APPENDIX No. 6.

The following tables show the statistics of the examinations in the three branches of the classified service. These considerations should be borne in mind in considering them:

1. That the ratio of those who fail to those who succeed is likely to be much less when the grade of questions shall be better understood; for the more incompetent will see they have little chance of succeeding. Besides, a better class has appeared at each succeeding examination.

2. It was necessary in the outset to examine a large number to make sure of having those competent to fill every variety of vacancy. Many appointments may be now made without further examinations. The excessive number examined from the District of Columbia was the result of conforming to a rule having an unanticipated effect, which has been since amended.

3. In regard to education, the records of the Commission are defective in not showing how long those who have been at an academy or college have remained at either, nor how many are graduates. If a person has been but a month at an academy or college, he is put under the head of those institutions. The habit of calling so many schools academies, and so many academies colleges, helps to make this unavoidable classification the more misleading.

Table showing numbers of examinations, number of those examined, passed, appointed, age, education, &c., in the Departmental service, Washington.

Table showing numbers of examinations, number of those examined, passed, appointed, age, education, &c.-Continued.

Table showing numbers of examinations, the number examined, and of those who passed, were appointed, their age, education, &c., in the customs service.

Table showing numbers of examinations, of those examined, and of those who passed, were appointed, their age, education, &c., in the post-offices.

*There were also 76 persons examined for porters, of whom 41 passed, and of that number 22 have been appointed.

The whole number examined for the departmental, customs, and postal service has been 3,542.

The number passed at 65 per centum or over has been 2,044.

The number examined having only a common school education has been 2,272.

The number appointed to the service from July 16, 1883, to January 16, 1884, of those examined has been 516.

The average age of all those examined has been thirty-one years. 10609 C S R-5

APPENDIX No. 7.

Statement showing (1) the number of officers in the several Executive Departments at Washington appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, (2) the number not subject to confirmation, whose compensation exceeds $1,800 per annum, and hence not embraced in the classified service, and (3) the number excepied from examination under Rule XIX.

Names of Departments.

Total

Whole number classified in the Departments, 5,652.

APPENDIX No. 8.

The following is the fourth section of the civil service act of the State of New York passed in 1883. (See New York Laws, 1883, chap. 354.) Whoever, while holding any public office or in nomination for, or while seeking a nomination or appointment for any office, shall corruptly use, or promise to use, whether directly or indirectly, any official authority or influence (whether then possessed or merely anticipated) in the way of conferring upon any person in securing any office or public employment, or any nomination, confirmation, promotion, or increase of salary, upon the consideration or condition that the vote or political influence or action of the last named person, or any other, shall be given or used in behalf of any candidate, officer, or party, or upon any other corrupt condition or consideration, shall be deemed guilty of bribery or an attempt at bribery. And whoever being a public officer, or having or claiming to have any authority or influence for, or affecting the nomination, public employment, confirmation, promotion, removal, or increase or decrease of salary of any public officer, shall corruptly use, or promise or threaten to use any such authority or influence, directly or indirectly, in order to coerce or persuade the vote or political action of any citizen, or the removal, discharge, or promotion of any officer or public employé, or upon any other corrupt consideration, shall also be guilty of bribery or of an attempt at bribery. And every person found guilty of such bribery or of an attempt to commit the same, as aforesaid, shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or to be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than two years, or to both said fine and said imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

The phrase "public officer" shall be held to include all public officials in this State whether paid directly or indirectly from the public treasury of the State or from that of any political division thereof, by fees or otherwise, and the phrase "public employé" shall be held to include every person not being an officer who is paid from any said treasury.