The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-30
Mckinley Surrenders to the
Spells System.
HAS ISSUED HIS ORDER
Four Thousand Civil Service Positions
Are Thrown Open to Hungry o.
fee Seekers and Decayed
Politicians.

under consideration for about year. 1t
releases from the operations of the civil
service rules about 1000 offices. Among
such places are the following: Pension
examining surgeon, Indians employed
in the Indian service connected with
Indian schools service and many places
in the engineer department at large;
the quartermaster's department at
large; the subsistence department at
large; the war department.
With reference ito the places in the
outside war department service it is
provided that they shall be subject to
regula tions provided by the secretary
of war and approved by the president
thus placing these branches of the serV-
ice on the same substantial basis as the
navy yard service.
The following named employees, or po-
sitions, which have been classified I'M
der the civil service act, are excepted
from the requirements of examination
or registration unless otherwise stated:
"a. Not exceeding two private secre-
tareS or confidential clerks to the pres
dent.
t2). Not exceeding two private secre
tares or confidential clerks to the head
of each of the eight executive depart
1nents.
(3). Not exceeding one private secre-
fary or confidential clerk to each of the
assistant heads of the eight executive
departments.
"a, Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
following heads of bureaus, appointed
by the president and confirmed by the
in thn aSrht
ments: The commissioner of internal
revenue: the treasurer of the United
States; the comptroller of the currency;
the comptroller of the treasury; the
superintendent of the coast and geodetic
survey in the war department, the
major general commanding the army
the adjutant general, the inspector gen
eral, the Judge advocate general, the
quartermaster general, the commissary
general of subsistence, the surgeon gen
eral, the paymaster general, the chief
signal officer: the chief of the record
and the superintendent of public build
ings and grounds and in the department
of the interior, the commissioner OF
the general land Office, the commits
sioner of Indian affairs, the commits
sioner of patents, the commissioner OF
education, the assistant attorney gen
eral for the interior department, the di-
rector of the geological survey, the COM
missioner of pensions.
90. Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to each of the
heads of bureaus, appointed by the
president and confirmed by the senate,
in the eight executive departments not
enumerated in paragraph of this rule,
if authorized by law.
go. All persons appointed by the
president with continuation by the
senate.
C0. ATTORNEYS, assistant attorneys
and special attorneys
80. Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to the COM
missioner of labor.
(9). Not exceeding one private secre-
tary or confidential clerk to the COM
missioner of fish and fisheries.
l0). Not exceeding one private sec
rotary or confidential clerk to the secre-
tary of the Smithsonian institute.
1D. Not exceeding one private sec
rotary or confidential clerk to each of
the interstate commerce commissioners.
l2). All shipping commissioners.
Q3). Not exceeding one cashier in
each customs district if authorized by
the secretary of the treasury.
14). Not exceeding one chief or prin-
cipal deputy or assistant collector at
each customs port and not exceeding
one principal deputy collector Of Gus
toms at each SUPPORT or station.
=. O5). 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.
90. Not exceeding one private sec
rotary or confidential clerk, if author
lied by the secretary of the treasury to
the collector of each customs districts
where the receipts for the last preceI-
ing fiscal year amounted to as much as
5000
QS). Not exceeding one private sec
rotary or confidential clerk if author
lied by the secretary of the treasury to
each of the appraisers at the ports of
Boston, New York and Philadelphia re-
spectively.
lO Not exceeding one counsel be-
fore the board of general appraisers.
COY. Not exceeding one paymaster in
the New York customs district.
CID. All positions in Alaska in the
customs and internal revenue services.
(22). 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 no position designated
as a clerkship under a collector of inter
nal revenue appointment to which s
made by the secretary of the treasury
shall be discontinued for the purpose of
substituting deputy collectorship
therefor or for any purpose other than
a bona fide reduction of force and that
before such reduction shall be made the
reasons therefor shall be given in writ
ing by the collector of the district and
shall be approved by the commissioner
of internal revenue and the secretary of
the treasury.
1879. Storekeepers and gaugers,
whose compensation does not exceed 50
per day when actually employed and
whose aggregate compensation shall
not exceed $500 per annum.
(2Q. Officers in charge of the bureau
of statistics.
(25). Not exceeding one chief clerk
in each mint or assay office, who is
authorized by law to act for the super
intendent or assayer in charge during
his absence or disability
(25). One private secretary or con-
fidential clerk to the superintendent;
one cashier. one deposit Weigher one