Hearings Relating to Civil Service Commission Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations Consisting of Messrs. Bingham, Hemenway, Moody, Dockery, and Livingston, in Charge of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill for 1899U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 299 pages |
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... custom of the Commission , whenever an answer is made to a member of the House or Senate , that it must be prepared or signed by the president of the Commission or one of the Commissioners ; and that is only one instance of the many ...
... custom of the Commission , whenever an answer is made to a member of the House or Senate , that it must be prepared or signed by the president of the Commission or one of the Commissioners ; and that is only one instance of the many ...
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... custom - house , or the Boston post - office or the Boston custom - house . Is that so ? Mr. PROCTER . It is the business of the Commission to keep the post - offices and custom - houses always supplied with an ample eligible register ...
... custom - house , or the Boston post - office or the Boston custom - house . Is that so ? Mr. PROCTER . It is the business of the Commission to keep the post - offices and custom - houses always supplied with an ample eligible register ...
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... custom - houses . I am agreeing with you thoroughly . Mr. LIVINGSTON . Now , take the law of 1883 , which gave the President of the United States that large discretionary power . Has that always been exercised since 1883 for the good of ...
... custom - houses . I am agreeing with you thoroughly . Mr. LIVINGSTON . Now , take the law of 1883 , which gave the President of the United States that large discretionary power . Has that always been exercised since 1883 for the good of ...
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... custom - house service we took in November 2 , 1894 ; the custom - houses up to that time did not include anybody below $ 900 . Some skilled laborers have been classified under each Administration since the act was passed . The CHAIRMAN ...
... custom - house service we took in November 2 , 1894 ; the custom - houses up to that time did not include anybody below $ 900 . Some skilled laborers have been classified under each Administration since the act was passed . The CHAIRMAN ...
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... custom - house . A new collector went in in 1894. He had a total force of 249 men under him . They are in the civil service establishment . I have an official list from the Treasury Department setting forth , as I will give it to you ...
... custom - house . A new collector went in in 1894. He had a total force of 249 men under him . They are in the civil service establishment . I have an official list from the Treasury Department setting forth , as I will give it to you ...
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100 per cent 45 rated ability as rapid Absence of physical additional for second answers in application Applicants are graded application blanks Arithmetic average difficulty blanks and vouchers cent additional cent for full cent is given certification Character as workman clerk Composition on given Copying from plain defect gives rating educational test efficiency as workman elements above specified eligible erasures Experience Physical qualifications full period graded simply GROVER CLEVELAND habits of industry impair efficiency January 16 journeyman 100 June 30 Letter writing Marked on legibility Penmanship period of apprenticeship person physical defect gives plain copy Postal Rule presence of defect PROCTER railway mail service rapid workman Rated 70 Rated on quality rating of 100 reduction from 100 relative weights required for appointment rough draft shown by answers simply on age specified have relative tional tionate reduction Twenty words slightly weights as follows Weights per cent workman is shown
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Page 54 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 77 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability...
Page 30 - But nothing herein contained shall be construed to take from those honorably discharged from the military or naval service any preference conferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty-fourth section of the Revised Statutes, nor to take from the President any authority not inconsistent with this act conferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty-third section of said statutes...
Page 64 - Third, appointments to the• public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.
Page 70 - ... (1) full name, residence and postoffice address; (2) citizenship; (3) age; (4) place of birth; (5) health and physical capacity for the public service; (6) previous employment in the public service; (7) business or employment and residence for the previous five years; (8) education.
Page 10 - Such boards of examiners shall be so located as to make it reasonably convenient and inexpensive for applicants to attend before them ; and where there are persons to be examined in any State or Territory, examinations shall be held therein at least twice in each year.
Page 26 - The commission shall, at Washington, and in one or more places in each State and Territory where examinations are to take place, designate and select a suitable number of persons, not less than three, in the official service of the United States, residing1 in said State or Territory, after consulting the head of the department or office in which such persons serve, to be members of boards of examiners...
Page 147 - Director, certification shall be made of the eligible on the register whose rating is next below those already certified in place of the one to whom objection is made and sustained.
Page 143 - In making removals or reductions, or in imposing penalties for delinquency or misconduct, in the state service or city service penalties like in character shall be imposed for like offenses and action thereon shall be taken irrespective of the political opinions or affiliations of the offenders.
Page 63 - That no person habitually using intoxicating beverages to excess shall be appointed to, or retained in, any office, appointment, or employment to which the provisions of this act are applicable.