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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · June 30, 1920 · Chapter 86

Chapter 86. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 86.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes. March 1, 1919.[[H. R. 14078](/us/bill/65/hr/14078).][[Public, No. 314](/us/pl/65/314).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areLegislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro1214 priated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, namely:
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate.senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s office.Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; clerk, $1,600; telegraph operator, $1,500; page, $600; in all, $7,700. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.Office of Secretary:
Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; minute and Journal clerk, principal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; reading clerk, $3,600; financial clerk, $3,600; assistant financial clerk and printing clerk, at $3,000 each; executive clerk, $2,750; librarian, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each, assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, four at $2,220 each, two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers—three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room, $720; in all, $95,760.
Document room.Superintendent, etc.Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,500; first assistant, John W. Lambert, $2,500; assistants—one at $2,250, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $12,330. Clerks and messengers to committees.Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Appropriations—clerk, $5,000; two assistant clerks at $2,500 each; three assistant clerks at $1,500 each; laborer, $720.
Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $1,800; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each. Claims—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each. Commerce—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Conference minority of the Senate—clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $1,800; two assistant clerks at $1,500. District of Columbia—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,500; assistant clerk, $1,500. Education and Labor—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500.
Finance—clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $1,600; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each. Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,000; assistant clerk, $2,220; assistant clerk, $1,500. Immigration—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Indian Affairs—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Interoceanic Canals—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500.
Interstate Commerce—clerk, $2,500; two assistant clerks at $1,800 each; assistant clerk, $1,500. Judiciary—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,220; two assistant clerks at $1,800 each; assistant clerk, $1,500. Manufactures—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Military Affairs—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,220; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; assistant clerk during the period of the war, $1,500. Naval Affairs—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,220; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each.
Pacific Islands and Porto Rico—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Pensions—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; four assistant clerks at $1,500 each.1215 Philippines—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; three assistant clerks at $1,500 each. Printing—clerk, $2,500: assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $I,800; assistant clerk, $1,500.
Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistant clerk, $1,500. Public Lands—clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,800; two assistant clerks at $1,500 each. Rules—clerk, $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation bienniallyPreparing Senate Manual. of the Senate Manual, under the direction of the Committee on Rules; assistant clerk, $1,800; assistant clerk, $1,500; in all $203,260. Clerical assistance to Senators: For clerical assistance toClerical assistance to Senators not chairmen of specified committees.
Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein: Seventy-nine clerks at $2,500 each; seventy-nine assistant clerks at $1,600 each; seventy-nine assistant clerks at $1,500 each, $442,400: *Provided*, That such clerks and assistant clerks shall*Proviso*.Authority. be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman. Ninety-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for each SenatorAdditional clerks to Senators. having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $112,800; in all, $555,200.
For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year 1918,Navy Yearbook, 1918. under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at ArmsSergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; two floor assistants at $2,500 each; messengers—four (acting as assistantMessengers, etc. doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-six (including one for minority) at $1,440 each, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,800; storekeeper, $2,220; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor,Laborers, etc. $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,200, four at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $2,500, assistant superintendent $1,400, messenger for service to press correspondents $900; laborers—three at $800 each, thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for thePages.
Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $8,520; in all, $151,740. For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice, Senate Office Building. Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mailPostmaster, etc. carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,587.50. Folding room: Foreman, $1,600; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200;Folding room.Foreman, etc. folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers —four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120. 1216 Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules:
Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses: For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125. Postage stamps.Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. Motor vehicles.For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Automobile, Vice President.For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $2,000. Folding.For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $1,500. Furniture.For purchase of furniture, $5,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.
Packing boxes.Document warehouse.Miscellaneous items.For packing boxes, $970. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $100,000. Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $25,000.
Reporting debates.For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $30,000. Capitol police.capitol police. Pay.For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; ten additional privates, at $840 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $65,550. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $200.
Division of disbursements.One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. Joint Committee on Printing.joint committee on printing. Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.For clerk, $3,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $2,000; stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling,Congressional Directory. preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
House of Representatives.house of representatives. Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. 1217 For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Officers, clerks, etc.
Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk toSpeaker’s office. Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000Digest of Rules. per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840. Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200, and $600 additional so long asChaplain. the position is held by the present incumbent. Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives,Clerk of the House, clerks, etc. including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, $4,500; journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to chief clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, messenger and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each: stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in chief clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000; seven telephone operators, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in bathroom, at $900 each; six laborers, at $720 each; page in enrolling room, $720; two janitors, at $720 each; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $103,245.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $2,160; four assistant engineers at $1,440 each; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,400; electrician, $1,400; three laborers, at $800 each; in all, $41,920. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.
Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720;
Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Elections Number Three—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720;
Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000,1218 assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000;
Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affaire—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Patents—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,400, janitor $1,000;
Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500 assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $171,790.
Janitors.Appointment, etc.Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. Clerks to committees, session.For eight clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the session, $10,224.
Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; deputy sergeant at arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs. $1,800; messenger, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of horse and wagon, $600; m all, $22,840. Police, House Office Building.For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $14,850.
Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; maintenance and repair of folding room motor truck, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’Messengers, etc. gallery, $1,600; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—seventeen at $720 each, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one $600 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and seven at $600 each;Folding room.Superintendent, etc. two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-twoPages, etc. folders, at $900 each; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,500 each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,800 each; two assistants to messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,500 each; forty-four pages, during the session, including two riding pages, two telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to theDocument room.Superintendent, etc.
Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $23,430; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $161,750. Joel Grayson.For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150. Minority employees.For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution of December 6, 1915: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and1219 assistant pair clerk, $1,800; two special messengers, at $1,800 each; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $9,000.
For assistant department messenger authorized and named in theSpecial designated employees. resolution of December 7, 1897, $2,000. For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January 15, 1900, $1,500. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized m the resolution of September 30, 1913, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $840. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $840.
Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six precedingAppointment of successors. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor,Conference minority. $1,000; in all, $4,700; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority. To continue the employment of messengers in the majority andCaucus messengers. minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400.
Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster,Postmaster, assistant, etc. $2,200; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; messengers—thirteen (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,200 each, eighteen at $100 per month each from December 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, $12,600; laborer, $720; in all, $36,620. For hire of vehicles for carrying the mails, $4,200, or so muchMail vehicles. thereof as may be necessary. Official reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedings andOfficial reporters. debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; six expert transcribers, at $1,200 each; janitor, $720; in all, $40,420.
Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to committees,Stenographers to committees. at $5,000 each; janitor, $720; in all, $20,720. Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing“During the session” to mean 213 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the 213 days from December 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both inclusive. Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: For clerk of each Member,Clerk hire, Members and Delegates. Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $3,200 per annum, in monthly installments, $1,408,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That no part thereof*Proviso*.Payment to Members, etc., forbidden.Contingent expenses.Folding materials. shall be paid to any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner.
Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approvedVol, 28, p. 624. January 12, 1895, $10,000. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $15,000.
Furniture. For packing boxes, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners,Stationery. including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. For postage stamps:
Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant atPostage stamps. Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. 1220 Automobile, Speaker.For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $2,000. Library of Congress.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Librarian, etc.General administration, Librarian, $6,500; chief assistant librarian, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $900; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $600; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $22,560.
Mail and delivery.Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge $1,600, chief $1,200, one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. Order and accession.Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,380. Catalogue, classification, and shelf.Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $92,020.
Binding.Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,880. Bibliography.Bibliography: Chief of Division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,640. Reading rooms.Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), three at $1,000 each, two at charging desk at $1,080 each five at $960 each (including one for Toner library and one for Washington library), one in room for the blind $900, twenty-seven at $840 each, six at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room $960, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $720; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; in all, $62,460.
Periodical.Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420. Documents.Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; two translators, at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,120. Manuscript.Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts.Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680. Music.Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600. Prints.Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposit.Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.
Congressional Reference Library.Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $2,000; assistants—one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,840. Law Library.Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service) $1,500; in all, $9,400. 1221 Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—oneSemitic and Oriental Literature. $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,820.
Copyright office: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000;Copyright office. clerks—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four-junior messengers, at $420 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $104,740. Legislative Reference:
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employLegislative Reference.Service designated. competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $45,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of*Proviso*.Pay restriction. compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum.
Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection withCard indexes. distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $19,500, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $49,400.
Temporary services: For special and temporary service, includingTemporary services. extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000. Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate andCarrier service. House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be keptSunday opening. open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books forIncrease of Library.Purchase of books, etc. the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1921, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year 1919;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library,Law books. under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, toBooks for Supreme Court. be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000;Periodicals. In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses,Contingent expenses. stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $7,300.
Library building and grounds: Superintendent, $3,600; clerks—oneCare of building and grounds.Superintendent, etc. $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000; property clerk, $900;1222 messenger; assistant messenger; two telephone switchboard operators; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $1,000 each; nineteen watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; painter, $900; foreman of laborers, $900; sixteen laborers; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists—one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $86,065.
Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $3,000. General expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam Saratus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service including new auto delivery wagon, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $1,000 for repairs to roof, $16,000.
Furniture.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving and electrical work pertaining thereto, $12,000. Card stack.For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the card division, $10,000. Botanic Garden.BOTANIC GARDEN. Superintendent, assistants, etc.For superintendent, $2,400. For assistants and laborers, including assistant superintendent $1,300, clerk $1,000, gardener in charge of greenhouses $960, four gardeners at $900 each, two shipping clerks at $720 each, outside foreman $780, and skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the superintendent; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $25,000.
