ADDITIONAL EXAMINERS. Mr. CABLE. If we keep on the present basis as to the number of people who are naturalized and apply-if we spend all the money that is allowed to us for this fiscal year, we will show a net profit of $125,000 on this year's work to the Government. Now, just because we have made a profit it is not necessary that we should expend it. We appreciate that. But we would like very much to put on additional examiners and additional men-a few in New York and a number in other parts of the country. I know that they need them badly in Chicago, and I think they do throughout the West generally. In New York they have made a splendid record. Mr. CAMPBELL. Yes, and there is not an examiner in the South between Washington and New Mexico. The Department of Justice undertakes to pass upon the certificates, after they are granted, to this extent: A man files his application for a passport, accompanied by an affidavit giving certain facts. If the statements in that affidavit conflict with the statements on the face of the certificate, the State Department declines to issue the passport and sends the papers over to the Department of Commerce and Labor to institute proceedings. Now, it subjects them sometimes to a great deal of distress. Many of the clerks of the State courts are not competent to make up these forms, although I have sent out officers from time to time throughout the South to train them. It does not seem to be very difficult to do it, but they manage to do it wrongly, as a rule. These poor fellows have paid for their naturalization, but on the face of the records they have not complied with the requirements of the law. Mr. CABLE. We get cases every day from the Interior Department where a man files on land and some one shows that that man is not a citizen, and the question is whether you are going to have these papers canceled or not. These people are entirely willing to be naturalized properly if given the opportunity; but the clerks do not know and, in many cases, if the judges know they do not pay very much attention to it. Same appropriation, $150,000, for field service and additional clerks of courts. Receipts for first six months of this year are $36,724.44 over first six months of fiscal year 1910. 361.286.77 Balance in this department of receipts over disbursements. Net gain to the Government, considering all sources of receipts and expeud- 18,286.77 UNDER NEW LAW. This includes all expenses, including from department contingent fund, printing for courts and officers, rent, etc. We took over Field Service July 1, 1909. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1911. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. STATEMENT OF MR. SAMUEL B. DONNELLY, PUBLIC PRINTER. The CHAIRMAN. Your first item, Mr. Donnelly, is on page 355, the office of the Public Printer, which covers the salaries of all the employees, clerks and others, employed in your office. Your estimate for the fiscal year 1912 is $134,700, and your appropriation for the current year, 1911, is $133,780. This increase is due, I take it, to the recommendations which you make here for increase in salaries and increases in force? Mr. DONNELLY. I do not recommend an increase in force. It is due solely to increases in salaries. The CHAIRMAN. The increase is only $920. First you drop out a chief timekeeper at $2,000. FOUR CLERKS AT $2,000 EACH. Mr. DONNELLY. We drop out a chief timekeeper at $2,000, and one clerk at $2,000, taking care of the chief timekeeper and the one clerk under the provision for four clerks at $2,000 each. We provide for an increase for two clerks of $200 each. The dropping out of the chief timekeeper is simply the dropping out of the title. He is now a clerk at $2,000. The CHAIRMAN. Two thousand dollars is considered a pretty high salary for this work in other departments of the Government. What salaries are these three getting those that you propose to promote? Mr. DONNELLY. The two that I propose to promote are now each receiving $1,800. The CHAIRMAN. You say the chief timekeeper is doing the duties of a clerk? Mr. DONNELLY. It is a clerical position; yes. It is purely clerical work. The CHAIRMAN. He does nothing but keep the time records of the office? Mr. DONNELLY. The time rolls of the office. He is in charge of keeping the time rolls. The CHAIRMAN. He is not a timekeeper in the sense in which that word is usually used of timekeepers? Mr. DONNELLY. No, sir. That title has been carried for a number of years. He has received $2,000 for a number of years. Mr. MALBY. That is to go out? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir; that is to go out. He is to be taken care of under the heading of "four clerks," without change of compensation. The CHAIRMAN. You make these changes for the purpose of promoting these other two clerks? Mr. DONNELLY. No. It is simply to eliminate unnecessary titles. The CHAIRMAN. Ought not his title to be simply "timekeeper's Mr. DONNELLY. He has six or seven assistants who are also timekeeping clerks. You see the accounting division is divided into sections. One section is the timekeeping section, with a clerk in charge who has always been called "chief timekeeper." Another section is the property record section, with a clerk in charge. The bookkeeping section, in which the work of keeping the allotments is taken care of, is another section. TELEGRAPHER AND CLERK. The CHAIRMAN. You next drop out "telegrapher and clerk, $1,800," and provide for 9 instead of 10 clerks of class 4? