St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-04

lions for the customs service are pre-
scrlbed in addition to other competitive
and non-competitive examinations: For
clerk, day inspector, inspectress, night
inspector, messenger, assistant weigher,
opener and packer, gauger, examiner
and sampler. The maximum age limi-
tation OF fOrty-five years is abr0gated,
and the minimum raised to twenty-One
years, except as to clerk and messenger,
which is raised to twenty. Only three
names may be certified to nominating
officer. The following officers may
be appointed without examination:
Deputy collectors. who do not also act
as inspectors, examiners or clerks; the
cashier, assistant cashier and auditor of
the collector; the chief acting diSburs-
ing officer; deputy naval officers; deputy
surveyors; one private secretary or one
confidential clerk of each nominating
officer Soldiers and sailors are given
the same advantage accorded to them
in examinations for the departmental
service. The manner in which pro-
motions may be made in custom houses
to which the commission has not yet
applied promotion regulations is Speci-
tically defined, and transfers are author
lied as follows: From one office to an
other in custom house; from one
custom house to another; from the
treasury department to a custom house
and vice versa.
Fifth-The postal rules are eight in
number. In addition to special and nom
competitive examinations, the following
are prescribed: For clerk, carrier and
messenger. The messenger eXamina-
ton is to be used for testing fitness for
the positions of piler, stamper, junior
clerk or other place, the duties of which
are chiefly manual. Only three names
may be certified to a postmaster. The
following Cheers may be appointed
without examinations: The assistant
postmaster, the private secretary or
confidential clerk of the postmaster, the
cashier and assistant cashier; SuperiD-
tendentS, designated as such by the
poStotfice department; cuStodians of
money, stamps, stamped envelopes or
postal cards, designated as such by the
p0Stoftice department, for whose fidelity
the postmaster is under official bond.
Promotions may be made upon any test
OF fitness determined upon by the post
master, if not disapprOved by
the commission. The forty-live- year age
limitation is abrOgated as to the grade
OF clerk. land the minimum for this grade
Is raised from sixteen to eighteen years.
The minimum for carriers is raised from
sixteen to tWenty-One years, and the
maximum from thirty-five to forty
years. Transfers are authorized as fol-
lows: From one classified postoffice to
another, and from any classified post
office to the postoffice department and
vice versa. The rules and regulations,
in the opinion of the commission, will
result in much good to the service, and
will make the civil service law system
more efficient. These rules and regu-
lations, which will go into effect on
March l, 1888, were prepared by Com
missioner Oberly, who submitted them
to the full commission for action. After
frequent conferences, in which they
ticulars amended, they were finally
adopted.
In commenting upon the revised civil
service rules. Commissioner Edgerton
called the attention of an Associated
Press reporter to tue absence of the
rule which it was rumOred had been
submitted to the president for his ap-
proval, requiring appointing officers,
whenever dismissal from the eXecu-
tive civil service is made, to file in the
department Or Office from which the
dismissal is made Ito become part of
the records of such department or Of
such dismissal, and Mr.. Edgerton said
submitted to the president, but it failed
to meet his approval. The, commits
siOnel added: s'The first suggestion
that a rule of this character would be
wise one was made in the report of
the commission in the case of POstmas-
ter Harrity, of Philadelphia, submitted
June 80, 1887. In that report Commits
sioner Lyman interlined the following
words, which were agreed to by Com
missioner Oberly: a rule requiring
reasons for dismissal to be filed with
the order of dismissal would, in the
opinion of the commission. be wise
rule From first to last" said Mr..
Edgerton, Il have been steadily and
earnestly opposed to any such rule. In
the Harrty report, and later in the re-
port of the case of Collector Seeberger,
of Chicago, and again i'll submitting
these revised rules to the president. l
have recorded my protest against its
adoption, and the president, in the ex-
ercise of his superior authority, has
sustained me-"