Congressional Digest Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...of national administration; the regrouping of the administrative services departmentally, so that the figures for all services whose activities fall in the same general field and which should have close working relations with each other will appear in close cooperation with each other in the budget statements and appropriation acts; the reform of the system of accounting and reporting, so that financial data needed for budgetary and general control purposes will be automatically produced and rendered available; and the reclassification of personnel, so that a uniform and equitable basis may be secured for making provision for this important feature of administrative needs. Under conditions as they have existed, the Bureau of the Budget has been compelled to pass upon the requests of services for employees without any means of determining in an accurate manner the nature of these requests. With a standard classification of positions, uniform terminology in designating positions, and a scheme of compensation corresponding to the importance of the work to be done, such as is provided for by the Classification Act, this lack of knowledge and uncertainty will be eliminated. All the spending services, the bureau of the budget, the appropriation committees and Congress itself will be speaking in the same terms and with knowledge. What has been a complicated problem will be reduced to the simple one of determining numbers; that is, the number of each designated position for which provision shall be made. By W. F. Willoughby Director, Institute for Government Research Of equal, if not greater importance, will be the fact that the new system will lay the basis for, if it will not automatically do away with the necessity for what is known as the "statutory rolls....