2 A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY CIVIL AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1915. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1914. SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, The subcommittee met at 10 o'clock a. m. BUREAU OF STANDARDS. STATEMENT OF MR. S. W. STRATTON, DIRECTOR BUREAU OF STANDARDS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Stratton, you had a hearing before the House committee? Mr. STRATTON. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. We will be very glad if you will not repeat what was said at that hearing, as we have it before us. If there is anything you want to say to supplement your statement made before the House committee we will be glad to have it. STRUCTURAL MATERIAL TESTING PLANT AT PITTSBURGH, PA.-NEW SITE AND BUILDING. Mr. STRATTON. Mr. Chairman, I do not want to give the impression that we are not satisfied with what the House committee did. In fact, what they did meets with our approval. There is one point, however, to which we feel we ought to call attention. Our structural material testing plant is situated at Pittsburgh in temporary quarters owned by the War Department, and the War Department on several occasions has asked us to secure other quarters. An estimate was submitted a year ago in this present bill for such quarters. We inherited this work at Pittsburgh some five or six years ago, and we accepted it as it was, in these temporary quarters, and we have gone ahead and done the best we could, and our people are doing good work there. Senator OVERMAN. What sort of work are you doing there? Mr. STRATTON. It is the heavier work in connection with the testing of materials. Senator OVERMAN. What sort of materials? Mr. STRATTON. Bricks, stones, steel-building materials generally. I have here, if you would like to see them, some pictures of these materials. (Mr. Stratton here exhibited to the committee some photographs.) 3 |