Executive Order 2410

Mr. Warren J. Brown, Mr. Henry C. Mansfield, and Mrs. Florence E. Cleveland may be appointed as clerks in the classified service of the Government without reference to the civil service rules.

This order is issued upon the recommendation of the Secretary of War, who submits a detailed report from the Governor of The Panama Canal, giving special reasons as to why the same should be issued, in view of which it is believed that the appointment of these three persons will be in the interest of the service. From the Governor's report it appears that Messrs. Brown and Mansfield have rendered long and very satisfactory service in the employment of the Government on the Isthmus of Panama; and that Mrs. Cleveland, whose husband was killed May 23, 1914, while employed as an operator of one of the towing locomotives of the Panama Canal, has been employed in an excepted position in the Panama Canal service since November 16, 1914, in which position it appears she has rendered very satisfactory service.

The Civil Service Commission does not concur in the recommendation.

Woodrow Wilson⁠

The White House,

30 June, 1916.