H. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, DEAR SIR: In deference to the request of the United States Civil Service Retirement Association, I have had the statistics for the 50,047 civil-service employees shown in Census Bulletin No. 12 as receiving less than $720 per annum segregated so as to eliminate 5,958 of them which received less than $100 per year and tabulated the remainder according to the amount of salary that each received. The totals for all classes of employees included in this group, whether employed in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, are summarized in the following statement: Receiving $100 but less than $200 per annum Total.... 1, 964 1,686 2,372 3, 101 2, 916 28, 936 3, 114 44, 089 The Bureau of the Census has refrained from calculating the total amount paid annually to the civil-service employees, because it was believed the information in the possession of the Office was not sufficiently accurate to justify such a computation, but, in compliance with your request, the computation has been made, and the results are furnished in the following statement: The total amount paid in salaries to the employees of the executive civil service was calculated by multiplying the number of employees in each group by the estimated average salary. In computing the total salaries separately for the employees in the District of Columbia it was found that by taking for the average salary the minimum rate of all groups, except the group of employees receiving less than $720, a total amount was obtained approximately the same as that given in the Official Register for 1903, and the same rates were therefore used for employees elsewhere than in the District of Columbia. By the segregation in $100 groups of the employees receiving less than $720 it was found that the average salary less than $720 is about $533. This average salary was therefore used for the less than $720 group in calculating the total salaries. In making the calculation no account was taken of the employees receiving less than $100; those whose salaries were not reported or who received no compensation, pieceworkers, and 613 special agents paid on a per diem basis, who received compensation only for such time as they were actually employed. By this estimate it appears that the annual salaries of the employees in the District of Columbia approximated $24,792,319, and of the employees engaged elsewhere than in the District, $89,233,178, making a total of $114,025,497. Very respectfully, Mr. WALLACE W. HITE, S. N. D. NORTH, Director. Patent Office, Washington, D. C. APPENDIX H. A BILL SUGGESTED BY MAJ. FRED BRACKETT, FOR THE RETIREMENT OF EMPLOYEES IN THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT. A bill, suggested by Maj. Fred Brackett, for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service of the Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be and hereby is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money equal to three per centum of the total annual expenditure for pay and compensation of all employees in the classified service on July first, eighteen hundred and and every day thereafter; said sum or sums to constitute a permanent appropriation and the proper proportion thereof to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the retirement fund on the day following each semimonthly or other regular pay day as the case may be. SEC. 2. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and the pay of all employees in the classified service who may receive original appointments and enter the service shall be reduced for the first three months of service in an amount equal to one-twelfth of the annual pay or compensation provided by law for permanent employees of like grade, and an amount equal to the total amount of said reductions is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall constitute a permanent appropriation, and shall be deposited at the expiration of such three months in each case of reduction, with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the retirement fund. the increased pay, SEC. 3. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and otherwise provided, of each employee in the classified service, who may be promoted, shall not take effect until the expiration of three months after the date of such promotion, and a sum equal to the total amount of pay so withheld from the pay or compensation otherwise due in each case of promotion is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall constitute a permanent appropriation, and shall be deposited at the end of the period designated in each case with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the retirement fund. SEC. 4. Every employee in the classified service of the United States when seventy years of age, or when sixty-five years of age and having served twenty years or more, shall be retired, and shall receive from the United States during the remainder of his life an annual salary equal to ten-sixtieths of his average annual salary, pay, or compensation, during the entire period of service, whether as a classified or unclassified employee, in one or more branches or independent offices of the Government or Departments of the Government, and shall include periods of service at different times, and in addition thereto a sum equal to one-sixtieth of such average salary for every year that he shall have been in service as stated: Provided, That such retired annual salary shall not exceed fifty per centum of said average salary nor twelve hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury shall make such rules and regulations, and is hereby authorized to perform or cause to be performed any and all acts, and employ such force, as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying this act into effect. SEC. 6. Any surplus accruing in the retirement fund