On July 27, 1897, President McKinley completed the classification of the customs service by extending the rules so as to include customs ports having less than five employees.

2. Action of Congress. ▲

The deficiency act of March 3, 1883, provided, in addition to three Commissioners at an annual salary of $3,500 each, and one chief examiner at $3,000, for one secretary at $1,600, one stenographer at $1,600, and one messenger at $600, making a total expense for salaries of $17,300. The first session of the Forty-eighth Congress, in 1885, increased the salary of the secretary $400, that of the messenger $240, and provided for a clerk at $1, 200, making a total increase of $1,840, and reduced the appropriation for traveling expenses from $4,000 to $3,500. The second session, in 1886, increased the salary of the stenographer $200 and gave an additional clerk at $1,400 and a laborer at $660, making an increase of $2,260.

By the appropriation act of July 1, 1886, the clerical force of the Commission was increased by one clerk at $1,600 and two at $900, and the appropriation for traveling expenses was restored from $3,500 to $4,000. By the appropriation act of March 3, 1887, the Commission obtained an additional clerk at $1,000, and by the appropriation act of July 11, 1888, an additional clerk at $1,600, one at $1,400, and one at $1,000, besides an increase of $1,000 in traveling expenses. By the appropriation act of February 26, 1889, $250 was added to the appropriation for traveling expenses. The total increase under the first administration of President Cleveland was $10,150. By the appropriation act of July 11, 1890, the Commission obtained five additional clerks, as follows: One at $1,800, one at $1,400, two at $1,200, and one at $1,000. In 1891 and 1892 no advance was made at all. In 1893 the only advance was an increase of $750 for traveling expenses. The total increase during President Harrison's administration was $7,350.

From 1883 to 1893 the classified service increased from 13,924 places to about 43,000 and the appropriation for salaries and traveling expenses from $21,300 to $42,400. In 1894 Congress appropriated directly for 36 additional clerks ($52,000) for the Commission, in lieu of those then detailed from the departments, and gave also one additional laborer, an engineer, and two watchmen, making a total force, including the Commissioners, of 62 persons, and a total appropriation, including traveling expenses, of $98,540. In 1895 the Commission obtained $1,000 additional for traveling expenses. The appropriation of $1,000 for traveling expenses has been continued since that year. No increase was obtained in 1896, 1897, and 1898.

Transfer of places from the excepted class, March 1, 1888, to February 1, 1898.

The extension of the classified service has been commented on in other parts of this report.

The progressive extension of the classified service by legislative and executive act, and by natural growth, will be seen in the table at p. 153, which shows the number of positions embraced within the service classified under the civil-service rules, 1883 to 1898:

To the competitive class:

March 20, 1894, appointment clerk, Department of Agriculture....
November 2, 1894, certain superintendents and custodians, etc., at post-offices.
May 1, 1894, professors of meteorology, Department of Agriculture.......
July 9, November 2, 1894, chiefs and assistant chiefs, Department of Agriculture
May 24, 1895, chiefs and assistant chiefs and experts, Department of Agriculture
December 4, 1894, scientific positions in Geological Survey..
July 15, 1895, scientific positions in Geological Survey..

2,267

3

142

78

135

213

November 17, 1894, steamboat and transfer clerks, Railway Mail Service.......
January 3, 1895, superintendents of post-office stations at which carriers are employed..
September 5, 1895, bookbinders, departmental service.....

164

128

11

December 2, 1895, temporary and statistical experts, Department of Labor......
March 28, 1896, assistant attorneys and law clerks, Interior Department..

26

22

To the competitive class—Continued

May 6, 1896:

Departmental service

(In the Departments at Washington, including 142 chiefs of division, 70 assistant
chiefs, 300 plate printers, engravers, and the like, and 150 places requiring some
special skill or knowledge. The remainder consists ch efly of confidential

(All Indians employed in the Indian service at large (about 2,100) are excepted
from examination.)

Indian service

1,038

Railway Mail Service.......

24

118

1, 180

37

89

4, 283

Customs service

Postal service...

Total

(All the transfers of places from the excepted to the competitive class were made in President Cleveland's second term.)

To the noncompetitive class :

July 27, 1897, all positions excepted in the customs and internal-revenue services..

