Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-30 | Page 5 | Uncle Sam's Old Employes

UNCLE SAM S OLD gen A answorth advocates reform in the service congressman G alett s committee on reform in the civil service held adoth er interesting hearing to day says a washington dispatch at which brig gen F ainsworth chief of the rec ord and pension office in the war de apartment part ment gave i lorce lul statement of his ideas as the result of years of experience gen ainsworth favored security of tenure in office for govern ment employed emp loyes and a retirement tern making it obi batory for em aloyes to retire at the end of a long specified term of service or after reaching a certain age he said that until the civil service was placed on a similar basis to the war and faava departments thus ridd ng the service the dead wood effective and eco nominal service could not be expect ed he have a general merit system in every branch of the ice by which clerks would be rated and would by this means eliminate all possibility of political influence in securing pi emotions for clerks it the clerics were given the right to re tire at a certain time on half or three fourths pay they would devote their whole interest to doing good work and not be dividing their interests in seeking employment outside by which to earn provision for old age gen ainsworth Ains north stated that the estimated cost of a retired list in the civil ser vice the age of retirement being placed at 64 years as in the anay would be on a three fourths pay basis 10 19 per cent of the active list it retire 1 at 64 on half pay the cost would be per cent of the active list if the age of retirement should be placed at 70 years the coat at three fourths pay would be 5 25 per cent of the active list and at half pay 3 50 per cent of the active 1 st