The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-06-01
CIVIL SERVICE
Presidents Order Taking About
Four Thousand Positions
From the List
Has Been Formally Promulgated.
One or Two Most COntiden-
tial Positions
In Nearly All Branches of the
Government Included in the
Exemption.
Various Branches of the War De-
partment Placed on Navy
Yard Basis.

WASHINGTON, May 30. - President
Mckinley has issued the amendments
to the civil service rules which he has
had under consideration for about
year. 1t releases from the operations
of the civil service rule about 1900 Of
fees. Among such places are the fol-
lowing:
Pension examining surgeons, Indians
employed in the Indian service, no. con-
nected with the Indian schools service
and many places in the engineer de-
partment at large, the quartermaster's
department at large, the subsistence de-
partment at large, the ordnance depart
ment 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
rotary of war and approved by the
president, thus placing these branches
of the service on substantially the same
basis as the navy yard service.
The following named employees or
positions which have been classified
under the civil service act are excepted
from the requirements of examination
or registration, unless otherwise stated:
Not exceeding two private secretaries
or confidential clerks to the president.
Not exceeding two private secretaries
or confidential clerks to the head of
each of the eightexecutived departments.
Not exceeding one private SECRETARY
or confidential clerk to each Of the as
sistant heads of the eight executive de-
partments. ~.
Not exceeding one private SECRETARY
or confidential clerk to each of the fol-
lowing heads of bureaus appointed by
the president and confirmed by the sem
ate 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 superintend-
emit of the coast and geodetic survey; in
the war department, the general COM
manding the army, the adjutant gen.
eral, the inspector general, the
judge advocate general, the COM
missary general of subsistence, the
quartermaster general, the surgeon
general, the paymaster general, the
chief of engineers, the chief of ord
nance, the chief signal officer, the chief
of the records and pension Office, and
the superintendent of public buildings
and grounds; in the department of the
interior, the commissioner of the gen.
eral land Office, the commissioner Of In
dian affairs, the commissioner of pat
ents, the commissioner of education
the assistant attorney general for the
interior department, the director Of the
geological survey, the commissioner of
pensions.
Attorneys, assistant attorneys and
special attorneys.
Not exceeding one private secretary
or confidential clerk to the commissioner
of labor, commissioner of fish and fish
cries, each of the interstate commerce
commissioners. secretary of the Smith
sonian institution.
All shipping commissioners.
Not exceeding one cashier in each
customs district, if authorized by the
secretary Of treasury.
Not exceeding one chief or principal
deputy or assistant collector at each
customs port, and not exceeding one
principal deputy collector of customs at
each SUPPORT or station.
Not exceeding one deputy naval Of
ficer at each customs port where naval
officer is authorized by law.
Not exceeding one deputy surveyor of
customs at each customs port where q
surveyor is authorized by law.
Not exceeding one private secretary
or confidential clerk, if authorized by
the secretary of the treasury, to the col
lector of each customs district where
the receipts for the last preceding fiscal
year amounted to as much as $500, 900.
Not exceeding one counsel before the
board of United States general ap-
praisers.
All positions in Alaska in the customs
and internal revenue services.
All deputy collectors of internal rev.
enue who are borne on the rolls as such,
and the allowance for whose salaries is
approved by the secretary of the treas
ury: Provided that no position desig-
mated as a clerkship under collector of
internal revenue, appointment to which
is made by the secretary of the treas
ury, shall be discontinued for the pur-
pose of substituting deputy collector
ship therefor, or for any purpose other
than bona fide reduction of force, and
before such reduction shall be made,
the reasons therefore shall be approved
by the commissioner of internal revenue
| and the secretary of the treasury.
Storekeepers and gaugers whose COM
| pensation does not exceed So per day
when actually employed and whose ag-
gregate compensation shall not exceed
| $500 per annum.
Officers in charge of the bureau OF
statistics.
Not exceeding one chief clerk in each
mint or assay Office, who is authorized