Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-01

-four new clerks at $1,000: five new
clerks at 5000; decrease OF three ex
lpert counters at $500; three new mes
one new clerk of class three sub
lmitted for the salaries and expense
postal savings system.
Commissioner of internal revenue.
Five new heads of division at $3.50
each; an increase Of $3.50 for four othe
heads Of division; two new clerks a
81, 900. 1t is proposed to promote NV
competent clerks of class four, leavln
room for two new clerks of class -four
Bureau of engraving and printing
In the Office Of the director, salarle
are estimated for at $252.04O, instea
of $216.380. Increases are as follows
One new superintendent OF building
in lieu of forty-six watchmen at $12
each; six new charwomen at S4OO
twenty-five new charwomen at $500
] twenty new laborers at $40.
Secret service division-Increase
$500 each is asked for the chief AM
assistant chief.
Public Health Service.
Surgeon general. public health servic
$500 increase for chief clerk: one new
clerk, class four; two new clerks, class
one; one new telephone operator, $72O
An additional $4,000 is asked for in
vestigation and experimenting with {
view to increased efficiency in the ex
penditure of public money. this funt
to be under the direction of the Score
| tary of the Treasury.
The Treasury also asks for $685.
for new sidewalk on the east an1
north sides of the Treasury building.
For assessing and collecting the in
come, tax, s1,500,000 is asked, and the
| following note explains the item:
The appropriation for fiscal year 1914
1 do ha Of nf a
| year, at an annual rate of 81, 100000
THE increase of 100000 is to provide
| for that class of expenses paid from the
| appropriations expenses of collecting the
| corporation tax and classifying, etc. re-
| turns of corporations which appropria-
| lions in the amount of 500, 600 will lapse
| at the expiration of the fiscal year 1914.
provision in lieu thereof being made in
| the appropriation collecting the income
| tax The additional amount of sos. 900,
| ii is estimated will be needed as the
| organization will have been perfected
when the appropriation is available and
the work of canvassing to determine liza
bility for taxes due in previous year in
addition to that of the current year will
be increased
In the Office of the director of the mint
it is proposed that three clerks OF class 4
be placed on the rolls, an increase of one
in lieu of one Of class 3 dropped.
State, War and Navy Department
buildings-Increase of $500 for chief clerk
in the Office of the superintendent; one
new clerk, class /; one clerk, 81 600; de-
crease of nine Watchmen at $72O. The
personnel will be shifted about to bring
greater efficiency if these changes are ap-
proved. The sum of $4,000 is asked for
the installation of modern sanitary equip
ment. The estimates are explained as
follows:
Except for two rooms the toilet sys-
tenn throughout the building is as old as
the building itself. and is antiquated and
worn out. The piping has rusted to the
point of disintegration, SO that in some
cases concrete conduits through which
the pipes run are the only retainers Of
the flow from the rooms. The resulting
1nsanitary conditions are a deplorable
menace to the health of the thousands Of
persons occupying the building and the
subject of constant complaint of sanitary
officers
The sum of $4,000 is asked to install
electric lights in the State. War and
the lack of sufficient light puts some of
the work in a chaotic state.
War Department Estimates.
War Departmental the office of
the Secretary of War changes in the
personnel eliminate two watchmen at
$500, one elevator man at $780, and in
place thereof provide for a stenographer
TO the assistant secretary of war at
81, 800
Changes in the adjutant generals "e
flee are explained by Gen. Andrews, the
adjutant general, as follows:
The annual salaries of the chief clerks
of the several War Department bureaus
range from $1,000 to $3.50. the ceief
clerk of the adjutant generals Office, the
largest bureau of the department, re-
celving but $1,000 In the estimate pro-
vision Is made for an increase of $500 in
"a ca ~ ~ fha obi tie ~. rfy - 49,
Provision is also made for three prin-
cipal clerks. at s., go per annum and for
three additional chiefs of division at
S2UOO Fer annum. 1t is proposed to re-
organize the Office force along the lines
of correlated work, and to Go this success
fully these positions are necessary to
provide proper supervision and to equal
lie the salaries of employees, some of
whom, although In arge of important
divisions, are now receiving but 81 SOC
per annum.
This estimate is increased, therefore
by these amounts, S13, $50 in all; but it
Is reduced by seven clerks of class l.
four clerks of class $1,000 and three as
sistant messengers, at $40 per annum
all of whose services can be dispensed
with under the proposed reorganization
1t is also reduced by one superintendent
of building, at $3.50 per annum, posi-
ton now filled by the engineer at the
Tenth street branch in addition to his
other duties. 1t Is proposed to make the
superintendent of the building a
part Of the duties of the C ief of the di-
vision which occupies it, provision being
made above for an increase in his COM
pensat.on from 81 800 to 81 COO per annum
These reductions amount to $14.S10, thus
making a net reduction in the entire ap-
preparation Of S1,660. which, added to
the reduction of $40, 30 made in the cler-
zeal force for the current year, shows a
total annual saving of So, $50.
The proposed reductions can be made
without discharging any employee by al
lowing vacancies in the force to remain
untitled
Can Not Keep Good Clerks.