Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
SMELL ASSA|[ED
FOR RULES DELAY
Ce||er Holds Chairman Is De.
laying Action on Retire.
ment Measure.

Charging that it is ga sad COM
mentary upon justice" Representative
Celler, Democrat, of New York, told
the League of the American Civil Serv-
ice last night, meeting in the Interior
Department auditorium, that Chairman
Smell of the House rules committee is
still holding a rule in his pocket, in
defiance of Senate and House senti-
ment, concerning legislation to liber-
alize civil service retirement, which the
Senate has already passed. Mr.. Smell,
Mr. Celler asserted, sis probably acting
that way under orders from the gen.
tleman on the other end of Pennsyl-
vania avenue"
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, pres
ident of the league, is urging all men,
bers possible to attend the hearings
before the House civil service commit
tee today and indorse the Brookhart-
Celler salary bill for Government en-
ployes. said that the organization Is
opposed TO the Lehlbach measure.
Lawyers Back Bill.
Endorsement of the Brookhart-Cell
bill also was given by another group of
council of the Federal Bar Association
which met in the conference room
of the Interior Department last night.
Doubtful constitutionality was the
ground upon which the executive coun-
Gil opposed any extension of power to
the Personnel Classification Board as
proposed in pending pay legislation
The Brookhart-Cell bill was urged
as the measure giving the Civil Service
Commission the needed adequate au-
thority.
Appointment of committee was
authorized to appeal before the House
civil service committee tomorrow at
the time accorded it by Chairman LehI-
bach to present any arguments and
testimony representing the views of the
Federal Bar Association toward the
various pay roll bills.
The Personnel Classification Board
also was raped by Mr. Celler. Having
refused to carry out the mandates OF
Congress. he declared. the board should
have been hailed before the House and
Senate and cited for contempt. :
i will not support any measure that
gives the Personnel Classification Board
such wide powers as proposed in the
Lehlbach bin," Mr.. Celler asserted.
The New York Representative ex-
planned that his measure is designed to
give relief to Government workers in
the lower grades.
Retirement System Held Joke.
"The present retirement system in the
Government is joke" Mr.. Celler also
asserted. You have to die to win"
Mr.. Celler was given an ovation when
he entered the auditorium, and at the
close OF his address the audience gave
him a rising vote of thanks.
Hendley Smoot, q worker for labor
interests, told the league 1t should have
10000 workers, and that only for or
ganiZation the Government workers
would not have compensation, retire
ment facilities, an eight-hour day law
and leave arrangements. There has not
been an equitable adjustment in Gov
eminent salaries for SO years, he de-
clared.
Mrs. Worrell told the gathering that
Representative Sirovitch, Democrat, Of
New York, was unable to address the
meeting, owing to the press of private
business. She repeated her previous
charge that women are being driven 70
asylums by 1.-THE dreadful pools" existing
in the Government stenographic service
The full membership of the Federal
Bar Association will meet at the In
terror Department auditorium on Janu-
airy % to hear Judge Lurtin r. CHM,
assistant controller general of the
United States, speak on the topic, 1.-THE
Controller General"
Glenn A. Smith and Jack B. Tate,
State Department attorneys. We're adj
mitted to membership in the associa-
ton.