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Show WAGE 8TANDARD8 PLANNED Measure to Fix Wages Will Be Brought' Before Congress. Washington. A bill to flx now wage standards for all government employees em-ployees Is to -lie oiio of the first measures meas-ures to obtain consideration at tho approaching ap-proaching session of congress. Salary Sal-ary scales in general, according to plans outlined, will ho raised, but wages for several clusses of employees may ho reduced.- ' Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, with tho aid of treasury experts, Is preparing a hill for the reclassification of government salaries. It is the plan to censo paying federal employees from lump sums, nt salaries fixed nt tho will of bureau chiefs, and also to dispense with the bonus system adopted adopt-ed during tho war. Among tho nbuscs aimed at aro conditions con-ditions 'found, nccordlng to Senator Smoot, In various departments whero gonio employees receive many hundreds hun-dreds of dollars moro or less than others doing exactly tdmllnr work. |