TABLE 16.-Showing, by Executive Departments and independent offices, the number of appointments, by original appointment, transfer, and reinstatement, to positions in the classified Departmental Service, in Washington, D. C., from July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1902. a The large number of appointments in 1891 was due to the pension legislation known as the act of June 27, 1890. INDIAN SERVICE. HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Secretary of the Interior, by direction of the President, on April 13, 1891, classified physicians, school superintendents, assistant superintendents, school teachers, and matrons in the Indian Service; and the President promulgated rules applying the civil-service act to such positions, to take effect October 1, 1891. The rules became effective on March 1, 1892, the President having set forward the date on representations of the Commission that complete arrangements could not be made sooner. On May 11, 1894, assistant teachers were classified, and provision was made for the appointment of Indians nominated for the positions of assistant teachers upon their passing a noncompetitive examination, and on November 2, 1894, the rules were amended to permit certificates of graduation from certain schools to stand in place of examination for noncompetitive positions. In its report for 1894 the Board of Indian Commissioners recommended the extension of the classified service to the entire Indian Service, and the Secretary of the Interior made a similar recommendation in his report for 1895. An Executive order dated March 20, 1896, directed the Secretary of the Interior to amend the classification of his department so as to include among the positions classified and subject to competitive examination all clerical positions at Indian schools and agencies, also the positions of supervisor of Indian schools, day school inspector, disciplinarian, industrial teacher, teacher of industries, kindergarten teacher, farmer, nurse, assistant matron, and seamstress. Indians were made eligible to appointment to any of said positions without examination, upon any test of fitness required by the Secretary of the Interior. By the rules of May 6, 1896, which applied to the entire classified service, the rules for the Indian Service were superseded. Indians employed in the Indian Service at large were excepted from the requirements of examination, except those employed as superintendents, teachers, teachers of industries, kindergartners, and physicians, appointments to the positions named being subject to noncompetitive examination. By the revision of the rules on May 29, 1899, 1,972 Indian employees who had been excepted from the requirement of examination under Rule VI were transferred to Rule III, paragraph 8 (e), a change which made no essential alteration of their status. The following extract concerning Indian school employees is from the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901: 66 "The earnest endeavor of this office has been, and is constantly, to improve the morale of the Indian school service, and to secure persons who are fitted by natural aptitude and training to carry on the arduous work of Indian civilization. It is especially gratifying to hear the words of commendation passed upon this band of faithful workers by those who contrast the present corps with that of the past. 66 The duties of the several positions in the school service are many and difficult. While bearing a relation to ordinary public-school work, it is more exacting and confining. The hours are longer and the duties more varied. Hence the qualifications that bring success in a white school are not an absolute criterion of the success a public school teacher will have in this branch. "Employees are required to look carefully after the culture and morality of the pupils in the class rooms, dormitories, and at the workbenches. The Indian's education does not comprise the circle of class-room duties alone, but the wider one of home life in all its features. “The term at Indian schools is practically twelve months. During all this time the watchful eye of the employee must be upon the pupils committed to his charge. This constant supervision requires what, under other circumstances, might seem an unusually large force. There were employed during the year 2,208 persons, of which number 1,529 were white and 679 Indians. The annual salaries range from $100 to $2,000. The positions are divided as follows: Supervisors, 5 white; superintendents, 104 white; clerks, 41 white and 14 Indian; physicians, 23 white, 1 Indian; disciplinarians, 10 white, 17 Indian; teachers, 411 white, 72 Indian; kindergartners, 57 white, 2 Indian; manual-training teachers, 7 white; matrons, 105 white, 9 Indian; assistant matrons, 76 white, 58 Indian; nurses, 24 white, 4 Indian; seamstresses, 95 white, 65 Indian; laundresses, 73 white, 88 Indian; industrial teachers, 71 white, 39 Indian; cooks and bakers, 124 white, 90 Indian; farmers, 45 white, 29 Indian; blacksmiths and carpenters, 52 white, 12 Indian; engineers, 32 white, 23 Indian; tailors, 13 white, 5 Indian; shoe and harness makers, 22 white, 15 Indian; Indian assistants, 50. In addition to these there were employed several hundred pupils, at salaries ranging from $1 to $5 per month as apprentices in various trades, etc. Miscellaneous positions, 139 white, 86 Indian.” TABLE 17.-Showing changes in the Indian service among those appointed through examination and certification. [The rules went into effect in the Indian service on March 1, 1892.] |