Executive Order—Amendment of Civil Service Rules
07/14/1895
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It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service ru...
Our people exhibit a patriotic disposition which entitles them to demand...faithful and unselfish service in their behal...
Such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certificat...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.