government, chief clerks and chiefs of divisions The maximum age limitation of forty years is abrogated and the mini mum is raised from eighteen to twenty years
 Soldiers and sailors who have a claim of preference in civil appointments are let in at
 sixty-fve per cent, but in all other cases the aIi has hnav, from sixty-five to seventy per cent. The number of names to be certified to an ap
 pointing officer from which to select for an appointment has been reduced from four to
 three.
 The customs rules are eighteen in number
 The following examinations for the customs service are in addition to other competitive and non competitive examinations prescribed: for clerk, day inspector, inspectress, night
 messenger, assistant weigher, opener and packer, gauger, examiner, and sampler. The maximum age limitation of sixty-fve is abrogated and the minimum raised to twenty one years except to clerk and messenger
 which is raised to twenty nine. Only three names may be certified to 8 nominating off
 cer. The following officers may be appointed
 without examination: Deputy collectors who do not also act as inspectors, the examiners ! and clerks, the cashier and assistant cashier
 and auditor of the collector, the chief acting
 disbursing officer, deputy naval officers, dep-
 uty surveyors; one private secretary or one confidential clerk of each nominating officer
 Soldiers and sailors are given the same ad- l vantage accorded to them in examinations
 for the department service. The manner in | which promotions may be made in custom
 houses to which the commission has not ap-
 piled promotion rules is specifically defined
 and transfers are authorized as follows: From
 one office to another in 8 custom house, from
 one custom house to another, from the
 Treasury department to a custom house and
 vice versa.
 The postal rules arc eight in number h
 addition to special and non-competitive ex-
 aminations the following are prescribed: Fol
 clerk, carrier and messenger. The nessen-
 ger examination is to be used for testing fit
 ness for the positions of oiler, stamper, junior
 clerk or other place, the duties of which are :. chiefly manual. Only three names may be
 feeftifed to postmaster. The following
 officers may be appointed without examina.
 1 ton: The assistant postmaster, the ? private secretary, a confidential clerl
 of the postmaster, the cashier and