558 ROSA: REORGANIZED CIVIL SERVICE 



Service system and a budget, they could show the country results 

 which would be both creditable and gratifying. 



The United States government is the greatest business organ- 

 ization in the country. It employs more than half a million 

 men and women in hundreds of different kinds and grades of 

 work. The Civil Service Commission is doing its best to super- 

 vise the administration of the personnel of this great business, 

 which is not only larger but more complex than any other in the 

 country. If the Commission could have a larger and better paid 

 staff, its work would be done more adequately, the personnel in 

 all departments would be better handled, the service would be 

 elevated and the government would be enormously benefitted. 

 Surely no one can question the importance of this great task, 

 and no one doubts the need for improvement. Before adopting 

 a more complicated method of administration which will enor- 

 mously increase the difficulties of the Commission, let us have 

 a more adequate operation of the present system, with such im- 

 provement in conditions and in details of operation as can 

 readily be provided. It is believed that the changes suggested 

 above, and summarized below, in the administrative proposals 

 of the Congressional Reclassification Commission are justified 

 by experience, and that they would simplify and improve the 

 procedure proposed and remove the most serious difficulties to 

 the Report as presented. 



WST OF CHANGES PROPOSED IN THE BILL OF THE RECLASSIFICA- 

 TION COMMISSION (S. 4106, March 22, 1920) 



1. Sections {d). Omit second sentence. (Section complete 

 without this sentence.) 



2. Section 7 (a). Omit last sentence. 



(b). Omit last sentence. 



3. Section 8 (6). Change second sentence as indicated on page 



552. 



(c). Omit entire paragraph. 



4. Section 9 (a). Substitute paragraph on p. 554. 



(c). Omit entire paragraph. 



5. Section 10 (a) . Change so as to permit transfer at a different 

 salary in the same class or to another class. 



