I give below a list of the present assistants, together with a statement of the qualifications they presented when appointed:

Castimore, Clarence (Pennsylvania). Waverly (Pa.) High School. Colgate [niversity, A. B. With Colgate University Library three years. Languages: Working knowledge of German, French, and Greek.

Keyser, Herbert F. (New Hampshire). Colgate University, A. B. With Colgate University Library (summer 1911). Teacher. Typewriting, bookkeeping. Languages: Working knowledge of French, German, and Latin.

Smith, William Fletcher (South Dakota). Warrensburg (Mo.) State Normal School (five years). Harvard University, A. B. University of Colorado (summer 1913). Principal of school, Warrensburg, Mo. Teacher of Latin and Spanish, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Languages: Spanish, Latin, and Greek; reading knowledge of French and Italian; slight knowledge of German and Portuguese. Thomas, Arthur N. (New York). Colgate University, A. B. New York State Library School. Teacher. Typewriting, bookkeeping. Languages: Reading knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and German.

Wilson, George H. (Pennsylvania). Central High School, Washington. George Washington University, 1906-7. Washington Public Library. Typewriting. Languages: French; working knowledge of German; high-school Courses in Latin and Greek.

Of the nine positions at $1,000 in the Library proper recommended for increase to $1.080, six are connected with the Catalogue Division.

Below are listed the assistants who hold these positions at the present time, together with a statement of their qualifications when appointed.

Of these six, three have been connected with the service for 10 years, one for 7 years, one for 6 years, and the other for 3 years.

Brown, Nellie B. (Iowa). Central High School, Washington; George Washngton University; Washington Public Library (7 years), 1900-1907; United States Bureau of Education, 1908. Languages: Good working knowledge of German: slight knowledge of French.

Koehler, Hedwig J. (Massachusetts). High school, Roxbury, Mass.; editor's assistant. American Art Review; with Boston Society of Decorative Art and Associated Artists, New York; assistant curator, prints department, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1890-1899; assistant, 1899-1904 (classifying and cataloguing prints): special service, Library of Congress. Languages: German, French; working knowledge of Italian, Dutch, and Spanish.

Lødd, Mary B. (District of Columbia). Western High School, Washington; Columbian University (certain courses); Columbian University Library School. Languages: Reading knowledge of French and German; cataloguing knowledge of Latin and Spanish.

Manypenny. Sara L. (Tennessee). Private tutors in Paris, Berlin, Geneva; Girls' High School, Hanover, Germany; Southern Library Training School, Atanta Ga.; proof reader, teacher. Languages: German, French; cataloguing knowledge of Italian and Spanish.

Nelson, Ina F. (West Virginia). West Virginia State Normal School (graduate); Eastman Business College: West Virginia University; Drexel Institute Library School (graduate): teacher of English and mathematics; cataloguing work, Jefferson Medical College library; assistant librarian West Virginia University Library. Languages: Good working knowledge of French and German; <ght knowledge of Latin.

Koss Waldemar (New York). Teachers' College, Braunsberg, Prussia; Washington University, St. Louis (graduate); Harvard University, A. B., A. M., Ph. D.; teacher. editor. Languages: Knowledge of German, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek; reading knowledge of Spanish and Hebrew; slight knowledge of early all Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages.

The qualifications of the assistant in the music division, new receiving $1,000, and recommended for increase to $1,080, are as follows:

Leineweber, Henry C. (Wisconsin). Gymnasium at Duderstadt: St. Norhert's College, West De Pere, Wis.; University of Fribourg, Switzerland Ph. D.): St. Francis (Wis.) School of Music (1-year course); University of Pris (1 semester); teacher. Wisconsin, Switzerland, Russia; director of college, Switzerland. Languages: German, French, Latin, Russian, and Greek; working knowledge of Spanish, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Assyrian, Hebrew, Gothic, AngloSaxon. Low and Middle High German, and Old French; slight knowledge of Pobenian.

