Evening star., 1933-06-26
Lawyers, Engineers and
Clerks to Be Hit by Econ
omy Order.
SOME MAY BE PLACED
IN OTHER u. S. UNITS
Building Maintenance Employees
Also Face Dismissals Be-
fore July l.

The Interstate commerce commission
will drop more than 500 employees at
the end of this month, it was learned
this afternoon.
This information followed an an
nouncement earlier from the General
Accounting Office that between $50 and
200 workers would be dropped with the
start of the new fiscal year.
The blow at the Interstate Commerce
Commission will fall on the Bureaus of
Valuation and Accounts. Congress cut
the funds for the former from 81, ,750,-
900 for the current fiscal year to 81 000,-
900 for next year; in Accounts, the
slash was $35,500, making its total
$75o,oo0.
Slash Freely Forecast.
The slash at the bureau of valuation
had been forecast freely since repeal
of the recapture clause of the trans
portation act, under which the Govern
ment, after spending 13 futile years
in an attempt to collect approximately
$3.50 ,000. 900, gave it up as bad job.
The present force there is 9l0 persons.
In the two bureaus, the reduction will
hit lawyers, accountants, engineers and
clerical help. This will leave the COM
mission with approximately 1900 work
ers
1t was learned that officials of the
commission hope to place some of the
personnel IN other Government estab-
lishments. This, in particular, applies
to engineers.
May Aid Public Works.
In this connection it was recalled
that in a high administration source
the opinion was expressed that the Gov
eminent might we'll send its own engi-
neers into those States where expendi-
lures are to be made under the vast
value of such action would lie in the
impartiality with which an outsider
would view States needs, as COM
pared to its requests, and that this
would tend toward a better considered
expenditure of the millions that are to
be put out under this program.
Those dismissed at the General
Accounting Office are employees whose
husbands and wives also are en-
ployed by the Government, or who come
under the 30-year class. The separa-
tions will be divided about evenly be-
tween these two groups, it was said.
The Accounting Office, it was said. is
getting rid of employees where they can
best be spared and on that account
some married workers are being re-
tanned. This is particularly true in the
stenographic class. the Office employ
ing less than 100 stenographers, which.
it was said, no more than meets It's
needs. These women, Of course, may
resign, it was added, if their husbands
face custer in the agencies by which
they are employed.
FurIoughs Considered.
Whether any furloughs will be ap-
piled in the G. A. o. is still to be de-
termined The total force now Is $50,
and the appropriations cut for 1884, as
compared to 1898, totals 1852, $50, or
23h per cent. The total appropriation
for salaries for 1884 is s3,110.000.
In connection with the forced re-
duction, 1t was said, there has been no
material decrease In the work OF the
Accounting ONCE, and that in some
instances there had been noticeable
fncrease, particularly in the group
h1Andling Postal Savings accounts.
Sixty workers Of the Office of Public
buildings and Public Parks also were
taken Of the Federal pay roll today and
|1o more win be dismissed Wednesday.
| Col. James A. Woodruff, director of
Public Buildings and Public Parks, ex
lplained these moves were necessary to
keep within the reduced appropriations.
The 60 workers now without Jobs came
out of the building division, which Is
supervised by James F. Gill, who has
charge Of cleaning and repairing public
tstructures.
The 10 who will leave Wednesday will
leone out Of the clerical and engineering
force Of the office, Col. Woodruff as
serted.
The TO are being dropped before the
,end Of the fiscal year, which comes Fri
day, so the new IL months may be
started with clean slate as far as fiscal
allowances are concerned, officials ex-
Splained.
Another angle of the retrenchment
Fprogram that developed today was that
the Department of the Interior is pro-
posing to close five non-reservation
schools and two non-reServation sana
toria to effect saving that will exceed
SITS, 900. This is made necessary by
the fact that s4,000.0 900 has been Topped
from the Indian Service funds and that
the department proposes to take up the
slack in part in this class of institu-
ticns, some Is in number, for which
the appropriation is S3,755, 900.
Fund Transfer Refused.
The Interior Department plan was
outlined in a letter TO Controller Gen
eral McCarl, In winch IL was asked II
these seven institutions might be closed
TO transfer the funds elsewhere in the
service The controller general replied
that it was within the province OF the
administrative officer to close these
places, but that the law prohibited
transfer Of more than 10 per cent OF
the funds thus saved. and that the
remainder must be covered back into
the Treasury
The schools proposed for closing are:
Genoa, Nebr 400 pupils, with appro-
priation, $50; Mount Pleasant
Mich, 325 pupils, sl11.600 appropria-
ton; Fort Apache Ariz., 400 pupils
sl386sO appropriation; Salem. Greg.
$50 pupils, s22440o appropriation
Rapid City. S. Oak. 275 pupils, s99 ,470
The two sanitoria are at Pyramid
Lake, New, and Laguna, n. M. The
appropriations for these two were not