The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-30

tions the Secretary Of the Navy may ap
point 10 the above positions qualified per
sons for a period not TO exceed thirty
days.
All persons at navy yards. naval sta
tons. and at private shlpbuiding and
manufacturing establishments where work
is done by contract for the navy depart
ment employed as special mechanics and
civilian assistant inspectors of work and
materials Qncluding ordnance, armor, ar
NOR plate, marine engines, hulls, build
ings, dredging, etc0.
Many on Tests of Fitness.
A large number Of persons in the quar-
termaster's, ordnance and engineers de-
partment of the army are TO be appoint
ed, upon tests of fitness, as are also the
principal employees at the national mill
tary parks at Gettysburg, Shiloh, Chick
amauga, Chattanooga, Nicksburg and An
tietam.
RUE IV is amended so as to require
only n-competitive examinations to test
the fitness OF person whom the head of
an executive department shall nominate
for appointment In the classified service.
The amendment provides against the
transfer of persons employed under this
rule to places in the competitive service.
In the Classified Service.
The provision covering. the removal OF
persons In the classified service is alter
ed materially in language, aad as changed
reads as follows:
"No removal shall he made from 'he
competitive classified service except foi
just cause and for reasons given IN
writing; and the person sought TO be re-
moved shall have notice and be furnished
a copy of such reasons and be allowed
| a reasonable time for personally answer
| Ing the same in writing. Copy OF sucf
| reasons, notice and answer, and OF the
order Of removal shall be made part o
the records OF the proper department o
| office; and the reasons ror any change
| In rank or compensation within the com
| petitive classified service shall also b'
made a part OF the records of the proper
| department or office"
Rule of the act Is amended so az
to give persons honorably discharged from
service in the army or navy of the United
! States in the Spanish American war; a.
| we'll as the veterans In the civil war
| preference IN the making of appointments
The term of eligibility, heretofore one yea
| from the date of the entry of the nam'
of the eligible candidate on the civil ser
vice commissions register, Is EXTENDED
| for a further period of one year In th'
| discretion of the commission.
Rule is so amended as 20 EXEMPT per
sons who served I'm the war with spail
| from the one-year limit in the matter o
reinstatement after discharge from tn
service. This provision also applies alik
to the widows of such soldiers
An entirely new classification of per
sons In the classified service Is made an
the section relating to transfers Is mate
rally changed,
Those Affected by the Order.
According to figures printed in Decor
Der. the largest classes included IN the ci
der, and thereby excluded from the class
fed service, number thus:
Deputy collectors, internal revenue serl
ice, 472; storekeepers and gaugers, tempc
rarily employed, 500; military park CON
missioners and employees 5s; postoffic
finance clerks and cashiers, 28; privat
secretaries at certain postofflces, %; der
uty marshals, 2N; private secretaries
United States district attorneys, 81; sp'
ciaI agent. general land Office. 30; super
intendents of warehouses, irrigation an
logging, 90; financial clerks, Indian ager
cies. GO; Alaska school service, 80; per
sion examining surgeons, SIS; chief an
financial clerks. pension agencies, sc; sp'
cial agents and expert, department Of at
riculture, 25