DEFICIENCY BILL.

HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. JOHN J. FITZGERALD (CHAIRMAN), CHARLES L. BARTLETT, THOMAS U. SISSON, FREDERICK H. GILLETT, AND WILLIAM S. VARE, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1913 AND FOR PRIOR YEARS.

FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1913.

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

STATEMENT OF MR. JOHN A. M’ILHENNY, PRESIDENT.

EXAMINATION OF FOURTH-CLASS POSTMASTERS.

The CHAIRMAN. Your item is on page 3 of the bill, as follows:

For necessary additional office employees, printing, stationery, travel, contingent, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $30,000; field examiners, at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $9.000; in all, $39,000, to be available for this purpose until used.

What appropriation is there now out of which this work can be paid?

Mr. McILHENNY. None. We have not started the work yet, and we have no appropriation which we can properly apply to this work. In making that statement, however, I do not mean to say that there is any restriction upon the use of the money we already have, but the needs of the commission are such that I can not apply the appropriations which I have already to this work.

The CHAIRMAN. Following the issuance of the Executive order on May 7, 1913, the fourth-class postmasters were put in the classified service?

Mr. McILHENNY. No, sir; they were put in prior to that.

Mr. BARTLETT. President Roosevelt put those north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River in the classified service before he went out, and on October 15, 1912, President Taft issued another order placing the remainder under civil service.

Mr. McILHENNY. Yes, sir; but only a portion of those have been examined by the Civil Service Commission. The recent Executive order of the President provides that those who were not examined in accordance with the Executive orders of Mr. Roosevelt and of

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