Evening star., 1924-12-14
LEHLbACH BILLS
PASSAGE IS URGED
Mass Meeting to Be Held in
Conjunction With Civil
Service League Session.

The necessity for prompt passage
by the Senate of the Lehlbach bill
Gbolishing the Personnel lassifica-
ton Board, in the interest of eff
cheney and improved personnel admin
istration, will be one of the principal
subjects for consideration at a mass
meeting to be held in the Hotel Wash
ington Tuesday night in connection
with the forty fourth annual convention
of the National Civil Service Reform
League.
The Lehlbach bill carries out a rec
ommendation made in the report of
the leagues special committee on re-
classification as submitted to the
civil service convention here last
year. The report recommended that
the functions of the Personnel ClaSsi-
tication Board be transferred to the
Civil Service Commission. A further
recommendation for the complete
exclusion of the Bureau of Efficiency
from any business connected with
personnel administration in the Fed
eral service" was made in the special
committees report.
Bill Has Passed House.
The Lehlbach bill was passed by
the House in the closing days of the
last session. 1t is expected to come
up for action in the Senate before the
end of December A canvass of the
Senate made by the Civil Service Re
form League, in cooperation with
the National Federation of Federal
Employees, indicates that the bill will
be approved by the Senate by two
thirds majority when it can be
brought to a vote, it is stated
The drafting of further legislation
to carry out the second recommended
lion of the special committee, that the
Bureau of Efficiency be divested of
ALI personnel functions. will be under
taken at meetings to be held in con-
nection with the leagues convention
Another matter of special interest
TO the league is the Presidents
recommendation for classification un-
der the merit system of all presiden-
tial postmasters. The classification
of these offices. numbering 14,7SS, has
been one of the major points in the
leagues program.
Women Give Support.
The special interest of women's
organizations in civil service reform
will be dealt with in an address at
Tuesday nights mass meeting by
Miss Belle Sherwin. president of the
National League of Woman Voters.
Special Endorsement has been given
by the League OF Woman Voters to
the project for the abolition of the
Personnel Classification Board.
At the Tuesday afternoon session
Dr.. F. a. Moss of the Bureau of Pub
lie Personnel Administration will
speak on the present Trend of
Methods in Public Employment"
Eugene J. Benge of the Atlantic Re-
fning Co, Philadelphia, will speak
on the Trend of Methods in Private
Employment
He will be followed by Henry NJ.
Waite, former city manager of Day
ton, Ohio, who will speak on the
civil service problems confronting
city managers. The discussion a this
meeting will be led by H. w. Dodds,
secretary of the National Municipal
League.
William Dudley Foulke, veteran
civil service reformer, who served as
United States Civil Service Commits
sioner under President Roosevelt, has
submitted his resignation as presi-
dent of the league on account of ill
health.
The committee on arrangement
for the leagues convention is made
up of Mrs. Charles Warren, Miss Har-
lean James, Mrs J. Borden Hartman,
Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes, Mrs. Will
liam +. Chamberlin, Mrs. Wallace
Radcliffe and Mrs. Cuno IL. Rudolph.