The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-10
PRESENTS REPORT.
The Conclusions of the Committee on
the Classified Service.
Washington, March o-senator Pritch-

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Washington, March Ex-senator Pritch-
ard. chairman of the Committee on Civil
Service to-day presented the report OF
thot committee on the recent investiga-
tion of the classified service, embOdylng
tbe conclusions Of the committee. THESE
conclusions are divided under two heads
as follows;
..First-That the executive has the
ro,ycr to make such notifications as
may be found advisable and therefore
no legislation is needed.
"Sccondly-The committee rs agreed
that the classification has been too eX-
tens:ve, and that certain places that
have been classified should be excluded
from classification. so that appointments
may be made to them, not through eX-
| animation. but at the pleasure Of the
head of the department or bureau
among the offices which the commit
| tee recommend should he excluded from
the classified service are the following;
Deputy Commissioners and Deputy Col
lectors of Internal Revenue Agents,
wAO are employed by the Commissioner
| of Internal Revenue: temporary store
keepers and gaugers: certain light house
| employees; Pay Masters in the New
York Custom House; Shipping Commits
siOnerS at the various ports. Inspectors
o. Hulls and Boilers, all positions in the
Custodian service; assistant attorneys
and special agents in the Department
of Justice and Deputy, United States
MarShals.
1t is recommended that a number of
employees in the Interior Department,
including the Chief Clerk of the Depart
mcnt and the Chief Clerks of the va
rious bureaus, Special Agents and Law
Examiners be exempted.
The exemption recommended in this
department is quite extended and in
| cludes generally the positions of individ-
ual responsibility, the temporary places
and the places Of minor responsibility.
1T is also recommended that Private
Secretaries be in all cases exempted.
1hp same recommendation is made as
| to the Chief Clerks in all departments.
also as to postOffice Inspectors and Spc-
cial Agents of the Agricultural Depart
ment. \ competitive departmental eX-
animation for technical positions at Ma
w Yards is recommended. The commit
| tee express the opinion that the classi-
fcati0n of the Government Printing Of
| fee was not authorized by law, but that
| even if it was many places in that office
were included which should not have
been.
The recent order in regard to removals
| seems to have been interpreted more
| narrowly than in tn opinion of the com
tee the order justifies They say that
| while THE power of appointment to the
civil service may we'll be regulated so
as to open the service invariably to all
u. . ~, ~,,s4 .Ia4
| suitable restrictions, the power of re-
moval should he very broad. Where a
clerk is deemed by his immediate supe-
rior TO be inefficient. it is clearly in the
line of public policy that that clerk
should be discharged. and there should
he no impediments placed in the way of
such discharge except such as may he
necessary to secure justice to the per-
| SON removed"
Senator Lodge presented his views in
separate report. which while it agrees
in the main with the report submit
ted by Senator Pritchard. does not pre-
sent so long a list of persons whom he
would have exempted from the opera
tons of the civil service law. His list
| included Deputy Collectors of Internal
| Revenue. Deputy Collectors Of Customs.
Private Secretaries to Executive Off
Gals, Assistant District Attorneys and
Assistant United States MarShals. He
/ thinks Il complete revision of the system
Of local examining boards of the pension
| office is necessary and that the system
should be so changed as to secure UNI
formity Of rating. He thinks the SER
vice ought to lie extended TO the Con-
| gressiCnal Library and the clerical force
in the District Of Columbia.
Senators Chiffon and Kinney also
submitted a brief report saying that
| while they agree that no legation is de-
Sirahle they consider it inadvisahle to
| make any suggestions to the President.