The Washington times., 1912-12-04
CLERKS !,
IARREO BY HOUSE
/. BOARD ON BUDGET.
Pension for Chief Executive
Is Stricken From
H. Message. 80.
CONTINUED from First Pase.)

Th0 provision TedOs' a..
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
executive department. or other branch
States unless Mess . period Of at least eleven
months shall have elapsed since cucn
o. the psfnson cs.ss sns
where the heads OF executive depart
mentS or other branches OF the pubic
service Immediately concerned snail bc
ssrssd On transfer -;na or rH emp,Symisns 10y iess
than eleven months herein contem-
plated shall not have elapsed. and In
every such exceptional case the written
approval OF the President shall be 90.
In the full committee ,oaay An
tion which provide. that when Gov
ernment employees leave the service.
not Of their own fa.ot. M put shro!s,n ,n,,. :
lar clerks need not walt eleven
other department.. The prohibiti0n'
sIpiie. ;tronEy; aowsse ~ 10 70 70 soms
The hypothesis is that many clerks.
after having worked q few months 10
one branch Of the Government. heoe'
es Q better Job in anoths. department..
Socause Of service OF less than three
Y0ars, the young employe pulls the
Wires, ascertains that ne can land the
coveted post. and promptly resigns hic
old position. He 10 then an ::'elSiole"
cordipg to prearranged understanding.
he succeeds In getting into the desired
department forthwith.
Under the House provision resign.
ing clerk must wait eleven months
lis services. He must go into retirement,
ent6r commercial pursuits, loaf. or
otherwise employ his time for approxi-
mately q year. and the House com.
mittee figures that with this prospect
before him the clerk will hold to what
the law permit an official transfer.
When the full committee met today
the paragraph requiring that secretaries
to members Of the House should be
ated from the bill as prepared by the
subcommittee. An unsuccessful attempt
for several years has been made to have
the secretaries Of members paid direct
that It might Be known whether the
member was paying his clerk the full
Si2S per month allotted to him. The Ap:
propriations Committee again nipped
the plan in the bud today.
to have secretaries put on the roll. in
stead OF having the Congressman col.
lect the salary Of his secretary-ell OF
which salary may or may not reach the
pocket Of the young man or woman en-
As predicted exclusively in The
Times. the full Appropriations Commit
tee cut from the legislative bill that
provision making retired ,S. Pr president. .n
annual salary Of 1880. This clause
was inserted in the bill when It passed
the subcommittee. but the full COM
mittee slashed 1t out. and the Burleson
plan has been temporarily chloro'
Another legislative provision in the
bill IL that clerks Of the Pension Office
engaged In special work may be en-
ployed on general work when not other
The piii limits the powers of the Sec.
retary of the Interior to review the
decisions Of the Commissioner Of PEN
sions. Hereafter such review by. the
Of law and not to fact. Under existing
conditions, almost every would-be pen
sioner. whose application Is turned down
by the Pension Office. appeals to the
Secretary Of the Interior on questions
The House Committee allowed only
Sc6,O0O for expenses Of inquiries and IN
vestigations by the Senate. Twice the
amount was asked.
More for House.
Approximately $225000 10 added to the
salary and mileage allowance Of the
House. This IL the result Of the add
ton of forty.two new members. under
the recent reapportionment. in the next
Congress.
The White House receives everything
II asked for. including $25.o for con-
tingent expenses.
The committee declined to sanction
the request Of the Civil Service Com
mission for eight field examiners. Will
IN aggregate salary OF $1,000
mates Tor stationery for the State he
partu1ent The Departments estimate
lows only $4,000 for stationery.
pry Department, consisting Of new side
walks on east and north sides Of III
building, special repairs and new SAM
tary arrangements. the whole to COZ
fcSF.,isns 9 Tsrs csmmt,ce e, appssyed by the Ap
A. desired appropriation. Of $4,000 70
misoeilsneous supplies and expenses 70
the photographic office was eliminated
and 90 We're items calling for bnile
room and dynamo repairs at the nava
ing the hydrogrphic office equipment.
They stuck to the old number of en-,
ployes. 229. IN, the office of the 6ecretar
Of the Interior and declined the suG
gestion that the roll should carry n
employees.
. The bureau OF education received tn
identical appropriation OF last year
81 BOO. for salaries, and the committe
rejected plans for the extension OF It
work. But $3.50 OF the $21. 900 wante'
for general expenses was Granted tn
bureau.
Appropriation the Same.
No changes were requested or givel
In the number and salaries OF the em
ployes Of the Attorney Generals office
and tho appropriation is the same a
for that Of last year. 3424.6l0. exclusiv
Of miscellaneous and contingent ex
penses.
In the bureau Of labor the salary liz
remains the same. despite the reques
for ninety. instead OF seventy -one. en-
ploycs.
The census office must get alon
with $4,000 for tabulattng ,nachjper,
In lieu OF the $4,000 asked, and bu
80, 900. instead of $50, 90, is allowed fo
the commercial agents Of the hurea
OF foreign and domestic commerce
The Department Of Commerce an
Labor asked $4,000 for the, enforcemeY
Of the navigation laws-a subject muc
IN the foreground since the Titanic dii
only $4,000 -