Evening star., 1932-11-09
Sanders Sends Best Wishes.

are Secretary, two assistant secretaries,
| two assistants to the Secretary. solicitor,
commissioner of labor statistics. COM
missioner general of immigration, chief
of ChildrenS Bureau, chief OF Women's
Bureau and eight commissioners of I'M
migration.
Secretary Names Ofncers
The Secretary names the director Of
conciliation and the supervising direc-
tor United States Employment Service,
while the commissioner of naturaliza-
ton is a civil service employe.
In the War Department come the
important posts at the top Of the gov
ernment of the Philippines and Puerto
Rico along with the usual secretarial
positions and assignments Of Army Of
ficers to head the several branches of
the service All of these are designated
by the President.
Navy also administers two island
governments Guam and American
Samoa-but the governors are naval
officers on regular tour of duty. Other
wise, the set-up parallels that OF the
War Department.
Another governorship that In the
Canal Zone also is filed by the PreSi-
dent.
Among the independent agencies,
those incumbents whose terms are SUD-
ject to the wishes of the President are
the three Civil Service Commissioners,
Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Pub
lie Printer. Alien Property Custodian,
chief of the Bureau of Efficiency and
International Joint Commission, made
up of two Republicans and a Democrat
Serve Specified Terms.
Other officials Of the principal in
dependent groups are serving specified
terms, this number including the con-
roller general, whose time Is up in June,
1886. In the Employees Compensation
Commission. where the membership is
two Republicans and Democrat, the
term of the Republican chairman ends
on March IL.
In the Civil Service Commission,
which is the oldest of all commissions,
the customary political lineup has
been 2-1, with the majority, including
the president. who is designated as such
by the President Of the United States.
from the party in power. In the 40
years that the commission has been ad-
ministering the personal affairs of the
Government, 1t is recalled, it has suf-
fered little from politics. There have
been six political shifts in administra-
tions and out of total Of 80 commits
sioners, IL went out with changes of
President. There were two actually
removed, both by President Cleveland,
one of them an appointee Of his own.
President Wilson also is understood to
have brought pressure on two which
caused them to quit.
Roosevelt Story Cited.
There is an apocrypal story at the
commission concerning one of Cleve-
lands busters, which was said to have
been brought about on complaint of
Theodore Roosevelt, then a commits
sioner, that he could not get along with
his associate, and therefore was tender
ing his resignation. President Cleveland
refused to let Roosevelt go, however,
removing, instead, the other commits
Sloner
The chief examiner and secretary of
the commission also are presidential
appointees, who have, however, been re-
tained in Office without regard to their
political beliefs in the past.
The veteran administrator is the only
presidential selection in that branch,
that official naming the aides who con-
stitute his immediate staff, and all
other employees, including attorneys.
physicians and nurses, coming under
civil service. This agency is one of the
few where attorneys are civil service ap-
pointeeS.
In the Tariff Commission, which is bi-
partisan. with three Republicans and
three Democrats, there is a vacancy
each June, but a chairman and vice
chairman are designated yearly by the
President, the first-named going to a
member of his own party and the other
to the opposition.
The Power Commission is 81
lineup ordinarily, though at present
, there is but one Democrat there with
three Republicans, due to the failure OF
the Senate to confirm Marcel Garsaud.
There vacancy occurs each June, and
next year Republican term expires.
1. c. c. Terms Staggered.
The Interstate Commerce Commission,
where the tern. CT seven years also are
staggered and expire on December 81
annually, Is made up Of six Republicans,
| four Democrats ard one Independent.
A Republican term expires this year and
one next.
| The Radio Commission now is COM
posed of two Republicans and two
| Democrats, and there is one vacancy.
Here the terms end in February. and the
Democrats arr completing their service
, in 1888 an. 1854.
| Two Republicans and one Democrat
make up the Shipping Board, and the
Democratic terms are ending in the
next two years.
There are now but four members
serving on the Federal Trade Commits
sion. where the political makeup Gus
| tomarily is 80, and the division is equal
among Democrats and Republicans,
with the terms of the two former end
ing in September. 1888 and 1884. Pres
ident Hoover did not fill the vacancy
ere ated this past September when Com
missioner Charles W. Hunt, Repub-
iican. completed his time.
There are some ether agencies-nota-
bly, the Federal Reserve Board. Board of
Tax Appeals and Board Of Mediation,
which handles railroad disputes, to