Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 1179 pages |
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... Congress . And on March 3 , 1885 , chapter 338 , Statutes at Large , it was provided : And in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appro- priated for the said Department to be furnished for the accounting officers ...
... Congress . And on March 3 , 1885 , chapter 338 , Statutes at Large , it was provided : And in addition to the proper vouchers and accounts for the sums appro- priated for the said Department to be furnished for the accounting officers ...
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... Congress , and learning also that as a rule these reports had been published as public documents , I have made inquiries of the Public Printer for the purpose of ascertaining what the expense of such publications has been from time to ...
... Congress , and learning also that as a rule these reports had been published as public documents , I have made inquiries of the Public Printer for the purpose of ascertaining what the expense of such publications has been from time to ...
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... Congress , first session House Executive Document No. 104 , Fifty - first Congress , first ses- sion House Executive Document No. 35 , Fifty - first Congress , second ses- sion House Executive Document No. 55 , Fifty - second Congress ...
... Congress , first session House Executive Document No. 104 , Fifty - first Congress , first ses- sion House Executive Document No. 35 , Fifty - first Congress , second ses- sion House Executive Document No. 55 , Fifty - second Congress ...
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... Congress ? Mr. GRAYSON . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . What is done with the balance of the 420 copies that are filed in the document room ? Mr. GRAYSON . Up to last year we got the full number . Now , this year , as you will see there ...
... Congress ? Mr. GRAYSON . Yes . The CHAIRMAN . What is done with the balance of the 420 copies that are filed in the document room ? Mr. GRAYSON . Up to last year we got the full number . Now , this year , as you will see there ...
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... Congress ? Mr. GRAYSON . Yes ; and sometimes there has been no call , unless it is from some newspaper men . Last year , for instance , there was an inquiry in regard to it - in regard to Mount Weather . That was gotten up for the ...
... Congress ? Mr. GRAYSON . Yes ; and sometimes there has been no call , unless it is from some newspaper men . Last year , for instance , there was an inquiry in regard to it - in regard to Mount Weather . That was gotten up for the ...
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amount animals annual appropriation ASHION assistant boll weevil building BURCH Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Plant cattle Census cent CHAIRMAN character charge chemical chief clerk committee Congress connection copies cost cotton course crop Department of Agriculture disease distribution division Doctor GALLOWAY Doctor HOWARD Doctor MELVIN Doctor MERRIAM Doctor TRUE Doctor WILEY documents duties efficiency employees estimate examination expenditures expense experiment stations fact farmers FERGUSON fiscal forest reserves Forest Service give Government grade GRAYSON Grazing HILL increase inspection instance investigations kind labor laboratory land matter ment methods Miss CLARK OLMSTED Philippine PINCHOT Plant Industry practically printed produce Professor MOORE Professor WHITNEY promotion proposition purpose question record salary SAMUEL Secretary of Agriculture seed Senate sheep simply soil Special privileges statistics statutory roll stenographer thing Timber sales tion Total Treasury Washington weevil Witness ZAPPONE
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Page 167 - ... thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient...