New-York tribune., 1902-05-11
PLEADSFOR EXENPTCHANGES
MAYOR MAKES FURTHER RECOMMEN-
DATIONS TO STATE CIVIL SER
VICE COMMISSION.

At a meeting of the State Civil Service Com
mission at the Hotel Manhattan yesterday to
consider changes in Civil Service methods, the
Municipal Civil Service Commission and AS
ISOLATION Of Civil Employees in the State OF
New York being represented, letter lncloslng
a number of recommendations with regard TO
the exempt class was received from Mayor
Low. 1t was in part as follows
ton Of the Civil Service system of this city They
mark distinct advance in the following directions:
duce rom ne9ry 9r @ to M hs means
e In n es b for 5se y 9l fhe civil
This, in turn. lends itself 70 a great slmpLncauon
also. the departmentaI .tle 10 be precise while td
the Civil Service lite tie ] is comprehensive greater
For minor hospital appointments and i the Ike Ike the
adopted. thus removing rom the exempt class 0S a
large number Of positions 1n45 a. nebnd for dea
ing with such appointments that VIII reIleXe noth %
sioners si9 Of much unnecessary abor.
The labor class is modified by striking out thirty
unnecessary and by the addition OF ten new titles
based Gpon pom concurrent acton taken by the Board
OF and % % gesty and aGIn a
tend to bring about the +ane Sl pay Tor the same
The rules relating to temporary and emergency
appointments are based upon an experience that
interests OF the city not to be seriously injured
from time to time.
In recommending the changes the Mayor calls
attention to a clause in the greater New-York
charter which makes II incumbent the Civil
Service Commission TO place on the preferred
list for one year every person whose office is
abolished. Il beg to point out" he says, that
any attempt TO improve the personnel of the
various departments of the city in the COM
petitive class by the dismissal Of unsatisfactory
employees is very seriously hampered, il not
altogether baked by this provision of the char
ter If all the changes are made that
have been proposed there will be 573 exempt
positions, exclusive Of the courts. as result OF
this reorganization, against 572 such posi-
tions as the roll stood January l.
During 1898, the first year Of the consolida-
ton, there We're 731 appointments made with
out examination to exempt positions, in addition
to 634 temporary appointments without term.
also made without examination, at least five
hundred of which were still in effect eighteen
months later Since January l. 1902, there
have been made only 17S appointments. / re-
spectfully submit that these figures represent
loyalty to Civil Service Reform system on the
part Of this administration which entities its
recommendations in this regard to the highest
respect"
In speaking of the appointments as examiners
made by the last administration. Mayor Low
says:
Hertle given in a court of law, every one of
these appointments made upon the recon-
mendatiOn of the Mayor, or John +. Carroll, or
some other leader of Tsmmany Hall . 1t
is not reasonable TO suppose that results salts
factory to this administration be obtained
upon such lines as these through a body Of
men appointed without examination at the in
stance Of the district leaders of Tammany
Hail.
mission and asked that the number OF persons
in his department free from the competitive
system be not increased. Commissioners Folks
Dougherty Wilcox and Sturgis made Ike re-
quests.