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will have to he extended proportionately. It is mv personal judg- 

 ment that a general plan of completing these needed facilities in the 

 space of 25 years should be a minimum period and that we ought to 

 adhere to that rather than to extend it. On the contiarv, there is the 

 viewpoint of tlie Director of the Budget as to what the Federal 

 Treasury will stand, and, of course, I can not dispute that point of 

 view. 



Mr. Am)ER.<;on. I recognize the fact that it is always a question of 

 offsetting the needs against the money you actuallv have. I simply 

 wanted to get into the record the full situation, so tliat the committee 

 coultl act upon it intelligently from the standpoint of the whole 

 program. 



Ml-. .IiMP. In view of the (|uestion that has arisen about this item, 

 would not this be the common sense thing for us to do: Between 

 now and Monday have the department — Colonel Greeley, Mr. Mac- 

 Donald, and myself — -see General Lord and get a clearer understanding 

 of what they had in mind. This authorization says there shall be 

 appropriated for the fiscal year 1923, for the fiscal year 1924, and for 

 the fiscal year 1925. I think the word '"for'' is the deciding factor. 

 If it said certain appropriations are authorized ''during" the fiscal 

 year 1923, I think tliev would have construed it just as you have. 

 We will go back to the l3udget Bureau and see how they loofe upon the 

 matter. 



Monday, November 20, 1922. 



BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY. 



STATEMENTS OF MR. W. G. CAMPBELL, ACTING CHIEF: ER 

 W. W. SKINNER, ASSISTANT CHIEF; MR. H. S. PAINE, IN 

 CHARGE OF CARBOHYDRATE LABORATORY; AND DR. S. 

 P. VEITCH, IN CHARGE OF PAPER AND LEATHER LABORA- 

 TORY. 



salaries. 



Mr. Anderson. We will take up this morning the Bureau of 

 Chemistiv, on page 171. Do 3'ou want to make any prehminary 

 statements l)efore we take up the statutory roll? 



Mr. C.v.MPBKLL. I do not think any statement is necessary, but 1 

 can mj»4i(' statements as we go along in connection with each par- 

 licuhii- item. 



Ml. Andei{son. Then we will take up the statutory roll, in which 

 tlu'ic apjxMirs to be a decrease of $14,100. 



Ml-. CA.MruKj.i.. This is tlue to the dropping of 20 places. The 

 dni|)ping of these j)laces, of course, is the result of a concerted effort 

 to mimifcst economy, in every way in the world we possibly can. 

 \('i\ imtuially. in the development of an organization to meet 

 <iirrent (((iiditions, which are clumgiMg from lime to time, we en- 

 (h'avor to make an arrangement by])rigading the work in a fashion 

 thai will lend itself (o (lu. employment of the fewest possible men. 



We have made a strenuous ellorl in that direction and have con- 

 cluded we can di(>j> 20 of the nlaces that were ])rovide(l for in the 

 statutory roll of last year, and that will effect a reduction of S 11, 100. 



