The Portland daily press., 1899-05-30

the civil service commissions register is
extended for a further period of one year
in the discretion of the commission.
The following section now added to
| rule 8 makes permanent in the discre-
tion Of the heads of departments all exist.
| ing temporary appointments:
All persons serving under temporary
appointments at the date OF the approval
of this section, may be permanently ap.
pointed in the discretion of the proper
appointing officer and the special rule
approved January 20. 1899. relative to
| temporary appointment in the navy de-
| partment Is hereby rescinded
Rule is so amended as to exempt per-
sons who served In the war with Spain
| from the one year limit In the matter
of reinstatement after discharge from
| the service. This provision also applies
alike to the widows of such soldiers, but
| the former provision including nurses Ia
eliminated. Still another provision made
| in this connection is as follows:
ANY person dismissed from the ser
vice upon charges of delinquency or mis-
| conduct may re re-instated subject to the
| other conditions of these rules without
| regard to the one-yenr time limit of this
rule upon the certificate of the proper APP
pointing officer that he has thoroughly
inye itigHted the case and that the charge
upon which the dismissal was based. was
not true -
All tHUlTtly NEW Tuit, NJ, To- IL buutui
classifying all officers and employees In
the classified service, as follows, unless
otherS Use provided by law:
Class a all persons receiving an annual
salary of less than SEQ or compensation
at less rate; b, from $40 to less than
$40; q. $40 10 500; d, 500 to $1,000; h,
S Geo to 81, 200; Glass !, $l2O0 to Sl4O0;
Glass 9, 81, 40 to 81 600; 3, 600 to 81 500;
a. 81 800 to s., 200; 8, $1,000 to 81, 500, +, all
at 81, 800 or more.
This classification does not include per-
sons appointed to an office with the adj
vice and content of the Senate nor mere
laborers or workmen, but does include
all persons designated as lahorers or
workmen who prior to May q, 1896 and
on June 10, 1895, were regularly assigned
| to the same grade of work as that per
| formed by classified employees. hereafter,
no person appointed as a laborer or work
| man without examination under the civ!l
service rules shall be assigned to work on
the same gr.d de as that performed by
classified employees.
| Rule 10, section 2, relating to transfers
the WORDS Tor If in said position there
is not required in the Judgment of tie
commission the performance of the same
class of work, or the practice of the same
mechanical trade performed or praoticei
in the position from which transfer Is
| proposed" and inserting in place of them
the following: "Buu the provisions III
relation to appointment shall be waived
upon the certificate of the appointing
officer that the transfer Is required in
the interests of good administration"
The members of the civil service COM
mission owing to the fact that they have
not had time to examine and study Its
provisions in detail are not yet prepared
TO give out O statement of the effects OF
the order. A comprehensive statement,
however, will be prepared, pointing out
| its consequences.
| According to figures printed in Deosm
| Der the largest classes including in thu
order and thereby excluded from tht
classified service, number thus:
| Deputy collectors internal revenue ser
vice, 472; store-keepcrs and gaugers, TEN
porarily employed. 500; military parl
commissioners and employees, 5S; pos
office finance clerks and cashiers. IS; pri
vate secretaries at certain post offices, y
deputy marshals. 204; private secretarie
| to United States district attorneys, 81
special agents general land Office 80; su
perintendents of warehouses, irrigation
and logging, 20; financial clerks, Indian
agencies, 60; Alaska school service. 80
pension examining surgeons, SIS; chic
and financial clerks, pension agencies, B
special agents and experts, department o
| auriculture 25