Repairs and improvements.For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; services, including skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the superintendent; materials, and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the superintendent and his assistants not to exceed $300; street car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicles; purchase of periodicals not to exceed $50; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $18,000.
Executive.EXECUTIVE. President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. Executive Office.Secretary, executive clerk, etc.Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accounting and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, six of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers at $720 each; in all, $78,580:*Proviso*.Details of employees. *Provided*, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary. 1223 For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery,Contingent expenses. record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $30,000.
BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Bureau of Efficiency. To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the UrgentAuthority designated.Vol. 39, p. 15. Deficiency Appropriation Act approved February 28, 1916, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments, required by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Acts for theVol. 37, pp. 413, 750;
Vol. 38, p. 1008. fiscal years 1913 and 1914, respectively, and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Government service; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses not exceeding $3,000, and street car fare not exceeding $50; in all, $125,000: *Provided*, That not more than*Proviso*.Pay restriction. fifteen persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $3,000 per annum.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. Three commissioners, at $5,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500;Commissioners, examiners, clerks, etc. secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,400; chiefs of divisions—one $2,400 (who shall act as assistant secretary), two at $2,000 each; certification clerk, $2,000; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each; six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $420 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $291,020. For temporary employees for the Civil Service Commission, $50,000:Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,400 per annum and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $ 1,800 per annum.
Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200,Field force. four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680. For five field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, forField examiners. work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500. No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departmentsDetails from departments, etc., forbidden. or other Government establishments in the District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year 1920.
The Civil Service Commission shall, however, haveTransfer of employees. power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. Expert examiners: For employment of expert examiners not inExpert examiners. the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. 1224 Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission,Eligibility status of persons in war service retained at time of demobilization. $20,000.
That the period of time during which soldiers, sailors, and marines, both enlisted and drafted men, who, prior to entering the service of their country, had a civil service status, and whose names appear upon the eligible list of the Civil Service Commission, shall not be counted against them in the determination of their eligibility for appointment under the law, rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission now in effect, and at the time of demobilization their civil service status shall be the same as when they entered the service.
Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Secretary and Under Secretary.For Secretary of State, $12,000; Under Secretary of State, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent ofAssistants, Director of Consular Service. the Senate, $7,500; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; director of the consular service,Officers on drafting work. $4,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—five at $4,500 each, ten at $3,500 each, fourteen at $3,000 each, seventeen at $2,500 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin-American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connectionAssistant solicitors. with foreign relations; assistant solicitors of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary—five at $3,000 each, two at $2, 500 each;Chief clerk, law clerks, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc. chief clerk who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerks—one $2,500, two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; law clerk and assistant, to be selected by the Secretary to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; private secretary to the Under Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, thirty of class three, forty of class two, sixty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), forty at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; lithographer, $1,400; chief messenger, $1,000; eight messengers; twenty-seven assistant messengers; four messenger boys at $420 each; packer, $720; seven laborers; four telephone switchboard operators; chauffeur, $1,080; ten charwomen; in all, $564,840.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Department of State, $200,000: *Provided*, That not more than eight persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. No appropriation by other Act to be used for Department service.No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1920 for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State in the District of Columbia.
Passport Bureau, New York, N.Y.New York, New York, Passport Bureau: Passport agent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two; messenger; messenger boy, $480; rent of offices, $2,500; stationery, furniture, fixtures, and other miscellaneous expenses, $2,000; in all, $15,620. San Francisco, Cal.San Francisco, California, Passport Bureau: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the passport bureau, $7,500. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses:
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs and material for repairs, $30,000. Library.For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000. 1225 For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair ofMiscellaneous. a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including exchange of same; street car fare not exceeding $150, and other items not included in the foregoing, $12,000.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for storage andRent. garage, $1,500. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000;Secretary and assistant to.Assistant Secretaries. assistant to the Secretary, $5,000; three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; two additional Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each, in*Ante*, p.347. accordance with the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917; clerk to the Secretary,Clerks, actuary, etc. $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—three of class four (two of whom shall act as private secretaries to the additional Assistant Secretaries authorized by the deficiency Act of October 6, 1917), four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, five at $840 each; in all, $78,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of chief clerk and superintendent:
Chief clerk, including $300Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc. as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; mimeograph operator, $720; messenger boy, $420; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; chief engineer,Engineers, etc. $1,400; four assistant engineers, at $1,000 each (including one for outside buildings); eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $600; chief electrician, $1,600; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch, $1,400; three lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen;Watchmen, laborers, mechanics, etc. foreman of laborers, $1,200; assistant foreman of laborers, $840; eight chauffeurs at $720 each; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; forty-five laborers; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; head of char force, $720; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building and annex: Engineer, $1,000;Winder Building. three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; six watchmen; four laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); forewoman of char force, $480; twelve charwomen; female laborer for ladies’ toilets, $660. Cox Building: Two watchmen;Cox Building. laborer. Auditors’ Building: Forewoman of char force, $480;Auditors’ Building. twenty-five charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; five laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $217,820.
For employees for the care and protection of buildings for theBuildings for Internal Revenue Bureau, etc.Care, etc. accommodation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and such other bureaus as may be assigned thereto, at annual rates of compensation1226 as follows: Four elevator conductors, at $720 each; twelve firemen; four female laborers, at $660 each; nine laborers; forewoman of charwomen, $480; twenty-six charwomen; eleven watchmen; in all, $34,740. Arlington Building and annex.Operating force.Arlington Building and annex, Vermont Avenue and H Street:
For the following employees for the operation of the buildings: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief engineer, $1,400; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; six firemen; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; two oilers at $900 each; electrician, $1,400; two wiremen at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; plumbers’ helper, $1,000; painter, $1,200; two carpenters, at $1,200 each; janitor, $1,200; assistant janitor, $1,000; twenty-five male laborers, at $660 each (four to attend toilets and two to relieve elevator conductors when required); three female laborers, at $660 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; three lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-six watchmen; head of char force, $840; three assistant heads of char force, at $720 each; one hundred and ninety charwomen; in all, $122,980.
Treasury Annex.Operating force.Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place: For the following employees for the operation of the building: Three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; three firemen; oiler, $900; five elevator conductors, at $720 each; ten watchmen; twelve male laborers, at $660 each (three of whom to attend toilets and relieve elevator conductors); two female laborers, at $660 each; janitor, $1,000; wireman, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; head of char force, $720; thirty-four charwomen; in all, $38,780.
Garage.Treasury garage: Automobile mechanic, $1,400; two assistant automobile mechanics, at $1,000 each; two watchmen; in all, $4,840. General Supply Committee.General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,500; clerks—chief $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, five of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; assistant messenger; laborer; messenger boy, $480; in all, $28,460. Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants:
Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—thirteen of class four, nine of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $90,280. Customs Division.Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $71,250.
Appointments Division.Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $31,910. Surety Bonds Section.Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,250; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $9,370. Public Moneys Division.Division of Public Moneys:
Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—seven of class four, five of class three, seven of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $42,860. Loans and Currency Division.Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chiefs of divisions—four at $2,700 each, one $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $3,000; custodian of paper, $2,250; custodian of vaults, $2,000; two assistant custodians of vaults, at $1,800 each; six section chiefs, at $2,000 each; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks, bookkeepers, and accountants—twelve at $2,000 each, twenty-two of class four, twenty-five of class three, two at $1,500 each,1227 eighty of class two, one hundred of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, fifty at $900 each; counter clerks—one $1,400, twenty at $1,200 each, thirty at $1,100 each, forty at $1,000 each, forty at $900 each, twenty at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; computing machine operators—eighteen at $1,000 each, one $900; proof readers—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; superintendent of addressograph force, $1,800; addressograph operators—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, nine at $1,100 each, twenty at $1,000 each, fifty at $900 each; five assorters at $1,000 each; three messengers; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—five at $480, four at $420 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; eighteen laborers; in all, $797,630.
Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500;Printing and Stationery Division. assistant chief of division, $2,000: clerks—four of class four, four of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; six laborers; two messenger boys at $420 each; in all, $37,240. Division of Mail and Files: Chief of division, $2,500; registry clerk,Mail and Files Division. $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $13,300.
Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk,Disbursing clerk’s office. $2,750; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, five of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $27,990. Bureau of War Risk Insurance: For expenses of the BureauWar Risk Insurance Bureau.Director, commissioners, etc.*Ante*, pp. 398, 609. of War Risk Insurance, as authorized by law: For salaries of the director and commissioners, and of such deputies, assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, $9,509,630; stationery and minor office supplies, $150,000; miscellaneous expenses,Office supplies, etc. including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, foreign postage, not exceeding $100 for street car fares, and not exceeding $500 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $25,000; printing and binding, to be done at the Government Printing Office,Printing. and necessary printing of forms, and so forth, for use abroad may be done abroad, $125,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $175,000;Furniture, equipment, etc.Field expenses, etc. traveling expenses (exclusive of field investigations), $5,000; salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and expenses of not more than eight temporary branch offices, $1,000,000; in all, $10,989,630: *Provided*, That all employees appropriated for by*Proviso*.Work restricted. this paragraph shall be engaged exclusively on the work of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during the fiscal year 1920.
