The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-03-22

the United states Circuit and District
Courts of the Southern District Of Flor
recently by the President. In return
ing the bill to the House Of Represen-
tatives. where it originated, the Presi-
dent stated that there appeared to be
nothing to demand q term of court at
that place.
eco ask the Senate" said Speaker
Cannon. somewhat Hereby, when asked
il any new States were to be admitted
this year. ut IS for that body to de-
termine whether 1t will prevent State
hood"
Speaker Cannon had just been In
close conference with the President.
asked once again as to what action
the House would take on the Statehood
bill. The Speaker replied that 1t would
stand just where 1t did before.
THAT is.' the Speaker added. "if my
vote counts for anything"
Representative Crumpacker, Of In
diana, has introduced bill providing
for judicial review of orders excluding
persons from the use Of United States
mail facilities.
Gen. Grosvenor Is out for Roosevelt
for-well, now, maybe he isn't exactly
wanting Roosevelt for q third term, but
certainly it does look like 1t. He wan
this is what he said when he came
away. The dreadful thought comes
that he was promised-but, no! 1t cam
not-cannot be. Anyhow, this is what
he said. and it is SO. Everything Gen.
Grosvenor says always happens to be
so, you know.
a
right to elect man for the third Presi-
Dental term il they want to do SO. All
this talk about public sentiment being
against 1t Is bosh, according to my way
of thinking. Everybody says Washing
ton started the sentiment against a
third term, but as far as I have been
able to learn, he did nothing of the
sort in word Or writing. 1 defy any
one to show me where Washington de-
clared against a third-term idea as a
policy for the Nation.
washington was speaking for him
self. During his first term he threat
ened to resign. in his second he said
declined to run for third. I'm not
sure that any one urged him to run
again. anyway. In his Farewell Ad-
dress. Washington touched on every
thing above the earth and under the
sky, but he failed to mention a third
term policy
Representative Hefiin, of Alabama,
is going to have the Sunday laws OBJ
served in the District Of Columbia He
says he isn't going to have building.
hauling and all other kinds OF business
going on In the Capital of the country.
just exactly as though this Is not a
sentative Hefiin IS right. mighty right.
1t should not be permitted. and SO all
good, law-abiding citizens will stand
by the bill which Mr.. Hefiin has intro
duced, and which, If passed. will pro-
hibit Sunday work of the character
mentioned. The wives Of members Of
Congress will still continue to hold re-
ceptions and give bridge-whist parties
on Sunday however.
The age limit provision and gradual
ed salary reduction affecting Govern
ment clerks included in the Legislative
Executive and judicial Appropriation
bill occupied the attention of the House
of Representatives all of Monday after
tauer, Of New York. was In charge Of
the bill, and he handled the subject
without gloves. He declared, to begin
with, that 1t was getting more difficult
every day to find out what was being
done in the Departments or what be-
came Of the appropriations which were
so literally made to sustain them. He
declared that Congress was unable to
secure any information about what was
being done until some startling reports
caused unusual scratching beneath the
surface. and astounding things were
discovered.
for a rehabilitation Of the Government
service" declared Mr.. Littauer. Like
work should receive like pay. Forces
OF men receiving salaries at $500. 1000
and $1,000 and even $500 q year per-
form exactly the same work.
This Is most demoralizing. 1t leads
to the worst sort Of consequences. 1t
is unjust. 1t is unjust to the man who
performs the same work as his neigh
Dor and at lower salary. It Is an
unfair distribution Of the public funds.
I'VE find that q clerk working at
$1,000 will perform just the same work
that he does afterward when In the
course OF years he has been promoted
to $1,000, $1.400 or $1,000. We feel
that there ought to be at this time a
Commission OF the two Houses OF Con-
gress to consider this subject-the sub.
ject of inequality Of pay for like SER
vices and the inequality in methods of
promotion. We find that q force In one
Department performs about the same
work that a force in another Depart
ment only half as large performs
1--WE ought to have q Commission
look into this matter of reclassifying
the entire service. carrying 1t on the
proper basis, and make recommends
tions to both Houses OF Congress. II
we do not take some action the In.
equality Of compensation will go on
from year to year until fits growth Will
be a serious detriment to the proper
conduct Of our Departments.
"Our salaries, especially those in the
clerical force, are not only generously
liberal, but extravagantly high in COM
parison with what Is paid in the coun-
try. If the conduct of our service could
be the same as that which obtains in
the great manufacturing and trading
concerns in the country or the rail-
roads. the service OF the Government
could be conducted by three-fourths of
the force now employed and at prac-
tfcaily little more than half its cost.
Our salaries are higher, our hours
OF work are less, our leaves of absence
With pay are longer, our holidays more
frequent and the relative productive
gait at which our clerks work is de-
cidedly lower, with the result that the
wide-open doors Of our public service
barred only by an examination, are al.
ways crammed full with applicants
and once inside the doors safely In the
Republics service only those who have