Evening star., 1937-03-13
HAYDEN ASKSDATA'
FOR SENATE PROBE
.0F CIVIL SERVICE
Offers Resolution to Seek
Figures on States Pres
ent Quotas.
COMMISSION REPORT
ON EMPLOYEES CITED
22 Pct of Apportioned Jobs Filled
by D. c. Residents, Arizonan
Says.

The Senate may take up next week
the Hayden resolution calling for
data on the present number of en-
ployes with civil service status both
in Washington and in the field
service, together with an apportion-
ment of the number by States.
In his resolution. offered in the
Senate yesterday afternoon. Senator
Hayden, Democrat, Of Arizona point
ed out the reform of the Civil Service
system and its extension to emergency
ageniceS is under consideration by
the Congress" and asked that the
Civil Service Commission be requested
to furnish the following information:
81. The total number of employees
with civil service status in WASH
ington; 2, the total number of en-
ployes with civil service status en-
gagged in the field service outside of
Washington; 3, statement showing
the apportionment by States of all
civil service employees in Washington.
including those who have been blan.
keted into the civil service or secured
a status through non-competitivs
examination, or in any other manner,
according to the legal residence of
such employees at the time they were
appointed: 4, similar statement
showing the apportionment by States
of all civil service employees engaged
in field service outside of Washing
ton, according to the legal residence
of such employees at the time they
were appointed"
Commission Statement.
The Senator placed in the Record
recent statement by the commission
on the status of the rule in the civil
service law which provides that ap-
polntments to the executive depart
ments in Washington be apportioned
among the States and Territories ac-
cording to population. His resolution
declared the statement showed "only
39,744 civil service apportioned APP
pointments in Washington" The
statement also showed that on Feb.
ruary Is seven States and the Dis
trict were above their quotas, with Il
States having less than their quotas.
The resolution also stated that of
the 39,744 apportioned appointments,
1888, or 22.6 per cent, were recorded
as residents of the District.
The 39,744 places to which appor-
tionment applies, however, is but a
comparatively small part of the pres
ent Federal personnel here. In nearly
all the emergency and new agencies
set up in the last few years, Congress
directed that the personnel be OBJ
tained, without regard to civil serv.
| ice.
| Some Not Subject.
In addition it was explained at COM
mission headquarters that in some Of
the permanent agencies, like the Navy
Yard, the Government Printing Office
! and the Bureau of Engraving and
/ Printing, some of the personnel is not
( subject to the rule of apportionment of
/ appointments among the States.
/ When the question has been under
| discussion in Congress in the past it
has been brought out that there are
various factors which make it diff
cult to keep civil service appointments
in line with apportionment quotas.
For example, it was stated at commits
sion headquarters yesterday that dur
ing the period from last June to Feb
ruary Is of this year appointees had
to be certified from States in excess
Of their quotas because there were not
sufficient eligibles available from the
other States.
| 1t was stated at Senator HaydenS
Office that he had no proposed legis-
lation in mind at this time, but was
! seeking information on the subject.