RAILWAY MAIL RULE VII. I. The general superintendent of the railway mail service shall report to the Commission (a) Every probational (whether substitute or regular) and every absolute appointment in the railway mail service in each State or Territory; every appointment under any exception to examination authorized by Railway Mail Rule II, clause 5; every reappointment under Railway Mail Rule VI, and every appointment of a substitute to a regular place. (6) Every refusal to make an absolute appointment and the reason therefor, and every refusal or neglect to accept an appointment in the classified railway mail service. (c) Every transfer into the classified railway mail service. (d) Every separation from the classified railway mail service and the cause of such separation. (e) Every promotion or degradation in the classified railway mail service, if such promotion or degradation be from one class to another class. (ƒ) Once in every six months, namely, on the 30th of June and the 31st of December of each year, the whole number of employees in each railway mail division, arranged by States and classes, showing the number of substitutes and the number of regular employees in each class in each State or Territory. EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 4, 1889. The above rules are hereby approved, to take effect March 15, 1889: Provided, That such rules shall become operative and take effect in any State or Territory as soon as an eligible register for such State or Territory shall be prepared, if it shall be prior to the date above fixed. GROVER CLEVELAND. The PRESIDENT. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, SIR: The Commission recommends that Special Departmental Rule No. I be amended by adding to the exceptions from examination therein declared the following: "II. In the Department of Justice: Assistant attorneys. "12. In the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Experiment Stations: Private secretary to the Director." Very respectfully, Approved, February 11, 1889. CHAS. LYMAN, United States Civil Service Commissioner. GROVER CLEVELAND. The PRESIDENT. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that the order of the President fixing the places to which appointments may be made upon noncompetitive examination under General Rule III, section 2, clause (ƒ), may be amended by including among such places the following: "In the Post-Office Department: Captain of the watch." M P-VOL VIII—4 This recommendation is based upon the letter of the Postmaster-General dated December 19, 1888, in which he says: "I would request that places in the Post-Office Department subject to noncompetitive examination be increased by including the position of captain of the watch, as the duties of the position are of such a nature that the head of the Department should be permitted to recommend for examination such person as would possess such other qualifications in addition to the merely clerical ones as would commend him to the head of the Department to fill satisfactorily such position." SIR: This Commission has the honor to recommend that the order heretofore approved by you authorizing noncompetitive examination under General Rule III, section 2, clause (e), to test fitness for certain designated places in the classified departmental service, may be amended by the revocation of so much of the order above referred to as provides for the appointment upon noncompetitive examination of "inspector of electric lights" in the office of the Secretary in the Treasury Department. Very respectfully, CHAS. LYMAN, United States Civil Service Commissioner. Approved, February 11, 1889. GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 26, 1889. Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to enable the President to protect the interests of the United States in Panama,” approved February 25, 1889, it was enacted as follows: That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $250,000 to enable the President to protect the interests of the United States and to provide for the security of persons and property of citizens of the United States at the Isthmus of Panama in such manner as he may deem expedient. And whereas satisfactory information has been received by me that a number of citizens of the United States have been thrown out of employment and left destitute in the Republic of Colombia by the stoppage of work on the Panama Canal: It is therefore ordered, That so much as is necessary of the fund appropriated by the said act be expended, under the direction and control of the Secretary of State, in furnishing transportation to the United States to any citizen or citizens of the United States who may be found destitute within the National Department of Panama, in the Republic of Colombia. GROVER CLEVELAND. Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893 SEE VOLUME XI. Volume eleven is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key that unlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arranged brief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the United States. Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subject referred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each story the official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that you may readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information. Next to the possession of knowledge is the ability to turn at will to where knowledge is to be found. |