The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-08-30
No DiSmiSSals in Scheme,
But 5000, 900 Will Be
Saved Yearly.

4 reform in personnel and busi-
ness methods of so sweeping and
drastic a nature that no precedent
for it can be found in Washington's
Governmental history win be put
into effect in the Department of the
Interior within the next six weeks
or two months.
It will result in:
A saving to the Government of
more than 5000, 600 a year; numerous
transfers of clerks; the consolida-
ton Of two big bureaus; the moving
of one of the largest bureaus in the
department to the PENN Office
building; a uniformity in the Pen
ason Office and Land Office blanks
used; and the storage of the Patent
Office models in the Pension Office
building.
Although there viii be, according
to the present plans, no dismissals
of clerks or other employees of the
department, the total number of
clerks employed viii be diminished
gradually by allowing unnecessary
Offices that become vacant to remain
vacant.
Work of Garfield.
The changes will come as a result of
the detailed reports OF the Government
experts. and the outside business ex-
perts named by Secretary of the Interior
Garfield to investigate every branch Of
the department and recommend changes
tending TO more economy, greater eff
cheney, and greater dispatch in the per-
fOrmanCe OF business. These reports,
which are now almost complete. will get
to the Secretary within a few weeks.
and he VIII lose no time in putting into
effect many OF the recommendations
contained in them.
If the models OF the Patent Onice.
row stored in the Union building. on O
street, are moved 10 the big court OF
the Pension Office. such action. 1t Is
believed, viii prevent the holding OF an
other inaugural ball in that structure,
as the models are inside immense glass
cases. and to move them causes the ex-
penditure Of much time and money.
When the experts went to the Pension
Office, they noticed a large number Of
desks were vacant. Inquiry developed
the fact that they were without occu-
pants permanently. and served no other
purpose than TO cucumber floor space.
Found Much Desk Room.
The experts. while recognizing that it
is natural for any bureau to retain all
or Il
as the Interior Department is In crying
need of desk room, it would be well to
put one of the bureaus in the Pension
Onice building. When further investlga-
ton disclosed that there were more
vacant desks than anybody had ever
suspected in the Pension Office, Il was
decided that one of the biggest bureaus
Of the department must have home in
the Pension building.
All that remains in this particular
is for AIr. Garfield to decide what bu-
reau he will move to the Pension Of
fee.
So much vacant space was found in
this structure that the experts went
stil further They decided that. as the
Government pays out 5000 year rental
for the building where the models Of
the Patent Office are stored. these mod
els should 90 into the Pension Office
and thereby save the 5000 q year.
This saving of $500 a year, however,
is a mere bagatelle to what viii be
saved in the Pension Office work itself.
Careful estimates that have already
been prepared BY the experts show that
the change in business methods in the
Pension office alone VIII save for the
Government the great sum OF $50. 600
each year.
Time-Saving System.
This saving viii be accomplished BY
the establishment OF a system that VIII
save time. labor. and the number Of
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