Statutes permitting appointments without reference to the civil-service act.. Statutes affecting the classified service..... Civil-service rules and legal decisions, with notes by the commission Schedule A. Classified positions excepted from examination.. Political assessments and political activity... Frauds and other irregularities .. Official register and service records of the commission.. Extensions of the competitive classified service.. Extent of the classified service in Greater New York.. TABLES OF STATISTICS. [Period covered is the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913, unless otherwise stated.] Table 1. Showing, by legal residence, the number of persons examined for the classified service and the number that passed and that failed (not complete). TABLE 2. The number of examinations of each kind, the number of persons examined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, and the TABLE 3. Showing the apportionment of appointments in the departmental service at Washington, D. C., from July 16, 1883, to June 30, 1913... TABLE 4. Showing changes in the executive civil service........... TABLE 5. Showing changes in the substitute force of the Railway Mail Service.. TABLE 6. Showing changes in the post offices of cities having a population of 75,000 or over; also total number of changes in all other classified post .TABLE 7. Showing the number of clerks and substitute clerks, carriers, and substitute carriers, and the number of excepted and unclassified positions in each of seven of the largest post offices at the close of the fiscal year, TABLE 8. Showing the number and percentage of separations from each of seven of the largest post offices for each year from July, 1896, to June, 1913. TABLE 9. Showing changes in the customs service at ports whose annual re- ceipts are in excess of $500,000, and also the total number of changes at all TABLE 10. Showing changes in the Internal-Revenue Service.. TABLE 11. Showing separations from classified competitive positions, by branches of the service and by fiscal years, from 1904 to 1913, inclusive.... TABLE 12. Showing number of positions, by status, on July 1, 1912, additions by appointments, etc., and subtractions by separations, etc., during the fiscal year, and number of positions, on June 30, 1913. . . TABLE 13. Showing, for all branches of the classified service, the number examined, the number that passed, the per cent that passed, the number appointed, the per cent appointed of those that passed, and the approxi- mate number of competitive classified positions in the service during the THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20, 1914. SIR: In presenting this, the thirtieth annual report of the commission, attention is invited to the remarkable extension of the competitive system since its begining in 1883. The positions then affected by the civil-service act numbered 13,789, while to-day there are 282,597 positions required to be filled by the competitive method of appointment. Under nine administrations, of different political faiths, this extension has steadily gone forward by the natural growth of governmental business, by legislation, and by the inclusion by Executive order of additional classes of employees. This extension is more fully shown by the following table, giving the approximate number of competitive classified positions on the respective dates named: That the civil-service principle has the support of public opinion is shown by the facts that it has been accepted and proclaimed in all recent national party platforms; that nine States have adopted it for their executive services, and that it is incorporated in the charters of 250 cities. Appointing officers unite in its support as the most important factor in the efficient performance of public business. Thirty years ago decried as an impossible ideal, an impractical theory, and put in operation in only a tentative way, the system stands to-day firmly established on a basis of actual accomplishment. 7 EXTENT OF THE EXECUTIVE CIVIL SERVICE. On June 30, 1913, there were 469,879 officers and employees in the executive civil service. Of these, 282,597 held positions subject to competitive examination under the civil-service rules, an increase of 65,205 during the year. Of the 187,282 persons whose positions are not subject to competitive examination under the civil-service rules, 10,543 are presidential appointees, 8,423 being postmasters of the first, second, and third classes; 4,707 are clerks in charge of contract postal stations; 72,800 are clerks in third and fourth class post offices; 122 are jointly employed by the railroads and the Railway Mail Service; 7,725 are mail messengers; 12,986 are star route, steamboat, and screen wagon contractors; 28,191 are engaged on the Isthmian Canal work, chiefly as laborers and minor employees; 722 are employees of the Department of Commerce, mostly of the Census Bureau, and 27,283 are unclassified laborers, of whom 6,500 are subject to tests of physical fitness under labor regulations. The remaining 22,203 are excepted from examination under Schedule A, or are subject to noncompetitive examination under Schedule B of the civil-service rules, of whom 963 are employed in Washington and the others in branches of the field service. Few important positions are excepted under Schedule A from examination. Their great variety will be seen by reference to that schedule. GROWTH OF THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE. The following statement shows additions to the competitive classified service during the year ended June 30, 1913, aside from mere natural growth under existing provisions of the rules and Executive orders: BY PRESIDENTIAL ACTION. State Department employees paid from the appropriation for advancement of Special employees, Internal-Revenue Service, order of Aug. 24, 1912 2. Artisans in navy yards, etc., order of Dec. 7, 1912, about.. Cashiers in mints, order of Feb. 20, 1913. Chief post-office inspector... Total.... 14 52 112 36, 236 20,000 4 1 56, 419 1 These figures are based upon reports furnished by the several departments to the commission, 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. ? Under an Executive order of Aug. 2, 1913, these positions were removed from the competitive class, and restored to Schedule A. |