Mr. FARNSWORTH. I move to strike out the whole paragraph in reference to tem porary clerks. It.? make no difference so far as the amendment of my friendfrom Tennessee is concerned, for the SecyTreasury has already the authority to employ ladies as temporary clerks, and there is no necessity for giving him the authority over again. I am against giving the SecyTreasury authority to employ clerks at his discretion, and at his discretion to classify them. I think it is high time to stop the giving of this discretionary power to employ and classify these temporary clerks. If any legislation is needed it is a law to reorganize and classify the clerks. We have seen how the SecyTreasury has exercised the discretion which congress has heretofore given him. We gave him $250,000two years ago to be distributed through his Dept to clerks according to merit and the character of their services. He expended a portion of that by giving it to the heads of bureaus, and 4th class clerks, perhaps giving a little of this money to 3rd class clerks, but not a dollar to the 1st and 2nd class clerks or to the ladies and messengers employed at a small compensation. Last year Congress provided how he should distribute the balance of the appropriation. We directed it to be expended on the low class clerks and employees of the Dept. We then gave him an additional appropriation at his discretion again, and how has he disposed of that. In the same way that he disposed of a portion of the 1st appropriation of $250,000, by giving it to the this bread and this butter, who are to have epaulettes on their shoulders as the officers of heads of the bureaus and higher class clerks. stricken out because they have just been in the precedent already set, how will he expend it? Why, he will give it to the heads of the bureaus, and perhaps to such of the clerks as he happens to like best. He will give a portion of it to the 4th class clerks, but not one cent to those men with families who are trying to live on $1, 200 a year.