The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-10
cllssIFIED CIVIL SERVICE.
,oRT OF THE SENATE COMMIT
NJ TEE PRESENTED.

.rnsion Reached That the Execu-
-, has Power to Make MOdidca-
.,,0s and Therefore No LegisIa-
.,on Is Necessary-Phe Committee
also of the Opinion That the
r,,.siication Has Been Too Ex-
,.ndye and That Certain-DPIaces
rbat Have Been Classified should
Ne excluded.
rssbngron, March Ex-senator Pritch-
- chairman of the committee on civil
'.,ice to-day presented the report of that
.oomlttee on the recent Investigation of
-. classified civil service. embodying the
.,o,usions of the committee. These con-
.s.ions are presented under two heads,
:. follows: First, that the executive has
.,rer to make such notifications as may
!, found advisable. and, therefore, no leg
saaon is needed
second, the committee is agreed that
he classification has been too extensive.
.rd that certain places that have been
dassfed should be excluded from CLASH
s,ation, so that appointments may be
made to them not through examination.
hit at the pleasure of the head of the de-
prtment or bureau"
Among the offices which the committee
rcommend should be excluded from the
sassded service. are the following: Den
vy commissioner and deputy collectors
0. internal revenue, agents who are en-
poyed by the commissioner of internal
rrenue temporary stampers and guagers.
srtain lighthouse employees, paymasters
ID the New York custom house, shipping
commissioners at the various ports, in
sectors of hulls and boilers, all positions
in the custodian service, assistant attor
rys and special agents in the department
d justice and deputy United States mar
aas
Il is recommended that a number of en-
hoyes in the interior department, includ-
ing the chief clerk of the department and
the chief clerks of the various bureaus,
special agents and law examiners be ex
mpted The exemptions recommended
in this department are quite extended and
Included generally positions of individual
responsibility. 1t is also recommended that
private secretaries be in all cases exempt
d.
The same recommendations are made as
10 the chief clerks in all departments, also
as to postoffice inspectors and special
agents of the agricultural department.
A competitive departmental examination
for technical positions at navy yards is
recommended.
The committee expresses the opinion that
the Classification of the government print
ing offices was not authorized by law, but
that even if it was, many places in that
Office were included which should not
have been.
The recentordor of the President in ref
erence to removals seems to have been in
erpreted more narrowly than in the opin-
ion of the committee the order justifies.
They say that while the power of APP
pontment to civil service may well be
regulated so as to open the service impair
tally TO all the people of the United
states under suitable restrictions, the
power Of removal should be very broad.
Where clerk is deemed by his immediate
superior to be inefficient it is cleary in
Uie me OF puollc pollcy that that clerk
saould be discharged, and there should be
no mpediments placed In the way of such
discharge except such as may be neces-
safy to secure justice to the person re-
moved
Senator Lodge presented his views in a
separate report, which, while it agrees in
Ile main with the report submitted by
senator Pritchard, does not present so
long list Of persons whom he would have
exempted from the operations of the civil
service law His list includes deputy col
ieltors of internal revenue, deputy coll
lec'ors of customs, private secretaries to
executive officials, assistant district attor-
Ieys and assistant United States marshals.
ne thinks complete revision of the sys-
'em OF local examining boards of the pen
SION Office is necessary. and that the sys-
ZEN should be so changed as to secure a
uniformity of rating. He thinks the serv-
nee ought to be extended to the con yres-
siohal library and the clerical force in he
District of Columbia.
senator's Chiffon and Kinney, talso sub
lnitted brief report saying that, while
lney agree that no legislation is desira-
oe' they consider 1t inadvisable to make
any suggestions to the President.
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