EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

I. GENERAL ORDER AMENDING THE CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

REINSTATEMENT OF PERSONS WHOSE MILITARY SERVICE TERMINATED HONORABLY IN SOME OTHER MANNER THAN BY HONORABLE DISCHARGE.

November 28, 1919.

Civil Service Rule IX, Paragraph I, clauses (b), (c), and (d) are hereby amended to read as follows:

(b) A person honorably released from the active military or naval service of the United States after service in the Civil War or the War with Spain, or his widow, or an Army nurse of either war, separated heretofore from the competitive classified service, may be reinstated in the department or independent establishment from which separated without time limit. If hereafter separated, reinstatement may be made within five years from the date of separation.

(c) A soldier, sailor, marine, or Army nurse of the War with Germany formerly in the competitive classified service may be reinstated in any part of the competitive classified service within five years from the date of honorable cessation of active military service if he has the required fitness to perform the duties of the position to which his reinstatement is sought.

(d) The widow of a veteran of the War with Germany formerly in the competitive classified service who was the wife of such veteran while he was in the military service may be reinstated in any part of the competitive classified service within five years from the date of cessation of her husband's military service by death or otherwise without discredit.

This amendment is merely a change in phraseology to make the language of the reinstatement rule conform exactly to the long-established practice of allowing reinstatements without regard to the year limit to persons whose military services terminated honorably in some other manner than by honorable discharge.

II. ORDER AMENDING SCHEDULE A.

CLASSIFICATION OF CERTAIN POSITIONS AT NAVAL HOSPITALS.

July 9, 1920.

The Executive order of June 13, 1905, excepting from the operation of the civil-service rules or navy-yard regulations the employment of laborers, skilled and unskilled, at naval hospitals is hereby revoked.

Schedule A, Section V, of the civil-service rules is amended by the addition of the following paragraph:

Laundrymen, dietitians, cooks, bakers, dishwashers, mess attendants, and other kitchen and dining-room employees at naval hospitals.

The effect of this order will be to include all civil positions at naval hospitals in the competitive classified service, except those named in Schedule A, Section V, paragraph 6.

III. ORDER AMENDING SCHEDULE B.

APPOINTMENT, UPON NONCOMPETITIVE EXAMINATION, TO CERTAIN POSITIONS IN INTERDEPARTMENTAL SOCIAL-HYGIENE BOARD.

November 25, 1919.

Schedule B, of classified positions, which may be filled upon noncompetitive examination, is hereby amended by the addition of the following:

VI. Interdepartmental social-hygiene board.

1. Not exceeding 15 positions to be filled by persons engaged on confidential and protective work.

IV. ORDERS RELATING TO THE RETIREMENT OF EMPLOYEES.

June 2, 1920.

REINSTATEMENT OF FORMER EMPLOYEES.

ORDER TO HEADS OF BUREAUS AND OFFICES:

Recommendation for the reinstatement of former employees will not be approved for the purpose of conferring upon such employees the benefits of the act approved May 22, 1920, entitled "An act for the retirement of employees in the classified service and for other purposes."

Recommendations for the reinstatement of former employees who have reached, or will within 10 years reach, the age making them eligible for retirement under the said law must be accompanied by a full statement of the facts in each case indicating that such reinstatement will be in the interest of the public service.

No employee of the class referred to will be reinstated unless physically able to perform active duty, and officers recommending a person of this class for reinstatement must give his age, full information as to physical fitness for the work to which it is proposed to assign him, and, if the employee were then of the retirement age, that the officer would recommend the issuance of the certificate provided for in the second proviso to section 6 of the act. JOHN BARTON PAYNE, Secretary.

Approved:

WOODROW WILSON.

DIRECTION TO DEPARTMENTS AND INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHMENTS TO FURNISH COMMISSION CERTAIN INFORMATION TO ENABLE IT TO CARRY OUT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RETIREMENT ACT.

June 10, 1920.

The heads of the executive departments and independent establishments are directed to furnish the United States Civil Service Commission, at such times and in such form and manner as it may prescribe, information to complete or to supplement its records, to enable it to carry out the requirements of the retirement act approved May 22, 1920, and to enable it to prepare and keep timely statistical and other information which experience has shown to be of value to the President, the Congress, executive officials, and the public.

EXTENSION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE RETIREMENT ACT TO EMPLOYEES OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

August 3, 1920.

In the exercise of discretion conferred by the civil-service retirement act, approved May 22, 1920, and upon recommendation of the Civil Service Commission, the provisions of said act are hereby extended to include employees of the Execu tive office, with the exception of the Secretary to the President.

CLASSIFICATION OF KEEPERS IN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK AND EXTENSION OF BENEFITS OF RETIREMENT ACT TO SUCH EMPLOYEES.

