The Washington herald., 1921-02-15
Navy Yard and Arsenal
Workers Included
Despite Fight.
WOMEN'S BUREAU
ADDED TO LIST
Upper House Changes
Front on Extra Pay
For Clerks.

Not only was the S2iO bonus
for Federal and District employees
voted back into the legislative,
executive and judicial appropria-
tions bill by the Senate yester-
day, following the row of Saturday
over inclusion of the navy yard and
arsenal employees. but the latter
were included, as also were the per-
sonnel of the recently created
Women's Bureau Of the Department
of Labor.
! The vote on a motion of Senator
! Lodge, of Massachusetts,, to amend
the parliamentary rules under which
| the bonus provision was knocked
out on a point of order made b.
! Senator Curtis, of Kansas. came
carly after the Senate rcconVencd
and stood so to IL. The point of
border had been sustained on the
/ ground that the bonus provision
was legislative and did not belong
| in a fiscal bill. With the rules sus-
| pended the amendment providing
! the bonus was adopted with the
navy yard subamendment, rcintro-
! duced by Senator Calder, of New
| York, by the vote of AZ to %
Women Included.
/ When Senator Harrison, Of Mis-
sissippi, offered the amo ndmcnt to
| include the Women's Bureau. SEN
ator Smoot objected on the ground
that the salaries of this bureau
were provided by a lump sum as in
ls1 II i'll
and certain other branches who were
were found by the Senate commit
tee to be sufficiently paid without
the bonus.
Are we going crazy" shouted
the Senator from Utah. ALREADY
We are paying messengers $1.OSO.
| Chief clerks in other departments
get only $1,000 to $2,5OO, and in the
Woman's Bureau *2.70O, and you're
asking more"
J The figures were disputed by the
Senator from Mississippi, who de-
clared that exclusion of the wom-
ans Bureau would be discrimina-
tory.
In defending the attitude of SEN
| ator Curtis, as opposed to the navy
yard bonus. Senator Thomas, of Col
orado, declared that the bonus fall
lacy was costing the nation many
I millions of dollars and he thought
its support was prompted by poll
tics. He spoke OF some women en-
ployes serving the government to
the tune of chewing gum and chat
ter. and said the watch dogs" of
tn" Treasury were trying to raid
j.. This is the beginning of an era
OF economy and frugality, when the
question should be asked. when is
the bonus practice to end?" he said.
Proud of Record.
Senator Underwood declared the
issue was not the bonus in this
case but the attempt of a few men
on the Republican side to force the
Senate to do their bidding. Sena-
tor Curtis answered his charge
made in the debate Saturday to the
effect that politics actuated the
Republicans, by saying that he
would be glad for the people of his
State of Kansas to read the Record
and see what he was doing to pro
teCt the Treasury and declared that
the Senators trying to extend the
bonus had no regard for the tax
payers. II am sick and tired OF
these speeches for the underpaid en-
ployee," said the Kansas Senator
There are thousands on the gov
ernment payroll who cannot go
home and earn one-half what they
are making in the governments en-
plOy, though l admit some arc
underpaid. Lot us have the reclas-
sificatiOn system and give them
what they arc entitled to-"
Senator Underwood charged Re,
] M n loo Wit I1I
sification bill, saying he had moved
to take it up two years ago, anG
Senator Henderson called attention
to the fact that the joint committee
on reclassification reported the bill
a year ago. Senator Smoot read
from the report to show that sal.
aries for the class of employees
provided for by the bonus would be
/ greatly reduced under the reclassi.
| fication, and he read also 'for tn,
edification of the employees" that {
fine of $500 and Imprisonment ar,
provided as a penalty for PERM
cious forms of lobbying for legis
! lation.
Conferces Named.
Senators Warren, Smoot ant
Overman, were appointed conferee!
on the legislative bill, which goe.
to conference with the prospect O.
the bonus amendments being agreed
to. When the legislative bill passet
the House the bonus provision wa!
knocked out on a point of ordel
similar to that made by Senator
Curtis. 1t was restored PRACTICAL,
as it had been stricken out If thu
point of order is again made in thu
House the expectation is that tn,
rules will be suspended so that i
can be voted on, and assurance o.
its adoption lies in the well known
fact that a majority of the HOUSE
members are for it.
Another District amendment wal
D introduced by Senator Smoot ant
carried. authorizing the Secretar!
of the Navy to change the new
, Navy Building at Seventeenth an,
= b streets northwest SO as to &C
commodate the United States Ship
= ping Board. 1t provides an outla!
of $4,000, but the Senator explained
! that a saving of sss.o00 a year an
r nually would be the result.
II The bill, with numerous othe
r amendments, including one author
) izing the Treasury to invest 800,
5 100000 next year and s100, 600, ,00l
4 the following year in farm Loaf
bonds, carries. s110,3so,53s for tn,
| fiscal year beginning June 30, next
D This is ssoe,ooo more than the Hous,
allowance