St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-14
The Civil Service Changes.

re1uer. Inc rule against removals
without charges Is stated and an oppor-
tunity to defend is enlarged so as to give
the accused "a reasonable time for per-
sonally answering the same in writing"
"A copy OF the reasons for removal, the
hotice ana answer, and Of the order of
removal, snail be made part of the
records OF the proper department or
once; and the reasons for any change in
rank or compensation within the COM
petitlve classified service shall also be
made part Of the records Of the proper
department or Office" This amendment
VIII enable any person removed or de-
graded to publish for his own vindica-
ZION, IL he desires, the reasons assigned
for the change.
Rule three Is changed SO as to make
the officers exempted from examination
liable to punishment who wilfully vio-
late any of the provisions of the civil
service act or rules; or uses his official
authority or influence to interfere with
or control an election; or who does any,
thing toward procuring the dismissal or
change of rank or pay Of any other civil
Servant because Of political or religious
grounds.
The non-competltive examination list
ID extended to include persons whom the
mead of an executive department or the
secretary of the Smithsonian institution
shall nominate for appointment to a posi-
ton in the classified SERVICE but the APP
pointing officer must certify that the
position requires such peculiar qualif-
cations as are not ordinarily required In
the executive service.
If the president approves, the civil
service commission shall grant a GER
tificate on such evidence as may be sat-
isfactory to 1t, that the person so nom
mated is eligible. No person so appoint
ed shall be transferred to any other kind
of position in the classified service or as
signed to other duties.
Exemption from any form of examina-
ton or registratlon-the out and out
free list in SHORTS extended to in
clude one private secretary or conf
Dental clerk to each of the assistant
heads Of the eight executive depart
ments, to the several bureau chiefs, each
collector of customs in a district collect
Ing 100000 a year. the appraisers at the
ports Of Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia, each superintendent of a mint
or assay office, each paymaster in actual
service, each district attorney, each as
sistant attorney general, and each post
master whose office receives $3.50, 900 a
year.
Besides these private secretaries the
changes in the free list include cash
nd At1n nla l..
first-class postofllces, the number of ex-
emptions depending on the size of each
office: deputy collectors of internal rev.
enue: all customs and internal revenue
positions in Alaska; sundry deputy
naval officers and deputy surveyors OF
customs; all shipping commissioners,
storekeepers and gaugers paid less than
50 day, or $500 year; chief of the
treasury bureau of statistics, chief
clerk and several other officers in the
mint service; prison wardens, chaplains
and physicians; one clerk at each PEN
sion agency; five special pension ex-
aminers to ferret out fraud; special
agents, superintendent of irrigation
and logging, allotting agents and spe-
cial commissioners, timber examiners,
boundary engineers and finance clerks
at agencies. all the Indian service, and
agents and experts employed tenn
porarily for making Investigations for
the agricultural department, as we'll as
one statistical agent in each state
This is not the entire free list, but a
review Of the most important and sig
nifcant changes.
ptt1n &c oh Gu 70 10
certain cases in which extensions Of time
can be given to persons on the eligible
list for specific reasons. Rule nine, as
to the reinstatements, is changed so as
to put persons associated with the Span
ish war on the same footing with those
Of the Civil war; and also in another
particular by the provision that ANY
person dismissed from the service upon
charges of delinquency or misconduct
may be reinstated, subject to the other
conditions of these rules, without regard
to the one-year time limit of this rule,
upon the certificate of the proper ap-
pointing officer that he has thoroughly
Investigated the case, and that the
charges upon which the dismissal was
based were not true
The members OF tho CIVIL service
commission, owing to the fact that they
have net had time to examine and study
it's provisions in detail, are not yet pre-
pared to give out a statement of the
effect of the order. A comprehensive
statement, however, will be prepared,
pointing out its consequences.
According to figures printed in De-
eember, the largest classes included in
the order, and thereby excluded from
the classified service, number thus:
Deputy collectors internal revenue
service, Az; storekeepers and gaugers,
temporarily employed, 500; military
park commissioners and employees, S.
postofllce finance clerks and cashiers,
rs; private secretaries at certain post
offices, %; deputy marshals, 204; private
secretaries to United States district at
torneys, 81; special agents, general land
office, 80; superintendent of ware
houses, irrigation and logging, 20; finan-
cial clerks, Indian agencies, 60; Alaskan
school service, 80; pension examining
surgeons, 615; chief and financial clerks,
pension agencies. So; special agents and
experts, department of agriculture. 25.
Well Answered.
In the course of lecture to an unim-
questionable Scotch audience De Rouge