The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-22
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS.
How the Railway Mail Service Will Be
Permitted.
Naval Officers Anxious to Hear From
the MonongaheIa.
Demccratic Southern Editor Be-
comes a Republican.

WASHINGTON. April 2l.-The Civil Service
Commission has been making the necessary
preliminary arrangements for supplying
candidates for appointments in the railway
mail service, when that bureau of the post
office department comes within the scope of
the civil service law, May 1st. There are
$3.50 officials at present in the railway mail
service. OF these, one general superinten
dent and one assistant general superinten-
dent are exempt from the application of
civil service rules. All other employees of
the railway mail service are embraced in the
classified railway mail service. All places
can be filed only by promotion. transfer or
examination. 1t is required that applicants
for examination shall be citizens of the
United States, not under IS or over 35 years,
except that any person honorably discharged
from the military or naval service of the
United States by reason Of disability result
ing from wounds or sickness incurred in the
line of duty, may be examined without re
gard to age. No person who is an applicant
for examination, or eligible in any other
branch Of the classified service, departmental,
customs or postal, can at the same time be
the railway mail service. Applicants
for examination will be examined as TO their
relative capacity and fitness. There will be
one grade of examination, all the appoint
ments being made TO class /, which includes
all places of $500 or less per annum. Places
above $500 will pc filed by promotion or
transfer. Examinations will not include
more than the following subjects: Ortho-
graphy, penmanship, copying, arithmetic,
Including fundamental rules, fractions and
percentages; letter writing, the geography
of the United States, especially Of the State
or railway mail division in which the appli-
cant resides; the railway systems of the
State or railway mail division in which the
applicant resides, reading of addresses, it
being necessary to obtain general average
of 20 per centum. Applicants claiming pref
erence because of honorable discharge from
the military or naval service for disability
need obtain but 65 per cent to be eligible
for appointment. No recommendation
or certificate besides those provided on the
application itself will be received. The cir
cuiar saws that an eligible candidate, who
has made false statement in his applica-
tion or been guilty of fraud or deceit in any
matter connected with the application or ex-
animation, or guilty of crime or infamous
or not0riously disgraceful conduct, may be
excluded from certifcation. Removal can
not legally be made because person In the
service has refused to be cOerced in political
action, or required to contribute money for
political purposes or refused to render pollt-
ical service. In making reduction Of the
force in the classified service, those persons
must be retained who being equally qualified
have been hon0rably discharged from the
military or naval service of the United
States. With the consummation of the pro-
posed application of civil service rules to the
railway mail service there will be total OF
27,200 officers Of government under these
rules the list including the departmental,
custom, postal and railway mail services.