4 clerks, at $900 each (increase of 1 submitted)..

1 addressing-machine operator (submitted in lieu of 1 assistant messenger at $720)..

3 assistant messengers, at $720 each (1 omitted as above). 5 laborers, at $660 each (increase of 1 submitted)..

5 laborers, at $480 each...

1 messenger boy...................

Total.....

3,600

840

2, 160

3,300

2,400

480

36, 380

Expenditures for salaries for the Division of Publications for the fiscal year 1912 will amount to $33,000, of which $32,000 is payable from the appropriation "Salaries, Office of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor," and $1,000 from the appropriation "Salaries, Bureau of Fisheries." The estimates for the fiscal year 1913 represent an increase of $3,380. An increase of $300 is asked for the $1,800 clerk in the Division who has for the past year and a half performed the duties of the Chief of the Division whenever it was necessary for him to be absent. One additional position in each of the $1,400 and $900 grades and one additional laborer at $660 are also asked for. In addition, an increase of $120 is desired for one of the assistant messengers, who is an addressing-machine operator, and should be so classed.

The $300 increase is submitted in order to create an assistant chiefship for the Division; also that the salary of the clerk who has been filling this position for the past year and a half may be more in keeping with the duties performed by him, and with the salaries paid for similar services in the other departments and independent Government establishments. The employee for whom this increase is asked is rendering very valuable services to the Government, and is deserving of advancement.

The increases in the clerical and laboring forces are rendered necessary by the growth in the work devolving on the Division, especially in connection with the distribution of the Department's publications, the centralization of which in this Division has been in progress for the past year and which is now completed with the exception of the publications emanating from the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of the Census. The $1,400 and $900 positions are needed for supervisory work, the keeping of records of the number of copies of each publication received, and the number distributed and to whom sent (in order to avoid duplication, as required by section 92 of the act of January 12, 1895, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents), the addressing of franks, the keeping of mailing lists, cutting of stencils, caring for stock, and other work of a similar character; while the growth in the work incident to the wrapping and mailing of publications makes necessary an additional laborer to avoid delays and frequent congestion in that work.

will

The increase of $120 asked for one of the assistant messengers provide for an addressing-machine operator and at the same time reward a worthy and painstaking employee, whose salary is at present far below that paid for similar services in the other departments and independent Government establishments.

PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this allotment shall be expended for printing and binding for the Bureau of the Census.

The above estimate represents an increase of $10,000 over the allotment of the appropriation for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1912. Five thousand dollars of this increase is intended for the needs of the Bureau of Manufactures, and $5,000 in order to enable the Department to purchase from the Public Printer all paper used for letterheads and continuation sheets, which is now furnished by the Department and paid for from the appropriation for contingent expenses. The purchase of this paper from the Public Printer will be in keeping with the recommendation of the Congressional Printing Investigation Commission as contained in its preliminary report to Congress (S. Doc. No. 652, 61st Cong., 2d sess.).

The Chief of the Bureau of Manufactures states that a larger allotment will be required for printing for his Bureau during the coming fiscal year, owing to the increased demand on the Bureau for bulletins and pamphlets dealing with trade conditions at home and abroad; also it seems very probable that the limit of 20,000 copies of the Daily Consular and Trade Reports will soon be reached. This additional sum, therefore, will be absolutely necessary if the Bureau of Manufactures is to disseminate properly the reports of its special agents and tariff division, and numerous reports received from consuls on special subjects.

Respectfully,

To Hon. CHARLES NAGEL,

GEO. C. HAVENNER, Chief, Division of Publications.

Secretary of Commerce and Labor.