Evening star., 1922-12-18
AGRICULTURAL BILL
REPORTED IN HOUSE
Measure Carries Provisions
for Reorganization of US
Department Work.

Carrying legislative authorization
for reorganization of the entire work
| Of the Department Of Agriculture, ss
described in The Star a week ago. and
carrying a specific appropriation fer
Center market. in the District - Co..
lumbia the annual appropriation bill
for the Department of Agriculture. to-
falling S68.1sl.o53 for the fiscal year,
was reported to the Hous. today
This sum. compared with the regular
annual appropriations for the current
| fiscal year. is an increase OF So. ..s52-
$50 and is s250.00O less than the
amount requested In the budget est
+. mates.
The appropriations committee rec
: ommends an appropriation % slIS.660
/ for the operation and management of
| the Center market during the next
year. This is the amount estimated
for in the budget, but is sl1 900 great
!tr than the appropriation for the cur
reLt year. The committee further
| recommends that authority be insert
| ed permitting the Secretary of Agri-
couture to purchase necessary supplies
and equipment for use in the Center
| market without regard TO awards Of
| the general supply committee. Au-
| thority Is also granted for the use of
/. FUNDS not [" exceed $500 for the pay
ment of claims
1; -Four Units Established.
! Carrying out the reorganization pro
gram recommended by Secretary
Wallace and indorsed by President
| Harding in HIS budget message, the
| report to the House by Chairman An
derson Of the subcommittee on agri
cultural disbursements points out
that a reorganization OF Two offices
recommended By the President and
transmitted to Congress in the bud
| get. has resulted in the establishment
of four separate units. The two others
! consolidated and reorganized are the
| division OF publications and the states
relations service The four units re
sulting are % the otice of editorial
and distribution work: (2) the Office
| Of experiment stations; (3) the ex-
| tension service, and 40 the bureau
of home economics. The first three OF
| these units have been placed under th-
! Office of the Secretary of Agriculture
! while the fourth. the bureau OF
home economics. is recommended as
| separate bureau.
| This reorganization makes neces
| sary readJustment Of the statutory
roles and the accompanying necessary
4 changes in the designation OF general
! expense appropriations.
! Under the plan OF organization OF
! the Department of Agriculture all OF
it's various bureaus, divisions. Offices
and boards will be placed under tho
general direction of either the office
Of the Secretary. the director Of sc!en-
tific work. the director Of regulatory
| work or the director of extension. Ar
| the present time .he larger part of
| the work Of the states relations sery
F., ice and the divisions of publications
| has to do with the dissemination OF
! Information developed by the inves-
| tigational bureaus of the department
| Because of this relationship and in
order to insure the proper co-ordina-
| tion of these activities the committee
believes It is desirable TO place these
services directly under the Office OF
the Secretary.
More Units Planned.
In carrying out these changes II is
proposed to combine the work rela:-
ing to agricultural exhibits and mo-
tion pictures. now conducted under
| the division OF publications, with the
extension activities under the states
relation service and to organize
separate unit resulting from this con-
| solidation under the office Of the Sec
| retary, to be known as the extension
service.
1t IL also proposed TO create sep
| ara.e units under the Secretarys
office to be known as the office or
editorial and distribution work. TO
which will be assigned the duty of
\ editing and distributing department
| publications and other related work
/ now performed by the division OF
publications.
transfer of the research phases or
\ the work of the present states re-
llations service to other units OF the
department. This viii involve the
creation of new bureau OF nome
economics, which will constitute one
of the major divisions Of the depart
ment's organization. and the tsfan-
llishment, under the oftice OF the Sec
| retary, OF AN Office of % pertinent
4 stations. taking over from the states
| relations service the administration
of the research work SUPPORTED ng
| federal appropriations PROVIDED oE
the Hatch and Adams act. as wen as
/! the investigation Work now uhue'
neriment stations located IN outlying
lpossessions OF the United States-
| This will permit of the close co-or
dination of the research work oil the
various bureaus OF the departments
and that conducted by the states as-
| ricultural stations under the imine-
diafe supervision of the director OF
! scientific work.
SALARY Provisions.
Under this plan Of reorganization
three of the new units are recon-
mended to be placed under the direct
supervision of the Secretary. These
units are % the Office of editorial
and distribution work. CD the ONCE
! ~ experiment stations. and 90 the
ex+ension services. The reorganiza-
! tion hes resulted in decrease OF $4i.oeo
| IN The amount recommended to be ap-
nronriated, compared with the appro-
nriations for similar purposes curing
! the fiscal year 1928.
| Under the paragraph pertaining 70
the maximum salaries or scientlno
employes of the department the COM
! mittee recommends that the iimit1
! tion on persons who may pc empioyeV
~ a rate in excess of $4,000 but not
in excess of $500 be lncreaseo iIoM'
aish1 to twelve and that the number
- versions who may be employed at Il
rate in excess of $500 but NOT IN
excess of $1,000 be increased IRON
three to five.
New $4,000 Item.
new item of 100000 for model
dairy harm with all devices Tor scien-
| tifc weighing and testing at .no
Beltsville experimental sta.ivn;
| rated nv the bureau of animal lnuus-
80 ia proposed The committee ias1
Ia gave the Beltsville station S5,Voo
yor the construction of sewage ois-
Zeal nlant. The bill also carries ap-
| Pn.iations for continuing the WORK