The Delta independent., 1894-11-07
THE CIVIL SEK|l lon!
IMPORTANT CHANGES ARE
MADE.
Thr President Agrees to Revision Of the
Customs Classification and tfle Exemp-
tion of Certain Employees from the
Civil Service Rules.

Washington, Nov. 3.-The president
yesterday signed several orders of great
Importance in connection with the civ
il service reform movement, making
important extensions of the classified
service to offices not heretofore classi.
fed and revised existing classificaions
in branches Of the service already clas.
sitied so as to bring with it the classif'
cation Of many places heretofore ex'
cluded.
1. A revision of the customs classin.
cations so as to bring within the service
all employees not serving merely as
wOrkmen Of laborers, without regard
to compensation. Heretofore this ser
vice has been classified on the basis
of compensation, all employees receiving
compensation Of 5000, or rate OF
compensation less than 5000 per an
mum, have been excluded from the ella s.
cation, and therefore not subject to
II, civil service rules This action OF
tlTe president brings the classification
of the customs service into harmony
with those of the other branches of the
service.
2. An amendment to customs rule
extending the classification to include
all customs districts in which there are
rs many as twenty employees, the pres
ent limit is fifty employees, and under
that limit IL customs districts have
been classified. The extension Of the
classification to include all districts In
which there are as many as 20 EN-
ployes will bring into the classified ser
vice certainly IL additional districts
and probably several more.
3. An amendment to the classifica.
ton of the department at Washington
so as to include the classified service
and subject to the civil service rules il
all the departments, messengers, assist
ant messengers and watchmen.
4. An amendment to the civil ser
vice rule abolishing the right of trans
fer of dues on non-competitive examina'
tons of persons appointed 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 service
cannot be transferred at the end of the
year into the places covered by exam
nation.
). An order extending the classifica.
ton Of the postotfice department so as
to include in the classified service OF
the department the clerks employed In
the offices of the postoffice inspectors.
6. Amendments to the postal rules
withdrawing from the excepted class 4
very large proportion of the places now
excepted from examination. This
amendment will transfer from the ex'
cepted class in the classified postoffice
to the non-excepted class probably moi
less than 1.5OO places, the whole mum
Der of excepted places in the classified
postoffices now being In the neighbor.
hood of 2,3OO.- Hereafter it will not in
clude more than 700 or 800
Z. An amendment to the department
rules withdrawing from the excepted
class in the department Of agriculture
the chiefs of the divisions of entomol'
ogy, economic ornithology and nam
malogy and pomology, and the assist.
ant chiefs Of these divisions.
8. An amendment to the Indian rule
providing for the appointment as assist
vice, without civil service examina.
ton, the graduates of the Normal
classes at the Salem, Ore; Santa Fe
N. NJ; Haskell institute, Lawrence
Kan; Carlisle school, Carlisle, Pa.
Hampton institute, Hampton, Va; up
on their certificates of graduation. But
before they can be advanced to full
teacherships they shall be required to
pass the REGULAR civil service examina
ton.
o. Allowing appointment without ex
animation for not exceeding 80 days tc
the places which may be filled by non
competitive examination in the depart
ment at Washington in cases of emer
gency, pending an examination by the
commission.
The appointment made under this
authority can continue longer than &c
days.
The president has had these changes
under consideration for some time, and
before his retjlrn from his vacation
notified the commission that immediate
ly upon his return, he would consul,
with them in reference thereto. Other
important changes involving an ex
tension 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 various
departments.