MESSRS. BINGHAM, GILLETT, GRAFF, GARDNER,

LIVINGSTON, AND BURLESON

IN CHARGE OF

THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND
JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION

BILL FOR 1912

H. R. 29360

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1910

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HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. H. H. BINGHAM, F. H. GILLETT, J. V. GRAFF, WASHINGTON GARDNER, L. F. LIVINGSTON, AND A. S. BURLESON, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1912, ON THE DAYS NAMED.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1910.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

STATEMENT OF MR. HERBERT PUTNAM, LIBRARIAN.

NEW POSITIONS.

Mr. BINGHAM. You ask, I think, for new positions, according to this memorandum, $10,700?

Mr. PUTNAM. Yes.

Mr. BINGHAM. Now, I notice one matter. You increase the heads of your departments. Why that? Are they not receiving fair compensation?

Mr. PUTNAM. There are only two increases of chiefs of divisions that I propose. They are not receiving compensation that is the normal, or, at least, certainly not the maximum in other divisions. This is intended as an equalization of those salaries. For instance, the periodical division would have a maximum of $2,500 as against bibliography at $3,000. Three thousand dollars is the maximum paid in any division, and I think we must stand by that, although we lose men. We have just lost a very important man to the University of Chicago. He was the head of our catalogue division at $3,000. Mr. GILLETT. What is his name?

Mr. PUTNAM. Hanson. He goes to become associate director of the library at the University of Chicago. We lost the Chief of our Periodical Division last spring.

Mr. BINGHAM. What did you pay him?

Mr. PUTNAM. Two thousand dollars; I asked for $2,500.

Mr. BINGHAM. What does he get now?

Mr. PUTNAM. I do not know, because I do not know where he has gone. I say we lost him; but he is not the loss to the service, personally, that Mr. Hanson is. I was very desirous, however, in the selection of a new man to get the $2,500, in order to bring us a man really adequate to the work.

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