Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-04
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| sentative raises in pay scattered here and
| there throughout the departments, and
with provision made for 80 less places
| than are held during this fiscal year. No
| mention is made of the "seven-year ten
| ure of office" plan which caused so bitter
| a fight in Congress during the debates
| on the same bill for the present year.
but the Commerce Court is again left
out of the calculations of the democrats.
and whether or not the omission will
| cause veto by the President is ques
ton in the minds of republicans.
The total appropriations made for the
current fiscal year 1913 for the objects
provided for in the bill amount to 3d.,
216, 1888. which sum includes S9936IO.
carried in the sundry civil, pension and
other appropriation acts for 1913, for va
rious branches of the public service, that
are taken up in the bill for 1914.
The bill reported herewith appropriates
s34. SD, 1O5J0. and makes provision for
1852 salaries.
Compared with the appropriations for
the current year 1913, and with the esti-
mates submitted to Congress for the en-
suing fiscal year 1914, the following diff
ferenceS are shown:
appropriated for the same service for
the fiscal year 1913.
1t appropriates $1,617.S5O less than was
submitted to Congress in the estimates
of the executive departments.
1t provides for so fewer salaries than
were appropriated for this year, and 347
less than are specifically called for in
the estimates.
Forbids Transfers in Service.
Because of general and bitter complaint
against the practice of some employees of
the classified service who resign from one
department to enter the service of the
Department of Agriculture at a higher
compensation, under the lump sum APP
preparations of that department, the bill
seeks to make this practically impossible.
Throughout the hearings on this bill de-
partment heads chiefs of divisions and
chief clerks reminded the members of the
subcommittee that they could not hold
good emplOye once he had the oppor-
tunity to get better salary in the De-
partment of Agriculture, where hundreds
of thousands of dollars are appropriated
in lump sums, without limitation as to
personal services.
Because of the complaint that parts of
the government service are being under
mined to benefit some other portion. the |
bill introduced today carries the follow |
ing paragraph of proposed legislation
THAT hereafter no person who is or |
has been employed, within the classified |
service. in any executive department or |
other branch of the public service of the |
United States shall be employed within |
the classified service in another execu- |
tive department other branch of the |
public service of the United States unless |
period of at least eleven months shall |
have elapsed since such previous employ |
ment of the person shall have ceased, eX- |
cept i'm specific cases where the heads of |
executive departments or other branches |
of the public service Immediately con- |
cerned shall be agreed transfer or
an employment Notwithstanding the Pc |
riod of not less than eleven months here |
in contemplated shall not have elapsed |
and in every such exceptional case the
written approval of the President shall |
be obtained in advance of the employ |
ment.'
Members of the committee believe that |
the lapse of eleven months required in |
this proposed law will put a quick stop |
to these transfers.
An exception is made in the cases of |
clerks whose employment shall have |
ceased because of the reduction of force
in any branch of the service