Excerpt from Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations: Consisting of Messrs. Tawney, Vreeland, Keifer, Brundidge, Jr., And Livingston, in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1908 and Prior Years on General Deficiency Bill The chairman. And is an increase over what these officers whose rank has been increased had previously received? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.