...a period of probation before final appointment; (e) that no person in the government service should use his official authority or influence to "coerce the political action of any person or body." (5) The rules were first made applicable to the departments at Washington and to custom-houses and...

...otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so. 6. Political coercion Sixth, that no person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence...coerce the political action of any person or body. 7. Noncompetitive examinations in certain cases Seventh, there shall be noncompetitive examinations...

...prejudiced for refusing to do so. Sixth, that no person in said service has any right to coercion. use his official authority or influence to coerce...Seventh, there shall be noncompetitive examinations in Noncompetitivo ,, , . ,, . . , examinations. all proper cases before the commission, when competent...

...contribute to any political fund or to render any political service, and every such person is forbidden to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body. The rules, in affirming these provisions, forbid persons in the service from using their official authority...

...Department holding presidential appointments: Presidential appointees are forbidden by statute to use their official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body to make any contribution for a political object to any other officer of the United States, or to solicit...

...2, of the Civil Service Act, which provides that no person in the civil employment of the Government "has any right to use his official authority or influence...coerce the political action of any person or body." The committee submitted this case to the Treasury Department. The Secretary of the Treasury replied...

...money or service or any other valuable thing for any political purpose. No person in said service shall use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, or to interfere with any election. This is substantially section 23 of the original Civil Service Law...

...not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so. Sixth, that no person in said service tment or employment aforesaid. Fifth, that no person in the public service is for that reason under And no person shall be discriminated against in any case because of his or her marital status in examination,...

...Political coercion by officers; discrimination due to marital status. — Sixth. No person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence...coerce the political action of any person or body. And no person shall be discriminated against in any case because of his or her marital status in examination,...

...authorized the President to promulgate rules so that, among other things, no government employee should "use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body." In 1907, the Civil Service Commission, purporting to act under authority of the 1883 Act, did, as the...