Of the 10 assistants at $1,000 in the copyright office recommended for increase to $1,080, 1 has been connected with the service for 18 years, 2 for 17 years, 3 for 14 years, 1 for 9 years, and 3 for 5 years and less.

Of the 30 positions at $960 recommended for increase to $1,080, 13 are filled by assistants who have had a college education; 13 by assistants who had had training or experience in library work before coming to the Library, and 17 by assistants who know at least two foreign languages (with a single exception, French and German) and sometimes more.

Of the 30 assistants 3 have been connected with the service for 15 years, 8 more for between 10 and 15 years, and 6 more for between 5 and 10 years. Of the 21 positions at $900 recommended for increase to $1,080, 2 are filled by assistants who have been connected with the service for more than 15 years, 3 by assistants who have served between 10 and 15 years, and 9 by assistants who have served between 5 and 10 years.

The 3 positions at $900 recommended for increase to $960 call for stenography and typewriting.

One is connected with the Periodical Division, one with the Bibliographic Division, and the other with the Documents Division.

Four positions at $860, 1 at $840, 2 at $800, 53 at $780, 14 at $720, and 1 at $660-a total of 75-are recommended for increase to $900.

Of these 75 positions 6 are filled by assistants who have served for 15 years. C by assistants who have served between 10 and 15 years, and 20 by assistants who have served between 5 and 10 years.

LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE.

Mr. JOHNSON. I want particularly to ask you about the legislative reference work for which we provided $25,000 for the current year. Has that force been organized?

Mr. PUTNAM. We have been cautious, Mr. Chairman, in appointing to it for two reasons: First, we wanted to be sure to get the most effective people available; and, secondly, we wished to husband the appropriation, realizing that when Congress should convene the demands might be heavy and that we would have to add summarily to the force. There are now, however, already 15 people upon that roll, and before Congress adjourned, and in some cases since, we have had specific inquiries directed to that service. For instance, we have had calls for the compilation of foreign laws relating to coal lands and the royalties reserved by the State; we have had requests for digests or copies of the laws passed by the Southern States during the Civil War limiting cotton acreage. Incidentally, we were able to reproduce some of those statutes by the use of the photostat. We have had many requests for translations.

Mr. JOHNSON. Could you furnish the committee, and make profert of it, as it were, a statement of some of the work that has been done under this appropriation?

Mr. PUTNAM. That is what I was stating, and if I may have five minutes I can state it fully, or if you prefer I will write it out.

Mr. JOHNSON. You can make a short statement; but, as you understand, the other members of the committee are not here, and we would like to see in print, if you have it, a catalogue or index that has been prepared from this or some similar appropriation. We are not familiar with this work; it was put on in the Senate as an amendment, and we know very little about it.

Mr. PUTNAM. I thought that would be exactly the situation, and therefore I am prepared to submit something of that kind. Now, if you would prefer that I should make a written statement and accompany it with these exhibits, I will do that.

Mr. JOHNSON. We will be glad if you will do that. I would like to have another thing. I should like to have for the record a statement showing the number of persons that have been employed under this appropriation, the salaries that they are paid, and, if they were taken from other positions in the Library, I would like for the statement to show what salaries they were paid before they were transferred to these positions.

Mr. PUTNAM. This [indicating] is such a statement, Mr. Chairman, and it also shows the previous experience and education of these people.

Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Thompson is what you would call the head of the work?

Mr. PUTNAM. He is the assistant in charge.

Mr. JOHNSON. At a salary of $3,000?

Mr. PUTNAM. Yes, sir.

Mr. JOHNSON. He was getting $3,000 when you formerly employed him?

Mr. PUTNAM. He was getting $3,000 when he was last in our service. He came back to our service for this purpose after an absence of several months.

