purpose, but it would be simply a nominal salary that we could pay. It is so small that it does not answer the use of the service in the employment of these specialists.

Mr. DEMING. It is about $2,000.

Mr. MORGAN. About $2,000.

Senator HEFLIN. I want to ask another question: Why have not military preference laws been enforced by the personnel agencies? Mr. MORGAN. That is such a broad question, Senator, that I could not answer it. I do not know what it means.

Senator HEFLIN. Well, answer this: Do we understand that there are clerical and stenographic and typist examinations held by your commission?

Mr. MORGAN. We hold such examinations; yes, sir.

Senator HEFLIN. And do we understand that the commission requires persons who wish to take the clerical examination to take the stenographic and typist examination to qualify for the clerical positions?

Mr. MORGAN. Not the general clerical positions; only where a knowledge of stenography and typewriting is required for the work to be performed.

Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Morgan, is it not correct to say, for the information of the committee, that a straight clerk examination is not given so often, because the departments insist on having clerks who have a knowledge of stenography and typing, and general subjects? A straight clerk examination is rather a rare examination.

Mr. MORGAN. Yes; we have not held a straight clerk examination for general clerk in a department for four years.

Senator HEFLIN. Now, Mr. Deming may proceed, I think, Mr. Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN. Had you finished, Mr. Deming, with your statement?

Mr. DEMING. I am not sure, Mr. Chairman, whether this statement showing the relative number of applicants of eligibles furnished by the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia for representative grades of positions in the apportioned departmental service has been admitted to the record. I would like to submit that for the record.

(The statement referred to is as follows:)

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION,
Washington, D. C.

ANALYSIS OF STATEMENT SHOWING RELATIVE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS AND ELIGIBLES FURNISHED BY THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR REPRESENTATIVE GRADES OF POSITIONS IN THE APPORTIONED DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE, DEMONSTRATING THE PREPONDERANCE OF APPLICANTS AND ELIGIBLES WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The examinations considered in the preparation of the accompanying statement were selected as representative of the various grades of positions in the apportioned departmental service. Mechanical, subclerical, clerical, and technical and professional positions are included.

The population of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, as shown by the 1920 census, was 107,321,377. The combined popula

tion of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia in 1920 was 4,196,419, or 3.9 per cent of the total population.

The accompanying statement gives statistics regarding the examination of 5,516 persons. Of these, 2,803, or 50.8 per cent, were residents of Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia. Of 3,346 eligibles in the entire group considered, 2,189, or 65.4 per cent, were residents of Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia.

Of 2,803 persons residing in Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia who were examined, 2,189, or 78.1 per cent, attained eligible ratings. Of 2,713 persons residing in places other than Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia who were examined, 1,157, or 42.6 per cent, attained eligible ratings.

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