Chapter 92. Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes
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CHAP. 92.— An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes. June 4, 1918.[[H. R. 12280](/us/bill/65/hr/12280).][[Public, No. 164](/us/65/pl/164).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.*Ante*, pp. 182, 385, 459.*Post*, pp. 821, 1020, 1161.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, on account of war expenses and for other purposes, namely: 595 EXECUTIVE.Executive. housing for war needs.Housing for war needs. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toAll expenses, available through fiscal year 1919.*Ante*, p. 550.*Post*, p. 821. authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $60,000,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Section seven of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the PresidentConstruction.*Ante*, p. 552, amended. to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 7. That no work to be done or contract to be made under orContracts on percentage basis forbidden. by authority of any provision of this Act shall be done or made on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract be let involving more than $1,000 until at least three responsibleBids for work over $1,000. competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract, and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids.
” " The President, if in his judgment such action is deemed necessaryHousing corporation may be created. or advantageous, may authorize the creation of a corporation or corporations for the purpose of carrying out the Act entitled “An*Ante*, p. 550, Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, such corporation or corporations to have or obtain all powers necessary or appropriate therefor. The total capital stock of the corporation or Capital stock.corporations authorized hereunder shall not exceed $60,000,000: *Provided*, That where such corporation or corporations are created*Provisos*.United States to be sole owner.Authority of agency. by authority of the President, representatives appointed by the President, or by such agency as he may designate to carry out the purposes of the said Act, shall subscribe to, own, and vote the capital stock thereof for and on behalf of the United States, and shall do all other things in regard thereto necessary to protect the interests of the United States and to carry out the provisions of the said Act: *Provided further*, That section six hundred and five of the Code ofDealing in real estate permitted in District of Columbia.Vol. 32, p. 533. the District of Columbia prohibiting a corporation from buying, selling or dealing in real estate shall not apply to such corporation or corporations so created or designated, with respect to buying, selling or dealing in real estate in furtherance of the provisions of the said Act: *Provided further*, That the Act entitled “An Act to amendNo charge for recording, etc.Vol. 33, p. 689. section five hundred and fifty-two of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, relating to incorporations,” approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and five, shall not apply to any corporation or corporations created under the authority contained in this paragraph.
All moneys received by the United States, in carrying out the ActReceipts made a revolving fund. entitled “An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, may be used as a revolving fund until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, for further carrying out the purposes of the said Act. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Contagious Diseases Service: The limitation on the amount to beHealth Department.Contagious diseases allotment increased.Vol. 39, p. 1630. expended for personal services from the appropriation for preventing the spread of contagious diseases for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is increased from $17,000 to $23,000. 596 Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Expenses.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of the laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $60,000. Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Expenses regulating foreign travel.*Ante*, p. 559.For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prevent in time of war departure from or entry into the United States contrary to the public safety,” approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including contingent and miscellaneous expenses and personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $75,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Foreign intercourse.foreign intercourse. Contingent expenses, missions.For contingent expenses of foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Stationery.For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $100,000. Public Health Service.public health service.
Fuel, etc.For fuel, fight, and water, $10,000. Engraving and Printing Bureau.bureau of engraving and printing. Number of sheets for cheeks,etc.,increased,*Ante*, p. 117.The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen as to the number of delivered *Post*, p. 641.sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from two million nine hundred and fifty thousand to six million. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. temporary employees.
Additional temporary clerks, etc.For the temporary employment of such 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, $900,000: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Statement to Congress.That the Secretary of War 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 compensation paid to each: *Provided further*, Pay limitations.That no person shall be 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 thirty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each. 597 contingent expenses.
For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books,Contingent expensee. including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same, and so forth; including the same objects specified under this head in the deficiency appropriation Act, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $344,175. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. $120,000. bureau of insular affairs.Insular Affairs Bureau.
The taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature in section fourteenPhilippine tax legislation legalized. hundred and fifty-nine of the act numbered twenty-seven hundred and eleven, enacted by that body on March tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore or hereafter is legalized, ratified, and confirmed hereby as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same by prior Act of Congress specifically had been authorized and directed.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. medical department.Medical Department. For medical and hospital department, including the same objectsSupplies.Additional contracts, etc., authorized.*Ante*, pp. 60, 364. specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and*Post*, 831. seventeen, the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations not to exceed $33,000,000 in addition to the appropriations Heretofore made.
PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and supportSanitation, etc., expenses. of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $150,000, to continue available until expended.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. War Department Temporary Office Buildings (SmithsonianTemporary Office Buildings, Smithsonian Grounds, and Seaton Park.Care, etc., Including fiscal year 1919. Grounds and Seaton Park): For the following employees from May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $720; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; two steam fitters, at $1,200 each; sign writer, $1,400; two painters, at $1,200 each; electricians—two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; four general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—three lieutenants at $1,080 each, nine sergeants at $930 each, two hundred and thirty-seven at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,080; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; sixty-one laborers, at $660 each; fifteen female laborers, at $480 each; six forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; one hundred and sixteen charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $356,231.25. 598 Henry Park.Maintenance force.Pay increases.*Post*, p. 787.For the following from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows, to be in lieu of similar positions provided in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, for the temporary office buildings in Henry Park Reservation:
Chief engineer, $1,800; foreman, $1,600; chief electrician, $1,600; in all, $5,000. Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous, items, and printing for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $45,150. Nineteen hundred and nineteen, $147,500. Screens.War and Navy Department temporary office buildings (Henry Park Reservation): For screens, $8,000. Potomac Park office buildings.Maintenance employees from August 15, 1918.War and Navy Department temporary office buildings (Potomac Park):
For the following employees from August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: 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 8720. each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600, six at $1,400 each; 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, eight sergeants at $930 each, two hundred and five at $780 each, eighty at $720 each; fire marsh al, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; eighty-three laborers, at $660 each; twenty-two female laborers, at $480 each; eight forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; two hundred and eight charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $388,955.
Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, city directories, and dictionary, $172,000. Building, Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue.Maintenance employees.War Department temporary office building (Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest): For the following employees from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $1,800; clerk of 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, three sergeants at $930 each, forty-two privates at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; ten laborers at $660 each; three female laborers at $480 each; two forewomen of charwomen at $300 each; eighteen charwomen at $240 each; in all, $68,270.
Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directory, $19,000. Control of building under superintendent of State, etc., Building.The maintenance and protection of the temporary office building erected by the War Department between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and B Street and Virginia Avenue northwest shall be under the supervision of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building. Henry Park, etc.Char force, subject to superintendent of State, etc., Building.The char force of the foregoing temporary office buildings and the temporary office buildings in Henry Park, which is employed and paid by the bureaus or offices occupying the said buildings, shall be599subject to the supervision and control of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building.
The appropriations herein made for the maintenance and Payment of incurred obligations.protection of the office buildings under the supervision of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Building shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred prior to the passage of this Act, and which are properly chargeable to such appropriation. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. temporary employees. For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks,Additional temporary clerks, etc. 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 on account of the existing emergency, as follows:Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Bureau of Steam Engineering, $7,500. contingent expenses. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including theContingent expenses. same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $200,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous. For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified underExpenses. this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,250,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Proviso*.Collecting information. $100,000 of this amount may be expended for the collection of information abroad and at home. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
Transportation: For transportation, including the same objectsTransportation. specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,000,000. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, Ordnance and ordnance stores.preserving, and handling ordnance material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500,000.Contingent.
Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance: For miscellaneous items, namely, cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, $40,000. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general Maintenance.maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,644,000.
Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent expensesContingent. and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $265,000. 600 Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Training camps.Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $11,000,000. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $2,100,000.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,500,000. Contingent.Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000.
Transporting, etc., remains.Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts. Maintenance.For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $2,000,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Allowance for clerks, etc., increased.Vol. 39, p. 1183.That the limitation specified in the said Act on expenditures for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service is increased further by $200,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering. Engineering experiment station.Engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland: For experimental and research work, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,000. Payment of incurred obligations.The appropriations contained herein under the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations.
Interior Department.INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Stationery.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 offices in the field service under the General Land Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, $27,000.
Alaska.territory of alaska. Education of natives.Education in Alaska: For education in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,000. Medical and sanitary relief.Medical relief in Alaska: For medical relief in Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000. 601 POSTAL SERVICE.Postal Service. out of the postal revenues.From postal revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General.
For temporary and auxiliary clerk hireTemporary, auxiliary, and substituto clerks, etc. and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $500,000. For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles,Vehicle allowance. and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles, for and the operation of, screen-wagon and city delivery and collection services, $300,000.Messenger service.
For mail messenger service, $100,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For mail bags and equipment, $ 125,000.Mail bags, etc. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For office expenses, including the same objects specified under thisOffice expenses. head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, 88,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $10,000. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Lula W. Stone, widow of Honorable William J. Stone, lateWilliam J. Stone.Pay to widow. a Senator from the State of Missouri, $7,500. To pay Mary Manette Broussard, widow of Honorable Robert F.Robert F. Broussard.Pay to widow.
Broussard, late a Senator from the State of Louisiana, $7,500. For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, andStationery. for committees and officers of the Senate, $4,000. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $7,500. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and ResidentStationery. Commissioners, including $1,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $1,625.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. printing and binding.Printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $100,000.Navy Department. For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusivePost Office Department. of the money order office, $75,000. 602 Department of Labor.For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $25,000. Pan American Union.For printing and binding for the Pan American Union, $5,000. Approved, June 4, 1918.