AOlUC ILTinAI. APPimPKIATloX BILL, 1U24, 4M\ 



pint of Ins Miliiiv lioin llir Miilr. 1 lliink \ mi will uilli liir 



tliiil tlial is l)asn'all\ iiiuh'siraMr. and an urran;,'riiii :.. ..n jusi u^ 

 well 1)0 iniulc to provide for full-time Kednal iiirii and at the Miiriir 

 time return to liie Federal 'rreasiirv a proportion of the f««<'» wliieli 

 will take eare of the portion of the eost tliat \\v fiirni>li in llie wav of 

 salaries. 



My idea is. if we are jriven this in<Tease of ."<.V_*.(MM). to hire out of 

 that at least 1(1 or I'J men who will he. on the average, ahout $:{.(NM) 

 men. and who will he iis«'d as supervisors in the ^hippin;;-poini int|N*e- 

 tion work. One of them nniy he emph>yed in the (iiilf .Sinirs for two 

 or three months durini; the slii|)pint; sea.<-on. and then taken off 

 there and sent to West N'ir^inia and Ohio. It can he so ai ranged 

 that a man can work in three or four States in the «ourse of the y»*nr, 

 hut he will always he scMvinj; on a full salary as a Federal sU|HTVi.sor 

 in eharjje of the work, and always answerahle to us. I ean s<»e no 

 reason now why we can not return to the Treasurv fully as lar;_'e a 

 proportion (»f this .S") "J, (•()(• as we are now relurnin;; of the j)re-ent 

 appropriation, and I should hope to do a 1 ttle hetter than that. 



ISSIHTIOV POINTS. 



Mr. Andf-Kson. To what extent is use heinj; made of this new 

 hui«;ua«:;e authorizing; inspections at points wjiich may he conveniently 

 reached ( 



Mr. SiiKii.M.VN . We simply notify the trade in all of those eitic.s 

 that there is no l<)n«;er any limitation as to places, and that our in- 

 spectt)rs will «jo anywhere within a day's journey of the places where 

 tliev are located when thev are wanted. We make it a i;»'neral nil* 

 that the inspector will not go so far away from his post as to keep 

 him overniiiht. In several instances it has heen necessary to send 

 a man out from Chicago, for instance, on work that will take a lon^'er 

 time than that, hut, as a general proposition and as an administrative 

 matter, we say that they may go anywhere within a day's journey 

 of the j)laces where they are located. 



Mr. Anderson. Is there considerahle insDectioii work of that ^>>rt 



:ed poi 

 deal o 

 fairly well concentrated. I would say. For instance, the Atlanta 

 man seldom ^joes out of Atlanta, hut the Clevelaiul peoj)h' oftt'ii go 

 to Akron. The Detroit inspectors go to Toledo, and the Toledo people 

 are exercised over the fact that they have to pay the carfare of the 

 inspectors from Detroit down to Toledo and hack again. The New 

 York inspectoiN make inspections all around New York, and up into 

 Connecticut particularly. The Chicago office also makes a good many 

 inspections outi^ide of Chicago. 



Mr. Andeu.son. Do you have any inspections made of shipments 

 out of the larger cities as well as inspections of shipments in '. Fi»r 

 instance, at Chicago, do you have shipping p«)int inspections of ship- 

 ments out of Chicago as well as inspections of sliipments coming into 

 Chicago ( 



Mr. Sheu.man. I do not think we have had much «»f that this year, 

 hut we have had that sort of inspection work at Chicago in two or 

 tliree past seasons of Wisconsin I'ahhage coining into Chicago and 

 heing stopped there for inspection, and then heing sold in the Smith 



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at points away from the designated points: 



Mr. SiiER.MAX. There is a good deal of it in the aggregate. l)Ut it is 



