§ Mr. ALDENasked the Secretary to the Treasury how many new class assistant clerks in the Customs Statistical Office have been promoted to superior posts outside the office since 1907; how many vacancies for junior clerkships have arisen in the Statistical Office in that period; and how many of these vacancies have been filled by men outside the office who have been promoted from assistant clerks and were promised a prospect of reverting to the Statistical Office as junior clerks?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe answer to the first part of the question is twenty-one; to the second, three; to the third, none.