§ MR. JOHN KELLYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is the fact that, though a large number of Civil Service Writers have been recommended by the heads of their departments as in every respect worthy of promotion under the Treasury Minute of 1886, the great majority of such recommendations have been ignored by the Treasury; and, if so, whether it 592 is proposed to deal with these Writers of admitted merit under the new regulations, and in what manner?
§ MR. JACKSONEvery case in which a copyist was recommended by the head of his Department for promotion to the Lower Division was most carefully examined by the Treasury in accordance with the intention of the Minute of December, 1886, and it is not proposed to re-open the question.