Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-15
Business Men Will Favor
Emergency Legislation.
NOT TO IND0RSE ANY PLAN
Simply to Urge Some Action for
Superannuated Employees.
MEETING THIS AFTERNOON
Planning for Public Discussion To-
morrow Night and Conference at
the Capitol Friday Morning.

An emergency provision to meet present
needs and later a permanent retirement
plan will be advocated by the business
men who are to appear before the House
and Senate committees in behalf Of the
government clerks next Friday morning.
This was determined at a meeting OF
the ways and means committee of the
business mems movement at the rooms
Of the Board of Trade this afternoon.
Gen. George H. Harries presided, and
John Joy Edison, Louis P Shoemaker,
Isaac Cans. J. NJ. Buck, President
O'Donoghue Of the Civil Service Retire
ment Association and Rev. Henry Runner
of the Warner Memorial Presbyterian
Church were present.
1t was also decided that the full execu-
tive committee meet at the Board of
Trade rooms Friday morning at $50
o'clock and proceed in a body to the
Capitol. where they will meet the con-
gressional committees In room go Of the
Senate Office building at 10 O'Clock.
Tomorrow Nights Meeting.
President Shoemaker of the Business
Mems organization announced that Rep
resentative J. Hampton Moore would not
be able to preside at the mass meeting to-
morrow evening in Old Masonic Temple,
9th and F streets northwest Former
Commissioner General Yerkes Of the in
ternal revenue service is to be invited to
preside at the mass meeting, as we'll as
to act as spokesman for the organization
before the congressional committees.
1t developed at the meeting of the WAYS
ana means committee this afternoon that
provision for the care Of superannuated
and disabled employees in one form or an
other has already been made by many of
the local institutions and business houses.
among them the Washington hallway and
Electric Company, the Washington Loan
and Trust Company, Woodward & Lo-
throp and others.
Not to Indorse Any Plan.
1t was stated at the meeting that the
business men did not propose TO hamper
Congress with the Endorsement of any
specific plan for the retirement Of super
animated clerks. They felt that Con-
gress was already in possession of infor-
nation that would enable it best to de-
termine what form such a measure should
take. But 1t was made manifest in an
unmistakable manner that the business
men of Washington, with the remainder
of the citizens, felt that common human
ity and justice. not to mention wise
economy, dictated the passage of some
measure for the relief of clerks who have
become worn out in the service.
Should 1t develop that any specific plans
of retirement are proposed by those inter-
ested in the movement. either at the
mass meeting or at any other time. they
are to be submitted to the ways and
means committee for consideration and
such action as may be deemed wise. The
mass meeting tomorrow evening, how
ever, it was declared, was for the purpose
Of expressing sympathy with the cause
fc attention conditions affecting them
which, it is claimed. are not generally
known.
Encouraging Assurances.
Messrsn Cans and Buck had interuiaws