The National tribune., 1906-03-22


/ the United States Circuit and District
| Courts of the Southern District of Flor
ida at the city of Miami was vetoed
| recently By the President. In return
j ing the bill to the House of Represen-
! tatives. where il originated, the Presi-
| dent stated that there appeared to be
nothing to demand a term of court at
that place.
"Go ask the Senate" said Speaker
! Cannon. somewhat fiercely, when asked
if any new States were to be admitted
this year. ''It is for that body to de-
! termine whether 1t will prevent State
! hood"
Speaker Cannon had just been in
I close conference with the President.
When he left the White House he was
| 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, "f my
| vote counts for anything"
] Representative Crumpacker, of In
diana, has introduced a bill providing
for judicial review of orders excluding
I 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 a third term, but
| certainly it does look like 1t. He was
at the White House the other day, and
| 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.
"The American people reserve the
right to elect a man for the third Presi-
Dental term if 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 / have been
able to learn, he did nothing of the
sort in word or writing. l 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
he wanted no more OF 1t, and then he
declined to run for a 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
1 term policy"
I Representative Hefiin, of Alabama,
is going to have the Sunday laws OBJ
served in the District of Columbia He
says he isr'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
i Christian Nation, and for once Repre-
sentative Hefiin is right. mighty right,
1t should not be permitted and SO all
I good, law-abiding citizens will stand
by the bill which Mr.. Hefin has intro
i duced, and which, if passed, will pro
hibit Sunday work of the character
mentioned. The wives of members of
l Congress will still continue to hold re-
1 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
noon a week ago. Representative Lit
tauer, of New York, was in charge of
the bill, and he handled the subject
. without gloves. He declared, to begin
4 with, that it 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.
There is to-day a crying necessity
for reclassification Of the Government
SERVICE" declared Mr.. Littauer. Like
work should receive like pay. Forces
Of men receiving salaries at $500. $1,000
; and $1,000 and even $500 a year per-
form exactly the same work.
This is most demoralizing. 1t leads
to the worst sort of consequences. IL
is unjust. 1t Is unjust to the man who
performs the same work as his neigh
Dor and at lower salary. 1t Is an
. unfair distribution of the public funds.
I'VE find that q clerk working at
, 1000 will perform just the same work
: that he does afterward when in the
course of years he has been promoted
20 $1,000, $1.400 or S1,S00. We feel
that there ought to be a. 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
wees and the inequality in methods of
promotion. We find that 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 a Commission
r look into this matter of reclassifying
: the entire service, carrying II 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 its growth Will
{ be a serious detriment TO the proper
5 conduct of our Departments.
1 "our salaries especially those in the
l clerical force, are not only generously
: liberal, but extravagantly high in COM
1 parison with what is paid in the coun-
|, try. If the conduct of our service could
he the same as that which obtains in
j the great manufacturing and trading
concerns in the country or the rail-
, roads. the service of the Government
s could be conducted by three-fourths OF
r the force now employed and at prac-
tically little more than half its cost
"Our salaries are higher, our hours
! of work are less, our leaves OF absence
e With pay are longer, our holidays more
frequent and the relative productive
q gait at which our clerks work is de-
= cidedly lower, with the result that the
{ wide-open doors of our public service
e barred only by an examination, are al
e ways crammed full with applicants
= and once inside the doors safely in the
y Republics service only those who have
n more than the usual ambition leave un-
: til death makes a vacancy in their po.
d sitfon. Under the operation of the Ciyi
L Service regulations. with fts wide-nper