Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-14
Corporal" Tanner Makes Wig
orous Plea For Old Men in
Government Service
SPEAKS FOR OLD SOLDIERS
Tanner is COMMANDMENTS Chief of the
G. A. r. and Protests Against Pro-
posed Reduction in tho Compensation
of Federal Clerks Over Sixty five
Years of Age.

| Washington. March IA vigorous
plea for old men in the government
service is made by Corporal Tanner,
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the c. A. r. in
a letter to James A. Tawney, chairman
of the house committee on appropria-
tons. Mr.. Tanner protests against the
action of Mr.. Tawney's committee in
recommending a law reducing the COM
had reached the age of 65 years If
the rule We're carried out in high as
well as low places, insists the Grand
Army leader. three members of the
appropriations committee would be re-
lieved of their offices and the same pro-
vision would soon apply to the speaker
of the house himself
great injustice would be done the
defender of the flag, adds Corporal"
Tanner, of whom there are many in the
department. Those dependent on them
would feel the effect. also. Altogether
there would be 100000 or 5000 600
people deprived of their just dues. Not
a single confederate soldier would sup
|
In the report of the house commit
tee on appropriations. says the letter,
submitting the legislative and judicial
appropriation bill, occurs the following
under the caption 'Limita tons with re-
spect to the appropriations made in the
bill and not heretofore imposed as fol-
lows:
Section s. After June 80, 1906,
| there shall not be employed in any OK
ecutive department or other govern
ment establishment in the District OF
Columbia any person in the classified
service who is Go years of age and un-
der 6s years OF age at a rate of annual
compensation exceeding $1.4O0, or who
| is IS years of age and under 10 years
| of age at a rate Of annual compensation
exceeding $1,000 or who is over 10 years
| of age at a rate of annual compensa-
| ton exceeding $S40, and after June 30
| 1913. no person in the classified service
shall be continued in the employment
of any such executive department or
other government establishment who
has attained 20 years of age
"The omission of the words in the
District of Columbia was not, to judge
I
| city Of ink.
! 80 far as indicated by anything in
| the report this recommendation came
from the full comm ttee. yet. were the
same rule to be applied to those in high
as we'll as low places three members
! Of your committee would have been
debarred from signing it; the distin-
guished speaker of the house, so active
| that many people fear he must be
| reckoned with in 1908. would have to
withhold his approval unless you hurry
the bill thru before May Z. While OF
the thirteen members of the senate
committee on appropriations, whose
average age il, 81, all but four. and
they by tight squeeze. would be re-
lieved from consideration Of your au-
tomato time register
1.-The operation of the proposed pen
atty for loyal and faithful service
would fall so heavily upon those who
bore the burden OF the battle in the
union army that ! must treat 1t as II
they were the sole benefciaries. 1t Is
for them, my comrades, I speak.
"I am indisposed to shirk this. duty
owe to them and could not if would.
They stood with me when to stand
meant victory then, that the congress
of the United States should meet ever
since and now in Washington instead
of Richmond: that the stars and stripes
should float forever and day over all,
emhlematic Of a united, prosperous,
happy country. l venture to say that
you won't find a confederate soldier
behind your bill. Only this moment
/ indorsed an earnest request to our
soldier president to honor confeder-
ate brigadier whom your proposed linn
itation' would remove from the watt
ing list.
ITO proposition that shall provide
for a fair reduction when, in individual
cases. by the deterioration of his mem
tai or physical faculties, a man is in
capacitated from measuring UP to the
full requirements of the Service. have
no objection to present but that condi-
ton is as amply provided for by ex-
listing law as YOU can make it"