The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-01
MUCH INTEREST
TAKEN HERE IN
A HOUSE BILL
WOULD RETIRE CIVIL SERVICE
EMPLOYEES AT CERTAIN AGE
ITS COURSE BEING CLOSELY
WATCHED,

Great interest is being taken by all
federal civil service employees in this
district, including those stationed at
the Pensacola postofice, navy yard,
Fort Barrancas, life saving station,
and light house service, as to what ac-
ton will be taken by congress on H.
r. 22776, introduced by Mr.. Goulding
providing for the retirement of all
federal civil service employees after
they have become old and incapaci-
tated
The movement has the approval of
not only the president but the ma
jority of senators and congressman,
and it will be remembered that Presi-
dent Taft in his message to congress
strongly recommended the passage of
such bill.
The bill is as follows:
"A bill providing for the retirement
of employees in the civil service.
Be it enacted by the senate and
house of representative of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, That beginning with the first
day of July next, following the pass
age of this act, all employees in the
classified civil service shat Jbe eligible
for retirement as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 2. That any employee who has
served the United States for thirty
years or more and who shall have at
tanned the age of sixty years, shall re-
ceive seventy-five per centum of the
average annual salary, pay, or COM
pensation he may have received for
the five years next preceding his re-
timent. Any employe who has served
the United States for a period of from
twenty-five to thirty years and who
shall have attained the age of sixty-two
years shall receive fifty per centum of
the average annual salary, pay, or
compensation he may have received
for the five years next preceding his
retirement. Any employee who has
served the United States for a period
of from twenty to twenty-five years
and who shall have attained the age
of sixtyfive years, shall receive forty
per centum of the average annual SAL
airy, pay. or compensation he may
have received for the five years next
preceding his retirement.
Sec. g. That no employee, provided
for in this act, shall be retained in
the service after arriving at the age
of seventy years.
Sec. 4. That any eihploye to whom
this act applies. who has served the
United States for not less than FIVE
years, and who by reason of accident
or illness not due to vicious habits or
by reason of exigencies of the service,
but without fault or delinquency on
his part has become disabled, shall be
retired from the service on certificate
from the head of the department or
independent office in which he is en-
ployed to the secretary of the treas
ury, setting forth such disabilities, and
on the approval of the secretary of the
treasury he shall receive thirty per
centum of his average annual salary,
pay, or compensation for the five
years next preceding his retirement
for from five to ten years of service,
forty per centum for from ten to
twenty years of service, fifty per
centum or from twenty to twenty-five
years of service, and seventy-five per
centum for twenty-six years and over.
Sec. 5. That for the purpose of this
act, the period of service shall be COM
puted from original employment
whether as a classified or unclassified