Agriculture Appropriation Bill; Hearings on H.r. 19359, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ending June  (English, Paperback, United States. Committee On Agriculture)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917. Excerpt: ... House Of Representatives, Committee On Agriculture, Thursday, December 7, 1916. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. STATEMENT OF DR. WILLIAM A. TAYLOR, CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The Chairman. We will take up next the Bureau of Plant Industry, on page 52, and Dr. Taylor, chief of that bureau, is present and will present his estimates. Your first change seems to be m item 9, where you have dropped one assistant superintendent of seed warehouse at $1,400 and changed him to a clerk of class 2, which is shown in item 18, page 53. Dr. Taylor. That is merely a change in title, Mr. Chairman, and involves no change in compensation. And the title is changed so as to make it more accurate and to fit the type of service that the employee is rendering. Mr. Anderson. We are not going to be asked to appropriate for an assistant superintendent of seed warehouse the next tune? Dr. Taylor. No. The Chairman. I notice immediately following one seed warehouseman at $1,020 changed to one clerk at $1,020? Dr. Taylor. That is of identical character, due to the fact that the position is clerical and hence the change of the title. The Chairman. What does a seed warehouseman do? Why was he ever called a warehouseman in the first place? Dr. Taylor. He, I think, first entered the service by taking the examination for seed warehouseman. He is one of the employees who has to do with the congressional seed distribution. But his present and prospective service is clerical in character. The Chairman. Item 15, seven clerks, class 4, increase of one in lieu of one clerk, class 3, with increase of $200. Dr. Taylor. This is a recommendation for an increase, by $200 a year, of the salary of the stenographer to the chief of the bureau, a man who is very compe...