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330 Even a casual study of these figures will disclose certain irriportant facts. I call your attention to three: (1) Over four-fifths (81 per cent) of tlie 1932 expenditures of the Department of Agriculture went to the general public, rather than to agriculture. (Items 1 and 4 (a).) (2) Of every dollar expendcd by the department, only 10 cents was spent or could be spent on the ordinary agricultural activities of the department. (Item 4 ( b).) (3) More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of the total watl allocated to the States ($188,660,236 of item 1 and all of jtc.m 3). The department served merely as the channel through which thc money passed from Congress to the States, though it shared with the States the reRponsibility for supervising tha expenditures. It is also apparent that the size of the department’s expenditures in 1932, as in 1931, is a direct reflection of the efforts of Congress and the adminietration to bolster employment in a period of extreme aconomic distress. Expenditures of $800,000,000 a year are not normal for the Department of Agriculture. The normal total during 8 of the past 10 years has ranged between $126,000,000 and $180,000,000, including road funds. Two major types of emergency treatment were held necesmry during the last two fiscal years. One was to put more mcn to work building roads. Tho other WLR to loan money direct to farincrs suffering from drought, flood, and unprecedented economic tlistress. The Department of Agriculturt? was therefore authorized to spend more than $200,000,0Oo on roads in 1982, as contrasted with expenditures of approxirnatelY $90,000,000 annually in the year8 1923-1980. The department was also ordered to loan to farmers nearly $50,000,000 in 1931, and more than $10,aK),OOO in 1832. Roads and loans, therefore, account for mod of the increase in the cxpcnditurcs of this department. - -~.I-I- FEDERAL TAX ON OASOLINE Undcr provisions of the Revenue Act of 1932 the Govrrnnicnt is not exempt from payment of the Federal tax on gasolinc. Tax exemption certificates (Standard Forms No. 44 and No. 1066) are for use in connection with exemption of State taxes, which are not payable from public funds. In the issuance of bids it is inimaterial whether the Federal tax is included or not, but it should be clearly understood that when the bidder names the price without mention of the tax, acceptance debars him from adding the tax, even if he amerts that it was his intention and understanding that it should be added. In other words, amiming the bidder’s price-tax asidr-to be 6 cente a gallon, he may bid 7 cents, or 6 cents plus 1 cent Federal tax, or 6 cents plus the Federal tax on gmoliner and any one of these bids may be accepted. But if he bids 6 cent8 merely without mention of the tax, he can bo paid no inore. What he ngrwe to accept is thc limit of the Government’s obligation.
__L_ I--_ _-_1_ 881 DECLARINO VALUE OF EXPRESS SHIPMENTS --- Attention is invited to the fttct that offlcials charged with making express shipinents are not complying with existing instructions as to declaring valueR on express bills of lading and packages. The expresri companies have instructcd thrir employees to refuse all express shipments when bilk of lading and packages are not properly prepared us to value. The article in TOPICS AND PEIESONNEI,, March, 1926, must be strictly adhrrcd to and value indicatcd on all expresR bills of lading and packages. When the coHt exceeds $60 tlic. officer i8suing the bill of lading rnuvt sign below thn value indicated. ISSUE OF DUPLICATINO INK .xII-_.L--. The Division of Supplios will begin to issue fyom stock about Fobruary 1, 1938, mimeograph ink manufactured by the Government Printing Ofice for use in conncction with milliograph duplicating work. This ink has a spccial registration and has bocn tcetod .at two of the statinnra and found satisfactory. This chango is necesmry, sincc3 thc law rrquires that all duplicating ink br obtained from thc Govrmnicnt Printing Oflicc when prac t ica ble , _1_-1___ - __I AILING WEEKLY .-. MEANS TELEGRAMS Attention is invited to circular, Office of the Chiof, of February 18, 1928; meniorandum, Division of Agricultural Meteorology, April 11, 1928, and other instruotions, dimting that thc werkly in~an~ nie~sago shall be filed iinmediately after the regular observational report emh Tuesday. It is noted that smne stations are disregarding them instructionR by filing the iii~~~agrs late, occasionally not until 8.80 a. in., or even later. __-_ ---_c----.I_--.-_...- DETERMINATION OF VOLUME OF GAS IN HYDROGEN CYLINDERS In order that the volume of gas dclivered by hydrogen contractorn may bo more accurately dntcrmincd ut receiving stations than horotofort~, proper corrections Rhould be madc for chmiges in temperature from the standard temperature of 70°, specified in all hydrogen contracts. The table of correction factors given below has been computed, thorofore, for the guidance of station personnel in nialring these corrections. To convert the pressure indicatod by the high-pressure gage of the hydrogen regulator to the prc.wire which would obtain at 70° F., the indicated pressuro is niultiplied by the correction factor correspondiiig to the tomperaturo at which tho cylinder is bcing tmtcd. When tho pressuro for 70° has been computed, the cubic-foot Rcde on the regulator will indicato tho volunw dcsired. Tostint Correction Correction Tostin Correctioii teinp., P. fnctor t2Rp4ii:g(F. factor tamp., 4’. factor 110 0.9298 70 1 .Ooo0 80 1 .OS17 0.9484 00 1.0102 20 1.1048 loo 90 0.9686 50 1.0898 10 1.1278 80 0.9814 40 1.0(301 0 1.1624
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