Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09


five is abrogated, and the minimum
raised to twenty one years, ex-
cept as TO the clerk and messen-
ger which is raised to twenty.
| Only three names may be certified to a
| nominating officer. The following Off
GERS may be appointed without examina-
ton: Deputy collectors. who do not also
act as inspectors. examiners or clerks;
cashier, assistant cashier and auditor or
collector; chief acting disbursing officer;
deputy naval officers; deputy surveyors;
one private secretary or one confidential
clerk for each nominating officer.
The soldiers and sailors are given the
same advantage accorded them in exam
nation for departmental service. The
manner in which promotion may be
made in custom houses, to which the COM
mission has not yet applied the promo
ton regulations, is specifically defn ed
and transfers are authorized as follows:
From one Office to another in the custom
house; from one csstom house to another;
from the treasury department to custom
house and vice versa.
POSTAL RULES.
The postal rules are eight in number.
In addition to special and non competi-
tive examinations, the following are pre-
scribed for clerk, carrier, end messenger.
Messenger examination is to be used for
testing fitness for positions or piler,
stamper, jnaior clerk, or other place, the
duties of which are chiefly manual. Only
three names may be certified 70
postmaster. The following officers
may be appointed without examina-
ton: Assistant postmaster, private
=.
postmaster, cashier and assistant
cashier; superinten6ents designated as
such by the postofice department.; custo-
dams of money, stanps, stamped envel-
opes, or postal cards, designated as such
by the postoffice department, for whose
fidelity the postmaster is under official
bond. Promotion may be made upon
any test of fitness determined upon by
the postmaster, if not disappi owed
by the commission. The IS year
age limit is abrogated as TO the
grade of clerk, and the minimum for this
grade is raised from Is to IS. The mini
mum for carriers is raised from Is to 81
years and the maximum from 35 to 40.
Transfers are authorized as follows:
From one classified post0ffice to another;
and from any classified postoface TO the
pOSGonc0 department. ana vice versa.
ONE RULE HAPPILY LACKING.
THESE rules and regulations which will
go into effect on March 1, 1888, were pre-
pared by Commissioner Oberly. In com
mentinG ON the revised civil service rules,
Commissioner Edgerton called the al,
teution Of the associated press reporter
TO the absence of the rule which it was
rumored would be submitted TO the
president for his approval requir-
ing appointing officers whenever dis
missal from the executive civil service is
made, to file in the department or Office
from which dismissal is made, written
statement of the cause Of such dismissal.
Edgerton said it was true that such rule
had been submitted to the president, bat
it failed TO receive his approval.
From first to last" said Ed
gerton, II have been steadily
and earnestly opposed to any such rule.
In the Harrity report, and later in the
report in the case of Collector Seeherger,
of Chicago, and again in submitting
these revised rules to the president,
have recorded my protest against its
adoption and the president in the exer-
cise of his superior authority has sus-
tanned me-"