Congressional Edition Volume 3623 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... have special fitness for that work, and that for duty of a temporary character, as they very frequently have it there, someone is selected for temporary service without being selected from the list of the commission; but if the Treasury Department should find it necessary to call upon the commission for a special examination, then of course it would be possible to find out who was on that eligible register. Mr. Baker. You have just testified in regard to the cost of examinations. Does your estimate of that cost include the expenses of advertising or printing or rents or general incidental expenses? Mr. Serven. Yes, sir; everything of anykind that has been expended. Mr. Baker. I have here a copy of the Government Official, a paper printed here in Washington, which generally devotes a whole broadside to the bulletin of the Civil Service Commission. Is that a paid advertisement? Mr. Serven. No, sir; it is not--that is, it is not paid from the United States Treasury. I do not know how the proprietor gets his pay for it. I know it is not paid from us. Mr. Baker. In the local papers we frequently see notices of examinations to be held here. Is that paid by the Government? Mr. Serven. No, sir; those notices are furnished to the press as items of news. Mr. Baker. Yon say you have been asked to use your influence to secure appointments on the local boards of examination? Mr. Serven. Yes, sir; I have sometimes. Mr. Baker. Then, influence is not totally absent from the commission? Mr. Serven. I perhaps might answer that by giving an illustration. Some time ago I was in a post-office in a Northern city. A gentleman came up to me and said that he had served in the post-office for some twelve or fourteen years and he had never been a member of the local board, and he wa...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... have special fitness for that work, and that for duty of a temporary character, as they very frequently have it there, someone is selected for temporary service without being selected from the list of the commission; but if the Treasury Department should find it necessary to call upon the commission for a special examination, then of course it would be possible to find out who was on that eligible register. Mr. Baker. You have just testified in regard to the cost of examinations. Does your estimate of that cost include the expenses of advertising or printing or rents or general incidental expenses? Mr. Serven. Yes, sir; everything of anykind that has been expended. Mr. Baker. I have here a copy of the Government Official, a paper printed here in Washington, which generally devotes a whole broadside to the bulletin of the Civil Service Commission. Is that a paid advertisement? Mr. Serven. No, sir; it is not--that is, it is not paid from the United States Treasury. I do not know how the proprietor gets his pay for it. I know it is not paid from us. Mr. Baker. In the local papers we frequently see notices of examinations to be held here. Is that paid by the Government? Mr. Serven. No, sir; those notices are furnished to the press as items of news. Mr. Baker. Yon say you have been asked to use your influence to secure appointments on the local boards of examination? Mr. Serven. Yes, sir; I have sometimes. Mr. Baker. Then, influence is not totally absent from the commission? Mr. Serven. I perhaps might answer that by giving an illustration. Some time ago I was in a post-office in a Northern city. A gentleman came up to me and said that he had served in the post-office for some twelve or fourteen years and he had never been a member of the local board, and he wa...

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 33mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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644

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978-1-236-44174-4

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9781236441744

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1-236-44174-5



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