Evening Star Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 13

'WOULD CHANGE DATE " FOR NEW CONGRESSES | Benator King Presents Bill Fixing April 6 for Opening Each Annual Session. PROVIDES OTHER CHANGES ‘ Declaration of Presidential Election Results Considered. April & would be fixed as the date for the first annual session of each new Congress, under the terms of a bill introduced today by Senator King of Utah, democrat. The Constitution provides that “Congress shall as- semble at least once in every year, and such mcetin first Monday in December, unless they 4 shall appoint a different day.” Senator King's bill is clearly with- in the power granted Congress by the Constitution. The King bill, besides fixing the date for the first annual session of each Congress, provides the date for d annual session shall be 2, next preceding. Permis- de for a third session following the eclection tof the United States, ion being required to o vote of the President and Congresse elected only onca in four years. xplainy Measure. anation of his bill, Senator id today: . “The four months intervening be- tween the November election and the inauguration of the President in , March is not too late able the outgoing President to clear up the work of h 1o afford the ne prepare for the duties. “The short session of the old Con- s, preceding the change in ad- tion, would s0 be of ad for disposing of pending In e is administration and President time to amption of ¥ the hs b 3 interval of thirteen mont ween the election and the first o ton great nterval to five months, Congress assumes office on March 4, wnd one month later, on the 6th of April, under my bill, regular session * One Month to Prepare Message. “This affords the new President one month to prepare his mu age, and is «s early a dat would Le proper for the assembling of Cong April 6. 1789, was the date upon which the first Congress, elected under the Con- mbled in the city of New York % lectoral ¢ Washington ha been cho: dei organized the stitution. This date, April t nstitution, as the government | der the Constitution, both in th 'to and de ju sent, had its be- ! zinning upon that day. | PROHIBITED MEETING IS HELD RY WORKERS | Wilkes-Barce Group Elude Police by Using Different Hall Than One Advertised. Ry the Asso-ia WIL] —Tho workers' party, bac Civil Liberties Union of N eluded th bruary 11 »d by the York, | neld this watehing ew police in the vesterday outsiirts of - were se interested all hall on }? Aiasor Hart had refused to_grant - perwt for the gathe The meetine w. ethan fifty p speakers wers w York, and 1, { 1d openly id ¢ , _who repre- rties Unjon, spoke > speech and urged vocated ¢ tagonism. peared at a! n Legion : allowed to not a radical workers' party, ' was free speech. He action of the American | cing up the meetin ago and said if it w was the duty of the mayor act. not the legion. Mr. Olmstead stated that he was a member of the legion, but could not remember the name vr number of his Dost. | i WILSON VISION OF PEACE IS LIKENED TO CHRIST'S' Rev. Dr Speer of New York Sees | Future According Ex-Presi- ' dent Honor Due. { and stated that his the interest of ticized th By the Associated Press. t CHICAGO, February 11—The vision | of Woodrow Wilson for a worid at peace through international accord avas compared to that of Cnrst in His message for peace on earth by the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Speer of _the «oard of foreign missions, New York speaking before the Chicago nday Evening Club last night. ‘It is altogether too close to Wood- row Wilson to judge of his place in world history, but in the future,” Dr. Speer said, “he will be accorded his righttul position among those who died for his faith. That is all that one van do, and, after all, the greatest life ever lived was just such. a railure.* i The speaker urged that people con- tinue their dreams of a clean, right- : . ous, merciful, brotherly world. = B: “indestructible hope,” Dr. Speer said, 1he people of the world can bring «bout a new order of universal peace, | A mew earth, he declared, can be had ; by looking for it. ! \g N, : ‘/ Take ALASC For Your a time to en-} jbureau inever received the indorsement of the Senate.” 