Federal Farm Loan Bureau: Four members of the board, atFederal Farm Loan Bureau.Members of board, secretary, etc. $10,000 each; secretary, $4,500; assistant secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; custodian of securities, $2,500; examiners of securities—one $2,700, five at $2,400 each; twelve registrars at $4,000 each; chief land bank examiner, $5,000; two land bank examiners at $3,000 each; accountant, $1,800; twelve clerks and stenographers for registrars, at $1,200 each; engineer (irrigation and drainage), $4,800; clerks—three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; stenographers—three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; three messengers; in all, $194,620;
For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officersContingent expenses. and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps, and exclusive of stationery and printing and binding, $25,000; For rent, vault rent, and expenses of the twelve registrars’ offices atRegistrars’ offices. $600 each, $7,200; 1228 Examinations.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For the examination of national farm loan associations, including personal services and traveling expenses, $15,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum;
In all, $241,820. Supervising Architect’s Office.Supervising Architect, superintendents, etc.Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent, $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief $2,500, assistant chief, $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; eight administrative clerks, at $2,000 each; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $221,020.
Comptroller’s Office.Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; assistant comptroller, $4,500; attorneys—three at $4,000 each, three at $3,000 each; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks—four at $2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, thirteen at $2,000 each; five expert accountants at $2,100 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—fifteen of class four, ten of class three, seven of class two, six of class one, one $1,000; three messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $157,340.
Auditing Army accounts in France.Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 293,.Auditing accounts of the Army in France: For salaries of employees in the offices of the Comptroller of the Treasury and Auditor he War Department to audit accounts arising in connection with the Military Establishment abroad, including traveling expenses, per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for officers and employees absent from Washington, rent abroad, cablegrams and telegrams, printing, stationery, office equipment and exchange thereof, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $375,000, of which not exceedingClosing up work. $75,000 may be expended in closing up during the fiscal year 1920 the work abroad now performed pursuant to the authority for auditing accounts abroad contained in section 12 of the Act of September 24, 1917.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,250; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-eight of class four, thirty-two of class three, thirty-six of class two, forty-six of class one, thirty at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, $268,340. Temporary employees, etc.For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such temporary employees (nonapportioned) as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department, and including not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase and repair of, and equipment for, labor-saving machines, $25,000.
Office of Auditor for War Department.Office of Auditor for War Department: Auditor, $4,000; assistant and chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one $2,500, three at $2,250 each; law clerk, $2,000; five assistant chiefs of division, at1229 $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks—sixty-five of class four; one hundred of class three, one hundred and forty of class two, two hundred and sixty of class one, one hundred and two at $1,000 each, forty-six at $900 each; foreman of messengers and laborers, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; six messengers; twelve assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $987,330.
For purchase of office desks, chairs, typewriters, calculatingOffice equipment. machines, and filing cases, $15,000. Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Navy Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, forty-five of class three, forty-five of class two, sixty-five of class one, thirty-five at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; helper, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $324,790.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Interior Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—fifteen of class four, eighteen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty of class one, four at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; four check assorters (unapportioned), at $1,000 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborers; in all, $129,230. Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments:
Auditor,Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-one of class four, one of class four (special examiner), twenty-three of class three, twenty of class two, twenty-five of class one, ten at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; two laborers; in all, $163,430. Office of Auditor for Post Office Department:
Auditor,Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000;. law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, eleven of class three, sixteen of class two, twenty of class one, six at $900 each; skilled laborers—five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, five at $660 each; messenger boys—five at $540 each, four at $480 each, five at $420 each; nine male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all. $184,520.
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, ofEmployees on mechanical devices. such number of employees as maybe necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, $481,700. Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,000 each; sevenPostal Savings System. skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $17,300. Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer,Treasurer’s Office. $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—two at $3,000 each, three at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500: two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; five section chiefs, at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, $2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twenty-eight of class three, eight at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, one hundred and fifteen of class one, eighty-five at $1,000 each, forty-five at $900 each; expert counters—forty at $1,200 each, ten at $1,100 each, forty-four at $1,000 each, ninety at $900 each, twelve at $800 each, twenty-six at $720 each; two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; addressograph operator, $1,400; two skilled laborers, at $1,2001230 each; silver piler, $1,000 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; fourteen messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; messenger boys—eight at $600 each, fourteen at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $778,170.
Redemption of national currency.For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant tellers—one $2,250, one $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-six at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each, thirty-five at $800 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $225,770.
Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. Cutting machines, repairs.For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200. Register’s Office.Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $2,500; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three laborers; in all, $89,220.
Additional force.For the following additional clerical force for the Office of the Register of the Treasury: Two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, sixty at $1,000 each, twenty at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; two laborers; two messenger boys at $480 each; in all, $99,040. Office of Comptroller of the Currency.Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—eleven of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, seventeen of class three, nineteen of class two, twenty-seven of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; multigraph operator, $1,200; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—one $480, one $420; in all,*Proviso*.Chief of examining division.National currency expenses. $165,560: *Provided*, That the comptroller may designate a national bank examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; counters—twelve at $840 each, three at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen; in all, $43,520. Special examinations, etc.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner, $10,000; assistant commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioners, five*Ante*, p. 1140. at $5,000 each; chemists—chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—one $3,500, five at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—four at $2,000 each, fifty-two of class four, sixty of class three, ninety-eight of class two, eighty-three of class one, seventy-six at $1,000 each, seventy-three at $900 each; eleven messengers; twenty-one assistant messengers; sixteen laborers; in all, $691,370. 1231 For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all,Stamp agents. $3,400, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.
Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefs of division, at $3,000Coast Guard Office. each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; draftsman, $1,500; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerks—four of class four, ten of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, ten at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $81,110.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Limit, etc. the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $6,800. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistantEngraving and Printing Bureau. director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; medical and sanitary officer, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, eight of class three, fourteen of class two, twelve of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each, fifteen at $840 each, three at $780 each; nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—one at $900, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; eighty watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; thirty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; ninety-four morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $288,910; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other ActLimit on paying for services. shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of tins Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, who shallSecret Service Division. discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $20,120. Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner,Office of Director of the Mint. $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight. between mints and assay offices, $15,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annualPrecious metals statistics. 1232production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800.
Public Health Service.Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: Chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $2,000; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—live of class four, six of class three, fifteen of class two (one of whom shall be translator), nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; elevator conductor, $840; three messengers; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, $720; three laborers; in all, $92,970.
Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses: For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $90,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $216,400 shall be deducted from otherAdditional deducted from bureaus, etc. appropriations made for the fiscal year 1920, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $5,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $11,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $700;
Public Health Service, $3,500; Quarantine Service, $1,000; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $500; expenses of Coast Guard, $5,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $66,700; collecting war revenue, $115,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $90,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year 1920.
Postage.For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,200. Binding.For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250. Reference books, etc.For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $12,000.
Rent, storage building, etc.For rent of a storage building and the annex to the Winder Building, $9,500. For rent of the Cox Building, $2,150. For rent of stables, $1,200. Vehicles, etc.For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying veides, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000. Files.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $6,000.
Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $18,000. Lighting.For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,500. Miscellaneous.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels,1233 towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car fares not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $18,000.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, includingLabor-saving machines, etc. the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $7,500. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,Carpets, etc. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and re-laying of the same, by contract, $3,000.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $15,000. For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the TreasuryFire alarm. and Winder Buildings, $1,984.88.
For operating expenses of the Arlington Building and annex,Operating expenses.Arlington Building. including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $50,000. For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex,Treasury Annex. including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $15,000. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of AuditorAuditor for Post-Office Department.Contingent expenses. for the Post Office Department:
For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law.
For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditingTabulating equipment. accounts and vouchers of the Postal service, including exchange and repairs, $219,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Rental allowance. exceeding $39,400 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. collecting internal revenue.Collecting internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputyCollectors, gaugers, etc. collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeeper gaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to horses (not exceeding $150 for any horse crippled or killed), expenses of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $4,288,000: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Witness fees. of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination1234 before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes of Revenue Act, 1918.*Ante*, pp. 1057, 1140.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, as provided by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the employment of the necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the*Provisos*.Child labor employment. several collection districts, $21,000,000: *Provided*, That of this amount not to exceed $184,160 shall be available for the expenses authorized to be incurred by the Secretary of Labor upon request of*Ante*, p. 1138. the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in accordance with the Act “to provide revenue, and for other purposes”, approved FebruaryPay restriction. 24, 1919: *Provided further*,Punishing violations of revenue laws.
That no salary shall be paid out of the said sum of $184,160 at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum: *Provided further*, That not more than $500,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violation. Refunding taxes.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $250,000.
Restricting sale of opium, etc.Vol. 38, p. 785.Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce the provisions of the Act approved December 17, 1914, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives,*Ante*, p. 1130.Employees, etc. or preparations, and for other purposes,” as amended by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, andSupplies, etc. for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, including not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $750,000.
Statement of expenses in the District herefrom.The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement showing the number, designation, and annual rate of compensation of the persons employed and the amounts expended for rent and other authorized purposes in the District of Columbia from the foregoing appropriations for the collection of internal revenue. Independent Treasury.independent treasury. Assistant treasurers’ offices.Baltimore.Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer:
Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500. Boston.Boston, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200,1235 five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Chicago. $5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; attendant for money laundry machines, $1,200; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $71,420.
Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Cincinnati. $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830. New Orleans, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,New Orleans. $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks—one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer, $1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; four guards, at $720 each; in all, $28,170.
New York, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,New York. $8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check, pay division—chief, $3,000; assistant chief, $2,000; bond clerk and assistant vault clerk $2,800, paying teller $3,000, assistant paying teller $2,250, receiving teller $2,800; redemption division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250, vault and authorities clerk $2,500; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, eight at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards—chief $1,500, one $1,200, four at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; twelve money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $150,460.
Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Philadelphia. $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at$l,400 each, one$l,300, five at$l,200 each, one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $49,770.
Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Saint Louis. $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860. San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,San Francisco. $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $2,800; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; two guards, at $720 each; in all, $27,160. 1236 Mints and assay of fices.MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.
Carson City, Nev.Carson, Nevada, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. Denver, Colo.Denver, Colorado, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $45,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $100,000. *Ante*, p. 1232.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $85,000. New Orleans, La.New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,250. For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Philadelphia Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $68,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $440,000. *Ante*, p. 1232.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $177,000.
San Francisco.San Francisco, California, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; as sayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistantcashier,$1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,000.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $170,000. *Ante*, p. 1232.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $75,000. Boise, Idaho.Boise, Idaho, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. 1237 For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,300. Deadwood, South Dakota, assay office: Assayer in charge, whoDeadwood, S. Dak. shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,200. Helena, Montana, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shallHelena, Mont. also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,600. New York assay office: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000;New York, N. Y. superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $51,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $160,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 1232. and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $150,000. Salt Lake City, Utah, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shallSalt Lake City, Utah. also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600.
Seattle, Washington, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shallSeattle, Wash. also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,40.0; in all, $11,450. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $15,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building $5,700. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000;
AssistantSecretary, Assistants, assistant and chief clerk, etc. Secretary, $5,000; Second Assistant Secretary, $4,500; assistant and chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; fourChiefs of divisions, clerks, etc. chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, seven of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; nine assistant messengers; two telephone switchboard operators; eight laborers; two chauffeurs, at $840 each; in all, $151,380.
Temporary Employees: For the temporary employment of suchTemporary employees.*Post*, p. 1266. additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall*Provisos*.Detailed statement of employees, etc., to be submitted. submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of1238 the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensationPay restriction. paid to each: *Provided further*, That no person shall he employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than twenty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation inEstimates for 1921. excess of $1,800 per annum each: *Provided further*, That detailed estimates shall be submitted by the War Department in the annual Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1921 for necessary services of the character provided for in this paragraph.
Adjutant General’s Office.Adjutant General’s Office: Chief Clerk, $2,500; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifty-eight of class four, seventy-four of class three, one hundred and sixteen of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; eleven messengers; sixty-one assistant messengers; four watchmen; twenty-one laborers; in all, $852,540; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year 1920.
Inspector General’s Office.Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $18,160. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $35,740.
Signal Office.Signal Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers; in all, $45,960. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing*Proviso*.Limit, etc. employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $53,280, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,750; principal clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty of class two, ninety-three of class one, fifty-nine at $1,000 each; ten at $900 each; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; hydraulic and sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $403,590.
Surgeon General’s Office.Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; principal clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,100; assistant chemist, $1,600; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; entomologist, $1,600; photographer, $1,500; two translators at $1,800 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, thirteen of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; eleven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $185,740. 1239 Office of Chief of Ordnance:
Chief clerk, $2,250; chief ofOrdnance Office. division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, seventeen of class two, thirty-six of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—two at $780 each, two at $720 each; laborer; in all, $126,210. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as theSkilled draftsmen, etc. Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire*Proviso*.Limit, etc. expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $400,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs ofEngineer Office. divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $112,510. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such otherSkilled draftsmen, etc. services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit, etc.
That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Bureau of Insular Affairs: Law officer, $4,500; chief clerk,Insular Affairs Bureau. $2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $85,230.
Militia Bureau: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four,Militia Bureau. three of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $49,800. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery: Chief clerk, $2,000;Coast Artillery office. clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360. Contingent expenses, War Department:
For purchase of professionalContingent expenses. and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and motorcycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motorcycles, and one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $1,000; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance notPerdiem subsistence. to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $100,000.
For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. $150,000. 1240 Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500. Rent.For ground rent and rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, $34,229.12. Public buildings and grounds.PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Superintendent, assistant, and chief clerk, etc.Office of public buildings and grounds:
Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $17,940. Foremen, etc.For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. Watchmen, etc.Park watchmen: Lieutenant, $1,200; sergeant, $950; second sergeant, $900; fifty-four privates, at $840 each; in all, $48,410. Wakefield, Va.For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300.
Contingent expenses.For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $800. For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,500. For purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motorcycles for park watchmen, $1,176. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $5,120.
Part from District revenues.Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and Sounds, the sum of $43,703 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Main building.Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc.Office of Superintendent: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty-two watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; chief electrician, $ 1,400; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; nine skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; sixteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; two foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; fifty-five laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; gardener, $720; three attendants at $480 each; in all, $133,980.
Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $55,000. Ash hoist.For the erection of an ash hoist in the south courtyard for the removal of ashes from boilers numbered five and six, $6,000. Mechanical stokers.For the installation of mechanical stokers on boilers numbered three and four, $15,000. Navy Annex.Operating force.Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street northwest: Engineer, $1,200; six firemen; five elevator conductors, at $720 each; seven watchmen; skilled laborer, $840; seven laborers; attendant, $480; in all, $20,100.
Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $9,000. Potomac Park buildings.Operating force.Potomac Park Office Buildings: For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each; four messengers, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600,1241 six at $1,400 each; storekeeper, $1,200; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, seven at $1,200 each; sign writer, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, four at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,400; four switchboard operators, at $1,200 each; six general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain $1,600, six lieutenants at $1,080 each, six sergeants at $930 each, forty at $780 each, thirty-five at $720 each; fire marshal, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; four foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; one hundred and sixty-nine laborers; twenty-two female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $290,320.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityContingent expenses. directories, $200,000. Mall office buildings: For the following employees for theMall office buildings.Operating force. maintenance and protection of the temporary office buildings in the Mall (Units A, B, C, D, E, and F, located in Henry Park, Seaton Park, and the Smithsonian Grounds): Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief clerk, $ 1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each; four messengers at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; four assistant engineers at $1,200 each; storekeeper, $1,200; foreman, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators at $1,000 each; four plumbers at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,200 each, one $1,080; machinist, $1,200; sign writer, $1,400; four painters at $1,200 each; fourteen general mechanics at $1,000 each; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven at $720 each; captain of the guard, $1,600; lieutenants of the guard—three at $1,080 each, three at $1,000 each; fire marshal, $1,080; sergeants of the guard—nine at $930 each, six at $840 each; guards—one hundred and sixteen at $780 each, one hundred at $720 each; foremen of laborers—one $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers at $840 each; six foremen or forewomen at $780 each; one hundred and eighty-eight laborers; twenty-four female laborers at $480 each; in all, $435,730.
For fuel, lights, repairs, motorcycle and truck repairs, supplies, andContingent expenses. exchange of same, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $237,500. War Department temporary office building (EighteenthWar Department temporary office building. Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest): For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the building: Clerk ofOperating force. class one; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; six firemen, at $840 each; four coal passers, at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; painter, $1,000; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—captain $1,200, two sergeants at $930 each, twenty-five privates at $780 each: foreman of laborers, $840; foreman or forewoman, $780; seventeen laborers; three female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $52,760.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityContingent expenses. directory, $22,000. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000;Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,250; estimate clerk, $2,000; stenographers—one $1,800, one $1,200, one $1,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, five of class two, five of class1242 one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each, one $900; three copyists; carpenter, $1,000; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, three at $480 each; in all, $83,670.
Temporary employees.*Post*, p. 1266.Temporary employees: For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices, as follows: Distribution.Office of the Secretary, $50,000; Office of the solicitor, $7,500; Office of the Judge Advocate General, $6,000; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $60,000;
Bureau of Navigation, $60,000; Office of Naval Intelligence, $6,000; Hydrographic Office, $45,000; Bureau of Steam Engineering, $100,000; Bureau of Construction and Repair, $140,000; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $20,000; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $90,000; Bureau of Ordnance, $50,000; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $425,000; *Provisos*.Statement of employees, etc., to be submitted.In all, $1,059,500: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensationPay restriction. paid to each: *Provided further*, That not more than thirty-five persons shall be employed hereunder at rates of compensation in excess of $2,000 per annum, of whom not more than ten shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annumEstimates for 1921. and not more than $4,000 per annum: *Provided further*, That detailed estimates shall be submitted by the Navy Department in the annual Book of Estimates for the fiscal year 1921 for necessary services of the character provided for in this paragraph.
Solicitor’s Office.Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,400, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $22,990. Naval Records and library.Office of Naval Records and Library: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records), four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $21,000.
All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year 1920. Naval records of war in Europe.Expenses of collecting, etc.Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view to publication, of the naval records of the war with the central powers of Europe, including clerical services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, preparation of maps and illustrations, and other necessary*Proviso*.Pay restriction. incidental expenses, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: Two attorneys, at $2,500 each; chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—one $2,200, one $2,000, one $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, six of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $28,810. Chief of Naval Operations.Office of Chief of Naval Operations: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one, four at $1,000 each, one $900; telegraphers—chief $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,100; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each;1243 two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $31,350.
Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200,Bureau of Navigation. two at $2,000 each, six of class four, five of class three, ten of class two, fourteen of class one, four at $1,100 each, twenty-one at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; fourteen copyists; nine copyists, at $840 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—two at $600 each, one $400; five laborers; in all, $115,290. Office of Naval, Intelligence: Clerks—one of class four, one ofNaval Intelligence Office. class three, one of class two, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $17,100.
Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—oneHydrographic Office.Salaries. $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600; lithographers—chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; electro typer and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger; six laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $124,020.
For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailingMaterials, printing, etc. directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and theirPilot charts, etc. supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $50,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York,Branch offices.Contingent expenses. Philadelpnia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest infor1244 mation for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $12,500.
Employees.For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960. Personal services, etc., in Washington restricted.No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office in the District of Columbia, during the fiscal year 1920, except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory.Salaries.Naval Observatory: Astronomer, $2,800; assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,200; three firemen; six watchmen; mechanic, $900; nine laborers; in all, $52,820.
Computations.For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. Library.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. Apparatus, etc.For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the Fame, $2,500. Contingent expenses.For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,500.
Miscellaneous Items.For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $11,000.
Grounds and roads.For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $6,000. Nautical Almanac Office.Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $19,240. Computers.For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $3,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, five of class three, six of class two, two at $1,300 each, seven of class one, two at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; copyist; two expert radio aids, at $3,130 each: expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsmen—one (who shall be an expert in marine construction) $2,000, one $1,400; assistant $1,200; two blue printers, at $720 each; four assistant messengers; laborers—three at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $65,210.
Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1918, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the appropriation “Engineering”:*Proviso*.Limit, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $230,055.
A statement of the persons employed1245 hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250;Bureau of Construction and Repair. clerks—three of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, fifteen at $1,000 each; seven copyists; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, one $480, one $400; in all, $73,350.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1918, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Provided*, That the expenditures*Proviso*.Limit, etc. on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $350,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; draftsman, $1,400;Bureau of Ordnance. clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one $1,300, four of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $34,610.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1918, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided*, That the expenditures*Proviso*.Limit, etc. on this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $100,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500;Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. chief accountant, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, eight of class three, nine of class two, eighteen of class one, twelve at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $480, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $136,270.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—twoBureau of Medicine and Surgery. of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer $480; in all, $24,150. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two ofBureau of Yards and Docks. class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—three at $600 each, one $480; two laborers; in all, $29,170.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on*Proviso*.Limit, etc. this account for the fiscal year 1920 shall not exceed $250,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. 1246 Contingent expenses.Books, etc.Contingent expenses:
For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. Stationery, furniture, etc.For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; street car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices,Restriction on use of naval appropriations. $150,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
Naval appropriations not to be used for Department purposes.No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Interior, $12,000;
First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, $4,000;Assistant, inspectors, clerks, etc. assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors (whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department), at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; expert accountant, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, twelve of class four, two at $1,740 each, one $1,620, sixteen of class three, one $1,500, nineteen of class two, one $1,320, twenty-five of class one, four at $1,000 each, one $840; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; seven copyists; classified laborer, $1,140; skilled laborer, $840; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; eleven chauffeursMessengers, etc. at $720 each; ten messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-two laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; gardener, $600; messenger boys—one $540, one $420; five packers at $660 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight femaleWatchmen, etc. laborers, at $400 each; captains of the watch—one $1,200, one $840; lieutenants of the watch—one $1,020, three at $840 each; three sergeants of the watch at $750 each; sixty-eight watchmen; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each;Clerk to sign tribal deeds. engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $320,270. 1247 General Land Office Building:
Engineer and electrician, $1,600;General Land Office. Building.Operating force. assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; fourteen laborers; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $35,060. Building for Interior Department offices, care and maintenance:Department Office.Building. Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerk of class two; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—sixty-five at $660 each, forty-five at $600 each, sixteen at $540 each; seventeen female laborers at$400 each; sixteen charwomen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; nine firemen; general machinist, $1,500; electrician, $1,400; substation operators—three at $1,200 each, three assistants at $900 each; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; painter, $900; carpenters—chief $1,320, two at $900 each; cabinetmaker, $900; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; janitor, $600; eighteen watchmen; copyist; four messengers; two assistant messengers; three messenger boys at $420 each; in all, $158,580.
Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to beSolicitor’s Office. appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,000, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, six of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter), three of class two, one of class one; copyist; messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, $90,950.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, whileSpecial inspectors.Subsistence, etc. traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to sixInspectors.Subsistence, etc. inspectors and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800.
General Land Office: Commissioner,General Land Office. $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—fourteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-seven of class three, eighty-three of class two, one hundred of class one, one hundred and twenty at $1,000 each; twenty-three copyists; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; three laborers; packer, $720; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $672,470.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4 of examinersPer diem, etc., investigations. and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate frauduent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official1248 misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $6,000.
Law books.For law books for the law library, $400. Maps.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared*Proviso*.Distribution. in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder 7,200 copies shall be delivered to the Senate and 14,400 copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, 500 copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps.Enlarged homestead areas.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000. Files.For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000. For steel storage boxes for folded files, $5,000.
Indian Office.Indian Office: Commissioner, $5,000: assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $320,790.
Pension Office.Pension Office: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; eight medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-five principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, $2,000; ten assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighty-eight of class four, seventy-nine of class three, two hundred and thirty of class two, three hundred and one of class one, sixty-two at $1,000 each; thirty-four copyists; twenty-three messengers; six assistant messengers; skilled laborer, $660; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $1,246,540.
Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $100,000. labor saving devices, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.
Patent Office.Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law examiners, at $2,750 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; two examiners of interferences, at $2,700 each; examiners of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; examiners—1249 forty-five principals at $2,700 each, ninety first assistants at $2,400 each, ninety second assistants at $2,100 each, ninety third assistants at $1,800 each, ninety fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an assistant examiner, $2,000; eight chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty-five of class one, ninety-one at $1,000 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; ninety copyists; thirty copyists, at $720 each; three messengers; thirty-three assistant messengers; thirteen laborers, at $600 each; forty-five examiners’ aids (who shall be selected without regard to apportionment), at $600 each; twenty-four copy pullers (who shall be selected without regard to apportionment), at $480 each; in all, $1,413,300.
For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books andBooks, etc. publications and scientific books, $2,500. For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, andCopies of weekly issues of patents, etc. trade-marks; production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers; and for expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $135,000. For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating use of inventions. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.
For the share of the United States in the expense of conductingInternational Bureau, Berne. the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk,Bureau of Education. $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, seven of class two, nine of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two copyists; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $82,860.
For investigation of rural education, industrial education, physicalRural, industrial etc., education. education, and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employeesTraveling expenses. acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $7,500.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other currentLibrary. publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500. For investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturingSchool and home gardening. towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $25,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed*Proviso*.Pay restriction. hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information,Special reports. including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600.
For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,Distributing documents, etc. collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus1250 and appliances, textbooks and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
Elementary, etc., education investigations.For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia*Proviso*.Pay restriction. and elsewhere, $9,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. Kindergarten education.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $6,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum.
Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Superintendent, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,750; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; bookkeeper and accountant, $2,200; in all, $30,710.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department, including $30,000 for the Civil Service Commission; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car fares not exceeding $250, and expressage; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; diagrams; awnings; filing and labor-saving devices; constructing model and other cases and furniture; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and labor-saving machines; $175,000.
Supplies for Department Office Building.For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephone, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building for Interior Department offices, $65,000. Stationery, etc.For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $20,000 for the CivilAdditional deducted from specified appropriations.
Service Commission; $105,000, and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $54,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1920, as follows: Surveying public lands, $2,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geological Survey, $3,200; Bureau of Mines, $4,000; Indian Service, $40,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $800; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $105,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1920.
Books, periodicals, etc.For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference1251 relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission. For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875. Rent. For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $2,400. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage stamps. under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.
SURVEYORS GENERAL.Surveyors General. For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent Salaries and office expenses.expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, *Ante*, p. 1250.lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows: Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, Alaska.$4,000; clerks, $11,100; contingent expenses, $3,500; in all, $18,600.
Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $17,820; contingent Arizona.expenses, $600; in all, $21,420. California: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks; $13,500; contingent California.expenses, $850; in all, $17,350. Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $19,450; contingent Colorado.expenses, $1,800; in all, $24,250. Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,160; contingent expenses, Idaho.$750; in all, $15,910. Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $18,500; contingent Montana.expenses, $600; in all, $22,100.
Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,080; contingent Nevada.expenses, $400; in all, $15,480. New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $18,000; contingent New Mexico.expenses, $900; in all, $21,900. Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,500; contingent Oregon.expenses, $600; in all, $16,100. South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000; clerks, $3,100; contingent South Dakota.expenses, $300; in all, $5,400. Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,640; contingent expenses, Utah.$750; in all, $18,390.
Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,740; contingent Washington.expenses, $750: in all, $13,490. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,980; contingent Wyoming.expenses, $500; in all, $13,480. Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hire Restriction on clerk hire, etc.and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarily Temporary details authorized.clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
The use of the fund created by the Act of March 2, 1895 (28th Office work, surveys in railroad land grants.Vol. 28, p. 937.*Proviso*.Limit.Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1919: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated. 1252 GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories. Alaska.Territory of Alaska: Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the governor’s offices and the executive mansion, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business; repair and preservation of executive mansion and furniture and for care of grounds; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor. For rent of suitable rooms for governor’s offices, $1,500.
For finishing and furnishing third floor of executive mansion, $2,000. Hawaii.Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000. For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 1920. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,200, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,200.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Postmaster General, chief clerk, etc.Office. Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000; private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, assistant to chief clerk, confidential clerk to Postmaster General, and Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.chairman, board of inspection, at $2,000 each; chief inspector, $4,000; chief clerk to chief inspector, $2,000; purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk to purchasing agent, $2,000; assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, three at $2,000 each; bond examiner, $2,500; law clerk, Clerks, etc.$1,800; clerks—one hundred and ten of class four, one hundred and sixty-six of class three, two hundred and fifty-nine of class two, two hundred and ninety-seven of class one, one hundred and thirty-eight at $1,000 each, twenty-six at $900 each; skilled draftsmen—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, seven at $1,200 each; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $1,000; blue printer, $900; assistant blue printer, $840; telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone switchboard Messengers, watchmen, engineers, etc.operators; two messengers in charge of mails, at $900 each; twenty-nine messengers; thirty-two assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,200; additional to three watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; thirty-four watchmen; two engineers, at $1,200 each; nine assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two blacksmiths or steamfitters, at $1,000 each; three oilers, at $840 each: fifteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,600; assistant electricians—two at $1,200 each, three at Carpenters, laborers, etc.$1,000 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each; carpenters—one $1,400, three at $1,000 each; awning maker, painter, and plumber, at $1,000 each; assistant plumber, $900; laborers—foreman $900, assistant foreman $840, two at $840 each, seventy-six at $720 each, four at $660 each; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, eight at $480 each; fifty-eight charwomen; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $1,659,140.
Readjustment of salaries, etc.In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in any class may be fixed by the Postmaster General at $100 below the salary fixed by law for such class and the unused portion of such salary 1253shall be used to increase the salary of any clerk in any class entitled thereto by not less than $100 above the salary fixed by law for such class. The Postmaster General shall assign to the several bureaus, Assignments to bureaus, etc.offices, and divisions of the Post Office Department such number of the employees herein authorized as may be necessary to perform the work required therein; and he shall submit a statement showing such assignments and the number employed at the various salaries in the annual Book of Estimates following the estimates for salaries in the Post Office Department.
Office, First Assistant Postmaster General: First Assistant Office of First Assistant Post master General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of post-office service—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $3,000, clerk in charge $2,250, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; division of postmasters’ appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; superintendent, division of dead letters, $2,500; chief, division of correspondence, $2,000; in all, $32,250.
Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Assistant Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; division of railway mail service—general superintendent $4,000, assistant general superintendent $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; in all, $27,250.
Office Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third Assistant Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk in charge of administrative section, and clerk in charge of audit section, at $2,000 each; superintendents of divisions—stamps $2,750, finance (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250, classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500, money orders $2,750; chief clerk, division of money orders, $2,250; in all, $37,050.
Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; topographer, $2,400; in all, $19,900. Total salaries, $1,775,590. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For stationery Contingent expenses.Stationery, etc.and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000.
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including Heating, etc., plant.repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $60,000. For telegraphing, $5,000.Telegraphing, etc. For painting, $2,000. For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horse-drawnVehicles. passenger-carrying vehicles and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $3,200. For rent of stables, $500. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair Miscellaneous.of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car fares not exceeding $300; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article 11 of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $35,000, of which sum not exceeding $6,000 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings. 1254 Furniture.For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000.
Official Postal Guide.For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $33,000; and the amounts received during the fiscal year 1920 from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be used as a further appropriation for the publication of copies of such guides. Heat, light, and power, city post office building.Reimbursement for.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for the cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department.Vol. 5, p. 80.Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.Solicitors for Departments, etc.Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000;
Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000; Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor Attorneys, assistants, etc.for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one Chief clerk, clerks, etc.$2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk, and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each; two at $1,800 each; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal Superintendent of prisons, etc.Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, investigation division.$2,000; chief of division of investigation, $4,000; examiners—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 Clerks, messengers, watchmen, etc.each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, ten of class two, twenty-five of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900: messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480;
Division of Accounts.twenty-four charwomen. Division of Accounts: Chief, $3,000; administrative accountant, $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,200; clerks—three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $473,870. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $1,000. For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000.
For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300. 1255 For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $8,000.Stationery. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, Miscellaneous.lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street-car fares not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $30,000.
For official transportation, including the maintenance, repair, and Vehicles, etc.operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motorcycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $2,500. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, Rent.$36,000. Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury.Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, who shall also discharge the duties of chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $27,230.
For law books, including their exchange, for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $500. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor, Solicitor of the Department of Commerce.$5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, Solicitor of the Department of Labor.$5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; AssistantSecretary, Assistant clerks, etc. Secretary, $5,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—appointments $2,500, publications $2,500 supplies $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, thirteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; five assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; sixteen laborers; cabinet maker, $1,200; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $196,050.
Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, Lighthouses Bureau$4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250, one $2,000; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,440, one $1,200; in all, $65,430.
Bureau of Census: For salaries and necessary expenses for Census Bureau.Salaries and expenses for Fourteenth Census.*Post*, p. 1291.preparing for, taking, compiling, and publishing the Fourteenth Census of the United States; for rent of office quarters outside the District of Columbia, alterations and repairs to buildings, construction of fireproof vaults, and for carrying on during the decennial census period all other work authorized and directed by law, including purchase, construction, and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, 1256and card-tabulating machinery; experimental work in developing, improving, and constructing an integrating counter for use in statistical work; repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances; technical and mechanical services in connection therewith, and purchase, rental, construction, repair, and exchange of equipment and mechanical appliances; and including personal services in the Available to June 30, 1922.*Proviso*.Suspension of other work.District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000,000, to continue available until June 30, 1922: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the decennial census period such work of the Census Office, other than the Fourteenth Census, as he may deem advisable.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Director, assistants, etc.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Director, $6,000; assistant directors—one $3,500, one $3,000; private secretary, $1,800; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,500 each; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; commercial economist, $2,750; chiefs of sections—one $2,500, one $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; editorial assistant, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four, twelve of class three, two at $1,500 each, twenty-two of class two, thirty-five of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; laborer; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $220,510.
Promotion of Commerce.*Post*, p. 1261.For all necessary expenses, including field investigations in the United States and abroad, purchase of documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, exchange on official checks, and rent outside the District of Columbia, to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, $325,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Provisos*.Branch offices.of Commerce: *Provided*, That not more than $50,000 of the foregoing sum shall be used for the expenses of branch offices: *Provided further*, Deposit of receipts.That all moneys hereafter received by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in payment of photographic and other mechanical reproduction of special statistical compilations from its records shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.
Promoting commerce with South and Central America.*Post*, p. 1261.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.
Commerce with the Orient.*Post*, p. 1261.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Orient, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.
Commercial attachés.Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of Clerks, etc.foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of officers, rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of reports, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and 1257from the United States, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $165,000.
Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspection Service.$5,000; Deputy Supervising Inspector General, $3,000; private secretary, $1,500; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $22,940. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors, at $3,450 Supervising inspectors.each, $37,950; Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law, Inspectors.$225,900;
Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports: Assistant inspectors.New York, forty at $2,500 each; New Orleans, six at $2,350 each; Baltimore, ten at $2,350 each; Providence, four at $2,350 each; Boston, ten at $2,350 each; Philadelphia, sixteen at $2,350 each; San Francisco, sixteen at $2,350 each: Buffalo, eight at $2,100 each; Cleveland, ten at $2,100 each; Milwaukee, four at $2,100 each; Chicago, five at $2,100 each; Grand Haven, four at $2,100 each;
Detroit, four at $2,100 each; Norfolk, ten at $2,100 each; Seattle, sixteen at $2,100 each; Portland (Oregon), six at $2,100 each; Albany (New York), two at $2,100 each; Duluth, two at $2,100 each; Portland (Maine), two at $2,100 each; New London, two at $2,100 each; Los Angeles, two at $2,100 each; New Haven, two at $2,100 each; Jacksonville, two at $2,100 each; Pittsburgh, one $2,100; Toledo, two at $2,100 each; four traveling inspectors, at $3,000 each; $434,100; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $697,950.
Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $1,500 Clerk hire.a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law $115,000. Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1261.expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect [R.
S., Title LII. pp. 852–869](/us/rs/tLII/p852–869).the provisions of Title 52, Revised Statutes, $160,000. Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, Navigation Bureau.$2,750; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, three of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two stenographers and typewriters to be employed not to exceed six months at the rate of $75 per month each; two messengers; in all, $39,730.
Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding Shipping commissioners.the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; Newport News, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelpnia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $30,100. Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, Clerk hire.of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person of clerks in the offices of shipping commissioners, $50,000: *Provided*, That one *Proviso*.Additional allowance.clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $1,800 per annum.
Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1261.transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $8,365. To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in Admeasurement of vessels.*Post*, p. 1261.the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an ad1258juster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,100, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,500.
