The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-22

(Continued from First Page.) and eulogistic matterw relating to the past or present personnel of the office, shall be excluded
 "F'ive-Reports of officers who do not report directly to the head of an exeeu- tive department shall not be printed in the annual report of a department put where necessary shall be summarized Tn the reports of the officials to whom such officers do report.
 "Six-Tables shall be inserted only when verbal summaries and summaries and statements of totals are inadequate and complete texts of laws and court decisions shall, except in eases ot great importance, be excluded.
 "Seven-Detailed descriptions and lists of methods, processes, purchases, bids, rejections, installations, repairs, specifications and personnel employed shall be omitted, except when required by their unusual importance or by stat ute"
 The president also announced that he will appoint a general committee on bookmaking, advisory to all the de- partments, to consist of the librarian of congress as chairman, the public print CT, a representative of the department doing the largest amount of printing and two printers, not in the public ser vice, of large experience in making good books, who are to serve without compensation other than their travel ing expenses. This committee Is to De appointed to promote the economy, util- | ity, appropriateness, beauty, durability and, so far as practicable, the uniform l ity of the government publications | This committee is not to deal with the contents of publications, but solely with their forms, size, style, paper, type, makeup and binding.
 This action of the president is the re- suit of report made to him on the public printing by the committee on de- partment methods, commonly known as the Keep committee, which has been Investigating the subject by his direc- tion. This report was made public to- day.
 Various recommendations in this re- port relating to the government print ! ing office also have been approved by the president and will be made the sub- ject of a communication from him to the, public printer. Among the admin istrative changes in the printing office recommended by the committee are the following;
 "The installation of a cost-keeplng system in the government printing of flee and the employment of expert as- sistanee in installing such system; the keeping of efficiency records of the work of employees and the use of such records to weed out incompetent per sons; the adjustment of compensations paid at the government printing office so that watchmen, firemen, elevator conductors, laborers and other miscel- laneous employees shall be paid compen- sations not exceeding those paid by the executive departments for the same work.
 "The public printers attention has been called to the statement of the committee that the number of super visors and unskilled employees, in pro- portion to the skilled artisan force, has largely increased in recent years, ane he has been directed to make careful investigation into this subject"
 The report of the committee makes number of recommendations foi changes in the laws relating to the printing office and to public printing generally. These recommendations can. not be put into effect without action bS congress, but they will be available fol the use of the congressional committed which has under consideration changes in the laws reating to the public print ing and binding.