Veterans Preference for Civil AppointmentsUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1920 - 80 pages |
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1st sess 2nd sess 48th Cong 50th Cong 57th Congress Abraham Lincoln action applicants appointing officer appointing power average bill introduced business capacity necessary certified civil appointments civil offices Civil Service Act Civil Service Commission Civil Service Reform Civil service rules Civil War claim of preference competitive examinations Congressional Record debate disabled veterans duties enactment ence extend the preference fact favor ference further give preference Hence honorably discharged veterans hurt the service Ibid inquiry later legislation McKinley merit system military or naval movement National Civil Service naval service passed pension percentage persons honorably discharged politicians preference claimant preference in civil preference provisions preference sections preference-claimants President promotion recieved recommendation reduction of force regard reinstatments Rep.C.S.Com republican resolution Revised Statutes secure seems senate procedure Senate Report served Service Reform League Spanish-American War statment sutlers thot thru University of Wisconsin veterans eligible veterans preference widows writer York
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Page 12 - But nothing herein contained shall be construed to take from those honorably discharged from the military or naval service any preference conferred by the seventeen hundred and fifty-fourth section of the Revised Statutes...
Page 17 - ... served in the military or naval service of the United States in the late War of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom...
Page 16 - That in making any reduction of force in any of the executive departments,' the head of such department shall retain those persons who may be equally qualified who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, and the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors.
Page 6 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 16 - VII. 1. Persons who have a prima facie claim of preference for appointments to civil offices under section 1754, Revised Statutes, shall be preferred in certifications made under the authority of the Commission to any appointing or nominating officer. 2. In making any reduction of force in any branch of the classified civil service, those persons shall be retained who, being equally qualified, have been honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States; and also the widows...
Page 6 - In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices, and sufferings, of persons honorably discharged from the military and naval service of the country, by reason of wounds, disease, or the expiration of terms of enlistment, it is respectfully recommended to bankers, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, farmers, and persons engaged in industrial pursuits, to give them the preference for appointments to remunerative situations and employments.
Page 4 - I had before done, as to what is fairly due from us here in the dispensing of patronage toward the men who, by fighting our battles, bear the chief burden of saving our country. My conclusion is that, other claims and qualifications being equal, they have the better right ; and this is especially applicable to the disabled soldier and the deceased soldier's family.
Page 14 - If fitness for the place to be filled is tested by competitive examination, the board of examiners shall certify the names of three males or three females, these names to be those of the eligibles who, standing higher in grade than any other three eligibles of the same sex on the...
Page 4 - Yesterday little indorsements of mine went to you in two cases of postmasterships sought for widows whose husbands have fallen in the battles of this war. These cases occurring on the same day brought me to reflect more attentively than I had before done, as to what is fairly due from us here in the dispensing of patronage toward the men who, by fighting our battles, bear the chief burden of saving our country.
Page 14 - Statutes, have claim of preference in civil appointments, the names of such eligibles shall be certified before the names of other eligibles higher in grade. The Commission shall make regulations that will secure to each of such preference-claiming eligibles, in the order of his grade among other preference claimants, an opportunity to have his claim of preference considered and determined by the appointing officer.