Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28
REPORTS ON Retirement |
SYSTEM ARE REVIEWED.
Statement OF Committee Of
One Hundred Goes Fully
Into Matter.

The need Tor some kind Of civil service
retirement In the United States, as seen
by the civil service commission and urg-
ed In Its reports for at least a decade
and more, Is reviewed In the latest state
ment. issued last night, OF tho commit
tee OF one hundred which is working for
pension system for government en-
ployes. The statement Gays. in part:
The matter Of approximation and re-
tirenent in the civil service has had at
tention In the reports Of the civil serv-
Ice commisaion, commencing with the
sixteenth annual report. for the year
ending June 30. 1899. and has been re-
ferred to In most Of the annual reports
issued since that time. The commission
has in these volumes published much
valuable Information about civil PEN
sions In this country and elsewhere.
The commissions report for 1889 de-
clared that the question Of the super
annuation OF employees as affecting the
emciency OF the servicec Is worthy OF
repeatedly introduced In Congress hav-
Ing IN view the retirement Of such en-
ployes.'
Joint Commissioners Report.
Mention 10 made Of the joint commits
sion Of Congress appointed In 1893 to in
quire into the organization Of the ex-
ecutive departments In Washington. which
reported that. out OF 1908 employees in
the executive service in the National Cap
ital. LAG were over sixty years Of age.
zB8 were seventy or over, while forty
were eighty or over
ury created an honorable service roll for
employees seventy years Of age and over.
to which roll ill employees reaching that
age were to be transferred at salary Of
$500 per year. Congress promptly put q
stop to this practice, because it savored
Of q civil pension list.
Statistics collected at different times
In the past ten years show that the num-
Der OF employees in the government serv-
ice in Washington seventy years Of age
and over has remained about stationary
for that period at approximately 2 Per
cent Of the total number Of employees.
Some Remedies Considered.
'Some Of the remedies proposed for the
evils Of approximation are considered, and
the commission recommends that the fur
Their admission of persons in the classi-
fed service be based upon the condition
that the persons SO admitted shall pro-
vide against their own approximation or
other disability by adequate annuity In.
from their salaries, and that superannu-
alton and disability annuities for those
now In the service should also be pro-
vided for, to be secured as far az prac-
ticable by similar deductions from sal
aries.
THE main features Of the civil service
pensions maintained by European and 9TH
er foreign countries are set forth In the
twentieth and twenty-frst annual re-
ports, and attention il called to the fact
that the practice in Europe Of pensioning
employees Is not confined to the govern
ment, but extends to many old and ex-
perienced business establishments.
I'm its last annual report the COM
mission sets forth the. need Of q
reclassification Of salaries in the depart
Ments, the schedule now in force having
been adopted in 1853 and 1854. when the
about 100.