Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-27
Plan of Secretary McAdoo Is
for Use of Old Bureau of /
Engraving Building. q
WOULD SAVE GOVERNMENT
$36, $50 YEARLY IN RENTS
Treasury Department Head Asks
Congress for Immediate Appro-
priation of $40, 600.

With a view to saving $3S.65n now
expended in rentals OF quarters 20
make room in the main Treasury De-
partment building for other activities,
and to facilitate public business. the
Secretary of the Treasury has proposed
that the offices OF the auditor for the
State and other departments. the au-
ditor for the Interior Department and
the auditor for the Navy Department.
now in rented quarters. and the auditor
for the Treasury Department. now in
the department building, be trans
ferred to the present quarters of the
bureau of en- craving and printing after
the building is vacated and adapted 10
the proposed new use.
To accommodate the building to the
purposes of the auditors Secretary Nc
Adoo has asked Congress to make an
appropriation of $4,000, regarding this
amount as sufficient, although he cites
the estimate of the supervising archi-
tect for $780, $50, calling for items which
may be desirable.
Immediate action by Congress is asked.
so that 1t will not be necessary to sub
nit the estimate for another fiscal year.
and to make it possible to effect the
changes in the old building between the
time the bureau of engraving and print
ing moves out and the end of the present
fiscal year. June 80, 1914.
All Have Extensive Files.
The auditor for the Treasury Depart
ment. with about 100 clerks, occupies
quarters on the top floor of the Treas
ury building. There are about eighty
five clerks in the Offices of the auditor
for the State and other departments oc-
cupying quarters in the small building
at 14th and G streets. at a rental OF
$500. rental of s27.95o is paid for
N rorfo In fh0 mi hlii1
| near 7th street, to house the offices OF
| the auditor for the Interior Department,
with about Ito clerks, and the auditor
eighty-five clerks. All these Offices con-
tain extensive files, comprising their
| records, which would necessarily be
commodations would have to be provided
IN new quarters.
There are two other auditors of the
Treasury Department. The auditor for
the Post Office Department, who reviews
the tremendous field expenditures of the
postal service as we'll as the accounts
Kept In Washington, employs fully 200
clerks. and is satisfactorily housed on
ment building. The auditor for the War
Department is in the Winder building.
rented quarters. This Office employs 2T5
men and has the accounts of the army in
to disturb this auditor and his STAFF in
the possession Of the present quarters.
although they are rented.
Three Floors for Auditors.
The bureau of engraving and printing.
which is almost ready to move into the
fine new structure built for 1t, will re-
tain the first floor of the old building.
at least for the present. The plan OF
the Secretary Of the Treasury comtem-
plates the use of the three other floors
for the Offices Of the auditors. Filing
space would be provided on the top
floor. The auditors would practically
use all the space which this plan would
allot to them.
In the administration OF President
Cleveland, a plan was discussed. and
found considerable favor, which conteun-
plated the amalgamation of all the audi.
tors Of the Treasury Department under
one auditor, with deputy auditors as
signed to each of the administrative de-
partments. Congress, independent COM
missions. &c. This project Is not now
under consideration, and the proposed
transfer to a government building has
no other purpose than the saving OF
rentals and facihtation OF public bust
ness No change in the present organi-
cation is planned. The auditors are all
subject to one of the assistant secre-
taries of the Treasury, to whom they re-
port.