Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — NO EVASION OF THE LAW. [ARTICLE]

NO EVASION OF THE LAW.

Chairman Oberly Promulgates Some New and Stringent Regulations. Cha ; rman Oberly, of the Civil-Service Commission, has furnished a copy of new and important regulations, which have been formulated and adopted by the commission to govern local boards of examiners for the classified postal and customs service. The main feature of these new rules is that local boards are prohibited from furnishing to the appointing or recommending official a list of eligibles, as is alleged to have been done by Mr. Eaton in the Baltimore postoffice case, resulting in securing a solid Democratic force of clerks to succeed the dismissed Republicans. The new rule says the secretary shall keep the registers of persons eligible for appointment, and shall not permit the appointing or nominating officer or any other person to have possession of them or of a copy, nor shall he allow them to be inspected by any person other than a member of the) board. The new' regulations also provide that local boards shall give to applicants at least eight days’ notice of the time and place of examination. These iron-clad rules w'ere drafted mainly by Col. Oberly. It cannot now be said that he and his Democratic colleague, Mr. Edgerton, are not moved by the spirit as well as the letter of the Pendleton law. These good Democratic partisans are determined that there shall oe no evasion of the civil-service law either in its text or its spirits.