Evening star., 1921-04-06
RECLASS|F|CAn0N
TO Be LAW JULY |,
! WHENbONUS GOES
Senators Plan to Pass Bill at
Once Lowering Aggregate
! Salaries Of Employees.
INCREASES NOT TO EQUAL.
YEARLY LOSS OF $24O
Dropping of Employees in Some War
Bureaus Planned-Better
Pay for Experts.

Redistribution and readjustment
of the salaries of government en-
ployes will be put into effect July 1,
the opening Of the new fiscal year.
il the present plans Of Senate lead
ers are carried out. it was learned
today.
This means that the government
employees will receive the new rates
of pay provided in the proposed re-
classification legislation beginning
next July, and will not receive the
$240 bonus as provided in the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill passed at the last session
of Congress.
Plan Means Salary Cuts.
Coupled with this was the further
information that the increases in the
salaries of the government employees,
taking them by and large, will, in
the aggregate, be less than the total
salaries now existing plus the S24O
bonus. In other words, the employees
are going to find that their basic sala-
ries have been increased. but that these
increases viii not, on the whole, amount
to the total Of the $240 bonus.
In some instances the salary In
ereases will exceed the $240 bonus. but
in more the Increases will be less than
that amount.
An effort is to be made to put the
reclassification bill through without
delay after Congress meets II 1t
goes through it will carry prov1-
sion repeating previously enacted law
and putting the new rates and classi-
fications into effect without further
delay.
To Cut Down EmployeA
The salary roll of government en-
C~l, ~
roughly speaking, is about $4,000. 900
a year. 1t is expected that the reclas-
sification proposed will increase this
sum by several millions of dollars.
But with increased efficiency. expect
ed through the operation of the re-
classification of the employees. and
with probable reductions in the num-
Der of employees eventually the salary
roll will be less than the $112.0o0.000
Of today, even with the increase to
be allowed.
The reclassificAtion legislation pro-
posed viii cover the employees Of the
District government and also the
federal employees outside the Dis
tricf of Columbia
While the details of the reclassif-
cation bill which has been prepared
by Senator Smoot of Utah for intro
have not yet been made public, it is
understood that the number Of classi-
hcations will be less than fifty and
win be based largely on the Brown
bureau Of efficiency bill. The bill
prepared by the joint commission Of
rsolassihcation and introduced at the
last Congress contemplated 1,700
0laaBi6cationS.
1.700 ClassiAcAtfons Too Many.
The senator's are Of the opinion that
such q large number of classifications
would be unwise and would result
in ineniciency rather than in an i'm
provement of the service
The line would be drawn 30 closely
between tho duties of one employe
and the duties Of others that it
would result in the employment Of
. larger number and also would re-
suit in many employees not having
enough work to keep them occupied
during the ONCE hours Of the gov
eminent departments.
In making the reclassifcations It
10 expected that some of the en-
ployeS in the so-called scientific de-
pardmentS will receive substantial in
creasea It has been the complaint
OF these departments for a number
of years that they were unable to
Keep their trained men because the
salaries allowed were inadequate.
War Bureau Reduction Likely.
1t IL expected also that there will
be . readjustment of salaries of per
sons paid from lump sum appropria-
tions. and persons employed in some
OF the bureaus which started up dur
ing the war. These readjustments
will bring the salaries of some of
these employees down somewhat, it is
understood.
Tss-e is strong opposition. to con-
tinuing the horizontal bonus plan
among members in Congress. The
understanding has been that the COM
ing fiscal year would be the last in
which a bonus would be allowed.
With the prospect of speedy action
on reclassifcation at the coming ses-
sion. it Is hoped by the opponents of
she bonus plan that 1t will be possi-
Bile to do away with the bonus sooner
than was expected.
p11IS nEEonr concnLca