Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-08
NEW RULES.
The President Has Signed Several Orders OF
Importance.

Importance.
WAS HINGToN. Nov. 5.-The president
has signed several orders of great inn
portance in connection with the civil
service reform movement, making i'm
portant extensions of the classified
service to offices heretofore classified
and revising existing classifications in
branches of the service already clas--
sified, so as to bring within the classi-
fication many places heretofore ex-
Guided. These are as follows:
First-A revision of the customs classical
lions SO as to bring within the service all en-
ployes not serving merely as worl6men or labor
ers, without regard to compensation. Hereto
fore this service has been classified on the
basis CT compensation ALI employees rece1V-
ing compensation of less than 500 have been
excluded from the classification and therefore
not subject to the civil service rules. This ac-
ton of the president brings the classification
of the customs service into harmony with those
of the other branches of the service.
SecOnd-An amendment to customs rule i,
extending the classification to include all GUS
toms districts in which there are as many as
twenty employees. The present limit is fifty
employees 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 certainly
eleven additional districts and proba bly, sew
erai more
Third-An amendment to the classification
of the department at Washington so as to in
clude in the classified service and subject to
the civil service rules in all the departments
messengers assistant messengers and watch
men.
Fourth--An amendment to the civil service
rule abolishing the right of transfer, upon non
competitive examination, 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 one
year into the places covered by examination.
F'ifth-An order extending the classification,
of the post Office department to include
in the classified service to the department the
clerks employed in the Offices of the post office
inspectors.
Sixth-Amendments to the postal rules with
drawing from the excepted class very large
proportion of the places now excepted from ex-
animation. This will transfer from the eX-
cepted class in the classified post office to the
non-excepted class probably not less than 1,5O0
places, the whole number of excepted places
in the classified post offices now being in the
neighborhood of $500. Hereafter it will not in
clude more than zoo or 800.
Seventh-An amendment to the department
rules withdrawing from the excepted class in
the department Of agriculture the chiefs of the
divisions of entomology, economic ORTHODOXY
and mammalOgy and pomology and the assist
ant chiefs of these divisions.
Eighth-An amendment to the Indian rule
providing for the appointment as assistant
teachers in the Indian school service without
civil service examination, of graduates of the
normal classes at the Salem, Ore: Santa Fe,
N. M: Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kan. Gar
Isle school. Carlisle, Pa, and Hampton insti-
tute, Hampton Va, upon their certificates OF
graduation, but before they can be advanced to
full memberships they shall be required to
pass the regular civil service examination
Ninth-Allowing appointment without exam
ination for not exceeding thirty days to places
which may be filed by non-competitive exam
ination in the departments at Washington in
cases of emergency, pending examination
by the commission. Noappointment made I'M
der this authority 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 immedi-
ately upon his return he would consult
with them in reference thereto.
Other important changes involving
an eXtention 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.