People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-08
EXTENSIONS OF GREAT IMPOR.
TANCE MADE.
SEVERAL NEW ORDERS JUST ISSUED
Changes of Importance In the Customf
Service, the Postofice Department
and Other Branches OF the Gov
eminent Are Ordered-Other
Important Changes Are
Under Consideration.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-The president
has signed several orders of great i'm
portance in connection with the civil
service reform movement, max
ing important extensions of the clas-
sifed service to offices heretofore I'M
classified and revising existing CLASH
cations in branches of the service
already classified, so as to bring
within the classification many places
heretofore excluded. These are as
follows:
First-A revision of the customs
classiicatiUns so as to bring within
the service all employees not serving
merely as workmen or laborers, with
out regard to compensation. Here
tofore this service has been classified
ION the basis of compensation. All
employees receiving a compensation
of less than 5000 have been excluded
from the classification, and therefore
not subject to the civil service rules.
This action of the president brings
the classification of the customs SER
vice into harmony with those of the
other branches of the service.
Second-An amendment to customs
rule l, extending The classification to
include all customs districts in which
there are as many as twenty em-
ployes. The present limit is fifty en-
ployes and under that limit eleven
customs districts have been classified.
The extension of the classification to
include all districts in which there
are as many as twenty employees will
bring into the classified service GER
tainly eleven additional districts and
probably several more.
Third-An amendment to the class
ifcation of the department at Wash
ington so as to include in the class
flied service, and subject to the civil
service rules in all the departments
messengers assistant messengers and
watchmen.
Fourth-An amendment to the civil
service rule abolishing the right of
transfer, upon non competitive exam
lnation, of persons appointed to ex-
cepted places after one years service
in such places to classified non-ex-
cepted places. Hereafter persons APP
pointed from the outside to excepted
places in any branch of the classified
service cannot be transferred at the
end of one year into the places COW
cred by examination.
Fifth-An order extending the clas-
sifcation of the postoffice department
so as to include in the classified SER
vice to the department the clerks en-
ployed in the Offices of the postoffice
inspectors.
Sixth-Amendments to the postal
rules withdrawing from the excepted
class very large proportion of the
places now excepted from examina-
ton. This will transfer from the
excepted class in the classified post
office to the non-excepted class prob
ably not less than 1900 places, the
whole number of excepted places in
classified postofices now being in the
neighborhoOd of 1900. Hereafter it
will not include more than 700 or SEQ.
Seventh-An amendment to the de-
partment rules withdrawing from the
excepted class in the department of
agriculture tho chiefs of the divisions
OF entomology, economic ornithology
and mammalogy and pomology and
the assistant chiefs of these divisions.
Eighth-An amendment to the In
dian rule providing for the aopoint-
ment as assistant teachers in the In
dian school service, without civil SER
vice examination of graduates of the
normal classes at the Salem, Ore,
Santa Fe, n, NJ, Haskell Institute,
Lawrence, Kan, Carlisle school, Car
Isle, Pa, and Hampton Institute.
Hampton, Va, upon their certificates
Of graduation, but before they can be
advanced to full teacherships thew
shall be required to pass the regular
civil service examination.
Ninth-Allowing appointment with
ouI OAdunlndtlOn IOr not exceeding
thirty days to places which may be
filled by non-competitive examina-
ton in the departments at Washing
ton in cases of emergency, pending
an examination by the commission.
No appointment made under 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
Immediately upon his return he would
consult with them in reference there
to.
Other important changes involving
an extension of the classified service
are still under consideration and only
await arrangement of minor details
through conference between the civil
service commission and the heads Of