Evening star., 1924-02-09
&,622,3)O ASKED
FOR D. c. SALARIES
Navy and Marine Appropria.
tion Figures Represent
Varied Increases.

the personal services in the District
of Columbia for the Navy Depart
ment and Marine Corps in accordance
with the classification act is found in
the Navy appropriation bill reported
to the House today.
The total amount proposed on ac-
count of reclassification, including the
civilian force at Marine Corps head
quarters, is approximately s157,000.
This is an increase over present pay,
plus the bonus. of a little more than
per cent. The percentages of in
crease for the entire department runs
about as follows:
Professional and scientific service
1O.4; sub professional service, 73;
clerical, administrative and fiscal
service. 90, and custodial service, ~.
Salaries Recommended.
The salary appropriations recon-
mended by offices are as follows:
Offiee of the Secretary. sl4S,OS0; gen
eral board. 1920; naval examining
and retiring hoard. s9.720; compen-
sation board. S32.940: office of Judge
advocate general. ss9.220; office of
chlef of naval operations. S66,S4O;
board Of inspection and survey. s22.-
260: office of the director of naval
communications. s133.240: office of
naval Intelligence. s42,S2o; bureau of
navigation. S425.0O0; photographic
office. 100000: naval observatory,
sS6.16 nautical almanac office, SOS. =
$50: bureau OF engineering, S2S3,sOO;
bureau of construction and repair
(Which includes appropriations for
the Washington navy yard), s3O5, 200:
bureau OF ordnance, s142.600: bureau
of supplies and accounts, sS4O. 900: :
bureau of medicine and surgery.
sa2:620: bureau of yards and docks,
s231.4So; bureau of aeronautics, Sl7S,-
500: Marine Corps. s157.a4O
me appropriations recommended in
tne Navy bill for personal services
under the Navy Department proper in
the District. including civilian en-
ployes at the Marine Corps head
quarters. are on the basis of the al
mel classification board pursuant to
the provision of the classification
act In form they are in complete
tscoru with the standard adopted by
employed for the first time in the
interior Department appropriation
PHI. which has been passed by the
House without change in this respect
Includes Limitations.
Chairman French Of the subcom-
mittee reporting this bill emphasizes
that it inH udeS the limita ton mira sed
precisely like the one carried in the
Interior Department bill as passed
by the House, the purpose of which is
itdSoHdDlH anu 1dlrlN TO restrict the
discretionary authority given to ad-
mlnistrative officers in the cIassi-
hcation act to make promotions from
one salary rating to a higher salary
rating within the several grades or
classes
The appropriat proposed in this
bill, according to Chairman French,
DO not in any way disturb the clas-
sitication fixed by the personnel clas-
sification board upon which the
budget estimates are based The
committee is. however, proposing to
provide $4,000 additional under the
office of the Secretary of the Navy in
order that the assistant secretary
may be paid full salary attached to
the classification in which the posi-
tion he occupies is placed by the c!as-
sihcatlon act that is grade IA. cleri-
cal administrative and fiscal service
the pay attached to which is $500
''The budget estimates for no salts
factory reason include but $4,000 for
this purpose" Mr.. French calls at
tention.
"Stop Watch" Methods.
In view of the old controversy over
stop watch methods" the bill car
ries an interesting paragraph pro-
vidfng that no part of the appropri-
ations made in this act shall be avail
able for the salary or pay of any Off
Ger, manager, superintendent. fore
\ man or other person having charge
of the work of any employe of the
United States government. while max
ing or causing to be made with a
stop watch or time measuring devise,
a time study of any job of any such
employe between the starting and
completion thereof. or of the move
ments of any such employe while en-
gagged upon such work. nor shall
any part of the approximations made
in this act be available to pay any
premiums or bonus or cash reward
TO any employe in addition to his
regular wages except for suggestions
resulting in improvements or economy
in the operation of any government
plant. and that no part of the moneys
appropriated in each or any section
of this act shall be used or expended
for the purchase or requirement of
any article or articles that at the time
of the proposed requirement can be
manufactured or produced in each or
any of the government navy yards of
the United States, when time and ia
cilities permit for a sum less than it
can be purchased or acquired other
wise.
Steam System Repairs.
An appropriation of $4,000 for re-
pairs to the steam distributing sys-
tenn at the Washington Navy Yard is
included in the bill.
For the naval observatory total
of s79,260 is recommended for sal
aries which is an increase of s24.260
over the current appropriations. For
contingent expenses recommended
tion of S33.91O is made which is an
increase of s4,91O above those for the
present fiscal year. For salaries in
the naval almanac office an appro-
priation of s30,960 is recommended
which Is an increase Of $11 ,040 over
the present fiscal year.
S256,532 Total Increase.
The total amount proposed in the
budget on account of salaries and
contingent and miscellaneous eX-
penses of the Navy Department prop
er is $4,327,140, or S256,532 in excess
fiscal year 1924, including in the lat
ter $434,892 on account of the $240
bonus carried in the increased com
penSation act.
get $152,O45 is chargeable to the re-
classification act (excluding the Marine
Corps, which is not carried under this
head); $72,763 is because of the pro-
posal providing specifically under the
Navy Department for the salaries of
the employees of certain boards, which
are now paid out of the naval appro-
priations (pay. miscellaneous); $47.72s
is because of the proposed net increase
of twenty-eight additional positions,
and then there is a net decrease of
S16.005 on account of the contingent
appropriations.
vision for a net increase of twenty
eight positions. They occur princi-
pally under the bureau Of navigation,
the photographic Office and the bureau
OF yards and docks.
Reduction Of II Positions.
The appropriations committee pro-
poses a net reduction of approx.
mately eleven positions. In the case
of the bureau of navigation twenty
four civil employees are asked to sup
plant thirty-four enlisted men of the
Navy on detail to the bureau under
specific authorization in the current
appropciation act. The committee ia