Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-17
Are Dropped From Rolls by
Order of Commissioner
SaItzgaber.
VALUABLE WORKERS ARE
ONES CHIEFLY Affected
Many Reductions to Be Made.
Lack of Appropriation" Is
Given as Reason.


were dropped from the rolls late yester-
day afternoon, and. according TO IN
formation obtained there today, it is the
intention of Commissioner Saltzgaoer to
reduce In salary about 100 others.
1t was stated at the pension office that
the dismissals are not characterized in
the letters that we're sent the employees
yesterday afternoon as discharges
They are, instead. informed that they
are dropped for want of appropriation. .
The letters take effect June 30, and
those who are dropped have been in
formed that they may nnw take their an
nuaI leave. up to June 80, If they so de-
sire.
Letters have not yet been sent the 100
employees who are to be reduced IN sal
AIRY. These letters are to go out in day
or two. and the reductions are also to so
into effect June 20.
Valuable Workers Affected.
The changes affect many of the old
est and most valuable workers IN the
pension office. and have been In con-
temptation for some time. Commits
sioner Saltzgaber did not care to make
public today a list of those who are
salary To a Star reporter who called
on him to inquire about the changes
he sent word that he was occupied 1or
the moment. and that he deputfzed I.
him.
Reason Is Given.
These changes become necessary.
Mr.. Dennis said, because the legis-
lative. executive and judicial appropri-
alton bill, which takes care of the PEN
sion office. and which is now practically
completed in Congress- reduces the pen
sion office force by 14l employees. to take
effect June 30, and affecting employees in
all grades, from the 5000 to the $1,000
class.
The lists were made out Mr.. Dennis
continued showing who it would be
necessary to drop, some time ago, and
notices were sent out yesterday. I'm
der the bill Congress drops ten em-
ployes in the two-thousand-d dollar class,
ten in the eighteen -hundred-dollar
class and SO on
Bureaus Plan. =-,
IN endeavoring to comply with the
law. it was found impossible to select
those to be dropped from the specific
grades mentioned in the bill. because
those who have shown their capacity
and ability by working up to the two
thousand dollar grade, and who have
acquired experience, we desired to re-
tain. in many instances.
I'VE worked out plan whereby the
commissioner reduces in salary ten
employees in the $4,000 class. twenty
in the $500 class. and so on, to
create the number of vacancies, and
the amount of salaries. in total, that
Congress provides in the bill
The bill provides for reductions in
a.. cases. The commissioner has saw
ed up vacancies occurring in the nat
ura! way TO the extent OF eighty-fve-
that is. when there We're designations.
deaths or removals the places of these
employees were not filled. in anticipa-
tion of the present event. Having,
then, eighty-five vacant positions on
the rolls. it became necessary 10 drop
about sixty persons.
ut must be remembered that the pen
sion Office is the one department of the
government in which business Is con-
stantly decreasing. and that the number
OF employees must be correspondngly re-
duced.
THE subject gave Commissioner Saltz-
gaber unusual concern. since large pro-
portion of the employees of the pension
office are war veterans and their widows.
The vacancies that have occurred are
naturally more numerous in the pension
Office than they would have been in other
departments of the government because
of the advanced age of a number of the
employed there The majority of these
vacancies have been from DEATH
A complicated arrangement has been
worked out that gives the best result
possible under the circumstances This
includes the reduction to less important
work of those who by age or physical
disability. in the opinion of the COM
missioner. had become untitled for
more tax work.
Two Veterans Out.
There will be dismissal of only two
veterans or widows Of veterans One of
these is ninety-one wears Of age, and he
has some property. and his children are
anxious to have him leave the office and
be taken care of by them. The other IL
that of man who has had but slight
service, and who has accumulated some
property.
The list of changes was submitted to
careful and disinterested persons and all
the facts set forth. No veteran will be
set out on the sidewalk The Commits
sioner has been complimented by the en-
ployes upon the consideration and fra
ternal feeling he has shown"