Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-03-06
Members Named in Law Ap-
point AIternates Who Will
Do the Work.
WILL MAKE OFFICES
IN TREASURY BUILDING
Warwick, Moffett and Graves Form
Body; Allen Is Executive
officer.

Two meetings of the reclassification
board were held today, at 10 and 2
o'clock, further developing the or
ganization and work program look
ing toward allocating every one of
approximately 265.00O employees of the
government, $4,000 Of whom are In
the District of Columbia, to new per-
manent grades of work at new statu-
tory salaries before July 1, 1924, as
provided in the act passed in the
closing hours of Congress.
Brig. Gen. II. NJ Lord, budget Off
Ger of the government, who is chair
man of the board; George r. Wales.
civil service commissioner, and Her
bert ID. Brown, chief of the United
states bureau of efficiency, attended
the conference. Each of these named
an alternate, as provided in the law. and
these alternates will constitute the
board that will be in active charge Of
the work designated by Congress-
These alternates are:
List of Alternates.
From the budget bureau. w. w
warwick. former controller of the
Treasury. who will act as chairman.
from the Civil Service Commission,
Guy Moffett and from the bureau Of
efficiency. Harold N. Graves.
At the morning conference the To-
cation of the boards workshop and
the plan OF work were discussed 1t
was decided that offices would be es-
taol1shed in the main Treasury build
ing.
The board also discussed the duties
imposed upon them by the law
Briefly summarized by Guy F. Allen
OF the budget bureau, temporaril IS
signed as executive officer, these
duties are:
l. To review and where necessary
ie'!se the classification Of positions
IN the departmental service as made
oy the department heads. This is
covered in Section 4 Of the reclassifis
cation act.
Z To make rules and repula tions
apr y nd the ne guidance Of department heads
tha - pIoHlue various classes within
the several salary grades.
Follow Executive Order
here It should be explained, to clear
up misunderstanding that seem. fo
oe quite general among those inter
ested IN reclaSsification, that while
the grades fixed in the act are q mnde
inGatlon OF the Sterling-Lehlbach
under that bill so that no ONE nnnId
ten what the cost would be- There
fore, Congress directed the recIa
ncation board to follow as nearly
as practicable the classification as
mace mac pursuant to the executive or
Smoot: or bureau Of efficiency cIas-
sification.
So that the bureau of efficiency clas-
slhcat1on for the $4,000 employees in
the District Of Columbia is to be the
basis OF reclassification here, Mr.. AL
len said, In so far as the reclassif1ca-
ton board finds that classification
practicable.
(3) To make a survey of the field
positions and report to Congress. The
as early as possible in the new Con-
gress which is to meet in December.
Review Efficiency System.
90 To review and where necessary
revise the system of efficiency rat
ings now in effect and hereafter to be
prescribed.
At the second conference. at 2
up the discussion Of which of these
four duties would be tackled first,
and how to start work on each of
them.
At this afternoons conference the
board also gave further consideration
tion of personnel and what draft
would have to be made on the budget
bureau, the Civil Service Commission,
the bureau Of efficiency and the vari-
Gus government departments for tenn
porary details to carry on the work.
At the afternoon meeting discussion
also touched upon whether it would
be possible to get accurate and suf-
ficient information regarding the field
jobs while sitting in Washington, and
whether it will not be necessary. to
send agents into the states to gather
the required data for job descriptions.
In Language of Bill.
The reclassification act, as far as
provisions are con-
cerned. is substantially and in large
part in the exact language Of the bill
as it passed the House, with the ex-
ception that in place of the bureau
of the budget the bill as it passed
the House would put these duties on
the personnel board, of which the di-
rector of the budget bureau. or his
is chairman. This was
today by Representative
r. Lehlbach of New Jersey,
chairman of the House committee on
reform in the civil service.
The heads of the departments, un-
der the supervision of the personnel
board, make the ALLEGATIONS just as
in the bill which passed the House.
whereas the bill as reported by the