Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1927, Page 18

18 BLANTON CALLS BROWN “MEDDLER" Assails Efficiency Bureau | Head for Delay in Furnish- ing Facts He Asked. In a letter to Herbert D. Brown, | chief of the Bureau of Ifficiency, today e ive | Brown for procra ing him with a er Bureau of E % e | Brown that he and his bureau have had for the last 11 vye valiant defender in Congress ths -| self and condemns him for “meddling | without authority of law in every de- partment of the municipal ment. ¥ Mr. Blanton also takes issue with the Bureau of ¢ because it | throug’ | ing their govern- | ¥ the act of August 23, 1912, your bureau was merely a division in the United States Civil Service Commis- sion, with the single authority of fix ing efficiency ratings for Federal em- ployes of the United States Govern- ment. It had to do only with the personnel. “By a brief rider tacked onto the deficiency appropriation bill of Feb- ruary 28, 1916, concerning which prob- ably not more than a dozen legislators had any knowledge, and which rider a point of order would have killed had it been made, your division was transferred from the Civil Service and made into an independent bureau. But in no law have you ever been given juwisdiction over any employes of the District of Columbia, but only over employes of the Federal Govern- ment of the United States. Cites Report on Hotels. June 4, 1927, your bureau your D. P. ns made a veport showing that hotels in Wash- ington are selling to certain taxi com- panies the exclusive privilege of park- axicabs in all available curb space around such hotels, which re- ceive 10 per cent of gross receipts, and such report showed that during the wr 1926 the receipts to such taxicabs round 12 hotels only amounted to .867.98, most of which went to the low and the Black & White, owned by one company. And these 12 hotels “On held that local hotels were within their Jegal rights in selling to certain taxi- cab companies exclusive parking privi- leges in the streets adjacent to these hotels and accuses him of having| “deliberately recommended the ruin | of the hest traffic director any city in the United States ever had. | Mr. Brown is also taken to task for ha ®gccepting money from the Du Pont | interests.” Request Made October 17. | 2 part: His letter follows, in one week “On October 17, 182 ago today, 1 requested you to please send me the names, respective salares drawn by them, of all officials | and employes in your bureau, and then advised you that such informa- | tion was necessary ir 1 am now ma gres: | fou advised me on October 18 that you would furnish me this information, but you have not yet done so. The information I requested is such that, especially in a ‘bureau | of efficiency,’ should be available on the chief's desk, so that it could be furnished immediately, realize that such procr delay practiced by your Efficiency,” and by you, the ‘chief of the Bureau of Efficiency,’ is setting | rather a bad example for the numer- | ous scores of other Government | bureaus from which you are presumed | to_demand efficiency | “You know better than any one else that during my 11 years in Congress | 1 have heartily supported you and your bureau, because I believed that you were working for and I realized that some Government agency to require efficiency was ab- molutely necessary. 1 have been criticized many times for defending you and your bureau. Meddling Is Charged. “Since the first of this year your bureau has been engaged in meddling n investigaticn ‘without authority of law in every de- | partment of the Municipal Govern- ment of the District of presuming to frame policies for all of its chiefs and officials. cause it of the Washington papers, you must have been aware of the fact that Mr. Gibson’s resolution authorizing his committee to function after March 4 did not pass. And since March 4 there has been no Gibson committee, “And because the press here pub- lished it, you likewise must have been aware of the fact that in its report, No. 1,590, printed July 1, 1926, the House judiciary committee decided that the District of Columbia is mere- 1y a “municipal corporation” and not & part of the Federal Government of the United States, and that its em- ployes are not Federal employes of the United States. ‘'When it was first established by | the people 5 sin ng for use before Con- | | efficiency ‘efficiency,’ | Columbia. | was published in all | received as their commis nted by law, for ace in the streets that belong to It was not recommended that this practice of hotels he stop- ped, but merely that such taxicabs carry only the guests of such hotels. (aturally the press asserted that you 1 held that such hotels were within Director M. trictly enforcing the traffic law ike, there was a hue and ciy gainst him. W rity of law whatever you be rake over his department. him to be kicked out and another made traffic director, and traffic en- forcement has been demoralized ever ag low was greatly surprised at the excuse you gave for your accepting money from the du Pont interests, ‘that what you did with your own time was your own business, and that if you wanted to make outside money after 4:30, you had the right “It has been reported to me that for one job vou did for the du Ponts while you have been our Government chief you received $10.000, Is this true? If it is not true. I want you to please state just how much, all told, have the du Ponts paid you?" . Popular Denomination. m the Boston Transcript Tother goes to the Methodist | Church,” said a little girl to the new I n hbo! | F n't your father of the same | denomination, dear?” “I don't know zackly what daddy is: he don't go to church with, moth- |er. U R a a S Sor Fmes s R705-14™ST. & ' FALSE TEETH Dropping or Slipping? 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ROSSLYN Iw_l STEEL and CEMENT CO SEVEN RUGS STOLEN Owner in Hospital, Family Visits theft of a rug from the lobby of Phillips Terrace The rug, valued at 100, was taken yesterday morning between 5 and 7 o'clock. Helen Farmer and Dorothy Baker, apartment 1, 727 Third street north- reported the loss of articles of ry from their rtment yester- The former robbed of a | bracelet valued at $65, while a wrist Iw.n.«h valued at $60 was taken from | FROM VACANT HOME House and Finds $2,000 in Furnishings Gone. the latter. Two rings valued at $150 and $3 Mrs. L. R. Connors, igation of the theft of seven | ,.‘Jm,,l,. f,,,,,\,,sfl,‘ Tued at $2,000, from the home i me F. Arnold, 1631 Thirty- | third street, being conducted by | police of No. 7 precinct. 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