Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — Civil Service Report. [ARTICLE]

Civil Service Report.

The eleventh annual report of the United States eivii service commission shows that from July 1, 1893, to June 30, 189-1, 4,372 appointments were made in the classified service, an increase of eightythree over the previous year. The number is divided as follows: Departmental service 385, railway mail service 718, Indian. service 106, customs service 280, and postal service 2,823. The whole number of applicants examined for the five branches of tho classified service, was 37,379, of whom 22,131 passed. The' commission claims that experience shows that all positions in the government service, with possibly a few exceptions, can be filled under the competitive system. About one-half. of all the employes of the classified service are in the 610 classified postofflees. The law, it is said, is now better observed in the larger offices than ever before The Indianapolis and Baltimore offices are cited as having been very badly managed from a civil service standpoint, but are now considered well conducted, as are those of Boston and Chicago. Politics is said to hove been practically eliminated in making appointments and removals in almost all pf the larger .postoffices, as well as in most branches of the departmental service at Washinton. The report declares that politics should have nothing to do with continuance in the service, but that to some extent religious and political reasons will influence dismissals until there is a requirement of law or rule that not only shall the reasons for dismissals be made a matter of record and be made known to the person dismissed but that an *Wfnrt«fdty be given for defense, .■ ’ I