Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-08
CHANCE FOR PROMOTION.
President Cleveland Issues an Order
Widening the Scope of the
Civil Service.

Washington, ID. c.. Nov 3-lhe Pres
ident has signed several orders of great
Importance in connection with the civil
service reform movement, making inn
portant extensions of the classified sery
ice to offices not heretofore classified and
revising existing classifcations in
branches of the service already classified
so as to bring within the classification
many places heretofore excluded.
The changes include a revision of the
customs classifcations so as to bring
within the service all employees not sery-
ing merely as workmen or laborers. with
out regard to compensation. Heretofore
this service has been classified on the
basis of compensation, all employees re-
ceivng a compensation of less than $500
per annum have been excluded from the
classification, and therefore not subject
to the ciyil-Seryice rules. Ihls acton
of the President brings the classification
of the customs service into harmony with
those of the other branches OF the serv-
ice. An amendment is made to customs
rule | extending the classification to IN
clude all customs districts in which there
are as many as twenty er.ployeS. Inc
present limit is fifty employees and under
that limit eleven customs districts nave
been classified The extension of the
classification is to include all districts in
which there are as many as twenty EN-
ployes and will bring into the classlfled
service certainly eleven additional dis-
tricts and probably several more. An
amendment to the classification OF the
departments at Washington is provided
for SO AS to include the CLASSIFIED service
and subject to ciyil-Seryice rules IN all
the departments, messengers, assistant
messengers and watchmen.
The order further provides for an
amendment to the civil-service rules abol-
TShi no iUht TO f1.op Sf O
competitive examination of persons APP
pointed to excepted places after one
years service in such places to classified
non-excepted places. Hereafter persons
appointed from the outside. to excepted
places in any branch of the classified serv-
ice could not be transferred at the end OF
one year to the places covered by exam
ination. An order is issued extending the
classification to the postoffice department.
so as to include in the classified service
to the department the clerks employed
in the offices of the postotfice inspector.
Also amendments to the postal rules
withdrawing from the excepted class Il
very large proportion of the places now
excepted from examination. This amend
ment will transfer from the excepted
excepted class. probably not less than
1900 places. the whole. number of
postoffices now being in the neigh
bOrhOOd of 200. Hereafter 1t VIII
not incli::.e more than 700 or 800. An
amendment is made to the departmental
rules withdrawing from the excepted
class in the department of agriculture the
chiefs of the divisions of entomology, eco
nOmic orntholOgy and mammalOgy and
Domology. and the assistant chiefs of
| these departments.
An amendement is made to the Indian
rule providing for the appointment of
assistant teachers in the Indian school
service without civil-service examination.
the graduates of the normal classes at
Salem Or. Santa Fe n. NJ Haskell
institute, Lawrence. Kas.. Carlisle school,
Carlisle. Pa. Hampton institute, Hamp-
ton. Va. upon their certificates of grad
uation: but before they can be advanced
to full memberships they shall be re-
quired to pass the regular civil-service
examination; and allowing appointment
without examination for not exceeding
thirty days to the places which may be
filled by non-competitive examination in
the department at Washington 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 mott
fed the commission that Immediately
upon his return he would consult with
them in reference thereto Other import
ant changes involving an extension of
the classified service are still under con-
sideratiOn and only await arrangement
of minor details before being adopted.