Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The Ohio Bepublican State Central Committee has decided to hold the Statj convention at Toledo, July 27 and 28. Charles J. Faulkner was elected United States Senator from West Virginia to succeed Camden. The new Senator is a jurist of high reputation, and said to be a man of excellent ability.

The President has approved the amendments to the rules for the regulation and improvement of the executive civil service proposed by the Civil-Service Commission. The principal change is in rule 6, clause 2, which, as amended, gives the Commission power to make regulations under which examinations for promotion in any classified department, postoffice, or customs office must be made. And in any classified department, customs office, pr postoffico in which promotions are made under such examinations, the Commission may, in special cases, if the exigencies of the service require such action, provide non-competitive examinations for promotion. In their letter transmitting the new rules the commissioners say that all the evils resulting from the promotion system in vogue when the civil-service law was enacted continue to exist, except in the New York customs d strict. Governor Hill has signed the bill making Saturday a half-holiday in New York State.