Classification of the executive civil service... Regulations governing certain branches of the classified service outside of Orders excepting persons named from the requirements of the rules.. Extracts from the President's message and reports of heads of departments and Regulations governing employment in Washington. 1. Examinations and appointments. Tables of statistics for year ended June 30, 1908, omitted from the Twenty-fifth Table 1. Showing by place of examination, the number of examinations held for entrance to the classified service (except the Post-Office, Customs, and Internal-Revenue services), and for the Philippine Service, the number of competitors, and the number that passed and that failed, during the year ended June 30, 1909..... Table 2. Showing, by legal residence, the number of persons examined for entrance to all branches of the classified service (except the Post- Office, Customs, and Internal Revenue services), and the number that passed and that failed during the year ended June 30, 1909.. Table 3. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Customs Service, and the number that passed and that failed, during the Table 4. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Internal- Revenue Service, and the number that passed and that failed, during the year ended June 30, 1909... Table 5. Showing the number of persons examined for entrance to the Post- Office Service, and the number that passed and that failed, during the year ended June 30, 1909..... Table 6. Showing the number of persons examined for transfer, promotion, or reinstatement, and the number that passed and that failed, during Table 7. Showing the number of examinations of each kind, the number of persons examined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, and the number appointed, during the year ended June 30, 1909... Table 8. Showing the apportionment of appointments in the Departmental Service at Washington, D. C., from July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1909.. Table 9. Showing the number of appointments made from the different kinds of educational examinations to the Departmental Service, exclusive of the Railway Mail and Indian services, from July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1901, and in each subsequent year to June 30, 1909... 192 Table 10. Showing changes in the Departmental and Government Printing services during the year ended June 30, 1909.... Table 11. Showing changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service Table 13. Showing the number of clerks and substitute clerks, carriers and substitute carriers, the number of excepted and the number of unclassified positions in each of seven of the largest post-offices at the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1909.. Table 14. Showing number and percentage of separations from each of seven of Table 15. Showing changes in the Customs Service at ports whose annual receipts are in excess of $500,000, and also the total number of changes at all other ports, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909.. Table 16. Showing changes in the Internal-Revenue Service during the fiscal Table 18. Showing separations from competitive positions, by branches of the service and by fiscal years, from 1902 to 1909, inclusive.... Table 19. Showing number of positions, by status, on July 1, 1908, additions by appointments, etc., and subtractions by separations, etc., during the fiscal year, and number of positions on June 30, 1909.. Table 20. Showing, for all branches of the classified service, the number exam- ined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, the number appointed, the per cent appointed of those that passed, and the approximate number of competitive positions in the service, during the several periods covered by the reports of the Commission. TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, D. C., January 28, 1910. SIR: The year ended June 30 last was a period of marked advance in the work of the Commission. This advance is shown not merely by the statistics herewith presented, but also by a diminution in the abuses which the civil-service act and rules are intended to remedy and an increasing complexity and variety of work needed to meet the more exacting requirements of the public service due to its continued development. Positions formerly regarded as impossible of classification have been classified or otherwise withdrawn from patronage; examinations have been applied with a greater measure of success to positions requiring a high degree of professional, scientific, or technical qualifications; political activity on the part of employees occupying competitive positions has met with increased corrective action; political assessments were less frequent, and appointing officers were increasingly relieved from importunities for place. While there is yet much to be done in these and other administrative reforms, the Commission desires to express its gratification with the practical workings of the civil-service act and rules, and with the sympathy and support of the President and appointing officers. The advances in its work have made severe demands on the force of the Commission and compel a more urgent and emphatic appeal for increase in its appropriations, especially for a suitable office building in which to do its work. PERSONNEL OF THE COMMISSION. On April 30, 1909, Mr. Henry F. Greene, who had served as commissioner from June 20, 1903, resigned, and was succeeded on May 5, 1909, by Mr. James T. Williams, jr., of North Carolina. Mr. Williams resigned on May 25, 1909, and was succeeded by Mr. William S. Washburn, of New York, appointed on May 26, 1909, on his resignation from the post of director of civil service in the Philippines. EXTENT AND GROWTH OF THE SERVICE. EXTENT. On June 30, 1909, according to statistics compiled from data available to the Commission, there were 367,794 officers and employees of the executive civil service. Of this number 234,940 are subject to competitive examination under the civil-service rules, an increase of 28,303 during the year. In addition to these classified employees, about 6,500 laborers, included in the figures given below, are subject to tests of physical fitness by the Commission under the labor regulations. There are also 298 positions in the Consular Service subject to examination under regulations prescribed by the President. Of the 132,854 persons not subject to examination under the rules, 9,105 are presidential appointees, 7,202 of whom are postmasters of the first, second, and third classes; 37,712 are fourthclass postmasters; 12,850 were reported in 1907 as clerks at postoffices having no free-delivery service; 25,635 are minor employees, chiefly laborers, on the Isthmian Canal work; 2,197 are principally laborers in the service at Washington, D. C.; and 36,893 are mere unskilled laborers in the field services of the United States. GROWTH. The following additions to the classified service were made during the year ended June 30, 1909, by action of the President, by operation of an act of Congress, or by automatic provision of the civilservice rules: BY PRESIDENTIAL ACTION. Sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty employees and positions were transferred from the excepted to the competitive class by executive action as follows: October 3, 1908, inspectors in the purchasing department of the Isthmian October 9, 1908, various employees not before regarded as classified. 8 588 2 15, 488 a These figures are based upon reports furnished by the several departments in connection with the material for the Official Register of July 1, 1903, and subsequent changes in the service reported to the Commission by the departments as required by the civil-service rules. Owing to inaccuracies inherent in the gathering of data for a work of this magnitude, and to inadvertent omissions by the departments, the figures must be accepted as only approximate. The consular regulations are outside the jurisdiction of the Commission, but its chief examiner is, by designation of the President, a member of the board of examiners. c By executive order of November 30, 1908, 15,488 fourth-class postmasters in 14 States were transferred to the competitive service, the 37,712 mentioned being in the remaining States and Territories. |