24 AGRICULTURAL APPROFRL^TIOX BILL, 1924. 



Mr. Buchanan. Tlie Secretary takes these machines which were 

 turned over to him by the War Department for the purpose of dis- 

 tribution amcn<r the States in connection with road buildin<r. This 

 j-roviso autliorizes him to take some of those machines and use them 

 here in the District of Columbia for A<rricultural Dej^artment pur- 

 poses. It seems to me like that provision is in direct conflict with 

 the statutory law and absolutely new lejrislation, is it not if 



Mr. Jump. It niio:ht be so construed. But it is strictly in the 

 public interest and required for the most efficient administration of 

 the department. Some of these machines are in use in Washington 

 already, because the Bureau of Roads has one of its heackiuailers 

 here for one of its districts. The fact of the matter is that we are 

 constantly having to borrow these machines temporarily for these 

 purposes anyhow, and what we would like to do is to luake the use 

 of them entirely re<;r.lar and under the central control of the de- 

 l)artn:ent. 



Mr. Buchanan. You are asking for these machines without num- 

 ber, without limitation of any character. Have you any idea how 

 many you need ? 



Mr. Jump. We would say, offhand, from three to six, and we could 

 make the limitation accordingly if the committee desires. We just 

 want a small number, and what we propose to do is to put them in 

 the central garage of the department. All our motor trucks, which 

 formerly were scattered about, are now pooled under the mechanical 

 superintendent of the department, who comes directly under the 

 Secretary's office, and that arrangement has effected a tremendous 

 saving and put the trucking service on an efficient basis. It will 

 not be our purpose to assign these cars anywhere. They will be 

 under the ofRce of the Secretary and each request for transportation 

 will be closely scrutinized by the man in charge before he attempts 

 to take care of it. 



STATEMENT OE ME. C. W. PUGSLEY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



reorganization or offices under office of the secretary. 



Mr. Pugsley. Mr. Chairman, I would like to read just one para- 

 graph from the statement of the Secretary on the economies effected 

 in the department during the past year, made a part of the record 

 a moment ago : 



Tlie ecoiioniies listed above iiro typical of the spirit in which the <U'pai-tiueiit 

 people have entered into the plant to conduet tht> bnsiness of the (iovernnient 

 on the most economical and elticient basis i)()ssible. \\'bile, as pointed ont in 

 the foref?oinf?, we have been able to make a f^reat many very substantial 

 savings in money expended through the application of modern bu.siness meth- 

 ods it is increasinf^ly evident that the lar^iest economies to be elTected in the 

 (le|»artnient are those which are a result of edicient orpuiizalion. 



Such economies can not be expressed in dollars and cents. They are meas- 

 ured rather by the larf^er efftH-tiveness of the work and the amount of work 

 ;!one for the money expended. The re()r;i;ani/,ation which resulted in brin.i;- 

 inj; llirce units into one in the Uincau of Aj;ricidtural Kconomics is a case in 

 lioint. This rcor;;ani/,alion etTectcd consideralile savings which can be meas- 

 uredc in mon(\v, but altogether the larger saviuirs have come throu^rh the in- 

 creased clliciencv and better ailnunistrat ion of the work done in this iiarticular 



