The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-19
on RIGHT TRACK
Real Civil Service Rules in Kan
sas Institutions
Board Of Control Makes the List
Public.
FAVORS THE VETERANS
Regulations DO Not Apply to
Soldiers.
Relatives of the Superintendent
Need Not Apply.

Old soldiers viii please take notice
that the Kansas state board of con-
troll is doing its best to square the
administration for its alleged pref
udiee against the old soldier prefer
ence law.
In a long list of civil service rules
made public today by the board of
control, the announcement is made
| that the rules will not apply to old
/ soldiers, provided the old soldiers are
competent to do the work required
! Old soldiers will not have to take
their chances of appointment through
their rankin competitive examination,
/ but they will be given the best end of
the deal IN the distribution of jobs al
the nine state charitable institutions.
This is the rule which will make the
old veterans glad:
Appointments and promotions
snail be made according to merit and
fitness, to be ascertained, so far as
/ practicable, by examinations by the
! superintendent of the respective in
stituttons; provided, however, that
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors
ana marines from the army and navy
OF the United States in the late civil
war, who are citizens and residents of
4 the state, shall be entitled to prefer
ence in appointment and promotion
without regard to their standing on
any list from which appointment or
promotion shall be made, provided
their qualifications and fitness shall
nave been ascertained as provided in
4 these rules and the person thus pre-
ferred shall not be disqualified from
holding any position in the state
/ charitable institutions on account of
his age, nor by reason of any physical
j disa bility, provided such age or disa-
bility does not render him incom-
petent to perform the duties of the
position applied for
The rules provide that there shall
be nothing in the examination to re-
veal the political affiliation of the ap-
pllcant, and in regard to political con-
! tributions says:
NO person employed in the state
| charitable institutions is for that rea-
son, under any obligation to contrib
ute to any political fund or purpose.
4 or to render any political service, and
no person shall be removed or other
wise prejudiced for refusing to do so.
4 If any superintendent. or other chief
executive officer. shall remove any
person for political reasons, then such
/ superintendent or other chief execu-
+ tive officer shall forfeit his Office and
be subject to removal by the board.
THE superintendent or other chief
executive officer, after having dis
charged any person from his service,
shall not prevent .or attempt to pre-
vent by word, sign or writing of any
kind whatsoever any such discharged
employee from obtaining employment
from any other state institution or
from any other person, company or
! corporation, except by furnishing in
writing, on request. the cause OF such
discharge. The superintendent. or
other chief executive officer. shall also
upon the request of the discharged
employee furnish him in writing the
true cause or reason for such dis
charge
Nepousm Is Barred.
new rule is promulgated which alb
solutely prohibits a superintendent
from giving employment to any of his
relat The rule is as follows:
THE superintendent or other chief
executive officer, of each of the several
institutions under the control of the
state board Of control. shall not employ
in the institution of which he is super
intendent. or other chief executive Off
Ger, any person related to him by blood
or marriage. Each superintendent or
other chief executive officer. may ex-
ercise his own Judgment as to whether
to employ as employees persons related
in any manner to any of the inmates
or to the other employees of the inSt1tu-
ton of which he is superintendent or
chief executive officer"
The cruel treatment of inmates of an
institution is specially mentioned as
ground for discharge. The rule is:
ANY act of cruelty. violence or mis-
trea tment on the part of any officer or
emplOye of any state charitable institu-
ton toward any pupil or inmate therein
shall be sufficient cause from immedf-
ate discharge and the superintendent,
or other executive officers, are instruct
ed to see that this rule is rigidly en-
forced
Whenever an employee is discharged,
the superintendent must file with the
board a full statement. giving the rea-
sons for the discharge. Every person
discharged is entitled to receive a writ
ten statement setting forth the reason
for his discharge.
Whenever an employe begin work in
any institution, he must sign the fol-
lowing contract:
For the sum of s. per month.
payable monthly during the month sue
ceeding that in which the services shall
have been rendered. ! agree to faith
fully perform all the duties assigned to
me as an employe of the --. at
-. Kansas. to conform to all
laws, bylaws and rules made for the
government of said institution, and that
viii give Is days notice to the sup
erintendent of my intention to quit and
viii faithfully work during said period
of Is days after giving notice of an in
tention to quit, and further agree that
If I fail to conform to all laws. by
laws and rules made for the govern
ment of said institution, and especially
If / leave my duty or the institution
without the consent of the proper auth
GRITTY. or fail to give Is days notice to
the superintendent of my intention to
quit, or to faithfully work during a
period of 10 days after giving notice of
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