RECLASSIFICATION OF SALARIES.

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1921.

JOINT HEARINGS OF THE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND THE COMMITTEE ON REFORM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C.

The committees met at 10.30 o'clock a. m. in room 235 Senate Office Building, Senator Thomas Sterling presiding.

Present: Senators Sterling (chairman), Ball, and Nicholson, and Representatives Lehlbach (chairman of the House committee), Fairfield, Funk, Himes, Kline, Reece, Black, London, and Lyon.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. I think I may state, by way of introduction, that this meeting of the two committees of the several Houses on civil service, naturally follows the work of the Joint Congressional Reclassification Commission appointed about the 1st of March, 1919, and the introduction and reference of certain reclassification bills.

The commission spent about a year, or a little more than a year, in the work of examining the subject of the reclassification of the civilian employees of the United States Government in the District of Columbia.

As a result of the work of the commission there was produced a report, consisting of a volume, which we have here, of over 1,000 pages; and with the report was presented a bill known as Senate bill 4106. On March 22, 1920, the report and the bill were presented to the Senate, and they were presented to the House by Congressman Lehlbach at about the same time.

Representative LEHLBACH. The report was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service of the House, but we made no report.

The CHAIRMAN. It was presented and referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service?

Representative LEHLBACH. Yes.

The CHAIRMAN. Nothing was done at the session of Congress in which the bill and the report were presented and referred to the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service of the House and to the Committee on Appropriations in the Senate.

Later Congressman Lehlbach introduced in the House the bill H. R. 15225, a bill which sets forth schedules of compensation for the various classes of Federal employees within the District of Columbia. This bill was not, as I understand it, acted upon by the committee. Representative LEHLBACH. It was not reported.

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