Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
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law sought to be remedied by this amend
nlent no longer exists.
All the extensions .efs the classified serv-
ice have been made by including. within
that service the persons who were in office
at the time the classification was made,
and the rules profidedathat person hold
ing position when such position was clas-
sified should be entitled to all the rights
and benefits possessed by persons of the
same class and grade appointed upon ex-
animation In cAse of transfer, however,
when such person. leaves the branch OF the
service in which, NE ~ employed to enter
another branch It was believed that ne
ought properly to be Subject to an exami-
nation equal to chat required for the ap-
pointment of persons outside the classified
service and on MaEcho13, 1902, it was pro-
vfded that no, such transfer should be made
until the person to- be- transferred mad pass
ed the examination prescribed for Original
entrance to the aositien to which transfer
was pfoposedio 7I1ioy at 70 e5frfE err
Transfers After Reinstatement.
1t was found that many persons who had
formerly been in the service sought rein
statement, not for the purpose of going
back to the position they had formerly held,
but in order to be transferred to some place
in another department or ether branch OF
the service. Thus persons who had been
separated from the service for cause, put
without any actual record OF detlnquehcy,
were often able to secure reinstatement
and transfer. The commission believed
that unless the appointing officer under
whom the person reinstated was Formerly
| employed was willing to accept his services
again he should not be reinstated. A RUE
was adopted on March ID, 1907, forbldolng
all transfers of reinstated persons untn
they had actual service OF SIX months AFTER
such reinstatement in the department OF
! office in which they were relnstated.
Other Transfers.
The rules permitted transfers from one
! position to another without regard to the
| similarity of duties in the two places, and
| MANY persons were transferred to positions
for which there was nothing in their pre-
yious service showing qualifications. These
| transfers from alien and inferior grades in
| terfered with the promotion regulations, ana
| were contrary to the wholesome pfinclple
| that persons should rise in the service ac
| cording to their demonstrated training ana
| fitness Accordingly the commission rec
| commended amendment that 10 transfer
| should be made to any posltlon II there vas
| not required therein the perfor ailce OF
| the same class of work as in the position
! from which transfer was prop o.. InlS
| amendment was made on Janua IS, EoZ
| 1t merely re-established rule when had
| existed at an earlier period IN e history
| of the commission.
Reinstatement After Disrnissals.
| Prior to January %, 1902, the rules pro-
| vided that any person dismissed on charges
| of delinquency or misconduct might De re-
instated without regard to the one year
| limitation provided for other felnstate-
| ments, upon the certificate of the appoint
| ing officer that he had thoroughly investi-
gated the case, and that the charges upon
| which the dismissal was based were not
| true. While the purpose OF this RUE was 70
remedy gross personal wrongs us prac Mcat
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1 of those reinstated had been out OF the
| service from five to fifteen years: they had
/ been separated when it was customary TO
! make removals for political reasons ana
| when records OF the charges were seldom
/ kept. Hence, only ex parte evidence coulu
| be obtained upon which to base the certln-
! Gates for reinsta tement.
The number of such certhcates ana the
! Giro umstances attending them convinced
| the commission that usome appointing Of
| ficers construed stilis sproyislon with such
| liberality as to aig q themselves the power
| to waive the yeari limit for reinstatement
practically in their own discretion. Nhere
/ an appointing officer has dismissed men, os-
] tensibly upon chargsSabut really 1or poHli-
| cal reas sons and his Successor has dismissed
| the men appointed lin their places and REIN
| stated those forfiierfy discharged under the
| authority Of this" 1t was evident that
hereafter new appasnting o.ileer mlgns
! those now in ofsee1rah reinstaftng thelr
predecessors, and tfiuga limited rotation in
office would be established. Besides TINS,
heng dome for the appoint
| ment of eligibles, Ana lfhe existlng g, lnequan-
| ties in the apportiontfs9nt were still further
increased. The d0Iniaission therefore rec,
commended the abolition of this proviso and
| 1t was accordingly stricken out on January
4 %, 1902. y.slftoo
| Reports Concerning Laborers.
| Since May 9. 1896, the rules required every
| appointing officer to report to the COM
| mission all changes in the service under his
authority. The extensions Of the ciassifca-
| ton to persons below the clerical grade.
many of whose duties did not diner widely
! from those of mere iaborers, rendered nee
essary the auditing of changes in the I'M
classified service to prevent the treatment
| of classified positions as unciassihsu
But reports of changes In the unclassined
service were often incomplete or entirely
lacking. The rule that no laborer appointed
| without examination should be assigned to
/ work of the same grade as that performed
/ by classified employees was nuliified by ap-
pointing officers deciding for themselves
that the work pertaining to a particular
lsposition was not Of the grade usually per-