Counting passengers.*Post*, p. 1261.For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, $250. Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.*Post*, p. 1261.Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $43,000.
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily in addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $18,000. Preventing overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc.Wireless communication on steam vessels.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199.*Post*, p. 1261.Wireless-communication laws:
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication” and carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include salaries of employees in the District of Columbia not exceeding $8,050 traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $45,000.
Standards Bureau.Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, one $4,000, one qualified in optics, $3,600, three at $3,600 each, two at $3,300 each, four at $3,000 each; assistant to the director, $3,600; associate physicists—five at $2,700 each, five at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, seven at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—twelve at $1,800 each, fourteen at $1,600 each, eighteen at $1,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, two at $3,500 each, one $3,300, one $3,000; associate chemists—three at $2,700 each, three at $2,500 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each; assistant chemists—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each; physical chemist, $1,800; laboratory assistants—twenty-three at $1,200 each, eighteen at $1,000 each; laboratory helpers—two at $840 each, four at $720 each, four at $600 each; aids—fourteen at $900 each, sixteen at $720 each; twenty laboratory apprentices, at $540 each; editor, $2,500; secretary, $2,200; property clerk, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; chief clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each, two at $720 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; office apprentices—four at $540 each, two at $480 each, two at $420 each: six elevator boys at $480 each; mechanicians—chief and foreman of instrument shops $2,400, one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; machinist, $1,200; shop apprentices—two at $720 each, two at $600 each, three at $540 each, three at $480 each; lieutenant of watch, $900; twelve watchmen; skilled woodworkers—foreman of woodworking shops’ $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; skilled laborers—three at $840 each, six at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographers—one $1,400, one $1,200; packer, $840; two messengers; assistant messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; two pipe fitters at $1,000 each; ten firemen; glass, blowers—one $l,600, one $1,200; glassworker, $1,600; expert optician, $2,000; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one 1259$900, one helper $900; foreman of janitors and laborers, $900; fourteen laborers; janitors—five at $720 each, three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $486,760.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection Apparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 1261.with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $100,000. For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $8,000.Repairs, etc.
For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, Miscellaneous.*Post*, p. 1261.books and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street car fares not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of a passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $60,000.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for Care of grounds.water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $7,500. For continuation of the investigation of structural Structural materials investigations.materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $125,000. For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personalTesting machines for physical constants. services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000.
For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials Fire-resisting building materials.and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. For investigation of the standards of practice and methods of Measurements of public utilities.measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problem, which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $85,000.
For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, Railway equipment investigations.wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, soap Miscellaneous testing, etc.materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $30,000.
For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments Radio communication standardization.employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000. To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of Industrial colors standardization, etc.color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. 1260 Clay products processes.To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, teracotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.
Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc.To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials essential to the industries or in laboratory investigations, as authorized by law, such as the determination of the value of gravity, thermal conductivities of materials, mechanical equivalent of heat, metallurgical constants such as specific and latent heats of metals and alloys, the electrochemical equivalent of metals, the velocity of light; including data important in the efficient planning of industrial processes, and in the effective utilization of the properties of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.
Aeronautical, etc., engineering investigations.To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and or the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Optical glass production.For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000. Checking chemical analyses.For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distribution of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses and in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000. Textiles, paper etc., standardization.To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Sugar standardization, etc.For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by war conditions, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other substances, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.
Cooperative standardization of gauges, screw threads etc.*Post*, 1291.To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.
Coal weighing at mines, etc.For investigating the conditions and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, $15,000. Metallurgical researches, etc.For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and 1261alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications; investigation of new metallurgical processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products, $25,000.
For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of High temperature measurements, etc.high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. For the moving and installation of present equipment, and the Equipment purchases, etc.purchase of new equipment, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000, to be immediately available.
For the investigation of the principles of sound and their application Acoustic investigations.to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000. For technical investigations in cooperation with the industries upon Industrial development investigations.fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries developed during the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $50,000, to be available immediately.
Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: For contingent Contingent expenses.and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and of motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; rental of water-cooling plant in Commerce Building, not to exceed $1,400; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street-car fares, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $50,000, and in addition thereto Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through supply committee.sums amounting to $54,250 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1920 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act Vol. 36, p. 531.of June 17, 1910 (Statutes at Large, volume 36, page 531), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce—promoting commerce $6,500, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $6,000, promoting commerce in the Orient, $4,000; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $8,500; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $7,500; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000; bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $104,250 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent 1262To be expended through Division of Supplies.expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.
Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 773](/us/rs/s3709/p773).Hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Commerce when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. Rent.*Proviso*.Five-year lease.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to enter into a contract for the lease for a period not to exceed five years with an option for a period of five additional years, of the Commerce Building, now occupied by the Department of Commerce, at an annual rental not to exceed $65,500.
Storage.For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division of publications and supplies, $2,500; appointment clerk, $2,100; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications and supplies, $2,000; librarian, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eleven of class three, nine of class two, thirteen of class one, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; five assistant messengers; five messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,100; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; electrician, $1,000; three firemen; eleven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); lieutenant of the watch, $840; six watchmen; thirteen charwomen; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $139,180.
Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $12,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $175,000. Labor Statistics Bureau.Bureau of Labor Statistics: Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; editor, $2,500; three statisticians at $3,000 each; six statistical experts, at $2,000 each; employees—two at $2,760 each, two at $2,520 each, seven at $2,280 each, four at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—six at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; clerks—nine of class four, eight of class three, eleven of class two, seventeen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; two copyists; messenger; three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $217,140.
Per diem, special agents, etc.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employees, and for their transportation; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers and to be paid at the rate Temporary statistical assistants, etc.of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000; traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor 1263Statistics, and for subvention to “International Association for Association for Labor Legislation.Labor Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $80,000.
For periodicals, newspapers, documents, and special reports for Periodicals, etc.the purpose of procuring strike data, price quotations, and court decisions, for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300. Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant Immigration Bureau.Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; two law examiners, at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, ten of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers-assistant messenger; in all, $74,200.
Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; Information Division.clerks—two of class four, one of class throe, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340. Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, Naturalization Bureau.$3,250; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, sixteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $97,010.
Children’s Bureau: Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; experts—one Children’s Bureau.on sanitation $2,800, industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, statistical $2,000; administrative clerk, $2,000; editor, $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at$l,200 each; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, four of class two, seventeen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $106,040.
To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare Child life, mortality, etc.of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, $80,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding eight persons *Proviso*.Pay restriction.shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation of $2,000 each per annum and above that sum. For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not For diem subsistence, experts, etc.exceeding $4 of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reportsMaterials for publication, etc. and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, newspapers and clippings to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $94,000.
Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: For contingent Contingent expenses.and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car fares not exceeding $150, lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance and repair of motorcycles and motor trucks; maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $2,000; in all, $50,000; and in addition thereto such sum as may be Additional from immigration expenses.Vol. 36, p. 531.necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through 1264the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 531), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year 1920 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and To be expended through Division of Supplies and Publications.constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).Hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. Rent.Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court.Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500.
Circuit Courts of Appeals.Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $8,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $331,500. District judges.District courts: Ninety-seven district judges, at $7,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $776,000.
District Court Hawaii.District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $7,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $20,200. District Court, Porto Rico.District Court for Porto Rico: District judge, $7,500 per annum from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; clerk, $3,000; in all, $11,333.34. Retired Judges.*Ante*, p. 1157.Retired judges: For salaries of judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Largo, page 1161), so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year 1920.
Court of Appeals, D. C.Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: Chief justice, at $8,500 per annum from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; two associate justices, at $8,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; clerk, $3,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; *Proviso*.Reports.assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary Half from District revenues.expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,000; in all, $42,043.34, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, D. C.Supreme Court, District of Columbia; Chief justice, $7,500 per annum from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; five associate justices, at $7,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; six stenographers, one for Half from District revenues.the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $54,433.34, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. 1265 National Park Commissioners:
For commissioners in the Crater National Park Commissioners.Salaries.Vol. 29, p. 184.Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, and Yellowstone National Parks, at $1,500 each, $6,000. The provisions of section 21 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May 28, 1896, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law Books for Judicial officers.books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such *Proviso*.Transmittal to successors.books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States,” $16,000.
Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate Court of Customs Appeals.judges, at $8,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $64,840. For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia, and Miscellaneous expenses.elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing; pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $5,660; in ail, $12,660.
Court of Claims: Chief Justice, at $8,000 per annum from March Court, of Claims.1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; four judges, at $7,500 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $69,080.
For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, Auditors, etc.in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $9,000. For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, Contingent expenses.fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $5,000. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the Reporting decisions.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.Printing of the fifty-fourth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874.
For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, Custodian.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.$500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874. Sec. 2. That the pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc.messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. Sec. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, No pay for permanently incapacitated persons.and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for 1266the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.
Sec. 4. Transportation to Civilian employees.Allowance to persons coming to the District since April 6, 1917, if not needed, or resigning, etc., to return home.*Ante*, p. 1052. That the heads of the several executive departments and other governmental establishments in the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to furnish to such civilian employees, receiving compensation, exclusive of the additional $120, at the rate of not more than $1,400 per annum or less than $100 per annum, under their respective jurisdiction as have come to the District of Columbia since April 6, 1917, whose services are no longer required and whose employment has been or may be terminated by the Government without delinquency or misconduct on their part, or who may resign from their positions, during the period from November 11, 1918, to March 31, 1919, inclusive, their actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodations, from the District of Columbia to the place from which they accepted employment or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance, as Time for applying, etc.the employee may elect.
