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live-stock estimates. $18,000: from market news service, ?3.600; from 

 enforcement of the United States cotton futures act, $3,000; and 

 from the administration of the United States warehouse act. S3, 600. 

 Mr. Anderson. What I want to get at is how those places arose 

 under those lump sums '. 



Miss Clark. Those places are new appointments made since the 

 last transfers to the statutory roll, but they are very largely offset 

 by the places we are dropping. Tliey are offset, first, by the tran.s- 

 fer of one executive clerk at §2,250 and one telegi'aph operator at 

 $1,400 to the office of the Secretar}'. Four clerks of class 1 are being 

 transferred to the Bureau of Plant Industry, which were omitted 

 accidentally last year. Then there are dropped from the roll 45 

 places with salaries aggregating $30,260. All of those places are 

 either vacant or are filled r)y employees whose services can be dis- 

 pensed with by the end of the present fiscal year. 



Mr. Anderson. What I am getting at is this: You set up a 

 situation last year which made the statutory roll and the roll under 

 the lump sum. The supposition at that time, I assume, was that 

 the statutory roll that was then set up was set up with reference to 

 the clerical recjuirements in connection with those lump sums. Of 

 course, if that assumption is not correct, we must come to a different 

 conclusion. If it is correct, w^hat I want to know is where the 

 occasion for those clerks arose. In other words, if the statutory 

 roll, wheji you got those aj)propriations, was properly apportioned 

 to your lump sums, there would nave been no occasion for appointing 

 new clerks to be paid out of the lump sums. 



Miss Clark. We increase the statutory roll only by transfers 

 from the lump sums — that is, by the transfer from the lump sums 

 of clerks who are already in the bureau. 



Mr. Anderson. I understand that, but that is a continuous 

 process, apparently. 



Miss Clark. It is a continuous process. This looks like more of 

 an increase however than it is. There is a net increase of only 

 §11,990, and we are droj)ping more places than we are creating new 

 ones. There are 45 places that will be dropped, and only 40 new 

 places to be created. That makes this readjustment necessary. 



Mr. Anderson. Wliat was the total increase in the Bureau last 

 year, exclusive of the statutory roll ^ Do you recalls 



Miss Clark. The total increase to the bureau was approximately 

 $136,000, and of that just about $36,000 was on the statutory roll. 

 There is a need for readjustment as the clerical roll is constantly 

 changing. We lost nearly 25 per cent of our total clerical roll by 

 terminations, through resitrnalions, and otherwise, anil we have had 

 new appointments. For tliat reason we have difficulty in keeping 

 the clerical force adjusted to the statutory roll. Every year tnere 

 are apt to be some new transfers. When there is an increase in the 

 appropriations, it has not been the custom to ask for new statutt)rv 

 places. It has been the policy not to ask for statutory j)laces until 

 the clerks aic in the bureau, workitig on a perninneiit basis. Then 

 we ask for the statutory places in the estimates for the coming year. 

 There is only one other change in the statutory roll. We are a.sking 

 that the <lesignation of nine machine oj)eratoi-s be changed from 

 machine operators to machine operatoi-s or clerks. There is no 

 change in the salary that is re(|Uested. It will give a Jit tie more 



