16 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



Mr. Magee. He is a skilled laborer with civil service status of 

 clerks 



Mr. Keese. Yes. There is nothing else on that statutory roll we 

 care to speak about. 



Mr. l^rcHAXAN. All of these peojile that have been transferred 

 from other rolls to the Secretary's branch have been dropped on those 

 other rolls'? 



Mr. Reese. Yes, sir. 



Mr. BucHANAx. And no additional employees are i-equiretl in the 

 department or bureau from which they have been dropped? 



^Ir. Eeese. No; they have been working right along for the Sec- 

 retary's office, and the appropriations 



]Mr. Bx'CHANAX (interposing). I mean, in the estimates in force 

 now there are no additional employees requested to take their places? 



Mr. Reese. No. 



DECKEASES IN STATTjToRY ROLI.S OF DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. Jump. As a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, the department is 

 recommending decreases in the statutory rolls in the net figure of ap- 

 proximately 200 places, amounting to $157,000. During the consid- 

 eration of the estimates it became necessary to effect a considerable 

 reduction, and the Secretary required the bureaus to make a survey 

 and indicate a list of statutory positions amounting as nearlj' as pos- 

 sible to 3 per cent of the personnel on the statutory roll, these posi- 

 tions, most of them in the loAvest grades, to be dropped at the end of 

 this fiscal year. The Secretary has had the feeling that these forces 

 could be reduced somewdiat, and as a result of that you note these 

 statutor}^ reductions all the Avay through the bill as the various units 

 are reached, dropping positions from the routine grades on the statu- 

 tory rolls. 



3IECHANICAL SHOPS AND POWER PLANT. 



Mr. Anderson. The next item, page 5, miscellaneous expenses. 



Mr. Reese. Referring to page 4 just a moment, if you please : Sala- 

 ries and comjDensation of necessary employees in the mechanical shops 

 and power plants of the Department of Agriculture. It is recom- 

 mended that that proviso be dropped as permanent legislation — 

 '' that hereafter." That is the only change. The amount is the same. 



miscellaneous expenses, department of agriculture. 



Mr. Anderson. The next item, page 5. 



Mr. Reese. Miscellaneous expenses. There are two things there. 

 The italic lines indicate authority for maintenance, care, and opera- 

 tion for aut()m()})ile for official use of the Secretaiy of Agrit'ulture. 

 It was thought better to get that s[)ecilic aiitliority in this plai-e. 



Mr. Anderson. As I recall, under this item last year we authorized 

 the purchase of an automobile and approi)riated $5,000 for thut pur- 

 pose. 



Mr. Reese. That was done. 



Mr. ANDERSf)N. You propose now to drop the item? 



Mr. Reese. Yes; the last three items of this paragraph inilicate 

 the dro])j)ing out of that $5,000. 



