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Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Cannon, Barney, Van Voorhis, Livingston, and Pierce, in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1901 and Prior Years on General Deficiency Bill Mr. Hills. No, sir; that was the appropriation for years, if you will look back to 1886 and prior years. The chairman. For shelving for rented building near the corner of Fourteenth and B streets nw. Does the legislative bill care for that? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Tawney, Vreeland, Keifer, Brundidge, Jr., And Livingston, in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1908 and Prior Years on General Deficiency Bill The chairman. And is an increase over what these officers whose rank has been increased had previously received? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Cannon, Barney, Van Voorhis, Livingston, and Pierce, in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1900 and Prior Years on Urgent Deficiencies The Chairman. In other words, the sovereign, the people being the sovereign, whether they ask with full knowledge in all cases, from your standpoint, are entitled to attention? Mr. Scofield. Yes, sir; we are public servants. Mr. Van Voorhis. I want to inquire if the temporary force has been reduced or whether it is as great now as at other times? Mr. Scofield. It has fluctuated a great deal. The temporary force now is perhaps a little less in numbers than what it was at its highest point, but it fluctuates. We may have a call to-morrow from some bureau for three or four extra clerks to do work rendered necessary. Here is another thing which might happen: We very frequently have resolutions and requests from Congress for certain information. It takes you gentlemen thirty minutes to get it through, and it takes four or five days, or possibly longer, for a large force of clerks to answer the resolution; and all of those things take people off from the regular work, and the regular work perhaps gets in arrears and perhaps necessitates longer hours and a slightly additional force. The Chairman. Those people were appointed without reference to the civil-service law? Mr. Scofield. Absolutely. The Chairman. Appointed for their real or supposed efficiency, and you say they have become fairly efficient? Mr. Scofield. Yes, sir. Let me say right here, if you will permit me, we had to appoint them that way. The demand came upon us very suddenly, and you would be amazed to know and could hardly realize without actual experience how difficult it is to get good people of high grade for the Government service in an emergency. There are plenty of average people, but what we needed under the great stress and pressure of affairs were exceptionally qualified men. The Chairman. You find that under any system? Mr. Scofield. Yes, sir. Mr. Livingston. You would not have gotten that extra class of clerks any more out of the civil service than out of these people; or, let me put it in another way: If you turned all of the temporary clerks down to-day and filled them from the classified service, would you get as good clerks? Mr. Scofield. Oh, I think we would. The Chairman. Would they be as efficient to-day? Mr. Scofield. If the present temporary force was wiped out to-day, and we were obliged to fill them from the certification of the Civil Service Commission, as a physical fact, our service to-morrow would be less efficient than it was yesterday when the present temporary force was in. In other words, there is no question in my mind, in my sixteen years' experience in the Department, that it takes pretty nearly a year, on an average, to make a man of any particular benefit to the service. The Chairman. A really high-grade man, you say, to get on an emergency is very difficult. I suppose that is not only so in public life, but in private employment? Mr. Scofield. Yes, sir. The Chairman. If this appropriation is made as you submit it, will the present force substantially remain until the close of the fiscal year? Mr. Scofield. That is our expectation. The Chairman. You drop out these words, if you will notice, at the bottom of page 19: "Persons in the classified service of the Government shall not be eligible to appointment under this appropriation, or to be transferred from any position in the classified service to positions paid hereunder, etc." Would it not be well to have them restored? Mr. Scofield. There is no objection to their being restored; the omission was unintentional, as far as I know, on the part of the War Department. Mr. Livingston. Would you be willing t

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Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Hemenway, Van Voorhis, Burkett, Livingston, and Underwood, in Charge of Deficiency Approbations for 1904 and Prior Years on General Deficiency Bill 3. The increasing of pensions for total deafness. 4. The restoration of widows, dependent mothers, or dependent sisters who had married. 5. The increase of pensions to those who lost limbs in the service of the United States. 6. The increase of pensions to Mexican war survivors. 7. A very large number of special acts bearing high rates of pension. 8. In addition to the foregoing the Bureau is doing much more work than usual, and the result is a great many more rejections and a great many more admissions and certificates. This increased amount of work in the Bureau accomplishes the finishing of a large amount of delayed and accumulated business. The foregoing has necessitated for this current fiscal year at least two and a half millions more than the estimates, which were made long in advance of the fiscal year. When the estimates for the fiscal year were made it could not be presumed what legislation would take place, nor could the effect of recent and pending legislation he accurately determined, so therefore it was that on March 1 of the present fiscal year it was found, as above stated, necessary to call for two and a half millions more of money to meet the requirements of the year. Since that time Order No. 78 has been issued, which is the order establishing an age limit for pensions under the new law, and it is estimated that a million and a half additional will be required on that account for the current fiscal year. The estimate for the first two and a half millions had gone to the Treasury, but afterwards, since the issuance of said Order No. 78, the first estimate has been recalled and the second estimate made for four millions. There are still a large number of special pension bills pending, and it is believed that four millions is the smallest possible sum with which the Bureau can operate during the present fiscal year. The Chairman (resuming). You speak of the increase of pensions to Mexican war survivors. What is that increase, Mr. Commissioner? How are they pensioned now? Mr. Ware. They are pensioned now at $12 per month, where formerly they were pensioned at $8. That is the law of March 3, 1903, which provides that all Mexican war pensioners on the pension roll shall be increased from $8 to $12. The Chairman. Yes; that is Mexican war. That includes the Mexican widows, too, does it? Mr. Ware. No; that only includes the survivors of that war. That act went into effect about a year ago. The operation of it, however, in payments has been confined largely to this year. The number of persons coming under that law will average a hundred a month. I would put that at 1,200 for this year, at an increase of $48 each. The Chairman. Now, under existing conditions you think that for the balance of the fiscal year you will require $2,500,000 deficiency due to the reasons you assign in this letter? Mr. Ware. Yes, sir. And if you will pardon me, I would like to explain in relation to one of these classes, and that is the pensions granted, first, to soldiers who were in the Indian wars, and concerning which so many questions arise as to proof and matters of that kind. The payments in those cases are almost entirely in this year. The other matter I wish to mention is in connection with the joint resolution regarding Confederate soldiers and deserters. I held, on the reading of that law, that the law was not retroactive, and hence that new applications must be filed. That held up the operation of that law - I supposing that to be the correct ruling - until nearly the beginning of this fiscal year, when Mr. Campbell, the Assistant Secretory of the Interior, overruled m.