The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-02
PRESIDENT DIRECTS COMMITTEE
TO PREPARE SCHEDULE.
TO PRESENT TO CONGRESS
oresent Government Wage Scale has
Been in Effect Since 1S53-Ex.
isins Conditions Responsible
for this Order.

Washington, July Now that Pres
ident Roosevelt himself has issued
an executive order directing that
committee On salaries be formed to
consider a probable readjustment OF
salaries paid to government employ.
es. the lot of the poor government
clerk promises to be far happier than
ever before.
An earnest and well considered eff
fort is to be made at the next session
of congress TO secure the enactment
Of legislation looking TO the revision
and readjustment OF salaries of EN-.
ployes and II the movement contin.
ues to have the backing that it has
at present. it is very sure to be gran.
ted The timely action Of the presi
dent has given the proposition a great
impetus in showing the employees IT,
question that they are not alone in
the struggle for revision.
The executive order directs that a
of each of the executive departments
and Independent establishments Of
the government, to be named by the
heads of departments, shall prepare
clear and consistent tables In coufo"-
nifty with the schedule and recommen-
datiUns Of the committee on depart
.f 4
Officials will cooperate with this
committee In arranging said estimates
for presentation to congress, in con.
vcnient form for comparison with the
estimates prepared in the usual way
required by law
No readjustment of the grades and
been made since 1853. Since that time
as the country has developed and the
needs of the government has called
| for a bigger force for the transac-
/ tion Of It's business, additional posi-
tions have been created from time to
| time. new bureaus have been form
I
ed until at the present time the
departmental service in Washington
employs in clerical professional, tech
nical andscientific positions approNi-
mateiy 10000 persons There are now
single bureaus which have more EN-
/ ployes than the entire departmental
foroo IL foEo Tndoy dIvIoiOr chiafs
are required TO pass on questions in
volying greater responsibility than
we're the bureau chiefs of fifty years
ago
The conditions which the govern
ment has encountered in the last de-
cade, but more particularly In the past
OF the most valuable employees of the
government have relinquished volun-
tarily their positions to accept others
| in private employ, because not only
tney can make more money, but be-
cause the opportunity for future ad-
vancement are better in civil life than
in the government service.
There will be no horizontal increase
in salaries, should the present scheme
succeed both the inefficient
and - -u,lenl employees would be
| benefited, but the schedule will be ar
ranged so as to place premium on
ability and efficiency. The plan will
also contemplate 4 system of more
rapid promotions than exist at pres,
ent, although the increase in salaries
which accompany the promotions Will
not be so large as they are now.
There are many reasons why such n
readiustment and revision should be
made II is pointed out that since
1890 the course of wages in all occu-
patlons has been upward. This Increase
has amounted, according 70 statistics,
to approximately 20 per cent in the
general occupations OF civil life. The