533

HISTORY OF EXCEPTIONS FROM EXAMINATION.

History of amendments to the civil-service rules excepting positions from examination and of the transfer of positions from the excepted to the competitive class.

[Where the number of positions under any designation was not reported the omission is indicated

by a star.]

1888. Mar. 1

Departmental Rule II (a) Private secretary, or 1 confidential clerk,

of the head of each classified department
and of each assistant secretary thereof, and
also of each head of bureau appointed by the
President, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate.

(b) Direct custodians of money for whose fidel-
ity another officer is under official bond; but
this exception shall not include any officer
below the grade of assistant cashier or as-
sistant teller.

(c) Disbursing officers who give bonds.....

History of amendments to the civil-service rules excepting positions from examination and of the transfer of positions from the excepted to the competitive class—Continued. [Where the number of positions under any designation was not reported the omission is indicated

1888.

by a star.]

Mar. 1

Departmental Rule II. (d) Persons employed exclusively in the secret
service of the Government.

7

(e) Chief clerks.

(f) Chiefs of divisions.

25 70

Customs Rule II..

(a) Deputy collectors, who do not also act as
inspectors, examiners, or clerks.

9

(d) Assistant cashier..

(*)

37

(e) Superintendents designated by the Post-
Office Department and reported to the Com-
mission as such.

(f) Custodians of money, stamps, stamped
envelopes, or postal cards, designated as
such by the Post-Office Department, and so
reported to the Commission, for whose fidel-
ity the postmaster is under official bond.
Printers employed as such.

1. In the Department of State, lithographer......

2. In the Department of the Treasury:
In the office of the Secretary: Government
actuary.

In the office of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency: Bond clerk.

In the office of the Supervising Architect:
Supervising Architect, assistant super-
vising architect, confidential clerk to
Supervising Architect, and photographer.
In the Bureau of the Mint: Assayer, ex-
aminer, computer of bullion, and ad-
juster of accounts.

In the Bureau of Navigation: Clerk of
class 4, acting as deputy commissioner.
In the office of construction of weights
and measures: Adjuster and mechani-
cian.

In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing:
Chief of the Bureau, assistant chief of
Bureau, engravers, and plate printers.
In the Coast and Geodetic Survey: Super-
intendent, confidential clerk to Superin-
tendent, the normal or field force, general
office assistant, confidential clerk to gen-
eral office assistant, engravers and con.
tract engravers, electrotypist and pho-
tographer,electrotypist's helper, appren-
tice to electrotypist and photographer,
copperplate printers, plate printers'
helpers, and mechanicians.

In the office of the Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue: Superintendent of stamp
vault.

3. In the Department of the Interior:
In the office of the Secretary: Superin-
tendent of documents, clerk of class 3
as custodian, clerk to sign land patents,
and telephone operator.

In the office of the Assistant Attorney-
General: Law clerks-1 at $2,750 per an
num, 1 at $2,500 per annum, 1 at $2,250
per annum, and 13 at $2,000 per annum.

(*)

1

1

300

100

1

16

History of amendments to the civil-service rules excepting positions from examination and of the transfer of positions from the excepted to the competitive class-Continued. [Where the number of positions under any designation was not reported the omission is indicated

3. In the Department of the Interior-Cont'd.
In the Patent Office: Financial clerk, ex-
aminer of interferences, and law clerk.
In the General Land Office: 2 law clerks, 2
law examiners, clerk class 4 acting as re-
ceiving clerk, and 10 principal examin-
ers of land claims and contests.
In the Bureau of Pensions: Assistant
chief clerk, medical referee, assistant
medical referee, and law clerk.

In the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Principal
bookkeeper.

In the office of Commissioner of Railroads:
Railroad engineer.

In the Bureau of Education: Collector and
compiler of statistics and statistician.
In the Geological Survey: In permanent
force-General assistant, executive officer,
photographer, 12 geologists, 2 paleontolo-
gists, 2 chemists, chief geographer, 3 to-
pographers, and 3 geographers. In tem-
porary force-6 paleontologists, 8 geolo
gists, geographer, mechanician, and
editor.

4. In the Department of War:

Clerk for the General of the Army, and
clerk for the retired General of the Army.
In the office of the Chief Signal Officer:
Lithographer.