Such transportation must be applied for within ten days after the termination of service and shaft be used within five days after issuance unless an extension of time on account of illness be granted by the proper authority. As to the employees whose services have been terminated during the period between November 11, 1918, and the date of the passage of this Act, inclusive, the time within which transportation shall be applied for shall be Penalty for sale, etc.; of transportation.twenty days from the date of the passage of this Act.
Any person who shall sell, exchange, or transfer such transportation for the use Funds available.of another shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. The expenses authorized by this Act shall be paid from the following appropriations for the fiscal year 1920, which hereby are made available therefor immediately upon approval of this Act: War Department.*Ante*, p. 1237.Navy Department.*Ante*, p. 1242.Other departments, etc.For the War Department, from “Temporary employees.
” For the Navy Department, from “Temporary employees.” For all other executive departments and independent establishments, from the appropriations for the support of the services in which such persons are employed. Any employee who would be entitled Refund to persons leaving prior to passage of this Act.to transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation under this Act and who has left the District of Columbia prior to the passage of this Act, but not before December 10, 1918, upon application and presentation within sixty days after the passage of this Act of proper proof shall have refunded the cost of actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation, from the District of Columbia to the place from which employment was accepted, or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance to which the Entries after January 7, 1919, excluded.*Proviso*.Unearned leaves of absence deducted, etc.employee may have gone.
The provisions made for the transportation of employees shall not apply to those who enter such service after January 7, 1919: *Provided*, That payment to any employee for leave of absence not earned in proportion to the term of employment shall be deducted from the refund authorized in this section and the provision made in this Act for the transportation of employees shall not be supplemented in any manner by the various services in which they are employed. Sec. 5. Typewriting machines.Restriction on prices to be paid for.
That no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1920 for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year 1918; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines Exceptions.given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for *Proviso*.Determination of Character of machines.such schools: *Provided*, That in construing this section the Commissioner of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to 1267whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section.
Sec. 6. That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons Details for service outside of District of Columbia, restricted.in the classified service in the District of Columbia shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: *Provided*, That nothing in this section *Proviso*.Department of Justice investigations excepted.shall be deemed to apply to the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice.
Sec. 7. That all civilian employees of the Governments of the Additional $240 pay to civilian employees, and of District of Columbia, at $2,500 a year.United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum: *Provided*, That such employees as receive a total of annual *Provisos*.Rate between 52,500 and $2,740.compensation at a rate more than $2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional Restriction.compensation under this section at a rate which is more than sixty per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: *Provided further*, That the increased compensation Increase of 1919 not computed as salary.at the rate of $120 per annum for the fiscal year ending une 30, 1919, shall not be computed as salary in construing this section: *Provided further*, That where an employee in the service Restriction if pay Increased $200 in 1918–19.Entering service since June 30, 1918.on June 30, 1918, has received during the fiscal year 1919, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1920 an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1918, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall be granted the increased compensation provided Certificate required to grant increase.herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation: *Provided further*, That the increased compensation provided in this Employees, with pay adjusted by wage boards, etc.section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Exceptions.Specified employees not entitled.Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January 1, 1916, except that employees of the Bureau of WarWar Risk Insurance Bureau.
Risk Insurance shall receive increased compensation at one-half the rate allowed by this section for other employees: *Provided*, That employees *Proviso*.Allowance for employees.of said bureau who are compensated at rates below $400 per annum shall receive additional compensation only at the rate of 60 per centum of the annual rates of compensation received by such employees; employees whose duties require only a portion of their time, except charwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals: persons employed by or through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or inde1268pendent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their service in foreign Railroad, etc., employees not deemed United States employees.countries.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems, taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a recognition of the employees of such railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems, as employees of the United States. Double-salary prohibition not applicable hereto.Vol. 39, p. 582.Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended by the naval appropriation Act approved August 29, 1916, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided in this section who otherwise is entitled to receive the same.
Piecework employees.Computation to determine pay.Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen days in the *Proviso*.Not applicable to regular per diem employees.said fiscal year would amount to $2,500 or less: *Provided*, That this method of computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.
Appropriation for increased pay to Federal employees.So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation provided in this section to employees of the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appropriation for District of Columbia employees, half from its revenues.So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and one-half out of the revenues of Water department, from revenues thereof.the District of Columbia, except to employees of the Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department.
Trust funds employees, from the funds.So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds. Detailed reports on first day of the next session, for four months.Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal year the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate.
Sec. 8. Supplies, etc.Purchases of, to be from stock no longer needed by other activities, when possible. That the heads of the several executive departments and other responsible officials, in expending appropriations contained in this Act, so far as possible shall purchase material, supplies, and equipment, when needed and funds are available, from other services of the Government possessing material, supplies, and equipment no Ascertainment if available before purchasing elsewhere.longer required because of the cessation of war activities.
It shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments and other officials, before purchasing any of the articles described herein, to ascertain from the other services of the Government whether they Price.have articles of the character described that are serviceable. And articles purchased by one service from another, if the same have not 1269been used, shall be paid for at a reasonable price not to exceed actual cost, and if the same have been used, at a reasonable price based upon length of usage.
The various services of the Government are authorized to sell such articles under the conditions specified, and the proceeds Sales authorized.of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt: *Provided*, That this section shall not be construed to *Proviso*.Transfers under Executive order not affected.amend, alter, or repeal the Executive order of December 3, 1918, concerning the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities.
Sec. 9. That a joint commission is created to be known as the Joint Commission on Reclassification of Salaries.Appointment.“Joint Commission on Reclassification of Salaries,” which shall consist of three Senators, who are now Members of the Congress, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Representatives, who are now Members of the Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker. Said commission shall submit its report and recommendations Report, etc.as early as possible, and, in any event, by the second Monday in January, 1920, and the members of such commission shall receive Compensation.a compensation at the rate of $625 per month, unless they are receiving other compensation from the Government.
Vacancies occurring in the membership of the commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments. It shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the rates of Duties.compensation paid to civilian employees by the municipal government and the various executive departments and other governmental establishments in the District of Columbia, except the navy yard and the Postal Service, and report by bill or otherwise, as soon as practicable, what reclassification and readjustment of compensation should be made so as to provide uniform and equitable pay for the same character of employment throughout the District of Columbia in the services enumerated.
The commission is authorized to sit during the sessions or recess Authority.of Congress, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses, and to employ such personal services and incur such expenses as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. The heads of the various governmental services and the Commissioners Cooperation by Federal and District officials.of the District of Columbia shall furnish office space and equipment, detail officers and employees, furnish data and information, and make investigations whenever requested by the commission in connection with the purposes of this section.
For payment of the expenses authorized to be incurred, there is Appropriation for expenses.appropriated $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available immediately and to be disbursed upon vouchers approved by the commission; which approval shall be conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. Sec. 10. Public Buildings Commission: With a view to the control Public Buildings Commission.Creation, appointment, etc.and allotment of space in owned or leased Government buildings in the District of Columbia, a Public Buildings Commission is hereby created to be composed of two Senators to be appointed by the President of the Senate and two Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker, who shall serve thereon only so long as they are Members of Congress, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and the Supervising Architect or the Acting Supervising Architect of the Treasury during any vacancy in said office.
Said commission shall elect one of its members as chairman Expert services.of the commission and is authorized to employ such expert clerical or other services as it may deem necessary. Any vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner Vacancies.as the original appointments were made. 1270 All space in public buildings, etc., in the District, subject to control thereof.Exceptions.Said commission shall have the absolute control of and the allotment of all space in the several public buildings owned or buildings leased by the United States in the District of Columbia, with the exception of the Executive Mansion and office of the President, Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, the Capitol power plant, the buildings under the jurisdiction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Congressional Library Building, and shall from time to time assign and allot, for the use of the several activities of the Government, all such space.
Appropriation tor expenses, available at once.For expenses of said commission, $10,000, to be immediately available and remain available until expended and to be paid out on vouchers signed by the chairman of said commission. Sec. 11. Public printing and binding.Joint Committee to adopt measures to prevent delay, waste, etc. That the Joint Committee on Printing shall have power to adopt and employ such measures as, in its discretion, may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government *Provisos*.No periodical, publication, etc., hereafter without specific authority of Congress.Continuance allowed.publications: *Provided*, That hereafter no journal, magazine, periodical, or other similar publication, shall be printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service unless the same shall have been specifically authorized by Congress, but such publications as are now being printed without specific authority from Congress may, in the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing, be continued until the close of the next regular session of Congress, when, if authority for their continuance is not then granted by Congress, All printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done by Government Printing Office.they shall not thereafter be printed: *Provided further*, That on and after July 1, 1919, all printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Executive Office, the judiciary, and every executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government, Exception.shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except such classes of work as shall be deemed by the Joint Committee on Printing to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District.
Sec. 12. George Washington Memorial Building.Time extended for construction, etc.*Ante*, p. 123. George Washington Memorial Building: The provisions and limitations respecting the George Washington Memorial Building in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year 1918 are hereby continued and extended to March 4, 1920. Approved, March 1, 1919.
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