Evening star., 1933-06-03
BROOK|NGS STUDY
or CIVIL SERVICE
SET-UP UNDER WAY
Reorganization of Commits
sion Possible After Sur
vey by Merriam.
FURL0UGHS ADOPTED
INSTEAD OF DISMISSALS
100000 Reduction in 1884 Appro-
priation Won't Result in
Loss of Jobs.

Reorganization of the Civil Service
Commission is q possibility, it became
known today.
The commission has enlisted the aid
of the Brookings Institute to survey its
set-up, and a study nov is under way
BY Lewis C. Merriam of The institutions S
staff ito determine if there may be an
improvement in efficiency and econ
omy," according to Harry B. Mitchell,
president of the commission.
At the same time, announcement
was made that the commission will not
discharge any of its workers due to
cut of 100000 in its appropriation
fer the fiscal year 1898 below the 1888
total 1t will depend on rotative fur
loaghs which will be imposed on every
worker in the commission from workers
to the commissioners themselves.
Explains Survey.
In confirming the fact that the study
of the commission machinery was un-
der way, Mr.. Mitchell emphasized that
the pending House investigation OF &C
tivities of the commission, for the past
u years under Republican control, has
nothing to do with the movement, IL
was decided upon, he amplified, be-
cause the commission, as now consu-
tuted. has two new members out OF the
three who composed 1t. The Brook1ngs
Institution was asked to make the sur
vey. Mitchell said, becaSue it was felt
that an outside agency would be mucn
better equipped to make an 1mpartlal
study than those who had been 1oentl-
fed with the commission.
Mr.. Merriam, who has been IN con-
ference with the commission stan tor
several days, said today that 1t would
take him several weeks to complete his
work. Until then, he said, he has no
comment to make on his findings.
President Mitchell also was unable TO
discuss what the study may have de-
yeloped. nor would he hazard a guess
as to Just what the reorganization
might entail In effect, the study now
resolves itself into a fact-fnding expe-
dition.
Extent Of Furloughs.
The Civil Service Commission is the
second Government establishment to
stand on the principle of furloughs
rather than dismissals in the face OF
the economy wave, the Post Office De-
partment having also laid down this
policy.
The extent to which burroughs WILL
be applied in the Governments per-
sonnel agency is still to be determined
by the committee composed Of five COM
mission chiefs, which is studying this
situation. 1t has been definitely de-
cided, however, that the furloughs will
be applied to every one, although, of
course, not horizontally.
In the present fiscal year the COM
mission has applied furloughs starting
with these workers getting 81 $50 and
going upward The maximum furlough
thus far applied has been 10 days to all
employees whose pay is from Sl,740 an
nually up Another day perhaps is in
prospect for these. This furlough, of
course is in addition to the legislative
furleugh which lops of one months
pay.
For the new fiscal year the commits
sion will have $1,050,0 900. For the cur
rent year its appropriation totals ST.
5T,486, which included $145,116 from
the Personal Classification Board, whose
activities 1t absorbed last october. The
1884 total represents reduction of ap-
proximately 100000 from the allotment
that the commission and the classifl-
ton board had for 1882.