The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Amended Rntes Governing Appointment, fo and Removals From the Civil Service
 Promulgated to Take Effect March l. Liberal Exceptions In Favor of Honora-
 bIy Discharged Union soldiers and Sail. ors.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-President Cleve- land yesterday approved and promulgat !. ed the new Civil Service rules which ar @ to go into effect on the ist of March. The rules have been carefully considered by the President and the commission for nearly year. fae Civii-Service regulE tions have also been revised.
 The most important features of the new rules are as follows;
 The general rules are nine in number, and are applicable, except in ono or two particulars, to all parts of the classified service, and some parts os the service not yet satisfied under the law of rules. By thsss rules it is made m oifense punishable by dismissal in any officer of the civil service to use his official authority for the purpose of in- terfering with the 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 per. son in 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 polite al service; and it is especially provided that any officer, clerk or other employe who shall violate the section of the Civil Service 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, subscription or contribution for any politic- al purpose, whether from any officer, clerk or other employe of any department, branch or bureau of the public service or from any perscn 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 employe of the Government or in any navy yard, fort or arsenal solicit in any manner whatever or receive amy contri- button of money or other thing of value for any political purpose whatever; or who shall violate the section which pro- vides that no officer or employe of the United States mentioned in the Civil Service act shall dls- charge or promote, or in any way change the official rank of any officer or empoye, or promise, or threaten to do so, for giv- 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 or other person in the United States shall, directly or indirectly, hand over to any other officer, clerk or person in said service or to any Senator or member of the House of Representative or Territo- rial Delegate, any money or other valua- ble 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 als provided that no question in any examination shall be so framed as to 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 crminate in 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
 
 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 shal l be exempt from such examination.
 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 Q certain place, to object in writing to all or any one 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, and the commissioners are directed to make certification of other names if the objections are ascertained to be good and we'll 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 sa4lors shall be retain ned in preference to others.
 The maximum age linn itation of forty five years is abrogated and the minimum limitation is raised from eighteen to twenty years.
 Soldiers and sailors who have a claim of preference in civil appointments are left in at sixty-Gv per centum, but in all other cases the minimum grade of eligi- bility has been raised from sixty-five to seventy pet centum.
 an appointing officer from which to select for an appointment has been reduced from four to three
 One important addition to the rules now in force. indorsed by Messrs. Lyman and Oberly, reads as follows; "Whenever n dismissal from the executive civil service is made, written statement of the cause of the dismissal must be filed in the de- partment or office from which the dismis- sal is made and become part of the record in such department or ofiice."
 Commissioner Edgerton opposed the adoption of this rule, and in this he was supported by President Cleveland, and 1t was therefore excluded from the new rules
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