Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-09
Report of the Senate Civil Service
Committee.
A TOO EXTENSIVE CLASSIFICATION
Confidential Offices That Should
Be Excluded.
POWER OF THE PRESIDENT

| The report of the Senate committee on
civil service and retrenchment, pursuant to
| Instructions of the Senate resolution which
, required investigation into the opera
| lions of the civil service law, was submit
ted to the Senate today by Mr.. Pritchard.
chairman. The report states that after a
careful examination of the present condi-
| tons relative to appointments to the civil
| service, the committee is of the opinion:
First That the executive has the power
to make such notifications as may be
found advisable, and therefore no legisla-
| ten is needed.
Second. TIE committee is agreed that
the classification has been too extensive,
and that certain places that have been
| classified should be excluded from classifi-
| cation so that appointments may be made
to them, not through examination, but the
pleasure of the head of the department or
| bureau.
'The committee. therefore, is of the opin-
ion that the President should make certain
notifications in the existing civil service
| rules, and should restore to the heads of
departments and the heads of bureaus the
| appointment of certain classes of officials
| The committee, however, recognizes that
| It's province in the matter Is purely adj
Vlsory, since 1t has no legislation to pro-
pose.
| I'm making these recommendations the
committee is acting upon the opinions of
| the heads of departments and bureaus,
Dased upon their experience and also upon
inc testimony of those who have been and
who are in position to make their opir-
| ions and their advice valuable
In the Treasury Department..
| The committee recommends that deputy
| collectors in the internal revenue service
I be excluded from the classified service as
| they serve collectors in positions of peculiar
| responsibility, and if deputy embezzles it
! is the collector who is liable to the govern
| nent. The committee also advise that the
position of deputy commissioner of internal
| revenue be excluded from the classified ser
| wee, and the same recommendation is
| made in the case of internal revenue agents
| and those storekeepers and gaugers who
are paid s. a day or less, and who are in
| most instances employed temporarily.
The committee adopts the recommended
ton of Secretary Gage that certain en-
! ployes in the lighthouse service be excluded
| from the classified service; also that the
| position of paymaster in the New York Gus
| tom house and the position of shipping
| commissioner at the various ports be ex-
| cluded. Also that the local inspectors of
| hulls and boilers be excluded from exam
| ination. Also that all positions in the Gus
| todian force, including elevator conductors,
firemen, janitors, dynamo tenders and en-
| ployes of similar character be excluded
! from the classified service.
| The committee recommends that assistant
| attorneys and special agents in the Depart
| nent of Justice, including deputy marshals,
| be excluded from the classified service.
| Interior Department.
/ In the Department of the Interior it is
| recommended that the following named
places be excluded from the classified ser
vice:
Office Of the secretary: The chief clerk of
| the department and the special land in
| spectors.
Office of the first assistant secretary: One
| clerk to act as private secretary conf
| dental clerk.
! Office of the assistant secretary: One
| clerk to act as private secretary or conf
| Dental clerk and the members of the board
| of pension appeals, attorneys
Office of the assistant attorney general
for the Interior Department. One clerk to
| act as private secretary confidential
clerk and the assistant attorneys of the
Office
The general land office-One chief clerk of
| the bureau. One clerk to act as private sec
rotary confidential clerk. One depositary
| to the commissioner acting as receiver of
public moneys: a bonded officer; inspectors
of surveyors general in district land office.
cial agents for examination of surveys.
Special agents, unspecified service, but as
signed to depredations public timber,
| protecting public lands and swamp lands.
etc, varying in number according to the
quirementS of the service. Law examiners
and law clerks 1.-TWO of each grade). In
spectors of coal mines in the territories
appointments not cOnllrmest
| by the Senate, but included in the classified
service). Clerks employed temporarily in,
and contest clerks in local land offices;
paid from special deposits. not government
funds. Clerks employed temporarily in and
| per diem clerks in the offices of the sur
yeyor3 general; paid from special deposits,
not government funds.
Office Of Indian affairs-One clerk to act
| Special Indian agents. Special agents for
the allotment of lands in severalty. All
special commissioners to negotiate with the
Indians for any purpose whatsoever. SUI
pervisorS of Indian schools. Examiners of
| Indian timber lands. Engineers to make
| surveys Of reservation boundary lines and
| surveyors at Indian agencies. Superintend-
ents of warehouses, irrigation and logging.
Head clerk at each Indian agency to act as
| agent during the absence or disability of
the agent proper. All agency employees of
| subordinate character, such farmer,
assistant farmer blackSmithS, ShOemakers,
| tailors butchers herders harnessmakers,
storekepers, millers, wheelwrights, nursery
men, painters, carpenters, teamSterS and SIM
| liar positions, requiring knowledge of trades
and manual Skill but not much education.
Indian school employees, such as cooks,
laundress, seamstress, watchmen, bakers,
nurses jantors, timers. dairymen firemen,
shoe and harness makers and other occu-
pations similar in character, requiring no
great educational qualifications.
Pension office-One chief clerk Of the bu-
reau; one clerk to act private secretary
| VI CleTh, the IneUlCdl referee OF
| the bureau special examiners to investi-
gate fraudulent and other pension claims.
Pension agency service-One chief clerk
| at each agency; one clerk at each agency
designated to sign checks for the agent and
act as confidential clerk.
Education officc-The Alaska school serv-
| ice: Employment therein is temporary in
character; difficulty has been experienced
in filling positions, owing to great distance
| to the schools and their comparative isola-
ton, etc.
The patent office-One chief clerk of the
bureau, bonded officer; one clerk to act
as private secretary or confidential clerk;
the financial clerk, a bonded officer; one
skilled laborer, a mechanic Of sufficient
skill to enable him to assist in taking care
of and repairing models, ETC.; one messen-
ger and property clerk. in charge of the
laboring force and of such property as 1t is
necessary to store, clean or renew from
time to time.
The geological survey-Printers' assist
ants, boys employed at nominal compen-
sation.
Miscellaneous-The superintendent of the
Hot Springs reservation.
In addition to the above-named places.
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