In Senate Report 659, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session (p. 896 et seq.), will be found much testimony respecting the operation of the civil-service act and rules.

HISTORICAL REGISTER

OF THE

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

COMMISSIONERS:

JOHN R. PROCTER, Kentucky, President.
WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE, Indiana.

JAMES RUDOLPH GARFIELD, Ohio.

A. RALPH SERVEN, Chief Examiner.
JOHN T. DOYLE, Secretary.

List of Commissioners, chief examiners, and secretaries since 1883.

b Mr. Doyle was appointed stenographer to the Commission March 9, 1883, and promoted upon appointment by the President from that position to secretary.

195

State or Territory.

I. EXAMINATIONS.

TABLE 1.-The number of examinations held for the Departmental (including
Railway Mail and Indian) and Government Printing services, and for the
Philippine Service, the number of competitors, and the number that passed and
that failed, in each State and Territory, during the year ended June 30, 1902.
Number of competitors.

Number of exam- Departmental and Government
Printing services.

inations, a

Philippine Service.

Passed. Failed.

Total noneducational.

Aggregate...

6,613 265 805 15 7,698 3

13,413 2,382 4,686 1,658 22,139 432 48 639 55 1,174

a Includes examinations for transfer and promotion.

197

TABLE 2.—The number of persons examined for the Departmental (including passed and that failed, and their legal