The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-03-13
Federal Department Heads
Receive Sl,l35,575 Less
Than Their Estimates De-
mand
SOME SALARIES ADVANCED
ALL PARTIES SUFFER MUCH
FROM WORRY OVER THE RAIL
ROAD RATE MEASURE

WASHINGTON, March 13, 1906
Carrying an appropriation of $29, 1874, 1S1,
to meet the expenses of the government
departments, the legislative, executive
aud judicial appropriation bill has been
reported TO the House by the Committee
on Appropriations The bill is $1,135,-
573 less than the estimates submitted to
the committee. Salaries are carried on
the bill for sixty-fiye less persons than
We're provided for in the last bill, and the
number of salaries contemplated in the
estimates was reduced 236 by the COM
mittee.
Many limitations are stipulated upon
appropriations, the most radical Of which
is designed TO relieve the payrolls of the
executive departments of the high-priced
clerks who are Go years of age, and TO
prohibit the employment after 1913 Of
clerks of 10 years. These limitations.
have been forecasted already in these
dispatches. Friends of the '.old clerks
are preparing TO make determined fight
to have these provisions eliminated from
the bill. and if it cannot be accomplished
in the House, an effort win be made in
the Senate. where, it is believed there
viii be more sympathy for "old age on
account of the advanced age of many of
the Senators.
Many restrictions are thrown about the
heads of departments as to transfer of
clerks, and the employment of persons
not specifically authorized and appropria-
ted for. 1t is provided that no clerk
shall be transferred from one department
to another until he shall have been em-
ployed in the department from which he
wishes to be transferred for a period of
at least three years. Some of the restric-
tons that will be imposed by the enact
ment of the bill are designed to prevent
the advancement of fayorite clerks TO the
disadvantage of employees equally as
competent, but who have less political
backing.
There are some salaries advanced IN
the House of Representatives force, and
some salaries decreased. notably those of
| thirty Of the Capitol policemen. The sal
| airy of the sergeant-at-arms is increased
from 81, 500 to $1,000; and the file clerk
will have $3.50 added, making his salary
! 81, $50 a year. The thirty Capitol police
| /. - l
ed to 81 ,020, while the other men on the
! force, who have been receiving 5000 and
| $500, will received the 81 ,020 year In
this connection it is worthy OF note that
! several years ago the men who received
| 81, 100 year never went out of the Cap
| itol, while all of the outdoor duty was
performed by the men receiving the small
Ter pay.
Democrats as well as Republicans in
| the Senate are concerned ON account of
the railroad rate question. There are
some Republicans who are unalterably
opposed, so they declare, to the Hepburn
BILL in its present shape. That many of
the Republican Senator's want the inter-
ests of the railroad to have half a
chance" is foregone conclusion. Some
of the Senator's would like to see the rail-
| road rate question side-tracked complete
| iy and for an indefinite period The
Democrats are struggling hard to formu-
/ late some line of action that may be con-
sidered party policy Mr.. TiAman,
who is in charge of the railroad rate bill
does not want caucus. Some of his
/ *. IL. A.
is a difference of opinion. but inasmuch
/ as Senator Bailey,tth Democratic lead
er, holds the same views regarding the
caucus as does Mr.. Tillman. it is not ex
pected there will be any caucus, for ehe
| present, at least.
What will be the outcome of the ex-
pected contest, is the all-absorbing ques-
tion. It is reported that Senator Aid
rich, of Rhode Island, the undisputed
leader of the conservative forces in the
Senate, is booked to sail for Europe on
April Z This is interpreted to mean
that the seeming indifferences between
the Republicans viii soon disappear and
that there is really no uncertainty as to
the outcome over the rate legislation. It
1 Is diSo COalStQClCo as III i1utNdlAOu ludt
Congress will not be in session very long
after the middle of April, if it proves
true that Senator Aldrich expects to4sail
for Europe early in April
! The question of court review is being
Ediscussed from all sides. Some of the
/ Senators now declare that it is necessary
in many cases to protect the interests of
the shippers and of the communities that
might be injured by orders of the COM
mission. 1t is believed that the debate
in the Senate. Will center largely upon
the question of whether or not the pro-
vision for review shall undertake to deny
to the courts the right of suspending an
order Of the commission pending the re-
view
It is expected that the postofiice appro-
priation bill viii carry an expenditure of
/ $191 $685. ,S4s, as against $1s1. .022, ,O93 Of
las year. The appropriation for rural
free delivery will be $2S,000. GOO, and