Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
TIE CIVIL SERVICE.

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Promulgated to Take Effect March l.
| Liberal Exec ptions in Favor of Honora-
bly, Discharged Union Soldiers and Sail
i ors.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Presdent Cleve-
land yesterday approved and promulgat-
ed the new Civil Service rules which are
to go into effect on the 1st of March. The
rules have been carefully considered by
the President and the commission for
| nearly a year. The Civil-Servlce reguia-
tions have also been revised.
The most important features of the new
rules are es follows:
| Tho 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 ofense
punishable by dismissal in any officer
/ of the civil service to use his
official authority for the purpose of in
| terfering with the election controlling
| the results thereof, or to dismiss or cause
| to be dism ssed, or to use influence of any
/ kind to procure the dismissal of any per-
! son i'm such service because of refusal to
/ be coerced in his political action, or be-
| cause he refused to contribute money for
| any political purpose, or to render poltic-
! al service; and it is especially provided
/
/ shall violate the section of the Civil
! Service act which prohibits any such
| officer, clerk or other employee from re-
| ceiving or being in any manner concerned
! in soliciting or receiving any assessment,
subscription contribution for anypolitic-
| al purpose whether from any officer, clerk
or other employee of any department,
branch or bureau of the public service or
| from any pers on receiving 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
employee 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-
vides that officer or employe
of the United States mentioned
in the Civil Service 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
lecting 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,
clerk OF OtHeF person III the Onltel oIaUeS
shall, directly or indirectly, hand over to
any other officer, clerk or person in said
service. or to any Senator or member of
tire House of Representatives or Terrific
rial Delegate, any money or other valua-
BILE thing ON account of, or to be applied
to, the promotion of any political pur-
pose whatever, shall be dismissed from
the service.
It is ais o provided that no question in
hall L,& fro, A<
elicit the political or religious opinion, or
utilization 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
criminate i'll 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
President, who added the following
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 soldiers and sailors
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 enc 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,
h. @oI
to make certifcation of other names il
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 any reduction of
force in any branch of the classified serv
ice honorably discharged soldiers and
sail ors, and also the widows and orphans
of deceased soldiers and sailors shall be
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 claim
OF preference in civil appointments are
left in at sixty-five per centum, but in all
bility has been raised from sxty-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 20 the rules now
in force, Endorsed by Messrs. Lyman and
Oberly, reads as follows: 'Whenever
dismissal from the executive civil service
is made, a written statement of the cause
of the dismissal must be filed 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 Edgertou opposed the
adoption Of this rule, and in this he was
supported by President Cleveland, and it
was therefore excluded from the new
rules.
Assigned but Solvent.
New YORK, Feb. George Reyes,
Sons & Co.. have i2hed TO George A.
Wells. Preferences amount to $2,774. 1t
is positively stated that the firm is per-
fectly solvent, having enough assets to
pay all debts. Liabilities, $50, 900.