1 The new | 3 would meet in | United States under the Con- | he 5, instead | of carryir i scheme i vice Commi: ! the matter of including est , |change his_vote in iCLASSIFYING BOARD = SCORED BY- EXPERT; ABOLITION IS URGED (Continued from First Page.) iof the bureau of efliciency, depart- locations to the bureau of efficiency schedules, which had . been rejected by the House of Representatives in substantially the form used. whereas the act directed the allocations should be made to section 13 of the act. “2. Nothing in the act authorized this use of the bureau of cfficiency classification, Course Held Violation. ment hecads weré required to make .l-‘ gmm THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “D. ¢, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 a statement or program to guide the board that is palpably er- |roneous and misleading, but provides for the utilization of the bureau of efliciency classification, and for sheiv- Ing section 5 of the classificacion act; an, “8. That the majority of the board, with the representative of the Civil Service Commission voting ‘n’ issued to the public statements regarding the work of the board that do.not accord with the facts as revealed by {.he dmlmltes and records of the card.” Complaints Plentiful. Mr. Meriam, on page seventy-seven of his elghty-page report to Mr. Lehle bach. declares. “Your request to me did uot call for suggestions as to what c.n be done to remedy the classifica- : tion muddle. Possibly the amount of i time that I have given to classification “3. The board did not establish and |40 to (he present asslgnment of ex: define classes of positions within the several grades under the act (he refers to the classification act) and adopted no other device to bring about uniformity of interpretatién by several departments. It is belicved that its failure to establish classes: within the grades was in violation gs shall be on the of the spirit of the act, if not of its |heeds hearings to find it out.” (letter. “4. The personnel, and procedure of the District of Co- the direction of an employe of the bureau of efficiency, and made up mainly of employes of the bureau of efficiency, was entirely inadequate to| I the task'imposed upon the board by act. “5. The initia] allocations made to bureau of efliciency schedules by | }the Columbia division i errors H ssibly because of the state-! {men « allocatlons wer | te stimate purpos ouly, the board never made any ade- | quate review of allocations, H “Approval Is Withheld, ‘7. Because of the obvious errors | in the allocations examined, the rep- entative of the Civil Servi mission was unable to ‘give even his pro forma approval of these tentative allocations. Without further general re- view of allocations and without ever complying with the requirements of section 4 of the act, the board on November 12, over thé protest of Mr. Moffett of the Civil Service Commis- on, voted to make these tentative allocations to the bureau of efficiency schedule final without further general review. “0. The net result is to adopt the of efficiency classification which was rejected by the House and Tells of Field Service. | Summarizing the situation with re- | spect to the classification of the field | rvice, Mr. Meriam told Mr. Lehl-| bach that the record relating to the classification of the field ‘service, re- viewed from the beginning, di loses: “I That at the outset there was| ntlal agreement among the! embers of the board that the | ct and its administra- th compensation Schedules of services, nd classes, though the mem- red as to the best methods on the work . That_the repr development of © of the changed his | of the requirements of the law | when his proposed methods were not | adopte That the re bureau of efficienc: nent of the for 1t of the n oppe scheduled field erv that he had > Iy considered ne the act That thereafter the represen " of the bureau of cff sought on e possible oceas to substitute i salary grading xisting rates of pay und on the bureau of efficiency Wood- Smoot bill plan which had been re- jected by Congres: i That the resentative of the bureau of the budget voted with the representative of the Civil Ser-! sion in opposing the rep- | resentative of the bureau of efficiency: | Says Statement Misleading. That the bureau of the budget. the personnel board or both muddled vates for he field service in the budget, there- crippling the work of the field sion of the board by shorteniag without warning the tim= e for its works: 7 at somehow, through this muddling, unexplained situation sulted, for an unex- in making the repre- sentativ of law without 1 UNDER UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Safety and Interest Guaranteed 49, Savings Deposits 4% 5% Certificates of Deposit5 % Free Checking Service Banking Hours: 8:30 to § P, THE DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Colodny’s Phar- macy, 14th and Clifton Sts. N.W. —is another of the con- veniently located Star Branch Offices — where you may leave Classified Ads fo‘;‘u 'l'l:|c:e Shn—cu:rl; they wi promp forwarded to the Main Office. just regular rates. The Star prints MORE Classified Ads every day than all the other papers here combined. “Around the Corner” is a B organization ! lumbia division of the board, under | | Mr. Merlan then gives the two legis- | will of Congre: sional district here last