Evening star., 1924-05-31
FUNDS TO ADJUST
FIELD PAY FAVORED
House Committee Recommends
$26,317,407.S4, Mostly for
Equalizing Schedule.
$211,526 FOR LOCAL WORK
Madden Explains Need of Bring
ing Rates Up to Schedule.

Appropriations totaling S26,3l1.-
407.S4 to enable the heads of the gov
ernment departments and establish
nents to adjust rates of compensa-
tion of civilian employees in the field
service for the fiscal year beginning
July l next were recommended to
the House by the appropriations COM
Inittee today. This includes S211,526
tor federal activities in the District
of Columbia to be paid proportion
ately by the federal government and
the District Treasury.
Madden Explains Act.
In the report made to the House to-
day Chairman Madden explains that
the classified ton act provided Tor
definite salary schedule for the oe-
partmental service in the District ano
also contained a provision that the
estimates for 1925 for the depart
mental service in Washington should
be submitted on the basis or the claS-
sification act. That was done and the
appropriation. bills which have oeen
passed at this session have proVlueu
for the classification of salaries In the
departmental service on the basis OF
the new law. AS to the field service,
the classification act provided that
the personnel classification board
should make survey and should
adopt a schedule corresponding as
nearly as practicable to the schedules
in the act for the departmental serV-
ice in Washington.
1t provided that those schedules
should be sent to the heads of the
various departments and that those
admi illustrative officers should allocate
the employees in the field services to
these schedules and submit the
ALLEGATIONS to the personnel classihca-
tion board.
Under the law, Chairman Madden
points. the personnel classification
boards had. no authority to revise
those ALLEGATIONS. The law required
the board to transmit the list of en-
ployes to Congress. That has been
On May 26.
There is no opportunity now for
enactment of legislation on field serv-
Ice classification, so it becomes neces-
sary. Chairman Madden explained, to
make some temporary provision for
field services which will absorb the
s240 bonus and afford some additional
measure of relief that will place the
positions in the field service on a
somewhat comparable basis with
those classified by law in the depart
mental service in Washington.
The bill as reported today appTo-
priated s26,317,i07.S4, of which $780,
723,4s1.2O would have been required
in any event to continue the S24O
bonus and s5,591.346.64 represents
the amount which the budget bureau,
through the President. has requested
Congress to appropriate in order to
bring the field service positions up to
rates comparable with those paid in
the departmental service in the DIS
trict of Columbia.
The bill contains nothing for the
they were classified in the act, with
the exception of the policemen, fire
men and teachers, who have been
cared for in special bills. This bill,
however, carried s211,526.00 for fed
eral activities in Washington, with a
charge on the District revenues.
Items for District.
for which is paid out of the Districts
revenues, as provided for in the bill
reported today, are as follows:
nuildings and eTounds, ss4:aso; for
grounds, eTprDhss SIS 22o; o for lighting Pubic
grounds, $3.50 for the Anacostia River
and flats, s23, 460; for increasing the
water supply, s25,100; for the Wash
ington aqueduct payable from rev.
enues of the water department., ss2 20:
for salaries, Supreme Court, S4,560;
for probation system, supreme court,
$4,000; for pay of bailiffs, etc, Su-
preme Court, $3.50; for salaries OF
employees courthouse, 1886: for salaries
and expenses Court of Appeals, $4,9S0,
and for salaries of employees, Court of
Appeals building, Sl,6S0.
The bill as reported contains a spe-
cffic provision that the appropriations
may be utilized by the heads of the
several departments and Independent
establishments, Notwithstanding the
specific rates of compensation and
the salary restrictions contained in
the regular annual appropriation act
for the fiscal year 1925 or the salary
restrictions in other acts which limit
salaries to rates in conflict with the
rates fixed by the classification act of
1928 for the departmental service.