Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-04
Treasury Department Changes.

The follOwing-named persons. having served
a satisfactory probationary term of six months
each, have received absolute appointments:
Jas. W. Norris. of the District of Columbia.
to fireman, $40 per annum, in the Office of the
second auditor; Miss X. E. Keegan. of Connec
| ticut. to clerkship of the $500 class in the
Office OF the treasurer of the United States IN.
! b. r. A.; Hager Bouck. of New York, to
clerkship OF the $500 class in the Office Of the
fifth auditor; Leonard Y. Rosser. of Pennsyl-
vania. to fireman $40 per annum, and Albin J.
Brooke, of MARYLAND. to fireman at $3.50 per
annum in the Office of the Secretary,
PromOtions-St. Julian b. Dapray OF South
Carolina. from 50. 30 per diem to IS. 50 per diem
in the office of the supervising architect; Miss
Ida 3. Lindsay. OF Alabama, from $500 to $500
per annnm; Miss Jennie c. Bone of California.
from $500 to $40 per annum in the Office of the
sixth auditor; Miss Z. c. Gilbert, of South
Carolina. from 500 to $500 per annum in the
bureau OF statistics; Miss Fannie d. Baily, from
$50 per month to 500 in the Office of the
superintendent of the United States coast and
geodetic survey; Patrick V. Dolan, of West
Nlrglnia from class l to class q T. L. Shepard.
Of Michigan. from $1,000 to class /: Miss Bessie
p. Cowell. of the District Of Columbia. from
$3.50 to $500 in the Office Of the first comptrol-
Ter; Charles A. Stewart, of Virginia from class
to class 8; Miss c. L. Pennock. of Pennsyl-
vania. from class l to class 2; Miss NJ L. Brown.
OF District of Columbia. from $500 to class /:
Miss Mary X. Ellis. from 1926 to $500 in the
office OF the comptroller of the currency.
Mrs. G. K Lyford. of South Carolina. from
$40 to $500. and Miss B. W. Walk, of New York.
from $500 to $500, in the Office of the second
auditor: Mrs. n. L. De Wolf, from $40 to
S54S; Miss Ida Walker, from $40 to S54S: Miss
Grace Montgomery, from S54S to S626; Miss v,
B. Magruder from S54s to S626; Miss Jose
phine Schwartz, from $40 to S54S; Miss s. II.
WEIGH, from S470 to S548: Mrs. X. A. Mont
gomery, from s47O to S54S; Joseph McCauley,
from S54S to S6l6; Mrs. Mary Moore. from s5i8
to $685. and ]. W. Woodward, from s54S 10
s6zo, IN the bureau OF engraving and printing.
Civil-Service Reform.
MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENTS TRANSMITTING TEE
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER
Accompanying the report Of the civil-seryice
commission, which was sent to Congress Satur-
day, was the following letter from the Presi-
dent:
"The cause Of the civil-service reform. which
in great degree IL intrusted to the commits
sion, regard as 90 firmly established and its
value SO fully demonstrated, that should deem
1t more gratifying than useful if at thus late day
In the session OF Congress I was permitted to
enlarge upon its Importance and present condi-
ticn. A persual Of the report herewith sub
mitted will furnish information of the progress
which has been made during the year TO which
y relates, in the extension Of the operations Of
TINS reform, and in the improvement of its
methods and rules.
1T il cause for congratulation that wstchful-
meas and care and fidelity to its purposes are
Al tnat Is necessary to insure to the govern
Inauguration promised"
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