Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-15
TWO PROPOSED BILLS
Provisions Of the Measures-Assess
ment In Salaries Of Clerks-Re-
Election Of oficers.

government employees We're presented to
the Treasury Branch. Civil Service Retire
ment Association. at a meeting at Carroll
Institute Hall last evening. The bills had
been carefully drawn and their details had
been worked out bv committees which had
the aid OF expert actuaries. The bills were
approved and ordered presented to Congress
without delay.
Both bills are intended to accomplish the
same thing-to provide a pension of $500
year or less for all retired employees of the
civil service. 1t Is intended to accomplish
that result by different methods, Congress
to take its choice. Either will be salts
factory to the clerks. It is believed that
each OF the suggested methods would DO
self-sustaining.
A feature Of each bill is provision for
1evying an assessment on the salaries Of
the clerks. One is known az the attained
aged assessment bill and the other as the
substitute and assessment bill. The for
mer is q straight annuity plan, and the
amount levied on the salary of a clerk de-
ponds on his age and the length of time
he remains in the service. 1t would work
a smaller benefit to an old clerk who had
been In the service but a short time before
the bill became operative, but as time
passes the younger clerks would come into
the benefits of the bill at an almost NOM
inal rate of assessment.
Provisions of Bill.
The provisions of the bill in brief are as
follows:
THE assessments are levied according
to attained age at the time the bill be-
comes operative, and the amount required
for the first year determines and fixes the
annual payment thereafter until retirement
Is effected.
As to Retirement.
First persons who shall have been en-
ployed in the service for twenty continu-
Gus years and shall have become perma-
nently disabled for the performance of their
Official duties are compulsorily retired, ana
will be entitled to receive $500 annually
thereafter. Second, persons who shall have
attained the age Of seventy years and shall
have ben In the service continuously Tor
thirty years, may upon their application
be retired and will be entitled to receive
5000 annually thereafter. Third, persons
who have served ten years or more ana
who shall have made ten annual payments
to the retirement fund and shall have be-
come disabled for the performance Of their
official duties may be temporarily retired
for not more than one year, and Will be
entitled to receive $3.50. or 80 for each
month of temporary retirement.
Persons who have gone on the retired list
temporarily may be returned to active serv-
ice If their disability ceases within a year.
The bill Is accompanied by table show
ing the amount of assessment required from
the various ages for the varying lengths OF
service. This is like the table accompany
ing the application for an annuity and mas
been worked out at the lowest self-sustan-
ing basis.
Substitute and Assessment Measure.
deduct certain amount fro mthe salaries
of newly appointed clerks to help out the
pension fund which would be accumulated
by assessment.
+l,;o
employed in the service for at least ten
years may be retired first when at any age
permanently incapactated for the perform
ance of service: second, at seventy years
or over upon application.
The civil service Is divided for the pur-
pose Of retirement into three classes: Class
A are those receiving 5000 salary or more
Class B are those receiving 5000 and less
than 5000 Glass c are those receiving less
than $500.
Glass upon retirement receive $500 per
annum: $500 from substitute and $500 from
retirement fund.
airy, not to exceed In any case 1870; SlSo
from substitute and $500 from retirement
fund.
Glass C receive 30 per cent of active sa,-
airy, not to exceed in any case $40; wholly
from retirement fund.
The assessment for Class A Is $3.50 per
month: Glass B, S1-5o per month; Class G,
81 per month.
this bill would be self-sustafning.
In addition to the regular assessment for
the various classes. 1t Is provided that
when a clerk is promoted he shall not begin
to draw the additional salary for three
months. This money would go into the PEN
sion fund. New clerks would be taxed one
months salary out Of their first years pay,
this amount being held back in equal In
stallments out of each of the first twelve
months salary. After this they would be
taxed the regular assessment Of their class.
President Sample Explains.
Before the two bills were presented the
president of the Retirement Association,
Mr.. j. A Sample. spoke, telling at length
of the work that the committee had accom-
plished in preparing the bills.
The meeting closed by the reelection Of
the officers and the addition of two mem
bers of the executive committee In place of
Messrs. L. A. Hill and j. B. Kinnear who
have severed their connection with the serv-
Ice. The officers of the association are:
James A. Sample, president; Llewelyn Jor-
dan, vice president: Miss e. M Jacobs, sec
retary r. Stone Jackson. treasurer, and an
executive committee consisting of Isaac r.
Hit, jr.. A. T. Hill. E. st. Clair Thompson,