14 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATIOX BILL, 1924. 



of the Secretary to employ persons to do the work of the Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Mr. Reesel That is true. That general authority is found, as to 

 positions on lump-sum appropriations, in the act of March 4. 1907, 

 referred to above. 



Mr. Buchanan. Let me ask you one question about these transfers. 

 Are they all transferred to the Secretary's office at the same salary 

 they are now receiving? 



Mr. Keese. Yes. sir: all at the same salaries they are now receiv- 

 ing. There are no promotions. 



Mr. Anderson. The net result of this is that vou drop five law 

 clerks at $2,(K)0 ? , 



Mr. Reese. Yes; and appoint one attorney' at $4,000 and one at 

 $3,500, making $7,500. 



Mr. Anderson. Are anv of these five places that you now have at 

 $2,000 filled? 



Mr. Reese. Only one. 



TRANSFERS FROil OTHER DIVISION AND LUMP-SUM ROLLS. 



(See p. 13.) 



The next change comes down at the fourth line at the bottom, 

 transfer of one clerk, class 3, at $1,600, and one clerk, class 2. 



Mr. Anderson. Is that a transfer? 



Mr. Reese. Yes: these are all the same kind of transfers, from 

 bureau lump-sum rolls, with rolls reduced accordingly. 



The next item, as explained, is in the next to the last line, four 

 clerks at $1,000 reduced to three. We have changed the designation 

 of one of those employees to skilled laborer, for the reason that he 

 is a skilled laborer now carried in a clerk's jilace b}- authority of 

 the Civil Service Commission. It should be changed to agree with 

 the actual facts. 



In the next place, there are four at $900, reduced from six. One 

 of those was changed for the same reason, a skilled laborer now car- 

 ried in a clerk's place by authority of the Civil Service: and the 

 other is dropped, as set forth later in these notes. 



One accountant and bookkeeper, $2,000. is transferred from the 

 Secretary's office to the Bureau of Agricultural Economic*^, where 

 he is now employed. 



Page 3. one .skilled laborer, at $1,000. is transferred from the Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry for the same reason, he is working for the 

 Secretary's branch ; six messengers or laborers, at $G00. reduced to 

 four. One is a change in designation to a messenger boy. now occu- 

 P3'ing the place: the other is dropped. 



WATCHMEN AND l.AMOKKHS. 



Fifty-two watchmen are reduced to 51 : one j)lace is di'opped. 



One skilled laborer at $1,200 is transferred from the Bureau of 

 Soils, for the .same reasons as the others. 



Four skilled laborers iucicased to five. That jjiovides for trans- 

 fer of the man I iiave referred to above, whose tlesignatiou is changed 

 from clerk to skilled laborer. 



