Gunion became the sole support of her widowed mother and brother as well as her own child. The Civil Service Commission joins with the department in recommending the order.

This order was revoked by order of May 25, 1911.

April 17, 1911.

It is hereby ordered that the following persons, viz: Campbell, W. V., Pennsylvania; Enright, M. J., Ohio; Proffit, S. G., Virginia; Seitz, C. E., Pennsylvania; Tarbell, Harry, Colorado; Pinchback, P. B. S., District of Columbia, who are temporarily employed as internal-revenue agents, specially designated to examine the books of the corporations in connection with the special excise tax on corporations, may be appointed as classified employees in the Internal Revenue Service without compliance with the civil-service rules.

These six men have shown that they can perform this work in a manner entirely satisfactory to the Government and the taxpayers. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue recommend this action. The Civil Service Commission declined to concur in the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For the reasons stated in the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury of April 13 the objection of the Civil Service Commission is overruled and this order is made.

April 24, 1911.

Mr. Ralph R. Mulcare may be reinstated as letter carrier in the post office at Brooklyn, N. Y., without regard to the year limit prescribed by the civilservice rules. He resigned as carrier, after having served satisfactorily for 13 years, by reason of ill health, on March 16, 1909, with the assurance that he would be reinstated if he recovered his health within a year, which was in accord with the policy of the Post Office Department and in the interests of efficient service. His application for reinstatement was made within a year, but owing to a change of postmasters and pressure of business was not forwarded in season to the department as the postmaster had intended. The Civil Service Commission joins the department in recommending this order. April 29, 1911.

Mr. Leroy T. Steward may be reinstated as superintendent of city delivery at the Chicago post office without reference to the year limitation prescribed by the civil-service rules. He resigned in September, 1909, to become chief of police of the city of Chicago after eight years' faithful and efficient service, with the understanding that his place in the post office would be held open for him and that he would be reinstated after he finished his work in the police department. In view of the Postmaster General's statement that he was a most efficient officer, that it would be to the advantage of the service to reinstate him, and that it would be unfair to refuse to reinstate him, particularly as he became chief of police with great reluctance and only at the earnest solicitation of the mayor and others who convinced him that it was his duty to the public, the Civil Service Commission concurs in the recommendation of the Postmaster General for his reinstatement by Executive order.

May 10, 1911.

John Roche and Patrick McKeefrey, laborers in the Customs Service at the port of New York, may be appointed to the classified position of customs watchmen at that port.

This order was requested by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Civil Service Commission, as a reward of merit and in recognition of the services of these employees in the detection and elimination of fraud at the port of New York, N. Y., and as an incentive to earnestness and efficiency among other employees.

May 22, 1911.

Mr. John E. Wilkie may be transferred from Chief of the Secret Service, Treasury Department, to supervising agent to supervise and direct the special agents of the Treasury Department, without compliance with civil service rules or regulations.

The reasons for this order are that Mr. Wilkie, since his appointment as Chief of the Secret Service Division in 1898, has rendered most important and efficient service in that position, and since his detail as acting supervising

special agent has demonstrated the possession of qualities that are much needed in that position. During the comparatively short time in which he has been directing the special agents' service he has established a standard of efficiency in the force which it probably never before attained, and the Treasury Department desires to avail itself permanently of his services at the head of that very important branch of the department's activities.

May 25, 1911.

Mrs. Mary E. Gunion, a former employee of the Government Printing Office, may be appointed to any position in the clerical grade in any department.

Mrs. Gunion is a daughter of Edward McQuade, late driver for the Secretary of War, who while driving the Secretary's horses was killed in a successful effort to save the lives of the occupants of the carriage, and by his death Mrs. Gunion became the sole support of her widowed mother, her brother, and her own child.

The order of April 15, 1911, relating to Mrs. Gunion, is hereby revoked. May 29, 1911.

Mr. James B. Horigan, an expert in an excepted position in the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, may be retained in the service with his present excepted status, and paid from the statutory position of law clerk.

This action is deemed necessary by reason of the valuable services and exceptional qualifications of Mr. Horigan, which the department desires to retain and which would otherwise be lost by failure of the appropriation from which he has been paid. This action meets with the approval of the Civil Service Commission.

May 31, 1911.

Mrs. George E. Pickett may be appointed to a clerkship in the War Department without regard to the provisions of the civil-service rules.

Mrs. Pickett is the widow of Maj. George E. Pickett, who served with the Army as a paymaster for 13 years, and who, by his death, resulting from a quickly developed disease, incident to service in the Philippines, left Mrs. Pickett without means of support for herself and her two sons. The Secretary of War recommends the appointment of Mrs. Pickett. Mrs. Pickett some years ago passed a civil service examination. The Civil Service Commission is not able officially to recommend the approval of this order. June 9, 1911.

