Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-02
ADDING no THE LIST.
AAous a,500 Additional Depaxsmen
E0ployes Brought Under Civil-Ser'
vice Rules.


vice Rales.
member Of the Civil Service Commission, IN
terpreting Tor STAR reporter to-day the Presi-
cents order published in TEE STAR Saturday, ex-
tending and rearrangng the CLASSIFIED service said
that it is Intended to take in everything. "The
classified service now embraces the whole neld,'
he said, "and the list viii be reduced by eimina-
tlon where necessary. That Is better
than starting with part, and then
extending nom time to time BY patches. y
There are certain questions yet to pe decided,
impractlcable to apply the usual rule win be ex.
cepted from the EXAMINATIONS, and in other cases
peps0es appointed wiz De required 70 pass non
such exceptions Will be made when required OF
order OF the President The revision and extern.
OF the Government Departments NOT appointed
directly by the President. The President is now
considering recommendations OF the Commission
service.
ADDED TO THE LIST.
Under the old rules between 5000 and 1900
Government employees were included in the clas-
siled service. 1t is estimated that the new clas-
sincation viii ada about 1 200 or $500 employees
in the departmental service in this city
TO the list. The extension OF the classi-
may add 500 to the list. In case the Railway
Mail Service is CLASSIFIED over 5000 employees will
come mo the CLASSIFIED service who are not now
anected by the law the rules OF the Civil Serv-
Ice Commission. In the treasury Department the
extension embraces mOney-Order counters,
oraughtsmen and per diem employees In the
Architects ONCE, cOmputers and other employees
in the Coast Survey ONCE besides practically the
whole OF the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
AS 70 the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing a
question Is still to be decided to the distinction
between labor and skilled labor but 1t is expected
That between 500 and 800 employees will be brought
under the operation OF the law. In the Patent
ONCE from 100 to 125 skilled laborers will come
INTO the classified service. There are yet QueS-
lions 10 be decided as to draughtsmen and techni-
cal workers in the Nautical Almanac ONCE, Naval
observatory, the photographic ONCE, and other
branches OF the Navy Department, beside the Geo.
logical Survey.
THE POsT-OFFICB DEPARTMENT.
In the Post-On1ce Department and the post
offices that are classified the new classification
does not materially add to the list In that SER
vice the old classification went from top to bot
TOM IT, however, rearranges the classes. There are
now thirty-seven post-Oftices In the classified SER
vice. The operation OF the eight-hour law for
letter-carriers, by adding to the number OF EN-
p0yeS, WILL 1t Is expected, bring five or six more
omceS into the CLASSIFIED service by increasing the
number OF their employees to nifty or more
IN case the rules are made to apply TO the Railway
Mail Service, the Postal Service will be divided,
from the C1vil-Service Commissions point OF view
IN the POSt-of1ce Service and the Railway Postal
service. AT present there are but three great
Service, and the Customs Service. The extension
OF the classified service WILL 1t Is said, at the ONCE
OF the Civtl-Service Commission, Just about double
the work OF the Commission.