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Show 10 REPORT OB COMWSSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAfRS, declin~ This will be more than made up by a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Government and the Indians. Again, the rapid change in legislation and administration which has led to treating with the Indians as individuals rather than as tribes will for a while greatly increase the work of the Indian Office both at Washington and in the field, and more men will he impera-tively needed even barely to carry out the orders of the Congress, to say nothing of carrying them out in the best and speediest way. This is why I am asking for three new $1,600 positions for our ac-counts division; and to meet similar exigencies I shall ask for certain new positions in other divisions, the reasons for which I am ready to set forth in detail on demand. The total proposed increase $or new positions amounts to about $12,000. The reorganization of the 1.ast year falls intb three main divisions: The mechanical redistribution of oftice work; the improvement in fhe qualities of leadership in the office; and the greater excellence of the clerical work. I will mention here only a few illustrative cases. The divisions have been shifted about and the work inside of them redistributed so as to put an end to all duplication of labor, to bring all closely allied subjects under one head, and to provide a system . of checks on the one hand and of automatic cooperation on the other, designed at once to guard against errors, lighten the present expendi-ture of energy, increase the capacity for output, and result progress-ively in substantial economies These economies, it should be borne in mind, must be estimated on a basis of decreased cost per unit of work done rather than an aggregate decreased cost. Exact figurea are lacking to exhibit conditions as they are to-day, but our books are now kept in such a way that next year's report can show results ' of both increased work and increased economies in plah tabular form. Among these redistributions is the consolidation of our ac-counting and booklceeping, formerly done in four different divisions, in the new accounts division; the bringing of the legal decisions of the office to one central responsible point in its law department. The chart below shows graphically in its lowest lines this distribution of units of the office work. No division has now any excuse for doing the things it ought not to do or leaving undone those things it ought to do, and the effect on what might be called general office in-telligence is already plain. The next step in the reorganization was to perfect in every way possible the qualities of leadership. Under the old system substan-tially eight different divisions reported direct to the commissioner, which made it almost impossible to bring the broader policies of the ! a c e t o bear in any vital way on clerks- engaged in .writing the I I detailed letters applying them. I am now, as the chart shows, about |