Show 16 ISSUE reformation OF 00 SPENDING conditions IN FEDERAL FEDERAL SERVICE 0 BEGUN E GUN SAVING MAY BE postmasters fear wilson will rescind tafts civil service order and take away their jobs moving day for government officials approaches pr pro aches caches by GEORGE CLINTON XV washington ashington men alen who have mado made a study of spending conditions in the federal service bellevo believe and have reported that more than a year can call be saved to tho the govern merit ment it if certain recommendations for economy be observed and the claim la Is that this saving baving can be made without in any way crippling tho the service it Is probable that before the next congress ends tho the entire system of making appropriations will bo be changed that many bureaus will bo consolidated and tile the supply bills cut many millions of dollars the money saved to bo be used for extending the useful services of the government to fields not already covered when theodore roosevelt was president lie he appointed what was known as the keep commission it was tile the duty of mr keep and ills bla colleagues to study business methods in vogue in tho the different departments and to see how the work could be shortened and yet be just as effective its as it was wag under tinder existing conditions start made on economy when president taft carno into office one of the first things lie he did was to call his bis cabinet together to urge uj upon ah them the necessity of economic administration secretary macveagh was mado made the chals chal man of a cabinet committee charged with the work of economic administration it was soon eoon discovered that in single departments of the government the different bureaus purchased their supplies independently of one another and that different prices were paid for precisely the same article A good many economies small as compared to tho the saving which it Is dished were made it was a start however for greater things the system which was in vogue in the treasury department or perhaps it had better be called a lack of system was the saffie same which hold held in nearly every other department of govern ment all the secretaries got busy in the saving venture and there was wag an 1 economic spurt nil all along the line not long after the first initial economic venture president tatt taft appointed a commission on economy and efficiency with frederick A cleveland as As its chief this commission has been at work for more thon then two years and it has worked out an elaborate and yet at the samo time simple scheme for saving uncle sam money system approved president elect wilson has sane sanc the budget system of appropriations which has been urged by the present president and by tha commission on economy and efficiency budget system all the appropriations asked for go to dozens of committees of congress for instance the naval appropriation Is acted on by several different committees each one talc ing a part and no one of them knowing just what the other Is doing the result Is a scattering ot of energies and a scattering of money under the budget system all the appropriations will be considered by the chairmen of different committees acting together they thus can get concrete knowledge of the whole situation at once and by intelligent direction can stop many holes of waste if the economy and efficiency commissions recommendations finally be adopted by congress it Is believed that the agricultural interests of the country largely will be aided there are bills now in congress looking to this very thing but the cost Is said eald to be prohibitive because of the pro pre sent extravagant methods with a saving of a year and some of the experts place it as high as a year many of the helpful measures now under con 1 ilde ration by the law makers can bo be passed the money will bo be for theom ng and the treasury will be just as well veil off as it is now and the benefits multiplied this matter is IB going to be a live issue in congress from now on I 1 postmasters fear for fop jo joba be naturally the democrats of both boune and sena teare looking ahead to the glad time when they will come into full possession of the administration in all its branches the democratic leaders are nonplus nonplussed sed as aa to what to do about the blanket civil bervice ter vice executive order issued by president talt taft not long before the election the effect of which was to put nearly postmasters of the country ou tho civil service list it goes without lout baylus perhaps that nearly all of these js anre it re republicans many of aiom have hold held villee for years and who unless the executive order bo be set aside will continue to draw their pay front from undo uncle sam for the y cars to come or until death or misconduct removes then them front from their dol delivery ivory windows there are few republican leaders who find all ariy gwit tit ot all with their democratic colleagues for urging that president elect wilson set aside the civil service executive order of president taft as toon soon after march 4 as A good many of the laicans are willing to confess that it would mould have been a hard blow to their parts party organization if years ago all the postmasters of the he country had been removed from the field of poll appointments they say eay they would have resented it and that thoy cannot hon honestly complain because the democrats now tire arc seeking to pro pare to have the order rescinded I 1 moving day approaches to a great many people washington will not bo be washington after march 4 1 the day following tile the inauguration or nt at any rate some day not far removed from it will be moving day for hosts of long time washington residents calling themselves temporary residents but hoping that as tho the years went on they finally might write tile tho adjective permanent before tho the noun what changes will take place in washington in the personnel of the existing office forces well of 0 course first and foremost there la Is the president who intiso move with his far family rilly and his law library to the old homo on tile the banks of the ohio river prior to the day of moving from tho the white house air taft will entertain for two days ills his coming successor as chief executive and the successors good wl wife fe philander chase knox tho the secretary of state on march 4 will give wa dav to william jennings dryan bryan possibly ily or certainly to some other good democrat of the country mr knox has been in washington in one official capacity or a nother another for a good many years and ho he has a fine old home on K street where with mrs knox he be entertains in a hoppi hospitable table spirit republicans democrats pro republicans and progressives Progress ives alike to say eay nothing of foreigners and the casual american visitors to washington it Is said that mr knox will move only from the state department and that he will keep ills his K street house for nine months a year and will alil spend the other three months in the state of pennsylvania which after ba had been attorney general in the roosevelt cabinet sent him to the se sen ate macveagh will not depart franklin macveagh MacVea gb secretary 0 of the treasury is the only other cabinet officer who will not move from washington when some good democratic financier takes his seat in the big building where uncle sams money Is kept two years ago next christmas day mrs franklin macveagh presented her husband with a house on sixteenth street mr air macveagh from the windo windows ws of his residence at the time saw th the e christmas gift building rising stone by stone only a block or two away but he had rio no idea who was building it or who was to fire tn in it finally it was completed and as the children say the secretary of the treasury found the new residence in his sto stocking ching on christmas morning with the merry christmas card of his wife afe attached mr macveagh it is understood will not return to chi cago cage but will continue to live in washington in his holiday gift house secretary of commerce and labor charles nagel will return to st louls louis to take up tho the practice ot of the law secretary of the interior walter L fisher fieber will return to chicago to continue the course of court pleading and of closet counseling which he followed before mr air taft called him to wash ington attorney general george W wick bershara also will return to the law and probably will become a member again of the old established new york firm with which he be severed his con lection when bidden to come to washington hitchcock may enter business frank H hitchcock postmaster general it Is currently reported has haa been offered eight different business positions from time to time it if he would consent to give up directing uncle sams mall mail matters and would return to business busl ness life it Is not known ul whether lether mr hitchcock will accept ono one of these former offers or will wait for a now new and more attractive one but the confirmed word Is that lie Is to enter business in new york city secretary of war henry L stimson and the secretary of the navy george von L meyler will go lack back to the law in the one case and to business in the other it Is possible however that mr air meyer still may have political an am and that he may strive ive one day to bo be made united states sena tor from massachusetts james wilson allson who has been secretary of agriculture since the year 1897 and has broken all records of contina cont inu ous oua cabinet service finally la Is to go back to private ahle mr wilson will move it to Is sand to an iowa farm |