HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. oT 
Mr. Havucen. Is the tobacco in these cigars the same grade of 
tobacco as the Connecticut shade-grown tobacco? 
Mr. Wurtyey. No, sir. 
Mr. Grarr. Did you say you had decided on what areas you were 
going to survey this coming year? 
Mr. Wuirnery. No; only for the winter. I have here the schedule 
for the winter months. 
The subcommittee (at 4.15 o’clock p. m.) adjourned until Thursday, 
January 7, 1904, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. 
Wasuineron, D. C., January 7, 1904. 
The committee met at 10.45 o’clock a. m., Hon. James W. Wads- 
worth in the chair. 
The Cuarrman. I think we will not wait for any more members to 
come. It is a pretty difficult thing to get them all here. 
STATEMENT OF MR. BEVERLY T. GALLOWAY, CHIEF OF THE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. 
The Cuarrman. Doctor Galloway, we have asked you to come here 
to-day and explain to us the needs of your appropriations and increases 
and any changes in the wording of your clausesand paragraphs. Please 
do it in your own way, and questions may develop as you go along. I 
see you omit here an annual salary of $480 for your scientific aids on 
page 9 of the estimate. e 
Mr. Gattoway. That omission, Mr. Chairman, was made for the 
purpose of unifying the authority for the employment of scientific aids 
throughout the entire Department. It has heen found necessary to 
pay some of the aids $50 a month in order to keep them at all, and the 
Secretary thought it would be advisable to have the rate fixed. 
The Cuarrman. I understood it was the idea to start them at that 
rate. They are entitled to promotion as much asany other clerks. 
Mr. Gatutoway. This clause, if left in the original form, would fix 
it so that the Secretary would not have authority to employ them at 
more in the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
The Cuarrman. I thought the same language was employed in all 
these bureaus. 
Mr. Gatitoway. It was when it started out, but it has been changed. 
The scientific aids are employed throughout the entire Department. 
It was originally provided that they should be paid $480 per annum, 
but $40 a month is not sufficient, sometimes, to keep young men in 
Washington, and that was the reason for the change. They are 
required to stay two years. Asa matter of fact they are usually paid 
$40 a month at first, and then, after being there six or eight months, 
if they are found good men, they are increased to $50 a month. 
The Cuarrman. You mean to say, under this language you could 
not promote them and increase their salaries ? 
Mr. Gatitoway. Ido not think we could in the Bureau of Plant 
Industry. 
The Cuarrman. Who held that? 
Mr. Gattoway. The disbursing officer. 
The Cuarrman. I] donot think it was the intention of the committee 
that it should be so construed. 
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