Mr. JOHNSON. Is it contemplated that you will increase this force! Mr. PUTNAM. Decidedly, Mr. Chairman. The normal force should be larger than this; but, in addition, during sessions of Congress we should be able to take on special expert aid, as well as stenographic aid, probably, and clerical aid generally. The demand upon this service will fluctuate and vary at different periods of the year. There will be always, however, during the intervals or during the recesses work that will go on currently. For instance, the indexing of the Statutes at Large, which we are resuming work upon. bringing down the indexes to the general laws from 1907, where we left it, and we are beginning the work on the local and private acts, of which there are 18.000 pages to be treated. We are gathering together information of all the indexes, digests, and compilations that may be in process in the offices of bureaus and commissions. We are getting together systematic lists of sources that may be use.ful. There will be current work throughout the year in the preparation of information and material in anticipation of a demand for it. We have taken up, for instance, the preparation of material that relates to bills that have already passed one House and may come up at this session. We are subdividing among several people the committees of Congress with reference to the subject matter that they may be interested in. For instance, the question as to the control of water power may come up this year, and also the questions of marine subsidies and a budget.

LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE.

The staff for this work has barely been organized. The appropriation became available July 1, but, apart from one or two translators, stenographers, and research assistants appointed between August 1 and October 1, the appointments were deferred until the past few weeks. This appears from the dates of appointment set against the names in the above list.

No statement therefore at this date of "work accomplished" would be significant The main work thus far has been that of preparation. This has consisted in

(1) The organization of a corps of indexers to bring to date the Index to the Statutes at Large, previously completed through 1907, and to undertake the Index to private and local acts not before treated;

(2) The selection and equipment of a room at the Capitol available for this corps of indexers and also conveniently accessible to Members of Congress desiring the aid of the division in any relation;

(3) The preparation for each foreign country of lists of its official publications which embody its statute law (example herewith, France, Exhibit B); completion of sets;

(4) The collection of whatever indexes, digests, and compilations of law (especially any that may relate to pending legislation) are already in print and available;

(5) An inquiry as to any such indexes, digests, or compilations in the possession of or in course of preparation in any department or bureau of the Government (and not yet printed);

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(6) Probable subjects of legislation at the coming session.-Anticipation of these

(a) By special attention to subjects dealt with by bills that have passed one House and are pending in the other; and

(b) By similar preparation of material on subjects that from some other indication are likely to receive attention in Congress.

Upon these

Examples of (a): Immigration, convict-made goods, railroad securities, etc. Examples of (b): Merchant-marine subsidies and the budget. latter two exhibits herewith of compilations actually made.

(7) Assignment to certain members of the staff, with special experience, of the fields covered in general by committees in Congress—e. g., Immigration, Labor-with special duty on those officials to keep in touch with the projects before and intended by such committees and, so far as practicable, anticipation of their demands.

As to all of the above, a fuller statement, as invited by the chairman, is appended.

In the meantime, some requests already dealt with may be illustrative, e. g.: For compilations or digests-one upon the State control of coal mines in the United States and the system of royalties reserved to the State; the laws passed by the Southern States during the Civil War limiting the acreage in cotton; for translations-the law of Denmark as to agricultural holdings; the law of France as to liquor licenses; a résumé of the Code of Geneva as to juvenile courts; and certain provisions of the constitution of Roumania.

As was emphasized above, however, the staff has just been organized. Its existence and facilities have not yet been called to the attention of Congress, and they did not effectively exist prior to adjournment. There has therefore been no test of the service. A partial test will be offered during the coming session, but owing to its brevity, no more than a partial one.

Resumption of the work of indexing the Federal Statutes from the point reached four years ago when the appropriation for this purpose was dis-. continued was the most obvious thing to be undertaken under the new provision-indeed, the reference in the appropriation act to the statute which authorized and directed the preparation of such an index implied its continuation.

Previous work.-Volume I (Scott and Beaman; published 1908) covered the permanent general law down to 1907, i. e., to the end of the Fifty-ninth Congress. The private and local acts had been indexed in the Revised Statutes and in only a few of the volumes of the Statutes at Large prior to this date. The cards had, however, been kept on file in the expectation that its continuation would ultimately be made possible.

