The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-08
Amendments rlade Necessary by
Extension of CLASH
fication.
AS TO AGE LIMITATIONS,
TRANSFERS AUTHORIZED WITH
OUT EXAMINATION
1t is Believed That Under The Cir
cumstances Mentioned In the
Amendment They CAN BE Made
without Detriment TO the Public
nterests-EmpIoSees Affected BY
the Recent Change,

Washington, March THE president
has approved sundry amendments OF
the civil service rules. These amend
mentS are largely formal, and were
made necessary in consequence Of the
recent extension Of the classification
in the departmental service to include
messengers, assistant messengers and
Watchmen and the classification Of the
internal revenue service.
One OF the amendments gives Inc
civil service commission authority IN
its discretion to reject the application
or to refuse the eertiflcation Of an ap-
plicant who has been guilty of a crime
Of Infamous or of VIGOROUSLY dis
graceful conduct. Prior to this amend
ment the commission only had the
power with reference to certtHcatlon IN
such cases.
Age limitations have been prescribed
for the new classes brought within the
classified service by the recent e1-
tension, These limits are for rnessen-
/ gers or assistant messengers not I'M
der Is. for page or messenger BOY not
under Il nor over IL years of age
further amendment provides for
transfers from the internal revenue
service to a bureau in the treasury
! department in which business relating
| to the internal revenue IS transacted
| and from such a bureau to the inter-
nal revenue service, this amendment
! being in all respects similar 10 the
1 provision now existing with reference
| to transfers from the customs service
| to the treasury department, and from
| the department to the customs service.
! a Droyiso has been added, which au-
/ thorizes transfers from one depart
ment in Washington 10 another With
| ont examination, This amendment has
1 been made in view of the fact that the
I service law has now been IN
operation in the departmental service
| more than eleven years, and that a
! large proportion of the employees now
| in these departments have ent9~nt llle
| service through the civil service exam
nations and the further fact that
those who have not been SO appointed
I have had long experience and have ac-
! ouired q valuable knowledge not only
! of the business of the department. III
| which they are employed, but OF The
public service generally. In view Of
I these considerations, 1t was belleVed
the time had come when transfers
from one department to another, where
the transfer is to be a place 6nd a
class of duties similar to those per
formed in the department from which
the transfer is made, might pa with
out examination and without deILnen'
to the public interest.
A. further amendment to the rules
nrovides that persons appointed dS
messengers, assistant messengers
watehmen or in any other subordi1latf
capacity below the position Of elerl
and copyist, may be transferred afLel
completing the probation of six mon5hs
If not debarred by age limitations, u
anv other like subordinate positions
But they may not be promoted to the
nosition of clerk or cOpyiSt or to any
place the duties of which are clerical
An exception is made with regard u
nrinters, assistants in the bureau O
printing and engraving, who are onlfr
aUgibIe to transfer to the grade o
oDeratiyes in that bureau