The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-07
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
Result Of Conferences Between the
President and tho Commission.
Extension OF Classified Service to OAAces
Not Heretofore Classified Existing
Classifications RevisSd--Other
Changes In Contem-
plAtion.

recent conferences between President
Cleveland and the members Of the civil
service commission, the president has
signed several orders of great import
ance in connection with the civil serv-
ice reform movement, making extern
sions Of the classified service 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 presi-
dents action is as follows:
First-A revision of the customs
classification so as to bring within the
service all employees not serving merely
as workmen or laborers, without re-
gard to compensation. Heretofore this
service has been classified on the basis
of compensation, all employees receiving
a compensation of less than 5000 or a
rate of compensation less than 800, per
annum, have been excluded from the
classification, and therefore not subject
to the civil service rules. This action
of the president brings the classifca-
ton of the customs service into har-
mony with those of the other branches
of the service and is very important
one in connection with that service.
Second-An amendment to Custom
Rule 1, extending the classification to
include all customs districts in which
there are as many as twenty employees.
The present limit is fifty employees, and
under that limit eleven customs dis
tricts have been classified. The extern
sion of the classification to include all
districts in which there are as
many as wenty employees will
bring into the classified service GER
tainly eleven additional districts, and
probably several more, and goes as far
in the direction of classifying the GUS
toms service as it is wise to go at this
time, or perhaps at any time.
Third-An amendment to the classi-
fication of the departmental service at
Washington so as to include in the clas-
sified service, and subject to the civil
service rules, in all the departments,
messengers, assistant messengers and
watchmen.
Fourth-An amendment to the civil
service rules abolishing the right Of
transfer upon non-competitive exami'
nation, Of persons appointed to ex'
cepted 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 exami
nation. This amendment, In the judg
ment of the commission, is distinctly
in the interest of good administration
to the service.
Fifth-An order extending the classi
fication of the post Office department
so as to include in the classified servic,
Of that department the clerks EN-
ployed in the offices of the post offic,
inspectors.
Sixth-Amendments to the posta
rules, withdrawing from the excepte,
class verify large proportion Of tn
places now excepted from examination
This amendment will transfer from tn
excepted class in the classified post Of
fees to the non-excepted class prot
ably not less than 1900 places, tn
whole number Of excepted places In tn
classified post offices now being in tn
neighborhood of $500. Hereafter !
will not include more than TOO or 800.
The president has had these change
under consideration for some time an
before his return from his vacation nc
titled the commission that immediatel
upon his return he would consult wit
them in reference thereto. Other In
portant changes involving an extensio
of the classified service are still unde
consideration and only await arrang,
ment of minor details through confer
ence between the civil service commi
sion and the heads of various depar
ments, and will probably be made tn
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