the men adequately. The annual "turnover" or loss of men is greatly handicapping the fine service which this bureau is giving.

The whole situation is set out fully in the hearings, printed copies of which are available. Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, illustrated the situation by the offices at Buenos Aires, Paris, India, and London, which cases he stated are quite typical. In the case of Buenos Aires there has been a 50 per cent turnover in three years; in Paris, 43 per cent; India, 60 per cent; and London, 57 per cent. The military and naval attachés abroad have commutation of quarters, and the State Department has an item in its current appropriation bill for that purpose. In the hearings will be found a table showing the average pay of our military and naval attachés abroad and also of the corresponding British, Čanadian, and French trade commissioners. The average total pay and allowances of our military attachés abroad is $6,437; the average for our naval attachés is $6,953; the average of the Canadian Trade Commissioners is $6,246, of French commercial attachés, $7,680; of British trade representatives in foreign countries $12,551; while the average of our foreign commerce officers to whom this bill would apply is $4,836.

The bill has the indorsement of the Secretary of Commerce and also of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. These indorsements together with a great deal of interesting information with reference to the situation will be found in the hearings.

The Foreign Trade Service of the Department of Commerce is one of the great productive services of the Government. Its returns in dollars and cents is many times the cost of the service. In addition to the direct commercial value of this foreign trade service to American business, industry, and agriculture, is the intangible but important value of connections leading to international understanding and good will.

An indication of the extent of the service may be had from the fact that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929, 1,021 firms in the United States reported that they had secured new business through this service to the extent of $42,651,854, of which amount $7,172,000 represented new business in food products. Of course, the cases reported are only a part of those in which direct service was given and new business secured. In the hearings are set out numerous illustrations of the direct benefit coming to American industry and agriculture through this service in the extension of foreign markets for American products. Included is a very interesting summary from the last annual report of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

The present estimated cost of this measure is $200,000 a year for which amount the Bureau of the Budget has already transmitted a supplemental estimate to the Senate for inclusion in the appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931.

Gradually our Government is providing for buildings for offices and living quarters for Government representatives abroad. In addition to such buildings already existing, sites are now being acquired and buildings being erected in China, Japan, India, and certain South American countries, the plan being to give preference to posts where the needs are most urgent. Since it is the policy to provide quarters in Government-owned buildings at all foreign posts where it is desired to build eventually, it is unjust to penalize officers where the acquisi

tion or erection of buildings will be indefinitely delayed. As the building program proceeds the sum necessary for allowances under this measure will be proportionately decreased.

The act of March 3, 1927, as amended by the bill, H. R. 10653, will read as follows (the new matter being printed in italic):

[PUBLIC NO. 768-69тH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 3858]

AN ACT To establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce the Foreign Commerce Service of the United States (hereinafter referred to as the "foreign commerce service"), consisting of officers to be graded in the following order and to be known as commercial attachés, assistant commercial attachés, trade commissioners, and assistant trade commissioners.

SEC. 2. Under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), the officers of the foreign commerce service shall— (a) Promote the foreign commerce of the United States;

(b) Investigate and report upon commercial and industrial conditions and activities in foreign countries which may be of interest to the United States; (c) Perform such other duties as the Secretary may direct in connection with the promotion of the industries, trade, or commerce of the United States;

(d) Make such inspections of the Foreign Commerce Service as the Secretary may direct.

SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary is authorized to appoint officers of the Foreign Commerce Service, but only after eligibility has been determined by examinations held by the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Commerce in coordination, under regulations approved by the Civil Service Commission, except that the Secretary may, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission, appoint without such examination any person who, prior to the date on which this act takes effect, has served, or has passed an examination for appointment, as commercial attaché, assistant commercial attaché, trade commissioner, division head, assistant trade commissioner, commercial agent, or special agent in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

(b) The Secretary shall appoint each officer of the Foreign Commerce Service to a grade specified in section 1, and to one of the following classes, and shall fix his compensation within the salary range specified for such class: Class 1, $8,000 to $10,000; class 2, $6,000 to $8,000; class 3, $4,000 to $6,000; class 4, $3,000 to $4,000; class 5, below $3,000. In making appointments to a grade and class and in fixing compensation the Secretary shall take into consideration the examination and record of the officer and the post to which assigned, and the various commercial interests of the different sections of the country.

(c) The Secretary is authorized to promote or demote in grade or class, to increase or decrease within the salary range fixed for the class the compensation of, and to separate from the service officers of the foreign commerce service, but in so doing the Secretary shall take into consideration records of efficiency maintained under his direction.

(d) Any officer of the foreign commerce service may be assigned for duty in the United States for a period of not more than three years without change in grade, class, or salary, or with such change as the Secretary may direct.

(e) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized, whenever he deems it would be in the public interest, to order to the United States on his statutory leave of absence any foreign commerce officer who has performed three years or more of continuous service abroad: Provided, That the expenses of transportation and subsistence of such officers and their immediate families, in traveling from their posts to their homes in the United States and return, shail be paid under the same rules and regulations applicable in the case of officers going to and returning from their posts under orders of the Secretary of Commerce when not on leave: Provided further, That while in the United States the services of such officers shall be available for trade conference work and for such other duties in the Department of Commerce and elsewhere in the United States as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe.

(f) The Secretary of Commerce may, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of any appropriation made for this purpose, allowances for living quarters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (United States Code, title 5, section 70): Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall apply only to those officers who are citizens of the United States: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to those officers who are living rent free in Government-owned buildings.

