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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1912
Page
12
An appropriation committee reform proposal seeks a five year term for classified service appointments and would abolish the Court of tet Commerce bureaus and mints. It cuts the War Department force and reduces salaries while providing a total of 33,510,264 dollars in funding.
Diamines all employes in the classified service in Washington June 30 1811 authorises the executive branches to release those not reaching the age of 65 for efficiency. Establishes a five year term for appointments under the classified service. Abolishes the court of commerce the bureaus of manufactures a statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor and the mints of San Francisco New Orleans and Carson. Calls for immediate reduction of more than 10 percent in the force of the War Department. Prohibits paying from public funds rent for telephones in private residences of government employees. Reduces the salary of the secretary to the Treasury from 7500 to 9600. The bill carries an appropriation of 1 0 0 5 1 9 4 which in 98 638 ofs seen was carried in the bill for the current year.
The committee proposes drastic reforms in the executive departments of Waushimatea, aiming to dismiss many workers and limit reappointments. It calls for a 11 percent force reduction in the War Department by June 2, 1912, abolishes the United States Commerce Court by year end, transfers bureaus to other agencies, and trims salaries including the President’s private secretary. The plan emphasizes economy, with no overall pay raises and targeted consolidations.
Republican members of the appropriations committees fled a minority report urging retention of the Commerce Court and the Bureau of Statistics and Manufactures, and opposed reducing the secretary to the President’s salary. The text notes no further appointments of that class until the number of judges drops below the current count.
Senator Lea of Tennessee demanded yesterday in the Senate that Attorney General Wick ersham supply his reply to the Senate Reguation of Inquiry into the International Harvester Company. He urged the department of justice to provide all information in its possession from 1904 to the present. The Senate took no action.
Senate committee on commerce completed the river and harbor bill and will publish it today. The main amendment raises the Mississippi River appropriation to 96,000,000 with 1,500,000 for flood levee emergency work. about 4,000,000 of the sum targets levee construction. A provision covers Cairo and the Ohio Mississippi junction with 5,000 for the work, to be funded by local contributions. The House appropriation for a new lock on the St Marys River is raised to 400,000, two million for Jamaica Bay improvements is omitted, and a large proposed project is noted but not funded.
The Senate authorized an appropriation of $500,000 for waterways projects. The Corps of Engineers is to classify all projects and outline standardization methods for U S waterways and report on whether to continue the contract system or fund the full amount from the initial appropriation.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee reported favorably the Sulzer bill creating a merit system in the consular service. It also backed a favoring bill for construction of legation and embassy buildings abroad including an embassy in Mexico City worth 160000 dollars and Tokyo also 160000 dollars with legation buildings in Berne priced at 149000 dollars and a Hankow tenant general residence at 60000 dollars. The merit system requires consuls to pass exams to qualify and extends to undersecretaries of embassies.
Maxwell Evans, general counsel for Southern Pacific, told Senate interoceanic canal committee that the Panama Canal should be opened to railroad owned ships and traffic regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The issue was presented amid calls to ensure fair rates. In San Francisco the state supreme court denied rehearing in the Baldwin will case, affecting Lillian A Turnbull and Anita Turnbull, alleged wife and daughter of the late E J Baldwin.
Attorney General Wickersham appointed Lamney W. Finch, chief of the justice department’s investigation bureau, as special commissioner to suppress the white slave traffic. Finch will lead a nation wide campaign with state agents and special officers, cooperating with societies to probe conditions in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. He will supervise bureau work while Blelanki acts as head.
The Richmond Chamber of Commerce board last night discussed a congressional bill to dismiss civil service workers aged 65 in 1914. Isaac Gans condemned the plan as unjust to loyal public servants. The board endorsed Richmond business leaders’ highway financing plan linking Washington and Richmond as part of the Quebec to Miami national route. G. Bowie Chipman and J. H. Crawford resigned. Joseph Stoddard and P. B. Chase were appointed to replace them.
St Louis leaders of lumbermen and allied groups announced an immediate campaign against the Interstate Commerce Commission ruling classifying top lines as not common carriers. They claim the decision would deprive them of thousands in weekly income through rate differences and plan to file for an injunction.
Senator Simmons yesterday concluded a speech advocating revision of the metal tariff schedule. It was the first in a long series on tariffs. Senator Stone mildly lectured the Senate on its evident lack of interest.
Sam offers Nurito a doctor prescribed remedy free of opiates for rheumatism sciatica and neuritis promising money back if pain persists. Claims proof from patients who could not walk improved. product said to be compounded by Magistral Chemical Co, New York.
A telegram from Emrys via a shipping agency says the Archipelago American Steamship Tex as, lost in the Gulf of Smyrna with 140 aboard, was sunk by a shell from the military fort rather than by ming. Two warning shots preceded the fatal shell as ships deviated from the marked channel. Authorities had warned that vessels could become targets if they strayed.
State Department inquiry reveals American contractors in Cuba facing payment delays. Cuba admits delay but cites no clear reason. US supervisory role under Platt amendment covers Cuban finances and new loans. Mary A Young Dies At 70 In Washington Home. Mrs. Mary A Young, wife of John R Young, clerk at the District Supreme Court, died yesterday at 1522 R Street NW. She had been ill for years and seriously ill five weeks. Funeral Friday at home with burial in Reck Creek cemetery.
The dedication services follow the removal of the Joaquin Miller cabin to its new Rock Creek park site. The event is at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon May 12 with invited speakers from the California State Association. High School Cadets will guide visitors from the end of the Fourteenth street car line.
Pittsburgh pastor reports a Titanic victim William T Stead sent another spirit communication predicting his body will likely be recovered. The message says the body is stiff but in good state, slowly rising toward a hatchway, with a tall aged lady appearing to him in spirit, unaware she is out of the body.
The Executive Committee of the Arizona Republican Committee favored Taft for the presidency. It recommended to the state committee that the state’s six delegates to the national convention be chosen by convention on May 31 in Tucson.
The Washington Fox reports a baby girl born last Tuesday night in Mamaroneck, weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces. Sammy Colt, son of Mr and Mrs Russell Colt, is credited with the delivery news. The piece also notes May 1 nursing in Des Moines. International Kindergarten Union selects Mia Mable McKinney of Pratt Institute for president with election the next day, Catherine B. Watkins of Washington slated as auditor.
Mrs Luther Jenkins aged 23 years shot and probably fatally wounded her husband and then killed herself at their home in Hagerstown Maryland Special to The Washington Post The couple had been married three years no children the quarrel began at supper when the husband returned home and ended in the fatal shots with bullets hitting the abdomen left arm and left side the victim not expected to live until morning
The House naval affairs committee endorsed reinstating Charles Lewis Clifford and Gaston Lee Holmes after their dismissal for absence without leave from the battleship Vermont in Norway. Representatives Peters of Massachusetts and Sisson of Mississippi led the push for reinstatement. In a separate incident, George Reed, 27, was killed in a fight on Tl H Street Southwest. a 2-year-old named Robert Warren, resident in the killer’s house, is in custody. Ocean movement shows arrivals at New York and Plymouth routes, with several ships listed and scheduled sailings to and from Europe.
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