The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-30

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| service in the army or navy of the
United States in the Spanish-American
war as well as the veterans in the civil
war, preference in the making of ap-
pointments. The terms of eligibility
hereafter one year from the date of
entry of the name of eligible candidate
on the civil service commissioner S
register is extended for further period
of one year in the discretion of the
| commission.
| The following new section added to
rule makes permanent in the dis
erection of the heads of departments all
existing temporary appointments:
All persons serving uhder temper
airy appointments at date of the ap-
prevail OF this section may be per-
manently appointed in the discretion Of
the proper appointing officer; and the
| special rule approved Jan. 20. 1899, rela-
| tive TO temporary appointments in
the navy department is hereby rescind
ed
Rule is so amended as to exempt
persons who served in the war, with
Spain from the one year limit in the
matter of reinstatement after discharge
from the service. This provision also
applies alike to the widows of such
soldiers but the former provision, in
Guiding nurses, is eliminated. Rein
statements generally made hereafter
without regard to length of time of
separation where dismissal from the
service has been due to a reduction of
force specifically required by law. Still
another provision made in this connec-
ton is as follows:
As to Reinstatement.
ANY person dismissed from the ser
vice 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 appointing officer that he
has already investigated the case, and
that the charges upon which the dis
missal was based We're not true"
An entirely new rule, No. 13, is added,
classifying all officers and employees
in the classified service as follows, I'M
less otherwise provided by law:
Class A-All persons receiving an an
nual salary of less than 500, or COM
penSation at a less rate; 3, from Sl2O
to less than $40; c, $40 to 5000; d, 5000
to $1,000 E, $1,000 TO $1,000; F, 81 200 to
$1,40O; class two, Sl,4O0 to $1,000; three,
1,600 to S1700; four, $500 to $4,000;
five. 1000 to $500; six, all at $500 or
more.
This classification does not include
persons appointed to an office with the
advice and consent of the senate, or
mere laborers or workmen, who. prior
to May 6, 1896, and on June 10, 1896,
were regularly assigned to the same
grade of work as that performed by
classified employees. Hereafter no per-
sons appointed as a laborer or work
man without examination under the
civil service rules shall be assigned to
work of the same grade as that per-
formed by classified employees.
Effect of the 0rder
The members of the civil service COM
mission, owing to the fact that they
have not had time to examine and !
study its provisions in detail, are not
yet prepared to give 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-
cember, the largest classes included in |
the order, and thereby excluded from |
the CLASSIFIED service, number thus:
Deputy collectors, internal revenue |
service 472
Storekeepers and gaugers, temporar- |
lily employed, 500.
Military park commissioners and en-
ployees, IS.
Postoffice finance clerks and CASH
iers, rs.
Private secretaries at certain post
offices, %.
Deputy marshals, 204.
Private secretaries to United States
district attorneys, 81.
Special agent, general land office. so.
superintendent of warehouses, irri-
cation and logging, 20.
Financial clerks, Indian agencies, go.
Alaska school service, 80.
Pension examining surgeons, 675.
Chief and financial clerks, pension
agencies, SO.
Special agents and experts, depart
ment of agriculture 25