night. i jamining the minutes and records will | dust me in venturing certain sug- | fons. do mot think any valuable pur- { pose would be served by holding com- mittee hearings at which individual employes or groups of employes-would i be heard with respect to errors of al- { location. Tt is common knowledge that this city fairly seethes with individual complaints, and the committee h]?lrdly ear- ! ings would be exceedingly vaiuable, he { continued, “if conducted to fill the im- portant gaps In the records, to explain what at the present time 15 unexplain- able.” lative remedies previously explained herein. | STEWARD CHARGES PLOT. | | Employes’ President Says Bosrd:;'tf our soldier d'“d | H Sought to Defraud Workers. | Declaring that he had collected “evidence of a conspiracy to defraud federal workers and to defeat the s as expressed in the reclassification act of 1923, President Luther C. Steward of the National Federation of Federal Employes to- day called upon government workers to urge support of legislation to abol- ish the personnel reclassification board and give jurisdiction over all matters relating to personnel admin- istration to the mission. The call was issued in a signed ar- ticle appearing today in the Feder. Employe, official organ of the federa- tion, and the article making s, according to a statement tion, is based on the s Meriam of the Insti- tute of Government Research, who was appointed by Representative Lehlbach of New Jersey, chalrman of he House committee on reform in vil service, to analyze and make Civil Service Com- classification board. Meriam'’s report covers eighty typewritten manuscript, in- quotations at length from the | and records,” President Stew- The report is temperate s fairly free from adjec- it does not attempt to| acterize the bureau of efficiency, ' sustains every charge | tional Federation of | HOUGHTON PUT IN RACE. \New York District Nominates Am- bassador for G. 0. P. Delegate. ELMIRA. N. Y., February 11.—Alan- ! son B. Houghton, United States am- bassador to Germany, and State tor Seymour Lowman of this were designated candidates for eles tion as delegates to the republican national convention by republican leaders of the thir! nth congres- ty The superstitio in olden d: believed that if one Jookea at growing vegetable or tree om an empty stomach in the morning such vegetation would never fourish | | i | | | i nglish .'Al‘nl(‘l‘l | a i “ on and institution. that sell at abojt you to install'n\v your furnace will saving. free on l.‘fi-llllIll.-.IIIIIIII.III.III.III-II-. po® There is great economy in the use of the small sizes (btckwheat, rice and barley) stove and chestjut. Maybe it will pay built for burning these cheaper sizes. Per- haps use of the larger and smaller sizes in That you may learn from experts how to use Anthracite properly is the purpose - of the Coal Economy Show. TOMBSTONE SWINDLE HIT IN U. S. CIRCULAR Some Parents Misinformed by As- -sertions Government Aids Buying of Markers for Soldiers. Because of an apparent misunder- standing on the subject, the quarter- master general of the Army has issued a circular to the public explaining that the government will supply head- stones for the unmarked graves of all honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines who served in any war, but that it does not contribute any- thing toward the expense of head- stones or monuments purchased by relatives or friends from private deal- ers or manufacturers. The quartermaster general says that the correspondence of his office shows there is much misinformation on this subject and that a belief ex- ists that the government contributes to the purchase of private headstones. Many relatives who seek fittingly to honor their soldier dead,” he says, “find themselves embarrassed to meet payments in which they had expected to receive government aid, and some suffer losses. Intentional use of this misinformation to promote sales is taking advantage of the bereavement of the patriotic parents and widows Ignorant use of 10 the sxame scarcely le: n, culpable, because the truth may be easily learned at any time by inquiry addressed to the War Department or the quartermaster general.” DEAT.H AT- SEA VERIFIED. Son of Judge Denigon, Detroit, Dis- 3 sppears From Ship. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 11— Confirmation of the report that Ar- thur C. Denison, jr., Detrolt, had beep lost at ses has been received by his father, United States Circuit Judge Denison, in a telegram from W. Em- erton Heldland, New York artist, who was a companion of the missing man. The message gave no details col cerning the tragedy. News of the loas of this son came to Judge Denison here from the Amer- ican consul at Santo Domingo. 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