July 6| 1932 
lear Dr. Scimixt: - . 
. It will De several days before the boat sails, but I have 
several things on say aind so I guess i<d bettor |et them on to paper. 
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, ' o . I am enclosing a couple of lettersj also a couple of notes 
from the Cosmos Club.- The first one came some' tiiae ago and I didh't 
suppose that you would want it sent ona- However, a second one came 
more recently, and so I m sending them both. I am also enclosing 
the key to the chest wMch contains the ks Tortugas sponges and wliich 
will pi’-ibably reach you in the smae mail with this letter. 
I hope yo-ur camera case arrived, and’ also that the strayed 
book turned' up. 
. Yoxir fri and Bill iSLlison called last week* He is quite an 
attoactive gentlerrian* He ia- iiardlj any taller than I am,"" 'and quite 
young and slightly built* Mr. Shoetaaker; show^ iiii^ the stack and he 
was here for an hour or so* Ha took your address, so you will 
probably hear from him* He said that Shepard had bean to see liira 
in Hew -York* . , . 
. - Well, '; the President signed '.the economy bill at 11 a*m* on 
June dO and on July 1 all the superannuated workers found themselves 
out of a job. le liave lost Washington* I felt rather sorry for 
liim, even though he was no good* The thing came' so quickly that it 
-xiit 'the -old-, people pretty hard* Mr* Bean mmitf and .the Fisli Division 
is limping along with Mr* Reid and the laborer. Miss Cochran said 
that Dr. Stejneger was quite concerned about the fate of that division. 
Ho vacancies are to be filled except by presiaential consent, so we 
doa*t xnow how many of the recently vacated positions cxin be filled* 
McCarl liasnH made liis interpretation of all the personnel feathres 
of the bill, so we don’t know where w© m stiind* Some departments 
have signified a desire to have a straight per cent, taiien off 
pay checKs, and have the E4 days leave handled as annual leave. We 
all hope that the matter ?/ill be treated that way, but McCarl will 
have to aecide* 
Dr. Stejneger and Dr. Bou^h will stay. • They are among 49 
scientists throughout the govemment who were granted indefinite 
extensions by a Presidential order issued June SO. Mr* ShoCTaker’ s 
cousin is among 39 others who were granted temporaiy extensions until 
it can be determined what^ shall be done about filling kktetpa their 
positions. \ q. 
