APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1935 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS CONSISTING OF MESSRS. JOHN N. SANDLIN (CHAIRMAN), 561 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL, 1935 HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. JOHN N. SANDLIN (CHAIRMAN), MICHAEL J. HART, CLARENCE CANNON, JAMES H. SINCLAIR, AND LLOYD THURSTON, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1935, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934. STATEMENTS OF HON. HENRY A. WALLACE, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, AND W. A. JUMP, BUDGET OFFICER GENERAL STATEMENT Mr. SANDLIN. Gentlemen, we have met this morning for the purpose of beginning the consideration of the estimates for the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Secretary, we are very glad to have you here this morning, and if you would like to make a general statement in reference to the work of the Department, the committee will be very glad to hear you. Secretary WALLACE. I am very glad to have had this opportunity of coming before you in explanation of the budget for the Department. I hope you will let me know whenever I can be of assistance to the committee, in connection with your consideration of the estimates, or on any matter pertaining to the Department. } INCREASE IN WORK OF SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND IN DEPARTMENT PROPER I was referring a few moments ago, in the course of our informal discussion, to the state of the Department under the pressure of the emergency work. Mr. SINCLAIR. Do you mean, Mr. Secretary, that the work in connection with the Secretary's office has increased 390 precent as a result of the activities of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and other burdens? Secretary WALLACE. Yes. We have practically four times as much mail, to be exact an increase of 396 percent. The telephone traffic has increased 109 percent, and the telegraph business in the Secretary's office as distinct from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, has increased 96 percent. Mr. SANDLIN. You are discussing the increase in the Secretary's office? Secretary WALLACE. Yes. The result has been that in the Secretary's office our staff has not been cut down materially, but the burdens have been increased so greatly that a great many of our 1 M506223 |