Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-10
At ODDS
WITH CIVIL SERVICE
Difference in Principle Be-
tween Executive and Conn.,
mission Noted.

A marked difference in principle be-
tween President Wilson and the civil serv-
ice commission is disclosed in seven eX-
ecutive orders issued within the last few
DAYS from the White Hous. for the rein
nent in TIE government service of per
sons whose situation has appealed to the
executive sympathy.
The ma jority of these cases are those
of women whose husbands have broken
down died in the government serv-
ice. leaving them with dependent chill
dren
In other cases persons manned in
the line of duty who held places below
the classified grades have been given
small appointments therein. and in still
others boys who have grown up in the
government service as messengers have
been lifted across the otherwise in
superable WILL which the regulations
had erected against their promotion
INTO the classified service by the kindly
interest of the President
In every one of these ca Sesthe heads of
the respective departments recommended
TN appointment or promotion. personally
Knowing the qualifications of the persons
affected. but the civil service commission
has uniformly withheld its approval Of
the Presidents action.
Briefs of Presidents Orders.
sued by the President:
Mrs. Zerfa A. huffman to be reinstated
to a position in the subclerical grade in
the classified service of the Treasury De-
partment. Mrs. kullmans husband rec
entity died. leaving her With three small
children and without means of support
Promote William \. Fisher. il. from
position of messenger boy in the patent
office to that of laborer tclaSSiiedD at
S6n per annum.
ReinState Mrs. Della \. Garvey as an
operative in the bureau of engraving and
printing. Her husband an employe of
the city post Office for several Years. is
now in confinement because of insanity.
leaving her with two small children to
support.
Appoint Paul +. Jameson. messenger
boy in the Department Of Agriculture. to
position as stenographer and typewrlt-
ed in the same department.
Appoint Mrs. Ella Riley Oliphant to
position in the government printing office.
Her father contracted disease while in
the navy from which he died and TWO of
her brothers served in the army for three
Years during the civil war. She is a
widow with no income whatever.
Appoint Mrs. Mary l.. Brown as a clerk
mother Mrs. Elizabeth F. Long. Mrs.
Brown has had several years of expert
ence in the census office and with the i'm
migration commission. where she was UNI
usually competent as statistical clerk and
supervising clerk. She and he" mother
belong to family distinguished for serv-
ices rendered to til. government in its
military and naval branches.
Appoint Hans Peter Guttormsen as
ID borer for duty at the Rock Island
arsenal, Illinois. Mr.. GuttormSen was en-
pioyed in the engineer department at
large near Rock Island from April. 1871.
to November g. 1850. on which date. while
in the performance of his duties. a plank
broke under him and he fell forty feet
from the trestleworh. breaking five ribs,
his legs in three places, break
ing the third finger of his right hand,
bruising and decorating the flesh on his
head and face and otherwise injurins him.
1T is stated that result of such in
jurieS he has ever since been a cripple
and unable to perform manual labor.