The Washington herald., 1912-12-05
NO PENSIONS FOR
EX-PRES|DENTS
Clause Is Cut Out of Executive and
Judicial Bill by Com
mittee.
TOTAL APPROPRIATION
REACHES $34, 1897, los
Clause Prevents Clerks from Jump
ing from One Position to
Another.

Containing a provision intended to
prevent the hasty resignation OF clerks
from one position in order to become
eligible for appointment to another and
higher salaried position under the civil
service, the legislative. executive, and
judicial appropriation bill was report
ed to the House yesterday. The bill
calls for an expenditure of 1887
1850, a cut OF $319,O27.SS under the
appropriation for the same purpose
this year. and s1,617,s5O under the total
of the estimates submitted by the
Treasury Department.
The provision for life membership in
the House of Representatives for ex-
Presidents with an annual salary of
$17,5OO, which was written into the bill
at the suggestion of Representative
Burleson. of Texas, while being framed
by the subcommittee. was stricken out
at the eleventh hour by the full COM
mittee
The bill appropriates $4,000 travel
ing expenses for the President: fails TO
make appropriation for the Commerce
Court; carries with II provision for 49,
500 salaries, involving the adjustment
of some $40 existing positions under
the government; restricts the practice
OF appealing to the Secretary of the
missioner OF Pensions to cases involv-
ing issues of law: fails TO provide that
secretaries to members be placed upon
the House payroll instead of being paid
all or part of the money Appropriated
for their employment by their Con-
gressmen, and again failed to appropri-
ate for mint or assay offices at Carson,
New; Boise, Idaho; Charlotte. n. c.;
Helena. Mont, and Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Concerning Clerks.
The clause prohibiting the transfer of
government clerks to better positions
through hasty designations and reap
pointments was placed in the bill as the
result OF plants from department off,
cials that they were unable to keep eff
Client clerks in their offices because of
this practice. The clause reads as fol-
lows:
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
executive department or other branch
OF the public service of the United States
unless period of at least eleven months
shall have elapsed since such previous
employment of the person shall have
ceased, except in specific cases where the
heads of executive departments or other
branches of the public service immedi-
ately concerned shall be agreed on a
transfer or an employment notwith-
standing the period OF not less than
eleven months herein contemplated shall
not have elapsed, and in every such TX
ceptional case the written approval of
the President shall be obtained in ad-
vance of the employment"
A summary of the bill follows:
Total amount carried. 81 ~ los 80
Total increase I'm amount 4 estimates,
1914. appropriations for BIB. 81 rs ~ e
Total increase in number Of salaries esti-
o mated, 1914. over Appropriations for 1913 81
Total decrease in amount Of this bill I'M
der estimates for lsl4................. Asl7, 50 %
Total decrease in number Of salaries in
this bill under estimates for Bit. n
Total decrease in amount nf this bill
der appropriations for 1873 ............. SlaGg s.
Total decrease in number Gf salaries IN
this bill under appropriations for 1913. 80