Evening star., 1920-01-24
RECLASS|F|CAT|0N
REPORT WILL Be
|NF|VE SECTIONS
Commission Is Due to Send
Its Findings to Congress
by March II.

Report to Congress or the JOINT
congressional commission on reclassi-
f1cation of salaries in the District will
be divided into five major portions, it
was learned today.
Present plans for the framing Of the
| report call for the following divisions:
1. Running text of the report
2. Bill embodyinG provisions for
carrying ssification into effect
3. Glass specifications, showing 100
classes of federal employees.
4. Salary recommendations for 107,-
900 employees.
5. Tabular exhibit.
Chief Counsel COnfers.
E o. Griffenhagen, chief counsel of
the commission, conferred with the
reclassification commissioners today
on the report at a meeting held in the
District of Columbia room in the Sem
ate office building.
The commission is authorized by
Congress to make it's report, due by
March IL, in the form of bill or 9TH
erwise. A hill will form an essential
part of the complete report, therefore.
and only second in interest to the fed
era employees themselves to items 3
and above, the class specifications
and the salary recommendations.
Robert CatherWood of the National
Civil Service Reform League, an ex-
pert in the drafting of bills embody-
ing changes in the Civil Service Com
mission and related matters is CIV
ing the reclassification commission
valuable assistance in drawing up the
proposed bill. The commission itself
contains skilled legal talent and all
the members are familiar with con-
gressional procedure.
Text to BE "Snappy."
The running text of the report will
be written in a more popular style
bill, and will embody the broad gen.
eral conclusions and findings made by
the reclaSSification commission. 1t is
hoped to make this portion of the re-
port almost ''Snappy" in character. in
order that it will make clear to all
the findings and conclusions Of the
commission.
The LOO class specifications will
form the basis for the whole report.
since these specifications will show
scientifically the titles. duties. quail
fications and lines of promotions for
the entire government service in the
National Capital. including the en-
ployes of the District of Columbia.
Salary schedules will form an in
tegral part of the class specifications,
and will be attached, in all probabili-
ty, to the bottom of each class speci-
maximum salary be given for each
class, but periodic efficiency in-l
creases" will be shown for each class,
these latter constituting the yearly in
creases which an employe may secure
within his class. These will not be
considered as true promotions, but as
rewards for efficient work. True pro-
motions will be secured by taking ex-
aminations to pass into a higher class.
Tabular Exhibit Heavy.
The tabular exhibit will be monu-
mental, containing statistics gathered
from the study of the questionnaires
filled out by the 100000 employees.
They will show, for those who care to
examine them, the exact conditions
which existed in the federal service
here before reclassification, and will,
therefore. present to the careful OBJ
server the reason which led to the
recommendations of the commission
as regards reclassification.
TIE complete hearings held before
the commission. in which the en-
ployes were given their day in
court" embodying the briefs pre-
sented the reclassif1cation body by the
employees. may be attached to the re-
port.