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. The telegrapher and clerk are moved up and constitute two of the four clerks at $2,000? Mr. DONNELLY. No, sir. The telegrapher and clerk is one position, and he remains at the same salary and is taken care of in class 4. Mr. SMITH. That is two raises of $200 ? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes. We simply eliminate the title of telegrapher and clerk at $1,800 and place the position with the title of "clerk of class 4." This is also an old title, "telegrapher and clerk," which is superfluous. In fact, we have two clerks who are excellent telegraphers, employed on clerical work, and who perform the telegraphic work only when necessary. EIGHT CLERKS OF CLASS 1. The CHAIRMAN. You have six clerks of class 1. You want to increase that number to eight? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir. That will result in the promotion of two stenographers from $1,000 to $1,200. SEVEN CLERKS AT $1,000. The CHAIRMAN. Then you have nine clerks at $1,000 and reduce that to seven? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir; on account of the promotion of these two. SEVEN CLERKS AT $846. The CHAIRMAN. Then you have six clerks at $840, and propose to increase that number to seven? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes. That will result in the promotion of one clerk from $720 to $840. ELEVEN CLERKS AT $720. The CHAIRMAN. Then you propose to drop one clerk at $720 making the number 11 such clerks instead of 12? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes. The clerk that is promoted to the $840 position is taken from the $720 class. The CHAIRMAN. When you promote in this way you are constantly increasing the number of high-class clerks and reducing the number of clerks at the lower rates of pay? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir. But, Mr. Chairman, I am performing the work of the office of the Public Printer, and what we term the "overhead" is being taken care of by 28 less employees than when I was appointed Public Printer. That is, with 28 less employees we are performing the same volume of work, and these promotions are, in my opinion, merited, and mean the raising by one grade of a number who really merit promotion. In fact the services now required are such that the remuneration proposed is in my opinion deserved. These clerks who were retained are, a number of them, bright and efficient young men and women, and we expect them to continue improving in efficiency and performing an increased volume of work at the salaries of $720 and $840 and $1,000. Now, while we expect them to do it, they merit consideration, and should be encouraged by promotion. OFFICE OF DEPUTY PUBLIC PRINTER. The CHAIRMAN. The next item is office of Deputy Public Printer. You propose there to increase the salary of the inspector of paper and material, as provided for in section 20 of an act approved January 12, 1895, from $2,000 to $2,250. Does that act fix the salary of the inspector? Mr. DONNELLY. No, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Then this increase is not authorized by law? Mr. Donnelly. I asked for this increase last year. The man who is holding that position performs very satisfactory work, and he is the man who is responsible for the first inspection and examination of about $1,000,000 worth of paper per annum. He is now and has been a very faithful, continuously hard-working employee, and I recommend that his efforts be recognized. CHEMIST, AT $1,600. On page 357 I have asked for a salary for our chemist of $1,400. Since these estimates were forwarded he has made a personal appeal for consideration, and his appeal has been supported by the Director of the Bureau of Standards, Dr. Stratton, who on January 19 addressed to me the following letter: Mr. T. B. Ford has been employed now for some years in this bureau as a chemist, doing work for and paid by the Government Printing Office. It is my opinion that Mr. Ford's salary may well be increased to $1,600 annually, from $1,400. I offer this suggestion as a basis for any recommendation on the subject you may care to make in your annual estimates. Very respectfully, S. W. STRATTON, Director. The annual estimates having been made, I can only recommend to you that you increase the salary of the chemist from $1,400 to $1,600. WATCH FORCE. The CHAIRMAN. The next is the watch force; the captain of the watch, $1,200. Forty-nine thousand and eighty dollars is the amount of your current appropriation. Mr. DONNELLY. There is no change. HOLIDAYS. The CHAIRMAN. "Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office," $185,000, which is $15,000 less than your current appropriation. Mr. DONNELLY. I have suggested that $15,000 be added to the appropriation for leaves of absence contained in the next paragraph. The CHAIRMAN. How much of this $200,000 that you had for 1910 remained unexpended at the end of the fiscal year?" Mr. DONNELLY. $30,199.53. The CHAIRMAN. What do you estimate the balance will be at the end of this fiscal year? Mr. DONNELLY. About the same amount. The CHAIRMAN. The next is leaves of absence. Mr. DONNELLY. We had an unused balance in the appropriation for leaves of absence for 1910 of $16,576.72. The CHAIRMAN. But you had a deficiency appropriation of $50,000 ? The CHAIRMAN. Your estimate for leaves of absence for the fiscal year 1912 is $340,000? Mr. DONNELLY. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Your appropriation for 1911 is $325,000? |