The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-03
CHANGES IN CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
The President Signs Several Orders
of Great Importance.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. g. 1ss4.As a re-
suit of recent conferences between Pres
ident Cleveland and the members of the
Civil Service Commission, the Presi-
dent has signed several orders of great
Importance in connection with the Civil
Service Reform movement. making ex-
tensions of the classified service to Of
ficers not heretofore classified, and re-
vising existing classiiications in branches
of the service already classified so as to
bring within the classification many
places heretofore excluded. The F'resi-
dents action is as follows:
l. A revision of the customs classifica-
ton SO as to bring within that service
all employees not serving merely as work
men or laborers, without regard to com
pensation. Heretofore this service has
been classified on the basis of compen-
sation, all employees receiving a compen-
sation of less than 5000 or a rate of com
pensation less than 5000 per annum, have
been excluded from the classification, ana
therefore not subject to the Clvii ser
vice rules. This action of The President
brings the classification OF the GUS
toms service into harmony with those
of the ether brancl es of the service, and
is very important one in connection
with that service.
g. An amendment to Customs rule l.,
extending the classification to include all
customs districts in which there are as
many as twenty employees. The present
limit is so employees. and under that
limit eleven customs districts have been
classified. The extension of the classifl-
cation to include all districts in which
there are as many as twenty employees
certainly eleven additional districts, and
probably several more. and goes as far
in the direction of classifying the Gus
toms service as it is wise to go at this
time, or perhaps at any time.
g. An amendment to the classification
of the departmental service at Wash
ington so as to include in the claSsihed
service, and subject to the civil service
gers, assistant messengers and watch
men.
4. An amendment to the civil service
rules abolishng the right of transfer
persons appointed to excepted places
after one years service in such places
to classified non-excepted places. Here
after persons appointed from the out
side to excepted places in any branch
of the classified service cannot be trans
ferred at the end of one year into the
places covered by examination. This
commission, is distinctly in the interest
of good administration of the service.
5. An order extending the elassitica-
as to include in the classified service
of that department the clerks employed
in the Offices of the Post Office Inspec-
tors. There are comparatively few of
these persons.
g. Amendments to the postal rules with
drawing from the excepted class very
large proportion of the places now ex-
cepted from examination. This amend
class in the classified post offices to the
non-excepted class probably not less than
l,500 places. the whole number of ex-
cepted places in the classified post offices
now being in the neighborhood of 2,S00
Hereafter it will not include more than
100 or 800.
T. An amendment to the departmental
rules withdrawing from the excepted
class in the Department of Agriculture
the chiefs of the divisions of entomology,
economic ornithology and nlinerology,
and pomology, and the assistant chiefs
Of these divisions.
providing for the appointment as assis-
tant teachers in the Indian School ser
vice. without Civil Service examination,
the graduates of the Normal classes at
the Salem oregon; Santa Fe, N. NJ;
Haskell Institute. Lawrence, Kansas;
Carlisle School, Carlisle, Pa; Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Va, upon their GER
tificates of graduation; but before they
can be advanced TO full leadership they
shall be required to pass the regular
Civil Service examination.
9. Allowing appointment without eX-
animation for not exceeding thirty days
to the places which may be filled by nom
competitive examination in the depart
ment at Washington in cases of emer-
commission The appointment made un-
der this authority can continue longer
than thirty days.
The President has had these changes
under consideration for some time, and
before his return from his vacation
notified the commission that immediate
" upon his return he would consult with
them in reference thereto. Other i'm
portant changes, involving an extension
Of the classified service. are still under
consideration, and only await arrange
ment of minor details through conference
between the Civil Service Commission
and the heads of the various depart
ments, and will probably be made the
early part of next week.