Permanent general law, 1907 to date.-Provision has accordingly been made for bringing the index of the permanent general law down to date with a view to preparing either a new edition of Scott and Beaman's index or a supplement to it, whichever may be considered the more desirable when the work is finished. It is estimated that this piece of work can be accomplished by one law indexer and an assistant in about a year.

Temporary consolidated index.-For use in the meantime a temporary consolidated index for this period is being made by clipping and mounting in one alphabet the separate indexes of the session laws. If desired, this can be reproduced by photostat for the use of any committee which has need of it. Private and local laws.-The indexing of the private and local acts from the Revised Statutes to date has also been resumed, and the cards for the

portion previously done have been checked up and arranged for continuation. An outline of instructions indicating the manner of indexing the various topics of local legislation (e. g., river and harbor improvements, bridges and dams, post roads, Indian tribes, land grants, lighthouses, judicial districts, etc.) has been prepared and tentatively adopted, subject to change as the result of criticism by the various committees and bureaus interested in these subjects, with whom we are conferring in order that the index, when completed, may meet their needs most effectively. As there are about 18,000 pages of local law to be treated, this section of the indexing will occupy between two and three years with the force at present allotted.

Legislative forms, etc.-A new feature has been added in the compilation of a classified collection of legislative forms, standard paragraphs, and clauses actually found in the statutes as they are read for indexing. It is hoped that Members will find this reference material useful in the preparation of bills. Indering force. The force already organized consists of chief indexer, in charge of the work (lawyer), general law indexer (lawyer), local law indexer lawyer), private law indexer and file clerk, two clerical assistants (accurate and rapid typists), two messengers (for subclerical work).

As chief indexer we have the person who was in charge of the actual work of indexing the Federal Statutes four years ago and who has since been engged in a similar undertaking at Albany for the laws of the State of New York. Two others from the former index force have also been reappointed. With this nucleus of workers familiar with the plan of indexing and its actual application, it has been possible to get the work into smooth running order with minimum delay.

Office location.-The indexing of the Federal Statutes is being carried on in the new room in the Capitol assigned for legislative reference purposes and in an office in the law library, so that the results may be conveniently used by Members while the work is in progress.

RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND TRANSLATORS.

For the work of preparing digests and compilations of law a corps of research assistants and translators with auxiliary stenographic and clerical Leip has been organized.

Cooperation with law and documents divisions.—As the law division has the custody of American and foreign statutes, court reports, and other legal terature, and the documents division is responsible for the official publicaas containing data concerning the actual operation of laws, this section of the work must necessarily be carried on in close cooperation with these diisions. Desk space has accordingly been provided for research assistants and translators in the rooms occupied by these divisions in the main Library. Representatives' reading room. One research assistant, however, has been signed to a desk in the Representatives reading room in order that the leslative reference division may be in touch with the service there and make the results of its work directly available for Members using that room. Vertical fi ing cases of appropriate design and finish to harmonize with the heme of decoration and furnishing in the congressional reading rooms have teen procured and will be used to accommodate legislative reference apparatus ther than books) relating to proposed legislation.

Survey of source materials.—A systematic survey of texts of laws and other arce material in the collections has been in progress throughout the summer and deficiencies have been reported to the divisions concerned with acquisition. Inder of existing digests and compilations.-To facilitate searches and avoid ste of effort a subject index of digests and compilations of law and comparative legislation studies already available in print is being prepared. Material available in Government bureaus.-To avoid duplication and overbring where the subject matter is within the field of any Government bureau, zemres are being made to ascertain what indexes, digests, and compilations of law are at present available in manuscript or are in course of preparation in the various Government offices. For example, we find that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has completed compilations of the labor laws of Great Britain, Korway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Germany, which it has not yet had an opportunity to publish, and also has partial compilations for France, Italy, -zium, and the Netherlands in manuscript; the Children's Bureau has in Iress a compilation of child-labor laws; and so on.