The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-17
GREENS GOOD THING
WORK FOR GOVERNMENT AND PRI-
 yATE CITIZENS ALSO.
Chairman Isowney of the House. COm- msttee On Appropriations Brings Ont Some Interesting Infor-
 nation. .t'

Washington. Feb. 16.--In the pre- tparation of the executive and judicial appropriation sbiIl the House commit tee on congratulations is making a close canvass of tMe necessity for practical " every item asked for by the var ious departments of the government.
 In this connection an estimate made by the librarian of Congress for $780, 900 to erect a separate building in the court of the library for a newspaper stack for the storage of newspapers has caused some interest. The. librar- ian declared that the advancement in the making of books and newspapers is filling the mammoth building much more rapidly than its designers anti cipated, so that the time when 1t will be filled to it's capacity Is not far dis tant
 The committee, under the lead of Chairman Tawney. endeavored to as- certain from Bernard R. Green the H. brarys custodian. the necessity for what was characterized as large ex- penditure for the care of the library To ascertain just how much time Mir. Green gives to the work at the library MT. Tawney asked the direct dues- ton.
 q cannot answer that, except to say I am employed all the time," answer ed Mir. Green.
 Mir. Green admitted mat he was the architect employed in the construction of the national museum building. for which he received $2,O00 year extra compensation. Asked if he did work for outside parties in addition to that. Green repled that sometimes he did when his friends wanted him to help them" Just now he was engaged in that capacity with regard to construc- tion of an addition to the Raleigh HG- tel in this city
 Did you not also superintend the construction of the New Willard Ho tel?' asked Mir. Tawney
 T did look after it for the owners They are friends of mine. I have not time to do business of that sort regu- larly to make business of 1t. but"
 Are you employed as superintendent of construction of the State capitol at Harrisburg. Pa.?' interjeeted Mir. Taw- ney
 'sNo. sir I simply acted as a gen eral adviser to the commission. I sim ply went to the meetings once a month
 For this Mir. Green said he received $4,000 a year and his travelling expens- es People come to me once in a while to answer questions profession ally and I sometimes do it. he added.
 That there is d constant tendency on the part of the government depart- ments to divert appropriations made by Congress for one purpose to some oth- CT end had just been testified to before the committee by Comptroller Trace well of the Treasury Department.
 The Comptroller explained that when errors of this kind reached him he endeavored to make transfers so that the proper funds should be applied but when this was impossible he disal lowed the payment and then Congress had to be applied to for an allowance to meet the deficiency When asked by MT. Tawney if all of these eases reach ed him, Mir. Tracewell replied:
 T know that a great many of thera do not. Even with my six experts I can only examine one out of i've hum dred accounts settled by the auditors --I am guessing. but I think that a fair guess"