Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-01
Is Subsidiary Committee.

ers coming under the jurisdiction of
the commission.
Is Subsidiary Committee.
Only tentative drafts have been laid
down to date as to what should be in
cluded in the bill. The bill-dra fling
committee is a subsidiary committee
of the advisory committee on en-
ployment policy of the commission.
This advisory committee is composed
of representatives of the public, ad-
miniStration and employees 1t is deal
ing largely with acknowledged weak
spots in the civil service system. and
has the fullest cooper a ton of the
Civil Service Commission.
Commissioner George Wales of the
Civil Service Commission attended the
meeting held today Edward Keat-
ing, secretary of the Redistribution
commission, who is chairman of the
advisory committee on employment
policy, was in attendance.
Members of the subcommittee on bill
drafting contented themselves with a
preliminary survey of the matters
which perhaps should be included in
any bill that the commission may
place before Congress in connection
with it's full recommendation to the
legislators. According to the law Gre
ating the commission. this full report
must be made early next January
For Concomitant Bill.
1t is generally considered among
federal employees that some sort of
bill will be necessary concomitant
or the report of the Redistribution
commission, in order that the report
If adopted, may be carried into effect
properly. The Redistribution commits
sion has been working for months on
the problem, aided by a staff of spe-
cialists and picked men and women
from the government departments
themselves.
Scores of problems have been
brought to light through the investi-
cations. and every detail is fully COM
pretended by the commission work.
ers. Who, better than they, it is said,
can realize just what the bill should
be which should carry into effect the
provisions of the commissions report?
1t is feared that a mere report to
Congress, even if adopted, would then
be subject to many changes if worked
upon by hands that had not thorough
ly investigated the whole proposition.
1t is believed that proper sort of
bill, carrying with it the findings of
the commission and putting them into
effect. would be the best way to solve
the problem.
Text Offers a Problem.
Just what should go into the bill is
the big problem. Only cursory review
could be taken today, since the COM
mission is in the midst of it's work,
with public hearings of federal en-
ployes to be held next week. But
enough of the problems, the so-called
weak points" of the Civil Service
Commission. are known to permit
preliminary consideration.
Retirement plans. problems of pro-
motion, need of training schools for
new federal employees, are a few of
the considerations. Abuse of sick
leave privileges in the service. and
the best way to obviate them, SO as
to play square with employees and
Uncle Sam at the same time, are
others.
Telephone and telegraph operators
will be heard second in the hearings
to begin next Wednesday. the re-
classification commission announced
toSay. Library workers will be heard
Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock,
as previously announced, and the tele-
phone and telegraph operators in the
federal service will be heard Thurs
day morning at $50 o'clock.
If the hearings progress with
enough speed more than one branch
of the federal service may be heard
each day. Twenty -nine services are
to be heard.