Executive Order 225

This following is the Civil Service Commission description, not the actual order text, which was in the form of an approval of a message from the Commission.

On February 9, 1903, the Commission wrote to the President stating that occasionally instances arose in which conditions seemed to justify granting of requests for the extension of temporary (job) employments beyond the period of six months to which they were limited by the rules.

On February 11, 1903, the President addressed the following communication to the Commission:

Gentlemen: You are authorized to approve between now and July 1, 1903, all cases of request for the extension of temporary (job) employments beyond the period of six months, limited in section 16 of Rule VIII, where the conditions appear to justify such action. All such cases are to be submitted to me for approval at the termination of the above period.

In accordance with the above authority, the Commission approved the extension of the following temporary employments: John Sheridan, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Sheridan, Ill.; G. P. Crouse, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Barrancas, Fla.; E. Kilby, painter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Barrancas, Fla.; William H. Goldie,^[1] engineer, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort H. G. Wright, N. Y.; Joseph G. Cleveland, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Niagara, N. Y.; Duncan MacArthur, architectural draftsman, Naval War College, Newport, R. I.; A. A. Bennett, clerk and overseer, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Roger Duval, property clerk, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Thomas Grant, train master, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; John Dinwiddie, blacksmith, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; George Stockhill, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Keogh, Mont.; Samuel Rieben, carpenter, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Douglas, Utah; A. U. Wyman, clerk, office of United States Treasurer, Washington, D. C.; Carson E. Phillips, engineer and inspector, Quartermaster-General's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; Edgar A. Bennett, rodman, Quartermaster-General's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; M. C. Furstenau, draftsman, engineer district, Charleston, S. C.; E. B. Harden, instrument man, navy-yard, Charleston, S. C.; William Cook, mechanic, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Fort Apache, Ariz.; Frank H. Cranford, foreman, Quartermaster's Department at Large, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.; William E. Neff, special laborer, navy-yard, Washington, D. C.; Miss Lelia B. Mannakee, Mrs. Claudia S. Coles, Mrs. Florence O. Quimby, clerks (typewriters), Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, D. C.; Clarence K. Andrews, carpenter, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Stephen A. Reid, carpenter, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; Miss Ella Merritt, piecework computer, Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.; twenty-seven employees,^[2] Quartermaster's Department at Large, Monterey, Cal.; Eugene L. Thompson, typewriter, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C.; Carson E. Phillips, engineer and inspector, Quartermaster's Department at Large, St. Louis, Mo.; H. M. Hathaway, deck officer, steamer Patterson, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

A statement showing the action of the Commission in these cases was submitted to the President and received his approval on July 29, 1903.

Notes

1. This employment was extended for three separate periods.
2. The names of these employees appear in a letter dated May 18, 1903, from the constructing quartermaster at Monterey. The list included carpenters, foremen, plumbers, and painters.