Evening star., 1902-09-01
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from employers and fellow -workmen con.
cernlng qualifications. A prescribed period
| OF service at trade Is usually a require.
ment The examinations for compositors
pressmen, etc, In the government printinp q
ONCE are not included in this class since
IN these scholastic tests are essential. The
commission states In the report that 1t has
been unable to make the registration sys-
tenn for workmen as thorough as Is desir-
able for lack of sufficient clerical force.
Preference Given Veterans.
The report refers to the preference given
veterans who have served in the army and
/ navy by placing them at the head of ell
glDle lists when they obtain an average of
TO per cent in examinations. This prefer
ence refers to honorably discharged SOL
diers and sailors, whether they have served
IN q war or not. F'orty-fiYe appointments
or preference claimants were made during
tne year, most Of these being to positions in
the departments at Washington. The aver
age age of these preference claimants was
less than fifty years The preference given
10 honorably discharged veterans of the
war OF the rebellion and the Spanish-Amer-
lean war IN the matter of reinstatement to
the civil service is mentioned. Such yeter-
ans. their widows and army nurses of
either OF these wars may be reinsta ted
without regard to the length of time they
nave been separated from the civil service
Ihat this is substantial benefit appears
from the fact that during the fiscal wear
covered by the report 131 such persons were
relnstated, or over Is per cent of the entire
number of reinstatements
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Transfers Of a Year.
The commission regards the number of
transfers effected during the year (559) as
excessively large, and in the interest of
the individual rather than the public serv-
Ice, and attention is called to the fact that
the transfer rule has since been amended
to restrict transfers within the same lines
Of work.
The report presents the results of a COM
parison Of the number Of persons exam
ined, appointed, transferred, etc, during
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1901, with
the corresponding figures for the previous
fscal year. There was an increase Of 1559
IN the number OF persons who took COM
petitive examinations, and an increase Of
ooo IN the number who received appoint
ment. There was a decrease of 327 in the
number OF appointments from non-educa-
tlonal examinations. The increase in the
number Of temporary appointments was
large, being 45S over the previous year
The rule governing temporary appoint
ments has since been amended, with a view
to confining them more strictly to persons
who have passed competitive examina-
ton. There appears an increase in the
number of transfers Of 1O6, and a decrease
in the number of reinstatements OF 1853.
Places Still Unclassifed.
In the entire executive service of the gov
ernment there are. in round numbers, 235,-
600 places. of which number about 121 600
are classified. OF the 114.OOO remaining
unclassifed. r. .49s are those of fourth-class
postmasters. The annual expenditure for
salaries for the entire executive service
is stated to be about 200, and Of
this, $S5.OOO,00O, or nearly two-thirds, goes
to salaries for positions subject to the civil
service rules.
The view Of the commission as to what
positions should properly be classified ap-
pears In the following quotation from the
report:
Substantially all Of the positions in the
executive civil service, with the exception