§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that the subjects set in the new examination for the estate duty office bear no relation to the departmental work, that this examination has admittedly been framed to suit the educational curriculum of the public schools, and that second division clerks have heretofore efficiently performed the duties of that department, he will explain why these senior and experienced men are not given the opportunity to share, according to their length of service, in the higher emoluments now offered to new entrants for performing the same duties.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) It is not a fact that the second division clerks in the estate duty office have heretofore performed the duties of that department. As a general rule they have only performed such of those duties as are proper to clerks of the second division. Selected members of the class will be considered for promotion to the new higher establishment.