446 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Now, I have asked one increase that I am anxious about. I would 
like to make Doctor Salmon’s salary $5,000. And you, having Agri- 
culture in your keeping and charge, and being responsible for it, I 
ask you to see to it that it is dignified by worthy men just as much as 
men who work for the other Departments of the Government, and 
who are not mealy-mouthed about asking for big salaries. 
Mr. Haveen. Does this promotion and increased salary carry any- 
thing else with it? I mean, horses and carriages? 
Secretary Wixson. No. 
Mr. Haueern. I read in the Post this morning that a great many 
carriages and horses are owned by the Government; it was estimated, 
I think, by a member of the House yesterday, that if they were strung 
out on a single line they would reach from the White House to the 
Capitol, a distance of a mile anda half. It seems that that estimate 
was too low, according to the views of the Post. ‘ : 
Secretary Witson. I can tell you a Cabinet secret, Mr. Haugen. 
Mr. Haugen. This has no reference to Cabinet officers; they are 
certainly entitled to carriages; but the impression is that the chief of 
every bureau and every division has a horse anda carriage, and a foot- 
man, or 
Secretary Witson. The President asked each Cabinet officer indi- 
vidually whether he had increased the number of carriages or horses 
in his Department for his subordinates in the last seven years, and 
each one of them answered that they had not—had not increased them 
* at all. 
The Cuarrman. How many, as a matter of fact, have we in the 
Department of Agriculture? 
Secretary Witson. When I came there, there was a carriage for 
the Secretary, one for the Assistant Secretary, and one for the Chief 
of the Weather Bureau 
ee Haucen. There is no question raised as to the first two men- 
tioned. ; 
Secretary WILson (continuing). And there are no more to-day. 
Mr. Havucen. Why should one chief have a horse and carriage over 
another? ’ 
Secretary Witson. I suppose it is because the Weather Bureau is so 
far over there by itself; I suppose, maybe, that is one reason why. 
Mr. Henry. But you have made no increase? 
Secretary Witson. No increase since I went into this Department. 
The Cuarrman. There is a small increase asked for in the general 
expenses of the library—some $2,500. We have been increasing that 
every yeara little more. Are they publishing more books all the time 
that you have to purchase? 
Secretary Wixson. As our scientific departments grow, the demand 
for scientific literature grows steadily with it; that is all. We geta 
god deal by exchange; then we buy considerable. We have the 
nest agricultural scientific library in the world. 
The ee The best technical library in the world? 
Secretary Witson. There is no question about that, and that is not 
a very. heavy increase—a couple of thousand a year. 
The Cuarrman. It is not a heavy increase—it is a mere drop—but 
we have been increasing that every year for the purpose of books, 
and I was wondering myself whether they were absolutely publishing 
