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ORDER BY THEPRESIDENT
Extensive Charges Made in the Civil
Service Regulations.
NEARLY 5000 OFFICES RELEASED.
President Mckinley Issues His Long
Promised A,nendm euts-Places Taken
From the Classified Service-Veterans
of Spanish-American AZ Well rs Civil
War to Be Favored.

War to Be Favored.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Especially THE
shanges in the civil service regulations
which have been in contemplation by Pres
deut Mckinley for more than year, have
been made known in an order issued bv the
President. The Presidents order affects
aearly 5000 places. The majority OF posi-
tions removed from the classified service
are deputies OF bonded officers, storekeep-
srs and gaugers, pension examining sur.
geons, private secretaries and the Chief oi
the Bureau OF Statistics. The other classes
exempted are military park commissioners
and their employees, postofflce cashiers and
finance clerks. special agents OF the Cen
oral Land ONCE, the Alaska school service
and perintendents OF warehouses, irriga.
tioE and logging.
Outside Of these items the most impor.
tant feature is the amendment to Rule w.,
Section 8, which provides for competitive
examination In the classified service. A
new exception clause Is added which gives
the head OF department power to nomi.
nate for appointment any person Tor special
or extraordinary service and to waive the
civil service examination. In whole or IN
part. The Civil Service Commission is or.
dered to grant certificate OF qualification
In such cases on evidence to be furnished
by the Cabinet officer interested, on ap.
proval OF the President.
1t Is provided that this class Of appoint
ments shall not be transferred to any other
position in the classified service except 70
one that may be filed under like pro.
visions. That Is to say, new grade OF EN-.
ployes without limit has been established
not requiring civil service examination,
because the qualifications for their duties
may be considered extraordinary by the
head OF a department. Such heads can ex'
change their appointees in the special elass
at will.
The Govern ment Printing Office Is not
taken out OF the classified service. The
doors to the skilled laboring class are
opened wider to residents Of the District
OF Columbia. Appointments to the posi-
tions OF printers, assistants, skilled helpers
and operatives shall not be apportioned
among the States and Territories here.
after. The same rule will apply to plate
printers and epSravers In the Bureau oi
Engraving and Printing, to experts in the
and other local offices. All clerical posi-.
tions in the Government Printing OHice,
typesetters and bookbinders, will, however,
be subject to the old apportionmentc clause.
Veterans OF the recentwar are put on the
same footing with veterans OF the civil
war in amended Rule TX, to give such SOL
diers preference in original appointments,
in reinstatements and to prevent their dis
charge before others In reduction OF force.
In reference to private secretaries the
greatest liberality is exercised. The Pres
ident and heads OF the executive depart
ments are allowed two private secretaries or
confidential clerks. Usually one OF these
Is q stenographer and heretofore in the
classified service. Each OF the assistant
heads OF tho eight executive departments
Is allowed private secretary. The heads
of all bureaus appointed BY the President
have the same authority to appoint their
personal elections.
Private secretaries are given to Collec-
tors OF Customs whore the receipts are
more than $500, 900 n year, and to each OF
the Appraisers at the ports OF Boston. New
York and Philadelphia. United States
District Attorneys get private secretaries.
Assistant Attorneys-Ge General are entitled
to q confidential clerk, and, II authorized
by the Postmaster General, each Postmas-
ter gets secretary in Offices where the
receipts exceed $3.50, 900 year.