Owing to the continued illness of the present incumbent, a judge of the municipal court has been assigned to discharge the duties of judge of the juvenile court. Such assignment, however, deprives the municipal court of the services of one of its judges which it can ill afford, considering the case load per judge in that court. The assignment of a judge from the municipal court to discharge the duties of the juvenile judge does not, therefore, constitute a satisfactory solution of the problem. Authorization for the appointment of an additional judge for the juvenile court seems to be the only alternative, with the provision that the position occupied by the present judge of said juvenile court shall be abolished when a vacancy shall occur in said position, or at the expiration of the present 6-year term of said judge, whichever shall first occur. A draft of a bill to effectuate the foregoing recommendation is enclosed. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget has advised that there is no objection to the submission of this recommendation. Yours sincerely, PEYTON FORD, INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE JUDGES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JUNE 9, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. SMITH of Virginia, from the Committee on the District of REPORT [To accompany H. R. 3901) The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 3901) to increase the salaries of the judges of the municipal court of appeals for the District of Columbia and the municipal court for the District of Columbia, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: (1) On page 1, line 9, strike "$14,500" and insert "$13,000". The purpose of this bill is to increase the salaries of the judges of the municipal court of appeals for the District of Columbia and the municipal court for the District of Columbia. The 3 judges of the municipal court of appeals and the 10 judges of the municipal court are the only judges appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate who were not included in the Federal judicial pay raise bill of 1946, by which all salaries of Federal district judges were increased from $10,000 to $15,000 a year, and all other Federal judges likewise received increases. Also they were not included in the Lucas pay bill, S. 498, although numerous officials now receiving the same salaries of these judges, such as the District of Columbia Commissioners, are so included. This bill has the approval of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. PROVIDING PAY AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES JUNE 10, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. KILDAY, from the Committee on Armed Services, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5007] The Committee on Armed Services, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5007) to provide pay, allowances, and physical disability retirement for members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service, the Reserve components thereof, the National Guard and the Air National Guard, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill, H. R. 5007, as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: On page 25, in the table appearing between lines 15 and 16, strike out the figure "$45.00" and insert in lieu thereof the figure "$42.00." GENERAL PURPOSES The purpose of the proposed bill is to provide compensation consisting of pay, allowances, and certain benefits for members of all branches of the uniformed services, which consist of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Public Health Service, the Reserve components thereof, the National Guard, and the Air National Guard. Its principal objective is to attract and retain personnel in the services, adequate both in numbers and in capabilities. It seeks primarily to establish a compensation program which will induce men and women to enter the services on a career basis and which would remunerate them on this basis compa 91983-49 1 rable with persons who seek and follow careers in industry and in the professions. It also seeks to correct an antiquated and unsound compensation structure which has been pyramiding in various phases since 1908, without over-all corrective action. In addition, the proposed bill contains a complete revision of the present physical disability retirement laws and substitutes for those laws a new theory of physical disability retirement based on either the degree of disability or vears of service. It is anticipated that this provision will eventually save the Government millions of dollars, and in the event of a future mobilization may well save the Government many millions more. The proposed bill had its origin in the report of a Commission appointed by the late Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, more than a year and a half ago to study service pay. The Commission was composed of Mr. Charles Hook, chairman of the board, Armco Steel Corp., Chairman; Father John J. Cavanaugh, president, Notre Dame University; Mr. Keith S. McHugh, vice president, American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; and Mr. Lawrence H. Whiting, president, American Furniture Mart Building Co., and Whiting & Co. In December 1948 the Commission submitted its report to the Secretary of Defense, and shortly thereafter legislation was introduced encompassing the recommendations of the Commission. While the committee has accepted many of the recommendations of the Hook Commission, it has not accepted them all and, in some instances, fundamental changes were made in the initial legislative draft. Originally the proposed act contained revisions of voluntary and involuntary retirement laws. The committee was of the opinion that the subject of voluntary and involuntary retirement was so complex, so vast, and would have such far-reaching effects upon the services that an attempt to revise or rewrite these laws should be held in abeyance until some future date, when it could be made as a separate study. Furthermore, it should be remembered that the Congress has within the past 3 years carefully considered all of the voluntary and involuntary retirement laws, as indicated by Public Law 305 of the Seventy-ninth Congress and Public Laws 381 and 810 of the Eightieth Congress. There has been no comprehensive study of pay for the uniformed services since 1908. Thus the magnitude of the undertaking is apparent. To quote from the report of the Hook Commission During the past 40 years there have been three major changes in the military pay scales for officers and four changes affecting enlisted personnel. Altogether, during this period, about a dozen revisions were enacted, including percentage decreases during the depression years. The basic principles of the scale developed in 1908 were retained throughout, despite an attempt in 1922 to arrive at logical differences between grades and to correlate military and civilian pay for comparable responsibility. As of the end of World War II, therefore, the scale approved in 1946 contained many of the fundamental inequities. In addition, percentage increases over 1942 averaged about 12 percent for officers, 15 to 20 percent for the higher grades of enlisted personnel and 50 percent for the entry enlisted grade, further exaggerating the trend favoring enlisted personnel. It should be carefully noted that the lowest grade enlisted man has received a 400-percent increase in pay when the pay scales of 1908 are compared with the latest pay scales of 1946. The highest grade |