Mr. I. C. Faulk may be reinstated as storekeeper-gauger in the Internal Revenue Service, twenty-third district of Pennsylvania, without regard to the length of his separation from the service. Mr. Faulk was appointed as storekeeper-gauger on April 19, 1897, and resigned from the service on March 31, 1909. His request for reinstatement, made within the year of his eligibility, was not acted upon because there was no necessity at that time for the appointment of an additional special gauger. Mr. Faulk was appointed on April 11, 1910, through examination, as timekeeper in the Reclamation Service, but this appointment did not give him a status for transfer to the position of storekeeper-gauger, for the reason that the rules require six months' service before transfer and Mr. Faulk had resigned his timekeeper position on July 3, 1910, to accept temporary appointment as deputy collector in the Internal Revenue Service at Portland, Oreg. The reinstatement of Mr. Faulk is recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the Civil Service Commission has not recommended the extension of the time limits for reinstatement or for transfer under the rules.

June 26, 1911.

The presidential positions of deputy auditor in the Treasury Department having been abolished by law, effective June 30, 1911, it is hereby ordered that the following officers may be transferred and appointed to appropriate classified positions in the Treasury Department or elsewhere in the public service: Edward P. Seeds, Deputy Auditor for the War Department. James B. Belt, Deputy Auditor for the Interior Department. Byron J. Price, Deputy Auditor for the Navy Department.

George W. Esterly, Deputy Auditor for the State and Other Departments. Charles H. Keating, Deputy Auditor for the Post Office Department. Similar inclusions in the classified service are provided for in section 7 of civil-service Rule II, which provides under certain conditions that the post

master or any other officer or employee of an office consolidated with a classified post office may be brought into the classified service. The retention of these experienced employees would appear to be in the interests of the service.

In view of these facts the Civil Service Commission joins with the department in recommending an Executive order to permit their appointment in appropriate classified positions.

APPOINTMENTS AUTHORIZED UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER OF DECEMBER 1, 1910.1

STATE DEPARTMENT.

Seth Low Pierrepont as clerk, class 1.

Mr. Pierrepont is a graduate of Columbia University; served as private secretary to an American ambassador to Italy and to a minister to Portugal; was appointed to the Diplomatic Service, by examination, as third secretary of embassy at Paris; and served as secretary of legation at Santiago, Chile. The department stated that the services of Mr. Pierrepont in the foreign field made him particularly fitted for the position to which it was desired to appoint him.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

August Jensen as coin piler.

Bags of coin, each weighing about 60 pounds, are stacked up vertically in columns, so that they may be easily and accurately counted; and, to make the columns secure, the bags must be bonded as are bricks and stone in architecture. This labor requires, in addition to unusual physical ability, peculiar skill, and owing to the great weight of the silver the results are apt to be very dangerous unless the work is properly done. The only employee in the department who is an expert in this line became incapacitated for such severe work, and the commission therefore authorized the temporary appointment of August Jensen, under section 4 of Rule VIII, pending the establishment of a register of eligibles. After an observation of the work, the commission was of the opinion that a man with the requisite ability and training could not be secured through open competitive examination.

Cosimo Ranalli as special inspector of customs at $4 per diem.

Mr. Ranalli, an Italian, served as special inspector in the customs service at the port of New York, N. Y., under temporary appointment in ninety-day periods from June 14, 1909, until July 15, 1910, and his permanent employment was desired. It was stated that Mr. Ranalli spoke good English, was a man of good address and sound judgment, and was the only member of the force possessing the necessary qualifications for the detection and prevention of frauds on the customs by Italians, for which an Italian was required. It further appeared that between January 31, 1910, and June 27, 1910, seventeen cases of smuggling on the part of employees of steamers sailing between the United States and Italian ports were detected by Ranalli.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Dwight V. Merrick as expert in shop operations.

The War Department requested authority for the appointment of Dwight V. Merrick as an expert in shop operations at the Watertown Arsenal, at a salary of $15 a day, the probable duration of his employment being a year, stating that the improvements to be introduced at the arsenal required the presence of an expert; that the qualifications for the position were such that it was not believed they could be tested by the usual method of competitive examination; and that Mr. Merrick had been associated with Mr. Carl G. Barth, whose employment at the arsenal as expert in shop management at $50 a day and expenses when employed was authorized by Executive order of May 28, 1909,

1 This order authorized the commission to except from examination certain positions arising of unusual character, which, in the judgment of the commission, can not, in the interest of good administration, be filled through open competitive examination.

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both having acquired their knowledge of the "Taylor system," which was being put in practice at the arsenal, through their association with Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, the originator of the system. It was further stated that the employment of Mr. Merrick would decrease the number of days for which the services of Mr. Barth would otherwise be required.

A. A. Coyle as inspector in engineer department.

The department stated that the appointment of Mr. Coyle was desired to complete a special job of work in connection with the superintendence of the building of certain steel barges and flatboats for the use of the Engineer Department at large, and the employment would probably be continuous from about April 10, 1911, to June 30, 1912. There was no existing register, and in view of the temporary nature of this work the usual method of filling permanent positions through open competitive examination did not seem practicable. Section 4 of Rule VIII does not contemplate that job employment shall extend beyond six months unless "there are no eligibles available for the additional period or under unusual circumstances which seem to the commission to justify an extension beyond six months." The circumstances of this employment seemed to render it such that, in the judgment of the commission, it could not, in the interest of good civil-service administration, be filled through open competitive examination.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Henry A. Snow as special agent.

