Evening star., 1911-06-10
FEWER PLACES NOW
Reorganization of the Treas
ury Department Force.
BUSINESS PLANS CHANGED
Secretary Reserves All Vacancies for
Those Whose Positions Have
Been Abolished.
BUSINESS PLANS CHANGED

The bill making appropriations for sal
aries in the Treasury Department for the
fiscal year beginning July / next car
ries with 1t 269 less places than were pro-
vided for in the bill for the fiscal year
closing June 80. 1t has been the stead
fast policy OF Secretary MacVeagh to see
that no employees Of the department are
to be turned out by reason of the aboli-
ton OF this large number of places, and
IN order to accomplish this result he has
been holding the vacancies that have oc-
Cured from time to time during the year
just closing that he may be able to make
this adjustment without working hard
ship upon any employees.
AS a result there are now approximate
ly enough vacancies in the department to
provide for all those for whom no salary
was provided The process of adjusting
these matters has been one requiring
careful consideration and one that the
Secretary himself has kept under his i'm
mediate supervision and to which he has
given the most careful consideration.
Readjustment of Force.
1t has meant and will mean quite an
adjustment of the clerical force and will
involve many transfers from. one division
and bureau to another. The vacancies
ever, provide exactly for the number Of
places that were abolished in that par
ticular division. For instance, in the Of
flee of the auditor for the War Depart
ment there was reduction OF thirty
places at $1,000. There were not enough
vacancies by half in that office to pro-
vide for the abolished positions. The
Secretary has. however held open places
in other bureaus at the same salary for
the express purpose of providing for these
people.
Adoption of New System.
THE policy Of the department in abol-
ishing these places has not been a de-
structive one, but, on the other hand, a
constructive one" it was said today. 1T
has been found that by the adoption
Of business-like methods of procedure
and of transacting the public business.
the elimination of useless details and
shortening up the methods of work.
the department has been able to get
along with this large reduction in places
without embarrassment or impairment
of the Treasury service. This work OF
reconstruction is in actual process in the
department now. 1T is thought that in
the appropriation for the fiscal year fol-
lowing that beginning on July l next
the department will be able to make still
further reduction by means of the ex-
tension of the work now in progress.
1T is the understanding and the Sec
retarys intention that there are to be
no wholesale reductions in salaries by
reason of this large decrease. and in prac-
tcally every case adjustments are being
made so that the clerks will remain at
the same salaries after July l that they
are now receiving.
No interruption Expected.
notwithstanding the large number of
changes due June 10, by reason of the
dimnution in rhe number of salaries car
red by the law, it is not expected that
there will be the slightest confusion, be-
cause the Secretary has already provided
for the adjustment, and it is confidently
expected that there will be no Interrupt
tion whatever by reason of these numer-
Gus changes"