The Washington times., 1906-03-20
TWILL REORGAN|zE
PENSION OFFICE
! Mr.. Warner Plans EcOnOm-
ic Move.
WILL DROP 78 POSITIONS
! No Employees, However, Are to Be Dis
charged in Change Which Will
Save $oI,5oo.

:. Commissioner Of Pensions Nespasian
[ Warner is contemplating making final
move toward perfectinc the Pension
( Office force on a purely b,.--aess plane
Z by the beginning of the next fiscal year.
ITO do this he proposes TO eliminate the
Spositions of seventy-eight employees with
hsalaries ranging from 5000 per year
Ydown 10 $500 The change would result
Fin saving of s91. 500 salary expenditures
annually TO the bureau.
No Employees Discharged.
: In making this move the Commissioner
rwould not discharge a single employe.
Gf'ollowing out his well-formulated plan
2he would so reorSanize his force that
fthe positions he would drop would be
fthose resulting from vacancies now ex-
listing.
( L would knock out one chief of di-
Evision at 5000 said the Commissioner.
pn discussing his plan. two principal
fexaminers at 5000 each: two assistant
schiefs at H.SOO each: four clerks of class
at 81, 400 each; nine of class /. at s.. 200
feach; twenty-five clerks OF the 81 600
fclass, and forty-five of the 5000 class I
pan 40 this without causing any turmoil
tor discontent and without discharging
IA single employe"
SHO VI aReO SIerkS.
He says he does not believe IN Con
Eressional legislation reducing a clerk
l-~hen he has attained the age OF sixtv-
uVe. sixty-eight. or seventy years, as
%many clerks are more competent at the
.sase of seventy years than they were at
frhtrty. He would rather retire them at
certain age, as proposed by the Civil
Iservice Retirement Association and let
them out altogether than TO forcibIy
subject them to reduction. regardless
er qualification. at any set age
lie made his contentious strong on this
Point at recent hearing before the
house subcommittee on Appropriations
ny going so far as to say it would be
Retter in the end for the Government
10 stand the expense of retiring it's old
,employes than to provide for any such
fscheme as advocated by the House com
smittee
Mr.. Warner provided for the elimins-
.s1on of thirty-three positions when he
submitted his estimates 10 Congress The
Eseventy-eight he proposes to cut off at
Ehe beginning of the coming fiscal wear
ENlll De additional. He expects il 10 ba
elnsL It will result in total saving
t1or clerical hire alone for thA next fiscal
gear of S12S:l0o: Notwithstanding this
Loly pruning in the salary list the Com
Enlssioner says that the plan he Is com
pleting viii serve to Increase the eff1cacv
No1 the of1ce by providing for the pro
Enotlon OF the active young fellows up to
Ehigher grades from which other men are
Eeduced."
A Suggestion to Congress.
II Congress will follow cut a sugees-
ition he has made TO it he can augment
1he item of saving by an additional sum
sof 1880, making the total $131,90O. The
proposition he has in mind is to cut of
Two of the three principal examiners at
$1,000 each and appoint the other one as
tshe principal examiner at a salary of
1920 annually.
The House Subcommittee on Appro-
fpriauons had MIR. Warner before IL
when the legislative. judicial and execu-
'riVe appropriation bill was under con-
.Ssi6eration, and questioned him exten-
ssively on the existence of system al
1.-THE office whereby employees do a GER
ltsin amount OF work each day. with
f5he idea of limiting the amount Of
work they are going to do TO be called
"a day laborer
Mr.. Warner advised the committee
that there was. so far as he was able
no ascertain, no such arrangement in
laexistence at his bureau. but that ON the
contrary, he had advised every chief
of division that he would rather have
khis employees idle one-half of the time
than to be six months behind in their
fwork
'As a Consequence now he said. ''the
work has been. brought up 10 date. i
pat all i keep track OF all divisions