Introducing The Civil Servant Reform Act

Author : United States Civil Service Commission
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331438755
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Civil Service of the United States written by United States Civil Service Commission and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Civil Service of the United States: The Theory, Methods, and Results of the Reform Introduced by the President Pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1871, Stated by the Civil Service Commission in a Report to the President To the Senate and House of Representatives: Herewith I transmit the report of the Civil Service Commission authorized by the act of Congress of March 3, 1871, and invite your special attention thereto. If sustained by Congress, I have no doubt the rules can, after the experience gained, be so improved and enforced as to still more materially benefit the public service and relieve the Executive, members of Congress, and the heads of Departments from influences prejudicial to good administration. The rules, as they have heretofore been enforced, have resulted beneficially, as is shown by the opinions of the members of the Cabinet and their subordinates in the Departments, and in that opinion I concur; but rules applicable to officers who are to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate are, in a great measure, impracticable, except in so far as they may be sustained by the action of that body. This must necessarily remain so unless the direct sanction of tie Senate is given to the rules. I advise for the present only such appropriation as may be adequate to continue the work in its present form, and would leave to the future to determine whether the direct sanction of Congress should be given to rules that may, perhaps, be devised for regulating the method of selection of appointees, or a portion of them, who need to be confirmed by the Senate. The same amount appropriated last year would be adequate for the coming year, but I think the public interest would be promoted by authority in the Executive for allowing a small compensation for special service performed beyond usual office hours, under the act of 1871, to persons already in the service of the Government. U. S. Grant. Executive Mansion, Washington, April 18, 1874. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.