The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-01
LONG LIST OF POSITIONS
Civil Service Examinations Will
Be Held in Helena.
MINT AND ASSAY OFFICE
Work of the United States Industrial
Commission Is to Be Curtailed in
the West-New Express
Orders.


No. 1145 G. Street n. w. (
Washington, June 27.-There will be
a civil service examination held at Hell
ena, July IL, for long list of positions
in the mint and assay office. Applica-
tons must be filed before Saturday
night next. The examination will be
both educational and nom educational,
as follows: Educational-Arithme
comprising tests in addition, subtrac-
ton, multiplication and division of
whole numbers as used in simple prob
lens, and of United States money; let
ter writing, penmanship and copying
from plain copy. n-educational-
Age, character as a workman, expert
ence and physical qualifications. The
civil service commission provides that
the educational ratings will be de-
vouchers furnished by the applicants;
but an applicant who fails to obtain
mark of 40 per cent in either the edu
cational or non-educational test shall
not have his name entered upon the
register of eligibles. Applicants who
attain 20 per cent or more in both the
educational and on-educational tests
per cent in their rating on the educa
tipnal test and relative weight of 70
per cent in their rating on the non-edu-
cational test. Applicants are advised
that they must furnish, in addition to
filing their applications, satisfactory
evidence as to their character and in
tegrity.
The work of the United States indus
trial commission in Salt Lake, Butte
and the other mountain cities soon to
be visited does not promise to be near
ly as comprehensive as was at first pro-
jected. The latest report is that not
to exceed 10 witnesses will be exam
ined at each city visited. Of course,
it is quite within the power of the sub
commission to extend their work, giving
it larger scope than now proposed. 1t
is the judgment of weil-informed par
ties here that 1t will be quite impossi-
BILE to properly cover the ground in the
mining states unless there is much
wider range given to the investigation.
When the commission was first estab-
lished it was asserted that the mining
hearings would be important and eX-
tensive and that the report of the COM
mission could be expected to contain
much valuable matter. The present ar
| rangement is likely to produce much
less interesting results.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
! ing on the application of the American
Express company for the privilege of
| consolidating consignments of goods in
| tended for transportation to Canada Tor
! the purpose of making single entry
! and giving a single bond on all such
| shipments made within one week. Such
| a practice, if allowed would, it is said,
| greatly reduce the expense ito the eX-
press companies, but would probably
not assist the shipper, and the depart
ment believes that it would be detrl-
mental to the interests of the goVeSn-
ment General Spaulding is willing,
| however, to make a concession from the
| letter of the regulations heretofore In
| force and has forwarded the following
instructions to all border collectors:
You report that the practice OF al
| lowing the express company the privi-
=. lege of including in one entry, for i'm
mediate transportation and exporta-
ton in bond to Canada, all the differ-
| ent consignments of merchandise i'm
ported bytthem in one day and destined
for one port of exit on the northern
frontier, has been followed I'M
til lately, when this your office, In
showing the disposition of imported
merchandise on the collectors copy OF
manifest to the department, found that
! manifests containing importations re-
ferred to, with others, were held fol
weeks, to show disposition on account
of waiting for other like shipments tc
be included for the same port of exit.
You further state that most of the
consignments are small and of little
| value that the cost of bonding woulc
often be nearly as much as is realized
by the company for transportation,
and that if the applicant be required
to make separate entries for such small
shipments his company cannot continue
to compete for that business.
In reply, l have to inform you that
the department declines to authorize
the consolidation in one entry of con-
6ignments covering a period of severa
days, as proposed by the applicant. bu
perceives no objection to the inclusion
in one entry and bond, for immediate
transportation and expectation 70 Can
ada via a common port, of all m, han
disc arriving on the same date ant
train, or other conveyance, consigned tt
one party but destined for two or more
places in Canada. You will be gov
erned accordingly" HOSFORD.