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 * colspan = 3 |EXECUTIVE.
 * Executive Office
 * 28
 * State Department
 * 92
 * 17
 * Treasury Department
 * 3,234
 * 2,313
 * War Department
 * 2,411
 * 300
 * Navy Department
 * 2,992
 * 85
 * Postoffice Department
 * 812
 * 237
 * Interior Department
 * 4,810
 * 2,862
 * Department of Justice
 * 191
 * 21
 * Department of Agriculture
 * 650
 * 332
 * Government Printing Office
 * 2,623
 * 1,068
 * Department of Labor
 * 74
 * 10
 * Fish Commission
 * 55
 * 12
 * Interstate Commerce Commission
 * 133
 * Civil Service Commission
 * 55
 * 6
 * Industrial Commission
 * 10
 * 7
 * Smithsonian Institution
 * 320
 * 39
 * Bureau of American Republics
 * 13
 * 9
 * Local Postoffices in District
 * 606
 * 22
 * 19,109
 * 7,430
 * colspan = 3 |JUDICIAL.
 * Supreme Court of the United States
 * 12
 * Court of Claims
 * 25
 * 2
 * 37
 * 2
 * colspan = 3 |SUMMARY.
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * Bureau of American Republics
 * 13
 * 9
 * Local Postoffices in District
 * 606
 * 22
 * 19,109
 * 7,430
 * colspan = 3 |JUDICIAL.
 * Supreme Court of the United States
 * 12
 * Court of Claims
 * 25
 * 2
 * 37
 * 2
 * colspan = 3 |SUMMARY.
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * Court of Claims
 * 25
 * 2
 * 37
 * 2
 * colspan = 3 |SUMMARY.
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * 37
 * 2
 * colspan = 3 |SUMMARY.
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * colspan = 3 |SUMMARY.
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * 20,109
 * 7,496
 * }
 * }

Whether the number of women is increasing or decreasing is a disputed question. The Civil Service alone enables them to hold their places or to secure new ones against the tremendous pressure for the offices which is brought upon the appointing powers by the men who form the voting constituency of the country. Chiefs of the Divisions rarely call for a woman on the Civil Service list of eligibles.

Few women fill the highly salaried positions. One woman receives $2,500 as Portuguese translator; one, working in the U. S. Land Office at Lander, Wyoming, receives the same. One secured a $2,250 position in the Federal Postoffice Department but was soon reduced to an $1,800 place and her own given to