Speech #470081153

So that at least three persons in different offices. and without connection one with the other. will have to be corrupted or make the same error touching the same account before money is paid for services not performed. all of which can be brought about. as the Sixth Auditor estimates. for an expense of $20.600 per annum. A bill is pending in the House to provide for a comptroller for the Sixth Auditors Office. but that would probably require a force of from fifty to one hundred clerks and lead to a delay in the settlement of the accounts. and the provision recommended by the committee in this bill is believed to be equally efficacious. more economical. and far more speedy. the Sixth Auditor being his own comptroller. except upon appeal to the First Comptroller as now provided by law. For several years the force appropriated for in the Land Office and Patent Office has not been sufficient to perform the work properly in those offices. and with the great increase of inventions and immigration to the States and Territories where there are public lands. the work has increased enormously in both of these offices. The steady increase of the business of the PostOffice Department also requires a yearly increase of force in that Department. To properly meet the demands of these offices the bill appropriates for additional force over the current year as follows: In thie Sixth Auditors Office fifty one persons. at a cost of $64.000.