Evening star., 1932-12-07
tus--were enacted as permanent

| tiidt oQCli du dllOtIiieut OF luIuS, eStl-
mated for the Interstate Commerce
Commission. would be at the expense
Of reduction of force. Decreases !,
personnel also are in prospect at the
Federal Trade Commission and the
Civil Service Commission, according to
budget estimates, and the latter, which
has found it necessary this year to in
woke administrative furloughs ranging
from to 80 days, will face the same
prospect in the next fiscal year.
The administrative furlough plan was
designed as work-spreading move
ment, in establishments which were hit
with particular force by the Govern
Inent economy wave, but a survey
shows that it has been used relatively
little up to now, although there are
sort to 1t in the absence of some help
Other Remedies Tried.
As a general thing, the heads of es-
tablishmentS have sought to apply
other remedies rather than place an
additional burden on employees, who,
without exception, suffered the loss of
a months pay under the legislative fur
Tough provision of the act. Transfer
untary furloughS taken by employees,
| anu ftlOllk ObIl6I lines
have proved saving measures in some
instances.
There are four departments, eight
independent agencies, and the Execu-
tive Office, for which the budget car
ries estimates for funds to avert ad-
ministrative furlough next year.
Commerce asks S608, 100; Justice,
s184,850; State. S243.750, and Labor,
| 1850. which is specified, and an un-
designated amount from blanket ap-
preparation of $l,450000, which covers
also deportation funds.
The apportionment of Commerce fol-
lows: Office of Secretary, $4,000; Bu-
reau OF Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, $l56,310; Bureau of Navigation
and Steamboat Inspection. $92, 900;
Bureau of Standards, $188,720; Bureau
of Lighthouses, $4,000; Coast and Geo.
detic Survey, $46,600, and Bureau of
Fisheries, $11, 900.
Justice: Office of the Secretary,
$l26,000; Bureau of Prisons, $13,760:
$12,860 for Court of Claims), $4,000,
and miscellaneous, $25 1000
State: Foreign Service officers,
Labor: Office of Secretary, $4,000;
Bureau of Labor Statistics, $4,000;
Employment Service, $26,660, and, in
the Bureau of immigration, whatever
amount is applied out of the lump ap-
preparation of S1.450,000.
The Executive Office is asking $6,180,
and the independent agencies would re-
ceive the following: Board of Tax Ap-
peals, $30,090; Commission of Fine
Arts, $683; Employees Compensation
Commission, s18,5o0; Farm Board,
100000; Power Commission. $433; In
terstate Commerce Commission, $751;
1853; Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, $115,107, and United
States Geographic Board, s742.
Furlough Not Taken.
As far as the departments are con-
cerned, Commerce has taken no ad-
ministratiVe furlough yet but has 80
to 40 days in prospect after the first
of the year; Labor expects some will
be necessary, and the same goes for
Justice, which has had recourse to this
plan in some few instances. State,
through other economies, is escaping.
These four, with Interior, were slashed
worse than any of the departments,
suffering blanket 10 per cent reduc-
tion in appropriations. In Interior,
however, transfer of funds kept the
employees from feeling the full force Of
the cut.
As a general proposition, the other
agencies for which the earmarked es-
Inmates are made in the Budget have
felt or bid fair to feel the pinch of ad-
ministratiye furlough, whether admin
istered under a uniform plan, or offset
by employees voluntarily going on pay
less leave.
While the estimate proposed to elm
mate flIrloughs at the Interstate Com
merce Commission next year is $753,-
le3, the Budget shows a net decrease
there for personal services of $336,882,
and heralds a renewed effort to limit
the operations of the Bureau of Valu-
alton by the statement that "a drastic
reduction occurs in valuation of prop
erty carriers, the amount for personal
services being reduced $482, ,158."
Thus far, the Commission has averted
administrative furlough. but an amount
as yet undetermined Is said to be in
prospect.
AT the Federal Trade Commission,
which, this past July, cut of sizeable
group of employees, mostly temporary,
as series of investigations neared
conclusion, continuation of this pol
icy was forecast in the Budget esti-
mate which pointed to "a reduction of
S219,353 for personal services, due to
practical completion Of certain major
investigations undertaken in compli-
ance with congressional resolutions"
Civil Service Reduction.
The Civil Service Commission appro-
priation for the current year was cut
to the bone, and gets the same treat
ment for the next year, according to
the Budget estimate, which specifies
that mo funds are included in any
estimate for 1884 to Offset administra-
tive, furloughs for 1888" Coupled with
the Economy Act saving of Sill ,435 for
personal services, it is specified that
the number of employees will be re-
duced by 80.
In urging the change in present pro-
cedure requiring written authorization
or approval Of the President for filling
vacancies, President Hoover says this
is detail of administrative response
bility which should be restored to the
heads Of departments and establish
ment where it has uniformly rested in
the past"
Continuing, he adds:
'The estimates of appropriations for
1884 provide only for the personnel
needed under the existing organiza-
tional set-up. If vacancies occur which
are not necessary to be filled I am
| confident. that we can rely upon the
heads of the departments and estab-
lishments to see that they are not
| filled. I feel that we are weakening
| the responsibility which should de-
volve upon and be intrusted in the
heads of the departments and estab-
HcH he fnu irip he