The Topeka state journal., 1899-05-29
SURRENDER
To SPOILSMEN.
Four Thousand Places Taken
From Classified List
And Placed at Disposal of Par
tisan Officials.
PRESIDENTS ORDER
PRESIDENTS ORDER
Amending Civil Service Regula-
tions Issued Today.
Covers Many Departments of
National Government.


Washington, May 29.-President Nc
Kinley today issued the amendments to
the civil service rules which he has had
under consideration for about a year.
1t releases from the operation of the
civil service rules about 1000 employees.
Among the places are the following:
Pension examining surgeons, Indians
employed in the Indian service not con-
nected with the Indian school service
and many places in the engineer de-
partment at large, the Quartermaster's
department at large, the subsistence at
large, the ordnance department at large
of the war department.
With reference to these places in the
outside war department service it is
provided that they shall be subject to
regulations to be prescribed by the sec
retary of war and approved by the
president, thus placing these branches
of the service on substantially the same
basis as the navy yard service.
CATALOGUE OF THE SPOILS.
The following named employees or po-
sitions which have been classified under
the civil service act are excepted from
the requirements of examination or
registration, unless otherwise stated:
1. Not exceeding two private secre-
taries or confidential clerks to the pres
ident.
2 Not exceeding two private secre-
taries or confidential clerks at the head
of each of the eight executive depart
ments.
g. Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
assistant heads of the eight executive
departments.
4 Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
following heads of bureaus appointed
and confirmed by the senate in the
eight executive departments: The
commissioner of internal revenue, the
treasurer of the United States, the
comptroller of the currency, the comp
troller of the treasury. the superin-
tendent of the coast and SeOoeuc sur
Vey. In the war department, the major
general commanding the army, the ad-
jutant general, the inspector general,
the judge advocate general, the quar-
termaSter general, the cOmml SSary gen.
eral of subsistence, the surgeon general,
the paynaster general the chief of en-
gineers, the chief of ordnance, the chief
signal officer, the chief of the record
and pension office and superintendent
of public buildings and grounds in the
department of the interior, the commits
sioner of the general land office, the
commissioner of Indian affairs, the
commissioner of patents, the commits
sioner of education. the assistant at
torney general, the director OF the geo
logical survey, the commissioner of
pensions.
s. Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
heads of bureaus appointed by the pres
ident and confirmed by the senate in
the eight executive departments not
enumerated in paragraph of this rule,
if authorized by law.
g. All persons appointed by the pres
ident with confirmation by the senate.
Z Attorneys, assistant attorneys and
special attorneys.
s. Not exceeding one private secre-
tar or confidential clerk H.
missioner of labor.
9. Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to the COM
missioner of fish and fisheries.
10. Not exceeding one private Secre-
tary confidential clerk to the Secre-
tary of the Smithsonian institution.
IL Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
interstate commerce commissioners.
II. All shipping commissioners
13. Not exceeding one cashier in each
customs district if authorized by the
secretary of the treasury.
IA. Not exceeding one chief or princi-
pal deputy or assistant collector at
each customs port, and not exceeding
one principal deputy collector of GUS
toms at each SUPPORT or station.
Is. Not exceeding one deputy naval
officer at each customs port where a
naval officer is authorized by law.
16. Not exceeding one deputy sur
Veyor of customs at each customs port,
where a surveyor is authorized by law.
II. No exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk, if authorized
by the secretary of the treasury to the
collector of each customs district where
the receipts of the last preceding fiscal
year amounted to as much Is $500, 600.
IS. Not exceeding one private Secre-
tary or confidential clerk, if authorized
by the secretary of the treasury to each
of the appraisers of the ports of
Boston. New York and Philadelphia re
spectively.
19. Not exceeding one counsel before
the board of Z. S general appraisers.
20. Not exceeding one paymaster in
the New York customs district.
21- All positions in Alaska in the
customs and internal revenue services.
%. All deputy collectors of internal
revenue who are borne on the rolls as
such and the allowance for whose sal
aries is approved by the secretary of
the treasury: Provided. that position
designated as a clerkship under a COL
lector of internal revenue, appointment
to which is made by the secretary of
the treasury shall be discontinued for
the purpose of substituting a deputy
coIIectorship therefor. or for any pur-
pose other than a bOnafide reduction of
force, and that before such reduction
shall be made the reasons therefor shall
be given in writing by the collector of
the district and shall be approved by
the commissioner of internal revenue
and the secretary of the treasury.
%. StorekeeperS and gaugers where
compensation does not exceed SO per
day when actually employed and whose
aggregate compensation shall not ex-
ceed $500 per annum
"a. Officers in charge of the bureau
of statistics
25. Not exceeding one chief clerk ia
each mint. or assay office, who is au-