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Show theoretically gives the civil sTrTTee h i commission authority to. collect and subject to competition. The entire maintain complete personnel slatis- number of positions in tho federal ties. The labor and expense involved, executive civil service on June 20, however, practically prohibit the col- 101G, was 480,327. At the height of lection and compilation of reliable sta- the war expansion there were approx- tlstical (lata. imately 1,000,000 men and women cm- In addition to tj.e limits of the com- ployed In the federal executive civil mission's authority is the absence of service, about 700.000 of whom held authority to enforce its findings. The positions subject to competition. Oil commission can make recommenda- July 31, 1920, the entire number of Hons to the departments and offices federal executive civil positions, as and urge their observance, but It can- uearly as can be estimated, had been not enforce them. reduced to 691,110. Approximately Congress passed what is known as 450,000 of these wre subject to conv the civil service law January 16, 1S83. petition, or, In other words, in tho This act created the United States classified 6ervice. The force Is still civil service commission. The law was slowly but steadily decreasing. Intended to cui.f in part the evils During the 19 months of our partlcl- traceable to the spoils system, which patlon in the war the civil service grew out of th four-year-tenure-of- commission gave competitive examj. office act of 3 820. nations under the civil service law and During the firt 40 years after the rules to slightly less than 1,000,000 per- organization of nr government, ad- sons, and about 400,000 persons with mlnlstratlve practice with regard to tested qualifications were supplied by the civil service seemed to conform the commission to the service. A nor- to the Intention of the founders. The mal year's business is about 200,000 Constitution fixed the term of no of- persons examined and about 50 COO fleer in the executive branch of the appointed. |