August 4, 1920.

It is hereby directed that the positions of keeper in the National Zoological Park be placed with their present occupants in the competitive classified service. This action will not include laborers in the animal department who work under the keepers. This action is based upon the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

REINSTATEMENT OF FORMER EMPLOYEES WHO SERVED OVERSEAS OR ON THE HIGH SEAS WITH ORGANIZATIONS DOING DISTINCTIVE WAR WORK.

March 30, 1920.

The time during which persons formerly in the competitive classified service served overseas or on the high seas with organizations doing distinctive war service shall not count against their period of eligibility for reinstatement under civil-service Rule IX.

This order is recommended by the Civil Service Commission.

APPLICATION OF PREFERENCE STATUTES IN SELECTION OF PERSONS FOR APPOINTMENT AS POSTMASTER AT OFFICES OF THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CLASS.

April 13, 1920.

When

The veteran preference statutes shall apply in the selection of persons for appointment as postmaster at offices of the first, second, and third class. the highest eligible certified to the Postmaster General by the Civil Service Commission is not a veteran, but a veteran is among those certified as eligible, the Postmaster General may submit to the President for nomination the name of either the highest eligible or the veteran obtaining the highest eligible rating as the best interests of the service may require.

EXCLUSION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE RETIREMENT ACT OF EMPLOYEES OF THE ALASKAN ENGINEERING COMMISSION.

September 24, 1920.

In the exercise of discretion conferred by the civil-service retirement act approved May 22, 1920, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior and the Civil Service Commission, employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission are hereby excluded from the provisions of said act.

V. MISCELLANEOUS ORDERS.

PERMISSION TO GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENTS TO MAKE USE OF THE SERVICES OF FEDERAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE INSTRUCTION OF DISABLED SOLDIERS FOR CIVIL-SERVICE POSITIONS.

January 13, 1920.

The Executive order of October 13, 1905, as amended on May 17, 1919, is hereby amended to read as follows:

No officer or employee of the Government shall, directly or indirectly, instruct or be concerned in any manner in the instruction of any person or classes of persons, with a view to their special preparation for the examinations of the United States Civil Service Commission. The fact that any officer or employee is found so engaged shall be considered sufficient cause for his removal from the service: Provided, That this order shall not be so construed as to prevent the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the Medical Departments of the Army and Navy, and any other branches of the Government from utilizing the Government facilities and the services of Federal officers and employees where such facilities or services may be necessary or useful in carrying out the duties imposed upon such departments or branches by law in the training and testing of disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines."

As amended, the order extends to Government establishments generally the exemption heretofore made in the case of the Federal Board for Vocational Education.

October 8, 1920.

APPOINTMENT OF POSTMASTERS.

The Executive order of March 31, 1917, relating to post offices of the first, second, and third classes is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Hereafter when a vacancy occurs in the position of postmaster of any office of the first, second, or third class as the result of death, resignation, removal, or, on the recommendation of the First Assistant Postmaster General, approved by the Postmaster General, to the effect that the efficiency or need of the service requires that a change shall be made, if such vacancy is not filled by nomination of some person within the competitive classified civil service who has the required qualifications, then the Postmaster General shall certify the fact to the Civil Service Commission, which shall forthwith hold an open competitive examination to test the fitness of applicants to fill such vacancy, and when such examination has been held and the papers in connection therewith have been rated, the said commission shall certify the result thereof to the Postmaster General, who shall submit to the President the name of the highest qualified eligible for appointment to fill such vacancy, unless it is established that the character or residence of such applicant disqualifies him for appointment. No

person who has passed his sixty-fifth birthday or who has not actually resided within the delivery of such office for two years next preceding such vacancy shall be given the examination herein provided for."

VI. ORDERS EXCEPTING PERSONS NAMED FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RULES.

November 22, 1919.

Mr. R. Stone Jackson may be appointed as clerk in the Federal Board for Vocational Education, on the basis of his more than 25 years' experience in the Auditor's Office of the Treasury Department and in the Food Administration. His services are desired in organizing and carrying on the work of accounting and disbursements, falling on the Federal Board for Vocational Education in large volumes, because of his experience and valuable knowledge of Government accounting.

The Federal Board for Vocational Education and the Civil Service Commission recommend this order.

December 1, 1919.

Miss Katherine Peters, of Maryland, now temporarily employed as a typist in the Office of the Register of the Treasury, may be appointed to a classied position in the Government service without reference to the requirements of the civil-service rules.

December 22, 1919.

