Assistant and associate architect (in addition to the preference eligible already mentioned), 2 appointments. Principal accounting and auditing assistant, 2 appointments. Junior and assistant statistical clerk (the need principally for female eligibles), 3 appointments. Engineering draftsman, positions of different grades, 3 appointments. Senior and principal architectural draftsman, 2 appointments. Junior cartographic engineer (in addition to the preference eligible mentioned), 1 appointment. Electrical engineer, 1 appointment. Librarian and assistant librarian positions of the different grades (excluding veterans), 5 appointments. Junior biological aid, 1 appointment. Junior civil-service examiner, 3 appointments. Minor scientific helper, 3 appointments. Assistant entomologist, 1 appointment. Telegraph operator (in addition to 1 veteran), 1 appointment. Total, 40 appointments. There were, in addition, appointments by promotion of persons already in the apportioned service brought in originally under Executive order, as follows: Assistant messengers to junior and underfile clerk positions, 5 appointments. Assistant messengers to under clerk positions, 2 appointments. There were also three appointments from reemployment registers, from which certification is made, under presidential order, without regard to the apportionment, as follows: File clerk, one appointment. Clerk, one appointment. Assistant photographer, one appointment. The apportionment was waived in one instance to permit the appointment of the sixth clerk, in view of her extraordinarily high rating (95.3 out of a possible 100) and the relatively low salary of the position, one appointment. The two additional charges of clerks to the apportionment of States in excess were merely corrected charges previously made to the apportionment of States in arrears. Both persons had been in the service for a number of years, two appointments. The trained nurse appointed was among the highest not already on certification for the field service outside of Washington, for which the register is nearly always, and very actively, used, one appointment. Total of these miscellaneous appointments, 14 appointments. REINSTATEMENTS IN 1927 Rule IX of rules issued by the President under the act of January 16, 1883, provides for reinstatements of former employees. The wisdom of the provision has never been questioned. Experience and training are acquired at considerable expense to the Government and are essential to the efficient performance of its work. Legal residence is not and has not been any obstacle to reinstatements and it was not until July 1, 1897, that they were charged. There were 1,355 reinstatements in 1927. The number from the District of Columbia and four States in excess was 748, as against 661 appointments from the registers of the District and four States in excess. It seems sufficient to study reinstatements from the District of Columbia and four States in excess because every reinstatement from a State in arrears tends to bring up its quota and equalize the apportionment. 1 The senior laborers included in this report were erroneously counted in the number of apportioned employees; as unclassified employees they are not subject to the apportionment. The totals in all tables in which they appear should, therefore, be reduced by 2. Reinstatements in 1927, at $1,320, or less, and more than $1,320, by States and designations, from the District of Columbia and the four States in excess, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont, and Delaware Reinstatements in 1927, at $1,320, or less, and more than $1,320, by States and designations, from the District of Columbia and the four States in excess, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont, and Delaware-Continued OTHER SCATTERED DESIGNATIONS Continued 1 Includes 1 clerk typist, junior, at $1,320 and 1 messenger boy, at $630, both from Delaware. Of the 748 reinstatements in excess, 677, or 90 per cent, were reinstated in about six general designation groups: Clerical, stenographic, typist, custodial, operative, and mechanical. The apportionment is no obstacle under present practice to reinstatements; but it may be stated that the registers of the States in arrears were generally deficient in eligibles for all of these groups, except the clerical, so that these reinstatements did not interfere so greatly with appointments from States in arrears, as might otherwise have been the case. The 71 reinstatements tabulated under 51 scattering designations in the latter half of the table did not greatly interfere with appoinments from the registers of States in arrears. It is to be noted that reinstatements in excess were in general made to the same class of positions to which it was necessary to make appointments in excess from the registers in the absence of eligibles from States in arrears, and in the absence of eligibles from States in arrears it makes no difference to the apportionment whether vacancies are filled by appointments in excess or reinstatements in excess. TRANSFERS, 1927 Transfers are recognized in the civil service act and are provided for in civil service Rule X, promulgated by the President. Transfers to the apportioned service from the District of Columbia or any State in excess are authorized only when, in the opinion of the commission, they are required in the interests of good administration. There were 407 transfers to the apportioned service from January 1 to December 31, 1927. They are shown in the following table by designations, arranged in two groups, the first including clerks, stenographers, typists, operatives, messengers, mechanics, etc.; and the second including professional, technical, scientific, and supervisory positions, etc. As all transfers from States in arrears tend to effectuate the apportionment, it does not seem necessary to present or study them in detail; but transfers in excess-that is, from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia-are shown separately. There were none from Vermont and Delaware. |