The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-23
INTERNAL REVENUE CHANGES.
CIRCULAR ISSUED ON RECENT CIVIL
SERVICE ORDER.

Deputy Collectors Are Subject to APP
pbintment by COnectors-Gaugers
and Others Who Come Under the
Same RuIc-Changcs of DesiEna-
ton, However, VIII Not he Allow
ed-AppOintments TO BE Made Only
when Necessary.
Washington, June 22.-Commissioner
George w. Wilson of the internal revenue
bureau, with the approval of the Secretary
of the Treasury. has issued to all collec-
tors circular letter explanatory of the
changes made in the civil service rules af-
fecting their duties by the recent order of
the President. The commissioner says:
THE Office of deputy collector of inter
nal revenue is removed from the COMPETE
tive classified list, and collectors are at
liberty to make such changes by removal
and appointment as in their Judgment the
welfare of the public service may dictate;
but persons appointed TO that office are
subject TO pass an examination 10 be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of Treasury.
THE offices of gauger. storekeeper and
storekeeper gauger. where the compensa-
ton does not exceed 50 per day
or shall not exceed in the aggregate $500
per annum, are removed from the COM
petitive classified service, but persons ap-
pointed to said Office are subject to pass
examination to be prescribed by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury"
Reference is made to the rules governing
reinstatements of veterans and others.
Persons temporarily designated by col
lectors under section 1855, r. s., regula-
tons, series Z, No. Z. page 80, paragraph
Z, to serve as storekeepers and gaugers
etc. are not temporary appointees and
are not eligible to permanent appointment
under said rule.
Collectors Have Full Power.
I'm the case of deputy collectors. their
appointment being invested in the collec-
tor by law, collectors may exercise the
power in their discretion of appointment
and removal conferred upon them by
statute subject to the conditions named
in paragraph l. this circular.
Referring to gaugers, storekeepers and
storekeeper gaugers in commission on the
18th of May, 1899. who were removed from
the competitive classified service by ex-
ecutive order of that date,
your attention is called to
the fact that the Secretary of the
Treasury is the executive officer who
makes appointment and removals of such
officers, and that IL is his purpose that re-
moVals in that branch of the service shall
be only for just causes and for reasons
given in writing and satisfactory to him.
"A change of designation from clerk to
deputy collector for the purpose of dis
pensing with the services of a clerk in the
classified competitive service, is not con-
sistent with the civil service law and rules,
and win not be permitted
appointments and reinsta tements are
to be made in the internal revenue SER
vice only when the necessities of the local
service requires them, with due regard
to the rule of this office in regard to the
storekeepers and other distillery officers,
namely, that the number of unassigned
officers shall not exceed Is per cent Of
the number assigned to duty. To fill
vacancies occurring by death, resignation
or removals made under the terms of this
circular, or to meet exigencies of the ser
vice, requiring additional appointments,
collectors are authorized to recommend
for appointment to places not now en-
braced In the competitive classified list,
suitable persons for the service required,
the appointees to be subject to a pass
examination to be prescribed by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury as herein indi-
Gated.
"GauGers, storekeepers and storekeeper-
gaugers whose compensation exceeds the
rates named in this circular, and clerks
in collectors offices will continue to be
appointed from eligible lists certified by
the Civil Service Commission or by rein
statement under the rules governing ap-
pointments in the classified competitive
service"