The Springfield herald., 1902-09-12


formed by the Japanese legation that
| Captain Rosehill, who undertook to lay
| claim to Marcus island and take pos
session. arrived on that island July 30th
last. lie was met by Il japanese war
| ship. the commander of which handed
to him the letters addressed by the
State Department, pointing out the ad-
Visibility of his avoiding any forclble
| demonstration to support his claim.
The captain accepted these letters as
sufficient and left the island about n
week later He has not lost any right
he might have had, according to the
State Department, and II he has any
| just claim 1t may be pursued to n con
| clusion in the usual diplomatic chan
mel.
Concerning the preference given to
| United States soldiers and sailors hon
| orably discharged for disability In
Cured in line of duty the report OF the
civil service commission says: With n
view to securing to those honorably dis
| charged from the military or naval ser
vice by reason of disability incurred III
line of duty the benefits granted by sec
ton 1754 of the Revised Statutes, the
civil service rules give preference to
| such persons in examinations by re-
quiring them to obtain an average of
only siXty-iive in order to pass, GER
| LITIGATION by placing their names mt the
head of the register before all 9th
ers not veterans, and in eXemptinS
them from all age limitations. The
preference thus conferred extends TO all
who have at any time been discharged
from the military or naval service by
reason of disability incurred in the lin
of duty, and is not confined to those
who have served during war \ TIA
appointments of preference claimants
We're made during the year, most Of
these being to positions in the depart
ments at Washington. The average
age of these preference claims WAS less
than fifty years. In the appendix to
the report the preference given to hon
orably discharged veterans of the war
of the Rebellion and the SpanishA Amer
lean war in the matter of reinstatement
to the civil service is mentioned. Such
veterans, their widows, and army
nurses of either of these wars may be
| reinstated without regard to the length
of time they have been separated from
the civil service. That this is n sub
stantial benefit appears from the fact
that during the fiscal year covered by
the report 131 such persons We're rein
stated. or over fifteen per cent of the
entire number of reinstatements.
An interesting portion of the report
of the Civil Service Commission is
headed: Opportunities for Appoint
ment' in the report of the chief exam
iner An abstract of this is as follows:
For men the best opportunities are of
fered through the stenography and the
! typewriting examinations, which arr
given twice a year For several years
all men who have passed in both of
| these branches have been offered. APP
pointmentS except those who placed
the minimum salary they We're willing
| to accept at so large figure as to pre-
clude their appointment. About nifty
| per cent of the men passing the book
keeper examination receive appoint
ments. For some time past all the eli
| gibleS from the examination for aid in
the coast and geodetic surveys, which
examination requires fair knowledge
| of higher mathematics, mathematical
astronomy and physics, surveying, and
some knowledge of modern European
| languages. have been offered appoint
ment. Other examinations for the de
| partmental service which OFFER good op
portlnities for appointment to men are
| that for inspector of meats in the bu-
reau of animal industry. and that for
| junior civil engineer In the railway
! lll.ill service from ibD 10 obD uPlfblul-
ments year have been made for the
| last four or five years. at an entrance
| salary of $500 per annum. Most of the
eligibles from the different teacher ex-
| aminations for the Indian service are
usually appointed at entrance salaries
| of from 5000 to 5000 per annum. Per-
sons who pass the examinations for
boOkbinder. pressman, electrotype lin
| isher electrotype molder and stereo-
| typer for the govern@nent printing Of
| flee have n very good opportunity for
| appointment. The supply of compositdr
| eligibles, on the otherhand, is usually in
excess of the demand
The annual report of the Civil Ser
| vice Commission is largely statistical.
| 1t opens with the statement that 4I,OIo
| persons were examined during the
year. of whom 21,02S We're examined
| for the department service. This SER
vice does not include merely the de
partrlents at Washington, but all the
| federal classified services outside of
Washington, with the exception of the
postal customs. internal revenue and
government printing services. Thus,
the railway mail and Indian services
| are divisions of the departmental SER
! vices. Nearly n 600 persons were eX-
amined for the postotiice service. or n
1 little over a thousand less than the
number examined for the department
al service. About siXty-nine per cent
or SO. 739, of those taking examinations
passed, and 1859 failed. Compared
with the year previous. this represent
ed an increase of PIP in the number
of persons examined, decrease of l.
POS in the number who passed. and an
increase of BIO in the number who
failed. The total number of persons re-