Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-05
TREASURY REORGANIZATION
Preparations to Garry Out the Dockery Pro
visions Of the Appropriation Bill
Large Number of Clerks LcRislated
Out of Omce-How Some Are to
BE Provided For.

Secretary Carlisle is rapidly completing
preparations to put into operation the
Dockery provisions of the legislative execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill for the
reorganization Of the accounting Offices of
the Treasury Department. This reorganiza-
ton takes effect on the LIST proximo, and
involves many radical changes in existing
methods Of doing business. The Offices of
commissioner Of customs, deputy commits
sioner Of customs, second controller depu-
ty second controller and deputy first Co..
troller Of the treasury will be abolished on
that date. and the duties heretofore per-
formed by those officials will then deyolye
upon an onicial to be known hereafter aa
the controller Of the treasury, who Will
have an assistant to be hereafter appointed
Dy the President at a salary Of 5000 per
annum The execution Of these changes
Will necessitate the removal outright of
100 clerks in the Treasury Department
Inc total number Of clerks legislated ont
ny .ne abolition OF the several ofiices named
Is two hundred and twelve but II SO han
pens that there are at present sixty yacan-
cies In the department to which that num-
per OF them will be transferred. The clerks
20 oe DISMISSED VIII be selected from the
department. at large. and 30 far as is possi-
Die the merit system will be followed in the
selection OF the unfortunates 1t Is pro-
posed to retain all the best clerks in the
aDD0tnfR6
to positions vacated by the dismissais from
other Offices
An effort will be made to provide for the
chiefs OF divisions In the bureaus that have
been wiped out, and they will be given the
benefit of any vacancies that may occur in
other offices Secretary Carlisle today gave
office to several chiefs of divisions, whose
designations were recently requested. that
their services would not be required after
the 1st proximo.
These are Mr.. Leaver, chief Of division,
first auditors office; Mr. Harrington. chief
OF division, treasurer's office; Mr. burbank
chief Of division, sixth auditors office: MT
Beatty, chief Of division, registers office
and Mr. Latham, chief Of division, fifth
auditors Office Tie designations of these
gentlemen had all been hell up. pending the
selection OF their SUCCESSORS 1t Is now pro-
posed to fill the vacancies by the appoint
ment Of the division chiefs legislated out
by the Dockery law. The Arst controllers
Sihce. which will hereafter be officially
known as the oflcs of the controller of the
treasury. also suffers severely in the Dock
cry reorg iniza:ion. Tie present force num-
bcrs siNty-five persons and the force un-
der the new order OF things is limited to
twenty two persons, and Maj. Kretz, chief
Of the appointment division, is now en-
gagged In the interesting operation Of put
ting sixty-five pegs into twenty-five holes.
Lightning In the Supervising Archi-
tect's ONCE.
Official lightning struck the office Of the
supervising architect Of the treasury TODAY
with sensational effect. Three chiefs Of
division were officially decapitated and the
heads Of many subcrdinates are said to be
in jeopardy. The three unfortunates are
James p. Low Of Massachusetts,, chief Of
the engineering division; Peter s. Garrett
son Of New Jersey, chief Of the the accounts
division, and Frank Milliken OF Maine,
chief of the records and files division. These
gentlemen have been in Office many years
and were generally regarded as fixtures
Each OF them was requested to resign.
Their successors will bes appointed In a
short time.