4 HJ10 19079 SUBCOMMITTEE OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1907 AND PRIOR YEARS ON GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1907. HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE, MESSRS. L. N. LITTAUER (CHAIRMAN), J. A. TAWNEY, J. B. GRAFF, S. BRUNDIDGE, JR., AND L. F. LIVINGSTON, OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF DEFICIENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1907, AND PRIOR YEARS, ON THE DAYS FOLLOWING, NAMELY: MONDAY, February 25, 1907. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. STATIONERY. STATEMENT OF MR. GEORGE SIMMONS, CHIEF DIVISION OF PRINTING AND STATIONERY. Mr. LITTAUER. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus you ask an appropriation of $8,000. Has this appropriation been apportioned in monthly allotments? Mr. SIMMONS. Yes, sir. Mr. LITTAUER. Eight months of the year have now passed? Mr. SIMMONS. Yes, sir. Mr. LITTAUER. Have you exceeded the apportionment? Mr. SIMMONS. Yes, sir. We made an allotment at the beginning of the year and we found that we could not get through with the appropriation of $30,000. We asked for a deficiency last year. Mr. LITTAUER. Did you get the authority of the Secretary to waive the apportionment? Mr. SIMMONS. Not in writing. Mr. LITTAUER. Does not the law require it? Mr. SIMMONS. That was a matter that was overlooked. We did not think it was required in writing until we examined the law closely. Mr. LITTAUER. Did not the Auditor check you at all? Mr. SIMMONS. No, sir. I talked with the Assistant Secretary about it and we thought that we better get along under the circumstances. Mr. TAWNEY. What contingency happened subsequent to the making of the apportionment that necessitated your waiving that apportionment? Mr. SIMMONS. We have to supply the material to the different offices from month to month. Perhaps it would be well to explain briefly our system. We have what is known as the reimbursement or repaying system, and we have to keep a stock on hand to meet the requisitions that come in from the customs service and all outlying services. Mr. LITTAUER. Has there been any emergency arise during the past year in connection with the expenditures for stationery? Have you had any extraordinary demand or any loss? 3 |