Chapter 89. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 89.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. March 1, 1921. [[H. R. 15962](/us/bill/66/hr/15962).] [[Public, No. 338](/us/pl/66/338).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* First Deficiency Act, 1921.Deficiency appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
Bureau of Efficiency.BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 641.To enable the Bureau of Efficiency to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 29, 1920, S10,000. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. general expenses. Employees’ compensation fund expenses.*Ante*, p. 104.District of Columbia employees’ compensation fund: For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 11, 1919, extending to the employees of the government of the District of Vol. 39, p. 742.Columbia the provisions of the Act approved September 7, 1916, entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” $2,000.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Car fares, 1921.Allowance increased.*Ante*, p. 843.The limitation on the purchase of car fares from appropriations contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 is increased from $6,000 to $7,500. Coroner’s expenses.Coroner’s office: For purchase and maintenance, hire of livery or means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, $1,700.
Advertising taxes in arrears.Vol. 26, p. 24.For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1920, as required to be given by Act of March 19, 1890, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property *Proviso*.Number of printed copies limited.advertised, $2,200: *Provided,* That hereafter no more than one thousand copies of the pamphlet of taxes in arrears shall be printed, and a charge of not less than cost plus 10 per centum shall be made and collected from each person furnished with a copy of such pamphlet, the moneys to be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the United States and the District of Columbia in the same proportions as appropriations for printing the pamphlet are paid from such revenues.
Sewers.sewers. Pumping service.For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $18,000. 1157 public schools.Schools. Allowance to principals: For allowance toAllowance to principals.Vol. 34, p. 320. principals of grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June 20, 1906, $2,980.
Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools,Night schools. including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $15,000. Textbooks and supplies: For textbooks and school suppliesTextbooks, etc. for use of pupils of the first eight grades, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $15,000.
For transportation of pupils attending schools forTransporting tubercular pupils.*Proviso*.Car fare. tubercular children, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,*That expenditures for car fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of car fares covered by this Act. metropolitan police.Police. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $1,900.Motor vehicles. fire department.Fire de partment. For repairs and improvements of fire boat, $700.Fire boat. health department.Health department.
For enforcement of the provisions of an Act toDrainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125. provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May 19, 1896, and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisancesAbating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114. in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906, $500. For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act toEnforcing milk regulations.Vol. 28, p. 709.Food, candy, etc.Vol. 30, pp. 246, 398. regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1895; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898; an Act to prevent the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May 5, 1898; an Act for preventingPure food law.Vol. 34, p. 768. the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June 30, 1906, $400.
For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for theDispensaries for tuberculosis, and venereal diseases. treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies, $500. courts.Courts. Juvenile Court: For transportation and traveling expenses to secure the return ofJuvenile court. absconding probationers, $150. courts and prisons.Courts and prisons. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and Support of convicts out of District, etc.transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased 1158convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $50,000.
Supreme court.Bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expenses of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $1,800. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, $4,000.
Witness fees, etc.Fees of witnesses, supreme court: For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section 850, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,000. Charities and corrections.CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. Home for Aged and Infirm.Home for the Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor trucks, $5,500.
Board of Children’s Guardians.Administrative expenses.Board of Children’s Guardians: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $25, and all office and sundry expenses, $1,000; Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $2,500; Board of children.For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $7,500 (in lieu of $1,500 heretofore authorized) to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $15,000.
Indigent insane.Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $100,000. Deporting nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811.Deportation of nonresident insane: For deportation of nonresident persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899, $1,500. Judgments.judgments.
Payment of.For payment of the judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in Senate Document Numbered 394 of the present session, $5,373.95, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on said judgments, as provided by law from the date they became due until the date of payment. Sixty per cent of foregoing, from District revenues. Sixty per centum of the foregoing sums for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. 1159 INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission.
For all other authorized expenditures necessaryExpenses. in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $500,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keepRailway safety appliances, etc. informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $22,400.
For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of theSafe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913; Vol. 40, p. 616. Act of February 17, 1911, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and amendment of Vol. 38, p. 1192.March 4, 1915, extending “the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowedPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $10,000.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. Legislative Reference: To enable the Librarian ofLegislative reference. Congress to employ 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 *Proviso*.Pay restriction.and Members thereof, $6,500: *Provided,* That not to exceed one person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. National Museum: For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic,National Museum. and telephonic service, $4,000. STATE DEPARTMENT.State Department. To pay the expenses of printing, in complianceAscertainment of electoral vote.Expenses of printing.Vol. 24, p. 373. with the requirements of the Act of February 3, 1887, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors tor President and Vice President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, war Trade Board.
