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appointments vested either in the
President or the cabinet officer head
ing the department, with the greatest
POSSIBILITIES offered in Treasury and
Justice.
Many Depend on States.
The Agriculture appointees are the
Secretary, Assistant Secretary and chlel
Of the Weather Bureau. All other bu-
reau and division heads come under
civ! service. The department has on
its rolls several thousand field workers
no. thus safeguarded, out they are
chosen by mutual agreement with tne
States which bear part Of their salaries.
In the Post Office Department, the
President names. in addition to the
Postnaser General, four assistants and
the controller. Other incumbents IN
"key" positions are under civil service,
as are fourth-claSs poStmaSterS.
The postmasters who are presidential
appointees are named for four years,
and consequently there can be no sud
den and tremendous turnover IN tnen
ranks At the department 1t IS SAID
that the terms Of about one-fourth e&-
pire annually.
This same situation with regard TO
tenure of Office applies to the United
States marshals and the Federal DIS
trict attorneys in the 81 judlcials dis
tricts, who are presidential appomtees
in the Department Of Justice and ~
collectors of customs, who come under
the Treasury Department. There are
several hundred deputy marshals who
are appointed by and serve at the pleas
ure of the marshals, and a like num-
Der of assistant district attorneys who
are appointees of the Attorney Gen
eral and whose terms are at his dis
position Collectors of internal revenue.
OF which there are "a. are named by
the President. and serve as he Wills,
and they in turn name their deputies,
OF whom there are now 3,780. and
regulate their terms. The deputy col
lectors of customs are under civil
service.
Many Justice Posts.
The principal appointments made by
the President in the Department OF
Justice are Attorney General, Solicitor
General, assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral and six Assistant Attorneys Gen
eral. The Attorney General names the
director of prohibition. director of pris-
cns and director of the Bureau of In
yestigations, with their chief assistants.
In the Treasury presidential ap-
pointments include, with the Secretary,
the assistant and two special assistants
TO the Secretary: UnderSecretary, three
Assistant Secretaries, director and as
sistant director of the budget, controller
of the currency, treasurer of the United
States, commissioner of internal reVe-
nue., director Of mint, commissioner Of
narcotics, register of the Treasury, Sur
geon General and Assistant Surgeons
General of the Public Health Service,
conmandant Of the Coast Guard. Fed
eral Farm Loan Board members. super
intendents and assayers in mlnts and
surveyors. special examiners, appraisers
and naval officers of the Customs Serv-
ice. The Secretary names the commits
sioner of customs, commissioner of in
dustrial alcohol and supervising erchi-
test, while the director of the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing is under civil
service
In the State Department the ambassa-
dorial and ministerial assignments are
the principal prizes. Along with the
Secretary the President names an IN
dersecretary and four Assistant Secre-
taries. Division chiefs are named by
the Secretary.
Interior Jobs at Stake.
The President and Secretary make
the principal appointments in the In
terrier Department. The former names
a First Assistant Secretary, an Assist
ant Secretary. commissioner and assist
ant commissioner of tine General Land
Office. commissioner and assistant OF
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, commits
sioner and assistent in the Office oi
Education, director of the Geological
Survey, commissioner of the Bureau Of
Reclamation and the Governors ano
secretaries of Alaska, Hawaii and the
Virgin Islands, whose administration
comes under this department. Registers
receivers and surveyors general III the
General Land Office also are presiden-
tial appointees.
The Secretary names the director ane
other officials of the National Park
Service, the superintendent Of st
Elizabeth's Hospital surgeon in chief
Freedman's Hospital, and general man.
ager Of the Alaska Railroad as well a.
principal officers In the department.
In the Department of Commerce the
President names the Secretary, two as.
sistants and the solicitor, as we'll a.
the heads Of bureaus and other agen.
cies. These include the Bureaus o,
Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Standards Fisheries Lighthouses. Nav
igation and Steamboat Inspection
Mines and Census, Aeronsutics Branch
Coast and Geodetic Survey and Paten,
Office. The Secretary has nearly zoe
appointments as commercial attache
trade commissioner and assistant at hi
dispoeal,