Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-08

business communities are unbusiness-
like, artificial and burdensome, the
secretary declares, and lie recommends
legislation to permit the payment OF
revenue to the government by certified
check guarding the government against
loss.
The recommendation that the treas
ury be authorized to issue gold Or
tihcates against gold bullion and for
eign gold coin Is renewed.
Reviewing the discovery of frauds
and the subsequent reorganization oil
the customs service, Secretary Mac
Veagh urges appropriations for re-
wards to those who aid the govern
ment. The rehabilitation Of the GUS
toms service at New York has been
marked, he says, by a decided elimina-
ton of ,spoils influences and practical
politics.
American travellers are more II
more realizing the indefensibleness OF
smuggling, it's rank dishonesty and us
bad example and influence. says the
report.
Recommending a study of the ciassi-
fed system of employees the secretary
declares that a civil service retirement
is absolutely the requisite of a salts
factory system. The contributors sys-
tenn of retiring allowances the secre-
tary recommends as h only n
which has a chance of adoption,
as best for the men and women OF the
service. He urges their friends TO
concentrate upon that movement. a
complete state of efficiency in the gov
eminent departments. he says, IS I'M
possible without some way OF retiring
clerks in a Just and humane amer
Abhors Politics In once.
Secretary Macveagh strongly recon-
mends that all non-political OFFICES De
included in the classified service. AS
sistant appraisers OF customs mould
be detached from politics for the ell
hciency of the service, he says. The
secretary pays a high tribute TO the
men of the ~life-saving service n
urges some form Of retirement for
them.
As the economies OF administration
which have been effected in h treas
ury department are reviewed. the sec
rotary pauses to take notice of a state
ment made by a United States senator
that the business of the government
could be conducted with q saving OF
$500. 900, 900 a year.
Secretary MacVeagh says: THE
popular impression as to the extent OF
possible economies in the ~administra-
ton of the executive departments is
singularly exaggerated, and this mis-
conception is very harmful. When the
1,,IIsa AvyNn1to that +ho O0xnrnmanf can
save $500, 00O,0 900 a year, such small,
laborious savings as can be made in
the executive departments hardly seem
worth while. And 1t is astonishing
that under such circumstances in
tereet in these comparatively small
win can be maintained. These
savings can only be disappointing to
the public, who have such figures rs
$500. 600, 900 In mind. and they cannot
receive any popular credit, for they
can only seem to be small trihings
with great things. And yet they can
only be produced by laborious, pains
taking and persistent methods and de-
votion.
when il Is the fact that the entire
ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment last year were less than $500,
GOO, 900. and when q great part OF those
expenditures is not reducible at all, as,
for example, the interest or the debt
and the pensions, one can readily see
that there probably is not very much
more than $500, 000. 900 gross left on
which to save 5000, 000, 900. Now. to
Effect a saving of $500, 100000 when the
whole expenditure amenable to any
saving is $500, 600, 900 is, of course, not
easy. I appeal TO the sense of proper
ton Of Congress and the American
people, for 1t is very important to have
these impressions corrected, in order
that there may be some encouragement
given to those men scattered through
the departments who want to bring
about all the improvement possible
Su~perf1uous customs house, mints
and assay oftices should be abolished,
the report says. There is an over
supply of the latter, and the minis in
San Francisco, Denver and Philadel-
phia are not fully employed. The Sec
rotary also promises to send TO Con-
gress a list of customs houses which
he saws "are no use under the sum-"