Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-09
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
President Cleveland Makes an Order
For Important Extensions
Thereto.
MANY NEW POSITIONS
Will Hereafter Be Brought Under
the Jurisdiction of the Com
mission.

, WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The presi.
dent has signed orders of great Inlpor-
lance in connection with the civil SER
vice reform movement, making impor-
tant extensions Of the classified service
to offices not heretofore classified and
revising existing c~lassifications in
branches of the service already CLASH
fed, SO as to bring within the classical
ton many places heretofore excluded.
l. A revision Of the customs CLASH
fcations, so as to bring within the SER
vice all employees not serving merely us
workmen Or laborers, without regard to
compensation. Heretofore this service
has been classified on the basis of COM
p%ensaUion, all employees receiving a COM
p%ensation of less than 5000 OF
u rate of compensation less
than 5000 per annum, have
been excluded from the classification
and therefore not subject to the civil
service rules. This action of the presi-
dent brings the classification Of the GUS
toms service into harmony with those
of the other branches Of the service.
g. An amendment to customs rule !,
extending the classification to include
all customs districts in which there are
as many as 20 employees. The present
limit is SO employees, and under that
limit IL customs districts have been
classified. The extension of the CLASH
fication to include all districts in which
there are as many as 20 employees will
bring into the classified service GER
tainly II a lditional districts and prob
ably s. raj more.
8. An amendment to the classified
ton Of the departments at Washington,
so as to include the classified service,
and subject to civil service rules in all
the departments, messengers, assistant
messengers and watchmen.
4. An amendment to the civil service
rules abolishing the right Of transfer,
upon non-competitive examination, Of
persons appointed to excepted places
after Il years service in such places
to classified n~on-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 IL year into the
places covered by examination.
8, An order extending the classical
ton Of the postotfice department. so as
to include in the classified service to
the department. the clerks employed in
the offices Of the postof1ice inspectors.
e.. Amendment to the postal rules
wi t1,I "a I7I r, n t7,o1,o t,n ax-oarta1 o1acc q
very large proportion of the places now
excepted from examination. This
amendment will transfer from the ex-
copied class in the classified postoffice
to the ~non-excepted class probably not
less than 1900 places, the whole num-
Der Of excepted places in the classified
postofices now being in the neighbor.
clude more than 700 or 800.
7. An amendment to the depart
mentul rnles withdrawing from the ex.
cepted class in the department. of agri.
culture the chiefs Of the divisions OF
entomology, economic ornithology and
mammalology and pomology and the
assistant chiefs of those divisions.
s. An amendment to the Indian rule
providing for the appointment as assist,
ant teachers in the INDIAN school ser
vice without civil service examination
the graduates of the normal classes a
Salem, Or, Saute Fe, N. NJ, Haskell
Institute, Lawrence, Kan, Carlisle
School, Carlisle, Pa, Hampton Insti
tute, Hampton, Va, upon their certifi
Gates Of graduation; but before they cal
be advanced to full teacherships, they
shall be required to pass the regula:
civil service examination.
g.. Allowing appointment withou
examination for not exceeding 30 day
to the places which may be filled b,
non-competitive examination in the de
partment at Washington in cases O
emergency, pending an examination by
the commission. No appointment
made under this authority can continu
longer than 30 days.
The president has had these change
under consideration for some time, all
before his return from his vacation nc
titled the commission that immediatel
upon his return he would consult wit
them in reference thereto. Other im
portant changes involving al extensio
OF the classified service are still unde
consideration and only await arrang.
ment of minor details through confe,
ence between the civil service commits
sion and the heads of various depar
mante
Gipps a Raving Maniac.
BUFFALO, Nov. 5.-William Gipp