Teddy Roosevelt: “IT IS ORDERED, That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil-service act and rules applied thereto, and…”

“IT IS ORDERED, That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil-service act and rules applied thereto, and that no person be hereafter appointed, employed, promoted, or transferred in the service of said Commission until he passes an examination in conformity therewith, unless specifically exempted thereunder.”