The Cordova daily times., 1915-07-29
PEP" FOR THE DULL SEASON

sp' between former Senator Jonathan Bourne jr and e,y Q, commerce William c. Redfeld is injecting ginger the dull season at Washington Verbal brckbats are t'h8 pack and forth and the end is not yet.
 m ms capacity president of the Republican Publicity socon Bourne wrote to the director of the asking De inshed list of persons appointed after March 8 1913
 e census of manufactures and also of all other per appointed Tn the census bureau after that date outside of cassed civil service with the state from which each was pointed
 That request coming from president of the Republican cty association made the department of commerce off st up ana take notice They suspected that the nsdious my was trying to put across The director of the ss pulled himself together and handed Bourne the follow linguistic punch:
 You informed that it is not the nocv of the bureau nrnlsh such information, if it practicable
 lie also was advised that Cit would involve time and ,r on the part of employees than would be jusable" Now will you be good?' thought the department officials hey dispatched this letter Bourne But refused lively and deanty to take the count He came right back he director with this query: Why it the policy of the bureau not to furnish such rmaiton7'' The receipt by the director of this counter query from the ulous Bourne caused the director pass the buck up etary Redfeld who drew heavily his wel-stocked bulary Ill framing his reply: "There two for this policy The first one is requests from private frequently reach the ment for list of employees to be used for various personal oses such advertising, solicitations of kinds others that will be familiar to you The department has omy declined to give this data for such purposes because not deemed right to the clerical force aid of private fries of this character Secondly the department knows of authorizing the work required to furnish such lists and appropriation for work of the kind It is pleasure yver, to supplement the information given by the director by full statement of the facts concerning the lfacurers in operation"
 Then Secretary Redfed proceeds to set forth of stcal information complied in three tables and lot of data taken from the records of the bureau and gives his horn loud toot in the following language:
 It will please you to learn that the work of the present s although involving labor than any previous one of tho If Inc hiph elapsed since the last similar census has been accom- ed at approximately the same cost and in shorter time field work is at present about two months ahead of the ous record and like result is expected to appear in nting the results of the complete work to the public
 Tn taking the of manufactures special effort to cooperate with business and commercial bodies ghou the country To that end the director of the nay visited cites the eastern, central and m parts of country to confer with industrial and ercial bodies The result of this cooperation that y after the collection of the reports commenced schedules voluntarily filled out and sent in by rers resulting in the collection of this of data with e employment of special agents in the field As result work had the pleasure of requesting the committee on opraons of the senate to reduce by $OOO the approp which had at that time passed the house of representa- pending before the senate which reduction was Approaching the privilege which your communication of making the admirable record of the bureau of the public in the fullest way let say that a copy of this uncation will be printed in full in Commerce Reports ed daily by this department in order that the facts may own widely possible
 hose who were with Senator Bourne when he got Secre 2edied's reply say that he did not give three cheers he read Redfelds description of the admirable record by the census bureau and did not display any emotion a few signs of disgust.
 enaor Bourne's friends declare with vehemence that st incurred in compiling the tables and other information Bourne which he did not want, greatly exceeded the lat would have been incurred in furnishing him informa did not want to say nothing of the cost of publishing d's letter and tables in the Commerce Reports same no relevancy to commerce whatever. Rdfield's reply that there just 1,60 names with addresses that wants but which he does not likely to get long eminent side whiskered gentleman remains at the head department of commerce. The people who backing Bourne say that a live office boy could copy those in half day. in less time If he were anxious to ny to attend ball game