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Mr. Speaker. in answer to the gentleman from Oklahoma who has just taken his seat. may I say that the Civil Service Commission had nothing to do with the fact that the employees of the Census Bureau were not under the quota system. just as they have nothing to do with the fact that the employees with whom we are dealing in this bill are not under the quota system because Congress exempted them when they took them out from under civil service. The gentleman criticizes the Civil Service Commission. This present Commission went into office in 1933. At that time the gentlemans own State. Oklahoma. had 196 positions in the District of Columbia in the apportioned service under the quota system. Today the State of Oklahoma has 732 positions. which shows that the Civil Service Commission has done its duty and has given preference to Oklahoma citizens in apportioned or quota positions. The record also shows that during that same period the District of Columbia has lost 2.000 positions in the apportioned service here in the District of Columbia. So the statement made by the gentleman from Oklahoma is based upon a lack of knowledge of the facts. and it is not the fact. The Commission is rapidly adjusting the quota system and doing it just as rapidly as it can under the law.