Mr. Edward W. Oyster, a veteran of the Civil War, with many years of service in the Government Printing Office and Interior and Treasury Departments, may be reinstated in the Federal Board for Vocational Education as supervising audit clerk, at $2,000 per annum, the requirement of reinstatement and service of six months immediately following in one of the departments in which he was formerly employed being waived.

The Civil Service Commission recommends this action because of the long and excellent record of Mr. Oyster in the Government service in a supervisory capacity.

January 16, 1920.

Mrs. Mabel E. Bane may be appointed to a clerical position in the Bureau of Mines, Interior Department, without examination under the civil-service rules. This order is recommended by the Secretary of the Interior because Mrs. Bane is the daughter of a Civil War veteran, whose father and three brothers enlisted on the same day, and were all killed except her father; her husband was a Spanish-American War veteran. She is dependent upon herself for her support and that of a minor child, and has rendered satisfactory service under temporary appointment in the Bureau of Mines. She has been unable to pass the usual civil-service examination, having failed in several attempts by narrow margins.

The Civil Service Commission does not find sufficient grounds on which to base concurrence in recommending this order.

January 29, 1920.

Mr. James Hagerman, jr., may be appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue at $5,000 per annum without examination under the civilservice rules. He is well qualified. The Civil Service Commission, not having authority to approve the appointment without competition as requested by the department, suggested Executive action.

February 29, 1920.

Miss Marian Kearns, of the District of Columbia, may be transferred from the position of clerk to sign tribal deeds, $1,200 per annum, office of the Secretary, Interior Department, to a regular clerkship. She has served efficiently in the Department of the Interior since May 21, 1918, and has demonstrated her ability as a clerk.

The Civil Service Commission does not concur in the recommendation for an Executive order.

May 10, 1920.

Mr. Andrew K. Armstrong may be reinstated as chief, section of box tests, at $3,240 per annum, forest products laboratory, of the Forest Service, for

duty at Madison, Wis., without regard to the length of his separation from the service.

Mr. Armstrong served for more than seven years under the Department of Agriculture as an engineer of timber tests and assistant engineer in forest products, and his experience since his resignation on December 31, 1917, has been along lines increasing his capacity for the successful performance of the duties of the position to which he will be reinstated. The Secretary of Agriculture regards him as unquestionably the best qualified man obtainable and represents the need of his services as urgent. In view of these facts the commission recommends the order.

May 13, 1920.

Mr. H. Le Roy Atwood may be appointed to the position of rural free-delivery carrier at Carter, S. Dak., without regard to civil-service examination.

This order is issued on the recommendation of the Postmaster General on account of this employee's faithful and efficient service, and because of the difficulty experienced in securing a permanent rural carrier to fill this position, his appointment would be in the interest of the service. He is disqualified from taking the required examination on account of the loss of one arm.

May 21, 1920.

Mrs. Margaret H. Bowen may be appointed to a position in the Postal Service without regard to the requirements of the civil-service rules and regulations. Mrs. Bowen was temporarily employed in the Washington City post office during the period of the late war and performed satisfactory service. This order is issued upon the recommendation of the Postmaster General.

June 19, 1920.

John E. Lamiell, formerly post-office inspector, who entered the classified service by virtue of a competitive examination, may be reinstated to the position of post-office inspector without regard to the year limitation as prescribed by the civil-service rules.

This order is issued on the recommendation of the Postmaster General, in view of the fact that Mr. Lamiell resigned his position to reorganize the postal service of the Republic of Haiti, it being understood at that time that he would return to this country and reenter the inspection service of the Post Office Department after the Haitien Government had the benefit of his services in systematizing and reorganizing its postal service.

June 23, 1920.

The 14 persons named in letter of the Civil Service Commission dated June 21, 1920, may be appointed without examination for duty in the district intelligence office, Navy Department, New York City.

This order is issued at the request of the Secretary of the Navy and with the concurrence of the Civil Service Commission.

September 4, 1920.

Mr. W. V. Hardie may be appointed director of traffic in the Interstate Commerce Commission without reference to the civil-service rules.

The Interstate Commerce Commission recommends this order.

October 1, 1920.

The position appropriated for in the office of the Secretary of the Interior in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act, approved May 29, 1920, namely, clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200, and the present incumbent, Mrs. Mary Alice Spragg, are hereby placed in the competitive classified service. The Civil Service Commission concurs in recommending this order.

October 5, 1920.

Mr. Samuel Glucksman may be appointed as general helper at the navy yard, Norfolk, Va., without reference to the civil-service rules and regulations. This order is recommended by the Secretary of the Navy because of the valiant and exceptional service rendered by Mr. Glucksman, a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, during the World War. He was cited for extraordinary heroism in action; he was awarded the distinguished service cross for gallant conduct in the field, and the croix de guerre, and he has been recommended for