Show SA t AEL EL A AND Mc CON 1 1 INVESTIGATION 1 1 Washington on D C Jill July sweep Ing In Investigation of o th the clerks in th the I of commerce and labor Is Isto to o bear beal results thIs week Secretary I Nagel anti and hIs able Ormsby have been working to find out If the gover n mont ment Is getting gelling its full OUt of oC its and the results have conclusively that It is 18 not Under Secretary Instructions Ir has hns In the case o of each ench Individual clerk In the department depart department ment and has reported those whom h he classes as mechanical Jerks clerks to hIs superior B By the term mechanical he means menns the map man who drops hIs pen lii In the mIddle o of a letter at quitting tIme who takes no pains to Inform himself as to the proper performance ot of his duties whose chIef lion Is not what he is doing but what ho has done In days gone h by or whose ne ves need alcoholic stimulant to stimulate him for his daily task Mr lr Is known In his depart lent ns as a strict A hard worker himself nt at all times Limes he Insists that his shall likewise render a fair equivalent for the thc none mono paid laid I Ithem them Since Mr lr McHarg has taken hold or of the department of commerce alII and labor laborthe laborthe the output of the work has been In Increased creased he sa says s fully 30 per cent Indeed I would swear It has been In I creased 25 per cent he exclaimed and It Is simply the thc result of making I t I Ito l to I 1 l v vJ J fit r ff 4 f r rt rS I i w E r r II I II Ifo I I II I II I I t r S r rii ii J fo F Ai Aih y h AR ARthe the men just do their plaIn duty No Noone o I one is asked or expected to work hIm hImself himself self to death or make a p record It Is simply a t case of doing w what Ut I he e Is paid for that is all there Is Ie to It ItI I l I propose that the of thIs department shall render a fair equivalent lent for 01 the salaries paid them and who do not must get et out con can I tinned the tho secretary It Is purely a 11 qu of putting the department ona on I Ii i a business basis I am Ir less Rs disposed I Ito to be exacting with a man who has I Irown grown rown gray Jray In hl the service after years 1 rs I cf r faithful performance 01 monce of M duty than with Hh the young fellows who have hac como come into It t to be supported The Tho who observe hours because they arc aro compelled to who drop their Pens at the how for quitting no matter maneI what the condition of their work or who fall fail to giro Intelligent interest to toil It il at an any time have no place hero holo Men of bad habits whether It De be intemperance In think or Intemperance In neglect of duty need expect no con COil from me i 1 am goIng to consider each case carefully on an Its merits and when I act It may mar be do de depended upon Ill action will lie be well within the requirements of the law I Asked ns as to the authenticity of a statement recently published in hi whIch a of the lie department I Ia of o commerce and labor Is said to have havo assailed the civil service commission charging It t with the for Cor I the tho amount or of found to e In big department and with time the dally open and viola lion of the law Secretary Nagel said So far as I 1 am tic the statu statum m mont nt is utterly without foundation and false fallo I The trouble l lore is 18 hein being dealt with here al am I will bo be dealt with In a Proper manner r I know of nothIng to warrant the thc charge that the civil service ser serIco vice Ico commission Is hampering this du 10 I or re responsible for the lent dent that nUl nifty be found In It TJI Time charges referred to that the United civil is II re for time tho I amount of nc found In the of commerce commerce sad Mod and tune tho commission dally daily Openly and flagrantly flagrant the tho civil I service I laws Wit r |