SEC. 4. (a) Subject to the requirements of the civil service laws and rules, the Secretary is authorized is authorized to appoint, fix the compensation of, promote, demote, and separate from the service such clerks and other assistants for officers of the foreign commerce service as he may deem necessary.

(b) When authorized by the Secretary and in accordance with the regulations of the Civil Service Commission, officers of the Foreign Commerce Service may employ in a foreign country, from time to time, fix the compensation of, and separate from the service such clerical and subclerical assistants as may be necessary.

Sec. 5. (a) Any officer of the Foreign Commerce Service designated by the Secretary of Commerce shall, through the Department of State, be regularly and officially attached to the diplomatic mission of the United States in the country in which he is to be stationed. If any such officer is to be stationed in a country in which there is no diplomatic mission of the United States, appropriate recognition and standing, with full facilities for discharging his official duties, may be arranged by the Department of State. The Secretary of State may reject the name of any such officer if in his judgment the assignment of such officer to the post designated would be prejudicial to the public policy of the United States.

(b) No officer of the Foreign Commerce Service shall be considered as having the character of a public minister.

SEC. 6. (a) Any officer, clerk, employee, or assistant of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, while on duty outside the continental limits of the United States and away from the post to which he is assigned, shall be entitled to receive his necessary traveling expenses and his expenses incurred for subsistence, or per diem allowance in lieu thereof, in accordance with law, including at the discretion of the Secretary, expenses for subsistence for the entire period while attending a trade gathering, congress, or conference, and, in any other case, for the entire period (but not exceeding sixty days) while remaining continuously in any one place.

(b) The Secretary may authorize any officer of the foreign commerce service to fix, in an amount not exceeding the allowance fixed for such officer, an allowance for actual subsistence, or a per diem allowance in lieu thereof, for any clerical or subclerical assistant employed by such officer under subdivision (b) of section 4.

(c) Any such officer, clerk, employee, or assistant, while on duty within the continental limits of the United States, shall be entitled to receive the traveling expenses and actual expenses incurred for subsistence, or per diem allowance in lieu thereof, authorized by law.

SEC. 7. Any appropriation_available during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and thereafter for the Department of Commerce for commercial attachés, or for promoting commerce in Europe and other areas, South or Central America, or the Far East, shall be available for carrying out the provisions of this act, including the payment of salaries and compensation for personal services, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, necessary janitor and messenger service, traveling and subsistence expenses and per diem allowances, the purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, stationery, and supplies, typewriting, adding, and computing and duplicating machines, accessories and repairs, the purchase of law books, books of reference and periodicals, foreign and domestic newspaper reports, documents, maps, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other necessary publications, the payment of rent outside the District of Columbia, and all other necessary incidental expenses. With the approval of the Secretary, an officer of the foreign commerce service may enter into leases for office quarters and may pay rent, telephone, subscriptions to publications, and other similar charges in advance in a foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in advance.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect upon its enactment.
Approved, March 3, 1927.

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RELIEF OF FARMERS IN STORM AND FLOOD AREAS OF ALABAMA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ETC.

MARCH 31, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. HAUGEN, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 10818]

The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10818) to extend the provisions of Public Resolution No. 47, Seventy-first Congress, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in the storm, flood, and/or drought-stricken areas of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and Missouri," having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

The bill reported herewith is as follows:

H. R. 10818, Seventy-first Congress, second session]

A BILL To extend the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 47, Seventy-first Congress, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in the storm, flood, and/or drought stricken areas of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and Missouri"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered 47, Seventy-first Congress, approved March 3, 1930, and entitled "Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in the storm, flood, and/or drought stricken areas of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and Missouri," are hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make advances or loans to farmers and/or to procure for farmers fuel and oil for tractors for crop production.

This bill would extend the provisions of Public Resolution No. 47, so as to permit purchase of fuel for tractors with the money borrowed, in addition to feed for horses, as already provided. It has the approval of the Department of Agriculture as outlined in the letter

from Mr. R. W. Dunlap, Acting Secretary, under date of March 25, 1930, as follows:

Hon. G. N. HAUGEN,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
Washington, D. C., March 25, 1930.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

DEAR MR. HAUGEN: In reply to your request of March 18, for a report on H. R. 10818, to extend the provisions of Public Resolution No. 47, Seventy-first Congress, entitled "Joint resolution for the relief of farmers in the storm, flood, and/or drought-stricken areas of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, and Missouri," this bill proposes to make the funds authorized in Public Resolution No. 47, for loans to farmers for seed, feed, and fertilizer, available also for loans for fuel and oil for tractors for crop production. Farmers in some of the areas in which it is expected that loans will be made under the authorization in Public Resolution No. 47, use tractors instead of horses and mules to supply power for farm operations, and without the authority to make loans for fuel and oil for tractors as proposed in 10818 the department would be in the position of having authority to loan for seed and feed to certain farmers in a neighborhood, who operate their farms with horse power and to loan for seed but not for fuel and oil for tractors to other equally needy farmers who operate their farms with tractor power.

The passage of the bill introduced by Mr. Leavitt would place all farmers in need of loans on an equal basis, without regard to the power with which they operate their farms, and would materially facilitate the work of the department. It is hoped that the bill may receive early and favorable consideration, as the department expects to begin to make loans immediately on the approval of the deficiency bill which carries the appropriation for the purpose.

The language in lines 10 to 12 of H. R. 10818 is not entirely clear, as it does not definitely authorize the making of advances or loans for the purchase of fuel and oil. In order to clarify the language it is suggested that the bill be amended to read "to make advances or loans to farmers for the purchase of fuel and oil for tractors for crop production or to procure such fuel and oil and sell the same to such farmers."

Very truly yours,

R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary.

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