Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02
DALE BILL" VOTE
TOMORROW SEEN
Revised Retirement Plan Ex-
peCted to Come Up in
House.

President Hoover, who has intimated
that he would veto any other measure,
such as the Dale bill, as it passed the
Senate-and that while none is satisfied
with the bill as it now stands, it will be
put through as a stop gap measure.
In anticipation of such action to-
morrow, Chairman Lehlbach of the
House Civil Service committee laid be-
fore the House yesterday his report on
the Lehlbach revision of the Dale bill
and the existing retirement law. In
this report he said;
This bill contains the provisions of
s. is, the Dale bill, as passed
in the Senate. The Dale bill provides
for optional retirement after 80 years
of service at two years earlier than
provided in the existing law. It pro-
videS for maximum annuity of 81 200
by computing annuities by multiplying
the average annual basic salary, pay,
or compensation, not to exceed 81 800
per annum, received by such employe
during any five consecutive years of
allowable service at the option of the
employe by the number of years of
service. not exceeding 80 years, and
dividing the product by 40. It makes
this method of computing annuitteS
retroactive, so that all at the present
time on the retirement rolls will receive
the benefits of such increases.
THE amendment to S. Is re-
ported by this committee provides in
addition to the foregoing benefits the
following: There will be set up for
each employe coming within the pro-
vision of the retirement system a per-
sonal account, to which will be i'm
mediately credited all his contributions
in the past, together with the interest
thereon. There will in the future be
credited to such account of each en-
ploye his contributions with interest
less the sum of 81 per month which
will remain in the retirement and dis
ability fund without specific ALLEGATION.
Consequently, all moneys in the retire
ment fund will be carried as the
property of those contributing it, ex-
cept such moneys as have been and
may hereafter be. from time to time,
appropriated to the fund and the dollar
monthly deduction. Out of this residue
there will be paid to each annuitant
the sum of $40 for every year of service,
not exceeding 80, which constitutes,
under the provisions of the law, basic
annuity of not less than $3.50 or more
than $500. This basic annuity of $50
per year of service viii be enjoyed by
all retired employees, regardless Of their
of contributions to their credit in the
fund.
"In addition to this basic annuity
there will be paid to annuitants an
additional annuity which will be equal
to whatever annuity the money to the
credit of the retiring employe can pur-
chase as ascertained by established
tables of annuity values. This additional
annuity obviously costs the Government
nothing nor has any relation to or effect
upon the annuitieS or contributions Of
any other person.
Rules Governing Separation.
'sIn the event of voluntary separa-
ton from the service before reaching
retirement the employe receives back
the amount to his credit In the fund
as shown by the books. In every other
case where an employee is not retired,
either because Of death before reaching
retirement age or involuntary Separa-
ton from the service not for cause,
the emplyoe receives back not only the
amount to his credit, but also the dol
lars deducted monthly from his con-
tribution and placed in the general
fund, including the interest thereon.
In the event Of death of an annuitant
before the payments Of that portion OF
the annuity provided by an employees
contributions has been exhausted the
balance to his credit is paid to his legal
representatives. An annuitant, how
ever, is given the option to provide for
himself an increased annuity by waiv-
ing the right to such refund. 1t Is
expressly provided in the amendment
that whenever an annuity under these
provisions should be less than under
the provisions of statute Is, as above
set forth, the latter shall be sub
stituted.
1.-THE effect of the foregoing provi-
sions is at once to increase substantially
the annuities OF those who have and
will hereafter be retired on an average
salary of less than 81 200. 1t will make
definite and certain the rights Of all
participants of the retirement system
in the money they contribute. It will
make definite and certain the obliga-
ton of the Government.
1T is estimated that the cost Of the
reported bill will exceed the cost of the
Dale bill by approximately 100000
and the Dale bill will exceed the cost
Of the present law by approximately
$4,000, 900.
In addition to the above provisions,
the reported bill makes several changes
in existing law. 1t includes in the
group retiring at the age Of 81 years:
Mechanics and laborers in navy yards;
employees of the United States Soldiers
abled Volunteer Soldiers, the State De-
partment without the continental limits
Of the United States, and the Indian
Service at large"
Mrs. WOrrell Comments.
Mrs Margaret Hopkins Worrell,
president of the League Of American
Civil Service, issued the following state
Inent concerning the Lehlbach bill last
night:
at have been requested to make a
statement relative to the amended
Lehlbach bill In my opinion there Is
little change in the provisions of the
amended bill. True, the phraseology is
somewhat changed but when analysed
the change does not materially affect
the provisions of the bill.
I'm SO far as the deduction of 81 per
month. about which employees are SO
wrought up, it remains just as it was
IN the Lehlbach bill with two eXcep-
tons: %. When an employe becomes
involuntarily separated from the serv-
ice Cif not on charges of misconduct or
delinquency. the total amount of his
deduction with interest shall be paid
such employee CD And if an en-
ploye is SIS years or over and has served
Is years or more and is then tnvolun-
tarily separated (not on charges of mis-
COnQuCI OF OcAAuquCnCJl AiO CoAA CtSN"
to take the total amount OF his deduc-
ton with interest which no doubt would
include the 81 monthly deduction.
Under no provision OF the amended
bill can 1 find that the 81 per month
deduction from the employees salary is
returned to the employe under any
other condition than as stated above.
This undesirable feature of the
Lehlbach bill was stressed by almost
every leader opposed to the bill who
appeared before the committee at the