5. In the Department of the Navy:

In the Hydrographic Office: Engravers,
copperplate printers, printers' appren-
tices.

6. In the Department of Justice:
Pardon clerk and 2 law clerks

7. In the Department of Agriculture:

In the office of the Commissioner: Private
secretary to the chief clerk, superintend
ent of grounds and assistant chief of
each of the following divisions: Of bot-
any, of chemistry, of entomology, of
forestry, and of statistics.

In the Bureau of Animal Industry: Chief
of the Bureau, assistant chief, private
secretary to chief, and chief clerk.

8. In the Post-Office Department:

Assistant Attorney-General, law clerk,
and agents and employees at postal-note,
postage stamp, postal-card, and envelope
agencies.

9. In the Department of Labor:

Statistical experts and temporary experts.
Assistant deputy naval officer, Boston cus-
toms district.

Director and assistant director of Experiment
Stations, Department of Agriculture.
Bookbinder, port of New York

Bookbinders in all departments .

General superintendent, assistant general sup-
erintendent.

In the Department of Justice: Assistant attor-
neys.

In the Department of Agriculture, Bureau
of Experiment Stations: Private secretary
to the director.

Inspector of furniture, Treasury Department..
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Custodian
of dies and rolls and plates, 2 subcustodians,
keeper of vault, distributer of stock.
Treasury Department: Foreman of laborers,
skilled laborers, elevator conductors, fore-
man of cabinet shops, cabinetmakers.

3

15

4

1

1

1

43

2

1

22

3

7

32

8

1

2

1

11

2

6

1

1

5

10

History of amendments to the civil-service rules excepting positions from examination and of the transfer of positions from the excepted to the competitive class-Continued. [Where the number of positions under any designation was not reported the omission is indicated by a star.]

Rule I.

June 10 Special Departmental Interior Department: Physicist, hydrog
rapher, engineers (civil), paleontological
draftsman.
Railway Mail Service Printers employed as such.........
Rule II.
..do

July 26
Aug. 17

Clerks employed exclusively as porters in han
dling mail matter in bulk, in sacks or pouches,
and not otherwise.
Supervising Architect's Office: Engineers and
draftsmen of classes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, not ex-
ceeding 10 in all: Provided, That these 10
places shall cease to be excepted places from
and after June 30, 1890.

In the Bureau of Engraving and Printing:
Plate cleaners, transferers, hardeners,
provers, pressmen, machinists, plumbers,
carpenters, and blacksmiths.

Chief clerk and law clerk, New York customs
district.

Department of Agriculture: Scientific or pro-
fessional experts to be employed in investi.
gations specially authorized by Congress,
but not to include any persons regularly
employed in that Department, nor any per-
sons whose duties are not scientific or pro-
fessional, and who are not experts in the
particular line of scientific or professional
inquiry in which they are to be employed.
Detectives, New York customs district

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 relating to
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, as printed
on page 66 of the fifth annual report of the
Commission, was amended by striking out,
in line 3, after the word "to," the words
"general office assistant," and inserting in
licu thereof the words "assistant in charge
of office and topography;" so that as amended
the clause reads: "Confidential clerk to as
sistant in charge of office and topography."
Treasury Department: Topographer and hy-
drographer, Life-Saving Service.
Department of Agriculture: Wood engravers.
Post Office Department: Stenographer to be
confidential clerk to the chief post-office in-
spector.

Agricultural Department: 1 artist..
Agricultural Department: Private secretary
to Chief of Division of Statistics.
In the Department of the Treasury, in the
Coast and Geodetic Survey: Clerk to act as
confidential clerk and cashier to the disburs-
ing officer.

In the Post-Office Department, office of Assist-
ant Attorney-General: Confidential clerk to
the Assistant Attorney-General.
Agricultural Department: Appointment clerk.
Post-Office Department: Assistant superin-
tendent of free delivery.

Treasury Department: I clerk in office of dis-
bursing clerk.

Transfer clerks at junction points or stations
where not more than 2 such clerks are
employed.

Treasury Department: Confidential clerk to
the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics.
In all departments: Elevator conductors.
In the Commission of Fish and Fisheries:
Ichthyologist and editor, 1 scientific assist-
ant, captains, officers, ship writers and crews
on vessels of the commission, and pilots.