may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be invested in approved securities bearing interest at a rate not less than three per centum per annum, such interest and the principal when collected to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the retirement fund. SEC. 7. If by reason of the efficiency of an employee who has reached the retirement age, and is willing to remain in the service, his continuance therein would be, in the opinion of the head of the Department or proper appointing officer, advantageous to the public service, such employee may be retained for a term not exceeding two years; and at the end of the two years, he may, by similar certification, be continued for an additional term of two years, and so on, and in the absence of such certification the employee shall be placed upon the retired list. SEC. 8. For the purpose of paying for clerical and other work and expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act during the fiscal year 19, including salaries and rent in the city of Washington, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and for all payments to retired employees authorized by this act the necessary moneys are hereby appropriated, to be paid from the retirement fund. APPENDIX I. COMPUTATION OF MAJ. FRED BRACKETT, BASED ON 149,333 CLERKS AND EMPLOYEES, CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED, SHOWING RESULT OF 3 PER CENT ASSESSMENT ON SALARIES. One-twelfth (1) deduction from annual salaries in all cases of original appointments for first year; 25 per cent deduction for one year from increase of salary in all cases of promotion.] Total number of employees, classified and unclassified, as shown by reports of Civil Service Commission. a Includes 15,941 rural free-delivery employees; without rural free-delivery employees aggregates 119,512. Includes 24,566 rural free-delivery employees; without rural free-delivery employees aggregates 129,527. Given in 1906 report, p. 170, as 174,350; includes 32,055 rural free-delivery employees; without rural free-delivery employees aggregates 139,752. d Includes 35,738 rural free-delivery employees; without rural free-delivery employees aggregates 148,440. Given in 1905 report, p. 252, as 121,253. ƒ Given in 1906 report, pp. 170-172, as 121,472. Ja Error in footing of report of 320. Includes unclassified employees. Memoranda, not yet in The total appointments made in 1903 are given on page 268 of report as 33,266 (on The total appointments made in 1904 are given on page 328 of report as 71,819, Navy Department, in navy-yards.. Other Departments and offices... 16, 664 There were 19,690 employees added to the service in 1904, but I do not understand The total appointments in 1905 are given on page 247 as 64,749, while the separa- On pages 252-253 separations are given as 44,943, a difference of 6,633 from statement on page 248. Appointments are given on page 247 as 64,749 and on pages 252-253 as 62,997, a difference of 1,772. Ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-six appointments in navy-yards are charged on page 247, and none on page 253. The total appointments in 1906 are given on pages 168-169 as 66,941, and the total separations as 43,969, a difference of 22,972. The increase in employees over 1905 is shown on page 172 as 25,627, which more (2,655) than accounts for the said difference. The total appointments in 1907 are given in a statement received from office of the Civil Service Commission as 79,703 and the separations as 53,896, a difference of 25,807. The increase in employees over 1906 is 17,991. I am unable to say what the difference of 7,816 (between 25,807 and 17,991) represents. APPOINTMENTS IN NAVY-YARDS. In report for 1903 (see footnote, p. 279) it is stated that 14,080 appointments were made in navy-yards, and are included in the total of 40,270 appointments for the year. In report for 1904, page 328, it is stated that 16,664 appointments were made in navy-yards in 1904, and they are treated as part of the total of 71,819 appointments charged to the year. On page 338 no appointments are charged, and the number of workmen and mechanics in service June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, are said to be the same, i. e., 15,885. In report for 1905, page 247, there are 10,956 appointments charged as part of the total of 64,749 appointments made during the year. On page 252 the total mechanics and workmen in service June 30, 1904, is given as 18,585 (300 less than 1904 report gives) and the same number on June 30, 1905, indicating no changes for the year 1905. In report for 1906, page 168, there are 10,495 appointments charged to navy-yards as a part of the total of 66,941 made during the year. On page 170 the total number of competitives in service is given as 18,585 with no change for the year. Unclassified noncompetitive and excepted employees in navy-yards are given as 2,538 from 1903 to 1906, both inclusive. RÉSUMÉ. 1903, page 268, no appointments; on page 279 there are 14,080 charged. 1904, page 328, 16,664 appointments; on page 338, no appointments. 1905, page 247, 10,956 appointments; on page 252, no appointments. 1906, page 168, 10,495 appointments; on page 170, no appointments. It will be observed that the total of appointments in the navy-yards (competitive -class) charged, as made in 1904, 1905, and 1906, aggregates 38,115, adding the 14,080 named in 1903, and we have a grand total of 52,195. What separations may have been made I do not know, but the largest number (competitive) reported as in service for any of the years named is 18,885. Various tables in reports of the Civil Service Commission show the following differences in Undoubtedly, these differences in the record of appointments are partly due to the improper entries connected with navy-yard employees, and the matter can only be explained by the Commission. Very respectfully, FRED BRACKETT. |