Mr. Henry A. Snow, of Minnesota, was temporarily appointed as a special agent on February 1, 1910, his employment having been authorized from time to time under section 4 of Rule VIII. His services had been used in certain cases pending in the United States courts upon indictments charging conspiracy to acquire title to public lands by means of fraudulent entries on timber and stone lands. These cases and others with respect to which Mr. Snow had special knowledge or special facilities for obtaining evidence had not all been disposed of, and the United States attorneys were desirous of having the services of Mr. Snow continued. When not engaged in work directly connected with these cases he was employed as a special agent and had rendered very valuable services in protecting timber against forest fires.

Albert J. Ross as shot firer.

The Director of the Bureau of Mines stated that the services of Mr. Ross were utilized as a shot firer and powder man; that his experience rendered him invaluable in handling explosives in an experimental mine or in the explosive gallery; and that his work was very hazardous, involving the charging of cannon, the weighing of explosives, and other dangerous work in connection with investigations and tests concerning safety in mining.

Wilson L. Gill as supervisor of Indian schools.

Mr. Gill was first appointed on May 6, 1911, for three months for the purpose of ascertaining whether the "school idea" which was originated by him was susceptible of adoption by the schools of the Indian Service, it having been installed by him in the schools of Cuba under the supervision of the War Department. Briefly, the school idea" method consists in the organization of a school government in which the teachers and pupils take part along the line of a State or city government. The officers begin with the governor or mayor and other subordinates down to officers of courts and peace officers. Laws are enacted by representatives chosen for the purpose, and the executive officers carry out those laws. The superintendent of the school has a general supervision and can interfere whenever the school idea government fails. The aim is to inculcate into the pupils habits of restraint and respect for authority and at the same time teach practically the principles underlying all civil government. Mr. Gill is a graduate of Yale, a member of the bar of the States of Connecticut and Ohio, a civil and mechanical engineer, and the author of several books relating to school government.

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Ralph Arnold and Frederick G. Clapp as petroleum engineers and V. R. Garfias and L. G. Huntley as assistant petroleum engineers, Bureau of Mines. The Acting Director of the Bureau of Mines stated that in the preparation of a report on the technology of petroleum it would be necessary to collect a

large amount of data, about three-fourths of which was already in the possession of Messrs. Arnold and Clapp, whose work would be intermittent, probably covering a period of 18 months or 2 years. The bureau could not collect the necessary data within that period or without greater expenditure of money. The commission's authorization was given with the understanding that the appointees would obtain no civil-service status and that their services would terminate on June 30, 1913.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Joseph T. Saylor as foreman of laborers.

Mr. Saylor was originally appointed, without examination, to the position of foreman of laborers under section 4 of Rule VIII, serving from April 5, 1909, to April 13, 1910, when he was temporarily appointed, under the same section and rule, through certification from a register established from an examination held at Washington, D. C., only, the position then being regarded as likely to terminate in a few months. However, the continuance of the position was found to be necessary, and in view of the numerous, difficult, and diversified duties stated by the institution to be required in the position, and the special qualifications of Mr. Saylor as demonstrated in the performance of the same, it was not believed that the holding of an open competitive examination would be in the interests of good civil-service administration.

INVESTIGATIONS OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND RULES.

POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS AND POLITICAL ACTIVITY.

The commission's jurisdiction in cases of improper political activity and the collection of political assessments or contributions includes authority to investigate all alleged violations of the statutory provisions of the act by any person, or of the rules issued by the President thereunder when the person charged with such violation is in the competitive classified service, or is a laborer, mechanic, or other employee not in the competitive classified service, but who has been made subject to the rule regarding political activity by action of one of the executive departments. The commission also, upon direction of the President, investigates other cases of alleged improper political activity and reports to him the results of such investigations, but has no power to enforce its conclusions, that power resting with the President.

During the year a number of investigations were made which resulted in no grounds being found for the charges made. Final action in a number of other cases is still pending. The more important of the cases in which the charges were substantiated and appropriate action taken are shown in the following brief:

BRIEF OF INVESTIGATIONS.

POLITICAL ACTIVITY AT VALLEJO, CAL., AND CHARLESTON, WASH. INVESTIGATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION.

In the fall of 1910 complaints were received by the commission that certain employees of the Mare Island Navy Yard were taking an unduly active part in the campaign then in progress for the revision of the charter of the city of Vallejo, Cal. Three classified employees of the yard were candidates on a socalled freeholders ticket for election as members of a committee to revise the charter. An investigation was conducted by the president of the commission, who found that the selection of the three employees mentioned as members of the charter committee was permissible and not violative of the law or regulations as to political activity, it appearing that they were nominated without any solicitation or activity on their part; that they were the nominees of a mass meeting of citizens of all political parties; that their duties as members of the committee would be solely in relation to the charter; that, upon submission of their report, the committee would cease to exist; that there were on the part of the candidates for election as members of the charter committee no disbursement and no distributions of funds and no electioneering.