320 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
The Cuarrman. It is in effect now, since the 1st day of last July? 
Mr. Evans. Since the 1st day of last July. 
Mr. Grarr. That carries $3,000. 
The CuarrmMan. The estimate was submitted. Has the number of 
employees increased any—in your division? 
Mr. Evans. They have increased; yes, sir, somewhat. They have 
increased from 13 to 21, and several of those are detailed from other 
branches of the Department. : 
The Cuarrman. There is one assistant chief of the division; he is 
for the Weather Bureau? . 
Mr. Evans. Yes. He is in charge of the present weather accounts 
division of the Weather Bureau. 
The Cuarrman. That increase, you remember, gentlemen, was advo- 
cated by Professor Moore here the other day, so that we will not 
touch upon it with Mr. Evans. ; 
Mr. Scorr. You spoke just now of some of the clerks in your 
division being detailed from other divisions in the Department. 
Mr. Evans. From other branches; yes, sir. 
Mr. Scorr. How many are there, on the average? 
Mr. Evans. There are 5, I think, now. 
Mr. Scorr. Would that mean that some division has had more clerks 
than it needed. 
Mr. Evans. More than it needed, and they furnished these addi- 
tional clerks in order to enable me to do this additional work. 
Mr. Scorr. Asa matter of fact, then, a certain number of clerks 
ought to be cut out of some other division and put into yours? It is 
not good administration, is it, to give one division more clerks than it 
needs with the expectation that they will be detailed into some other 
division ? 
Mr. Evans. No, sir; that would be the proper thing, to give them 
permanently to this division. 
Mr. Scorr. Is it not true that these clerks are doing the work of 
those separate divisions in your division? 
Mr. Evans. Yes, sir. 
The CHarrman. Working on the accounts of those bureaus? 
Mr. Evans. When detailed from a bureau that clerk has charge of 
the accounts of that bureau; for instance, the clerk from the Bureau of 
Plant Industry has the accounts of his division. The clerk detailed 
from the Bureau of Soils has charge of the accounts of that Bureau, 
and so forth, and practically they should be paid from the appropria- 
tions of those several Bureaus. 
Mr. Scott. I understand, but you know that there has been a good 
deal of criticism about this practice that has prevailed in nearly all 
of the Departments of detailing clerks from one part of a Department 
to another, or even from one Department to another Department in 
some cases, and it seems to me that that is bad administration. 
Mr. Apams. That is economy, sometimes. For stance, in our 
State government—and it can not be very different here—we have in 
our State capitol several hundred clerks, and there are times in the 
year when it is absolutely required to have the whole force in one 
department, and in another part of the year there is no work to do in 
that department, and they are sometimes transferred, and 1m a case of 
that kind it is an economical measure, and it might occur in these 
Departments here. I do not say that it does; I do not know. 
