Evening star., 1924-04-01


ployes in the District of Columbia
should be submitted in conformity
with the rates of salary in the COM
peLsation schedules set forth in the
act and that the rate in the rev act
should not become effective until
July 1, 1924.
The appropriations made in the bill
reported to the House today for per-
sonal services in the District are there
fore recommended on the basis of the
new law in accordance with ALLEGATIONS
established by the personnel classlf1ca-
tion board
The House appropriations committee
IN the preparation of this bill has fol-
lowed the precedent it set in the other
appropriation bills, and has appropri-
ated in lump sum, as recommended in
the budget, for the bureaus and offices
that have heretofore been on a stat
utory basis. While this change in
method of appropriation is a marked
deviation from the former practice in
preparations, it is necessary and fully
warranted, Representative Shreve,
chairman of the subcommittee, en-
phasizes in his report in connection
classification act by which duties are
made the basis of pay.
Actual Size of Incrcnse.
He points out that the classifica-
tton act provides in determining the
classification to be established ini-
TALLY for employees under the act
that the existing pay shall be the
base pay plus any bonus the en-
ploye is receiving. In the case of
several appropriations in the bill re-
ported today the amount recommend
ed FOR, the fiscal year 1925 shows a
! considerable increase over the like
sum appropriated in the annual ap-
preparation act for the fiscal year
1874. This is attributable TO the
fact that the $240 additional compen-
Satlon or So-called bonus is appro-
nrlated in one sum for each of the
departments in a separate act for
1924 and is allotted for the respective
department heads to the several
bureaus and offices. The actual in
crease, therefore, under the ella sSifi-
cation act, is not the difference be-
tween the base pay for 1924 and the
amount recommended for 1925, but
the difference between the combined
amounts for base pay and bonus and
the amount recommended for 1925.
The committee had before it in
drafting this bill statements showing
by bureaus and offices the salaries in
the District for the fiscal year 1924
separated according to base pay and
fixed for the fiscal year 1925 in ac-
cordance with the classification act.
Emphasizing one large bureau which
shows an actual decrease in aC-
count of classification, Representative
ShrcVe'S report calls attention that
the committee has granted the eSti-
mate for salaries in the District for
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, which is an increase over
the current appropriation of SS3,96I,
due entirely to the classification act
and the S240 bonus, there being no
additional positions involved The
amounts of the current appropriation
plus the $240 bonus is S26T,3l0 and
the amount estimated by the budget
and recommended in the bill is S266.-
All, so that classification in the case
Of the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce has resulted in an actual
decrease of $3.50.
Payment to Colombia.
Included in appropriations is So
600 900 for a payment to Colombia in
settlement of claims growing out of
construction of the Panama canal,
S1S2 140 for the German
mixed claims commission during the
coming fiscal year, $2,301.722 for pros
ecution of crime by the Department
of Justice. $500 900 for prose cution of
war frauds, $2,62S,177 for the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce,
s5,317,410 for the census bureau, ST.
IT'S, 760 for carrying on and investiga-
tions by the bureau of standards,
81. 500 for the coast and geodetic
survey, s1.3l0.965 for the bureau of
fisheries, s3.491.s4O for enforcement
Of the immigration law, and $670,4S0
for the bureau of naturalization.
The report of the appropriations
committee said that during the years
1920 to 1923, inclusive, 120,410 crim-
nal prosecutions were begun under
the prohibition law, with convictions
in 1908 cases, resulting fines total
ing s13,SS9,560. of which $9.325.371 had
been collected. In addition, $336,015
was realized from judgments in civil
prohibition cases.
The report also said the population
of federal prisons is still on the in
crease" on January last there be-
ing 5,55S inmates or 623 more than
the normal capacity.