Evening star., 1933-09-03
RETIRING ALMOST
0FFSETSCUTSHERE
65,991 in Civil Service July
31-0thers Bring Number.
to June, 1882, Figure.
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a directory Of all branches Of the Gov
ernment legislative. judicial and exec
utive While 1t is designed particularly
for use Of members Of Congress, 1t Is
invaluable to all Government agencies.
Under the new deal, the President
created the Executive Council, with
! Frank c. Walker, treasurer OF the
Democratic National Committee, as
executive secretary. The council is
composed Of the members OF the Cabl-
net and the heads of the new and i'm
portant Government agencies active IN
the recovery program. This council
meets at the White House once week
and talks the situation over, affording
clearing house. The new agencies
and their heads are: The National
Industrial Recovery Administration,
Gen. Hugh S.. Johnson; the Public
Works Administration. Harold l.. 1ckes,
Secretary of the Interior: Home Loan
! Bank Board. William M. Stevenson;
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Jesse H. Jones; Agricultural Adjust
, ment Administration, George Peek;
Morgenthau, jr.; Federal Relief Ad-
ministration, Harry L. Hopkins; Ten
nessee Valley Authority. Arthur E.
Morgan; Federal Transportation Board,
Joseph B. Eastman; the Civilian Con-
servation Corps. Robert Fechner.
Some Units Temporary.
The only time comparable in growth
of new Government agencies to the
new deal" is found in the war days Of
| l9l7-l913. when overnight there sprang
| up the War Industries Board. the Rail-
road Administration. the Fuel Admins
tration, the Food Administration, the
Alien Property Custodian, the War
Labor Board and other emergency
agencies Some of the agencies set up
be temporary, as for example, the N.
| r. A., the Public Works Administration
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
and the Federal Relief Administration
But others are expected to last for
years, as in the case Of the Home Loan
Bank the Farm Credit Administration
etc. Indeed. there is a belief on the
part Of many persons that Il the ma
tional recovery act and its codes prove
effective the law, which expires at the
end Of two years will be made perma-
nent. Certainly that IS the expectation
of Senator Wagner of New York, au-
|
came law.
The supplement Of the Congressional
Directory is expected to include those
officials appointed to important Office in
the older departments and independent
Government agencies since the Congress
adjourned. The President has given
recess appointments to SO men and
women whose appointments must be
! confirmed by the Senate, excluding all
Army and Navy officers and also post
masters. AS matter Of fact, the prac-
tice has been adopted Of appointing
acting postmasters" during the present
decess although in many cases these
acting postmasters may be finally con-
verted into postmasters when 1t comes
time to send nominations to the Senate.
Included in the list Of recess appoint
ments are assistant secretaries of some
Of the departments, United States Min
listers abroad, collectors Of customs and
of internal revenue. United States at
! torneys and marshals. One assistant
/ secretary. that of the Labor Depart
ment, Edwin S. McGrady. because OF
some ouirk Of the law creating the
Labor Department, does not have to be
confirmed by the Senate.
The heads of some of the new agen-
cles and their principal assistants are
appointed by the President, but are not
subject to confirmation by the Senate.
In some of the other agencies the
heads are subject to confirmation, but
practically none of their assistants.
Democratic Senators who have become
restive because they have not been
given, as they believe, sufficient con-
sideration in the appointments made in
these new agencies, may seek to force
through a new law at the coming ses-
sion Of Congress putting all these new
deal" officials under the scrutiny Of the
Senate-in other words. providing for
their confirmation by the upper house.
A bill by Senator Neely Of West Vir-
ginia passed the Senate before the
close of the special session providing
for the confirmation Of officials receiv-
ing 50 500 or more salary. That meas
ure was not acted upon In the House.
But it is not dead and may be called
up for consideration in that body when
Congress meets again.
| Spoils System Assailed.
A study of the resolutions thus far
prepared for presentation to the con-
vention indicates that the attacks on
civil service which recent weeks have
witnessed, have probably drawn more
attention from the rank and file OF
Federal employees scattered over Lie
country than any other issue.
More than 20 resolutions calling for
preservation and extension Of the merit
system and assailing the principle OF
handing out jobs as political spoils, al
ready are on the docket.
The District of Columbia Federation
is among the units criticizing the estab-
lishment of Federal agencies without
regard to classification, while group
of Ohio locals-Cleveland Dayton, Co.
lumbus and Chillicothe-favor exten-
sion of civil service by competitive ex-
animation to all non-civil service
groups. J
"Blanketing" Of workers into higher
positions instead of making promotion
through the civil service line Is hit by
: Duluth, Mimi, Local IS, while the
"unblanketing" Of those who have at.
ltained civil service status by competi-
tive test-such as recently was done In
the Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, is condemned by the Ohio
locals and those in Yuma and Naco
Ari1.
Decimating Police Hit.
Kansas City Local 20 calls for hal
On the Civil Service Commission ''prac'
tice" of specifying experience in non