COOPERATION WITH THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY. The Committee on Economy and Efficiency of this Department, appointed in September, 1910, has cooperated with the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency as fully as the regular work of individual members of the committee would permit. I may say that members have shown great devotion in their efforts to advance the general economy and efficiency program without permitting their regular work to suffer. The members of this Department's committee have worked with the President's Commission both as a committee and individually; and at the same time have independently of that body given attention to questions of economy within the Department. Much detailed information on various subjects has been furnished the Commission, especially in respect to the details of administration, organization, business methods and procedure, and along the lines of expenditure, appropriation, and estimate classifications. Each member of the Department's committee has served on one or more special committees appointed at the suggestion of the President's Commission, and has assisted in the formulation of reports which have already been submitted. In addition, other employees of the Department, not members of the departmental committee, have served from time to time on special committees, several of which are still at work. Apart from the advantageous changes in Government methods, which may result from expert study of the detailed information which has been furnished the President's Commission, it is thought that the mere compilation of this information has been of substantial advantage to the Department. It has afforded those in authority an opportunity to analyze their own duties and responsibilities and has thus put them in position to look at their own work from an entirely new viewpoint. While an advance has been made in this Department in the direction of efficiency and economy, much remains to be done, especially in respect to duplication which is now unavoidable owing to the fact that the Department's bureaus are scattered over so wide an area. As soon as these bureaus are brought together in one building a new field will be opened to the Department's committee, and it is the intention to formulate a plan for closer and more compact cooperation which it is hoped and expected will bring about greater efficiency and substantial economy. DISBURSING OFFICE. The itemized statement of the disbursements from the contingent fund of the Department of Commerce and Labor and the appropriation for "General expenses, Bureau of Standards," for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, required to be submitted to Congress by section 193 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the itemized statement of expenditures under all appropriations for propagation of food fishes during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, required by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 523), and a statement showing travel on official business by officers and employees (other than the special agents, inspectors, and employees in the discharge of their regular duties, who are required to travel constantly) from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, as required by the act of Congress approved May 22, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 244), will be transmitted to Congress in the usual form. The following table shows the total amounts of all annual appropriations for the various bureaus and services of the Department of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, of all appropriations made for public works in the various services. of the Department which, under the law, may be disbursed without regard to any particular year, and of all permanent indefinite and deficiency appropriations: The disbursements by the Disbursing Clerk of the Department of Commerce and Labor during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, arranged according to items of appropriation, are as follows: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. Salaries, Office of Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1910... Payment to John J. Cannon and Benjamin Smith. Total..... $6,806. 11 148, 717. 17 9.06 236.48 23, 918. 70 72, 346. 01 5, 744. 71 43, 429. 03 150.00 663.00 1,250.00 303, 270. 27 BUREAU OF CORPORATIONS. Salaries, Bureau of Corporations, 1910.. 3, 464. 79 73, 264. 61 Salaries and expenses, special attorneys, examiners, etc., Bureau of 5, 650. 43 Salaries and expenses, special attorneys, examiners, etc., Bureau of 112,505. 58 Collating tariffs of foreign countries, 1911.. Salaries and expenses, commercial agents, Department of Commerce Total...... 1, 405. 87 34, 290. 70 375.96 7,514. 77 7.31 1,282. 89 44, 877.50 STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE. Salaries, Office of Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspec tion Service, 1910...... Salaries, Office of Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspec tion Service, 1911..... Salaries, Steamboat-Inspection Service...... Contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service... $601.69 13, 677. 20 427, 178. 11 92, 563. 39 Instruments for measuring vessels and counting passengers, 1911. 28.80 1, 166. 50 5,493. 58 65, 305. 15 195. 04 21.00 Improvement and care of grounds, Bureau of Standards, 1910.. Testing machine, Bureau of Standards... Gaslight standards, Bureau of Standards, 1910... 8, 370. 18 38, 350. 18 9.22 2, 648. 67 17, 775. 16 309. 06 2, 192. 65 1, 910. 00 65, 463. 03 1, 338. 53 641. 31 Weights and measures, Bureau of Standards, 1910-11. Investigating effects of electric currents, Bureau of Standards, 1911... Testing machine, Bureau of Standards, Pittsburgh, Pa. Testing structural materials of the United States, Bureau of Standards. Total... 7,466. 59 11, 587. 65 49, 417. 24 4,000.00 146.00 15,000.00 414, 543. 39 BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION. Salaries, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, 1910... Expenses of regulating immigration, 1911... Immigrant station, Boston, Mass... Immigrant station, Charleston, S. C. Immigrant station, Ellis Island, N. Y. (special fund). Ferry steamer, Immigration Service, San Francisco, Cal.. Payment of fees to Austrian seamen detained at Ellis Island, N. Y.......... Total... $4,380. 18 116, 087. 72 11, 678. 18 11, 686. 49 135, 355. 68 105, 534. 26 2,232, 308. 10 58.00 2,086.00 118, 109. 47 21, 959. 36 1, 312. 76 19, 698. 45 42, 032. 25 66,523. 12 10, 101. 22 137, 566.91 503.05 1,707. 12 9.00 260.00 3,038, 957. 32 Protecting seal fisheries of Alaska......... Protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, 1911-12.... Fish hatcheries: 16, 329. 39 19, 210. 84 41, 678. 41 133, 980. 41 3, 834. 52 |