National Affairs: Work's Report

Secretary of the Interior Work presented his annual report to the President, presumably with the remark: "Here's your change!"

The Department returned $25,128,786 of its appropriations for the fiscal year 1924 to the Treasury, unspent. The savings: $23,000,000 in the Pension Bureau; $1,000,000 in the Reclamation Bureau; $500,000 in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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