War Trade Board Section: In addition to the $25,000War Trade Board.Reappropriation for expenses.*Ante*, p. 938. reappropriated by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved June 5, 1920, $10,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the War Trade Board for tne fiscal year 1920 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921 for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of State. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and so forth,Stationery, etc. including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $1,167.87.
For miscellaneous expenses, including the same objectsMiscellaneous. specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $311.15. 1160 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 Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $23,603.41; For 1919, $59,394.54.
Transportation of officers.For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $100,000. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $10,870.90. Contingent expenses, consulates.For contingent expenses of United States consulates, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $32,964.14.
Consular salaries.For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $488.70. Transporting remains.For transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act, for the fiscal year 1920, $2,000. Relief, etc., of American seamen.For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $2,883.47.
Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. division of loans and currency. Distinctive paper for securities.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For additional amount necessary to complete the purchase of one hundred and twenty-nine million sheets of distinctive paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $110,536.87. Customs stamps.Number of sheets for, increased.*Ante*, p. 880.The limitation for the fiscal year 1921 as to the number of delivered sheets of customs stamps is increased from two hundred and seventy-six thousand to five hundred and twenty thousand.
Comptroller of the Currency.office of the comptroller of the currency. American Express Company.Vol. 35, p. 546.To pay the American Express Company the sum of $470.80 due for transportation of currency, as authorized by the Act of May 30, 1908, the appropriation for which expired by limitation before the bills for these shipments had been settled, $470.80. Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $4,000. File holders, etc.For purchase of file holders and file cases for use of the accounting offices of the Treasury Department, $3,000.
Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $11,000. Lighting, etc.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, $2,000. 1161 For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cardsStationery, etc. printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $200,000. payment to walston h. brown and others.Walston H.
Brown, etc. To pay Walston H. Brown, sole surviving partner of the firm of Brown, HowardPayment of Court of Claims findings to. and Company, $65,792.53; to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, $26,400.30; and to the estate of Henry A. V. Post, $50,359.35, as adjudged by the Court of Claims upon its findings of fact. general supply committee.General Supply Committee. For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current,Salaries and expenses, transferring office supplies, etc. telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $15,000:*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum, and not more than three persons shall be employed at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each. independent treasury.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under theContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). requirements of section 3653 of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $5,450. internal revenue.Internal Revenue. For expenses of assessing and collecting theCollecting, etc., taxes of Revenue Act of 1918. internal-revenue taxes, as provided by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $8,000,000.Enforcing Prohibition and Narcotic Acts.*Ante*, p. 305.Vol. 38, p. 785;
Vol. 40, p. 1130. For expenses to enforce the provisions of the “National Prohibition Act” and the Act 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, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved December 17, 1914, as amended by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,400,000.
For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisionsRefunding illegally collected taxes.[R. S., secs. 3220, 3689, pp. 618, 725](/us/rs/s3220/3689/p618/725).Vol. 40, p. 1145. of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of February 24, 1919, the amount of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1921 which may be used in payment of certified claims over three years old without special appropriation by Congress in each individual case is increased $4,435,000.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund moneyRefunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325. covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, fiscal year 1920, $23,789.01. office of auditor for treasury department.Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary ofTemporary employee. the Treasury, of such temporary employees (nonapportioned) as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the 1162*Proviso*.Pay restriction.Treasury Department, $12,600: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding S2,000 per annum.
War Risk Insurance Bureau.bureau of war risk insurance. Fitzsimons Hospital.Allotments to War Department for medical, etc., services, available for.The allotments made to the War Department by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during the fiscal year 1921 shall also be available for expenditure in the sum of not to exceed $750,000 for alterations, improvements, and auxiliary structures at the Fitzsimons General Hospital to provide additional accommodations for beneficiaries of such bureau.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.Allotment to, for improving facilities for beneficiaries at.The allotments made to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall also include such sums as may be necessary to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several branches under such board’s jurisdiction so as to furnish adequate accommodations for such beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance as may be committed to its care.
Public Health Service.public health service. Pay, etc., of officers.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers, including the Surgeon General, assistant surgeons general at large not exceeding three in number, and pharmacists, $139,080. Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), S68,200. Freight, travel, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $17,000.
Hygienic Laboratory.For completing the equipment of the new addition to the Hygienic Laboratory, including necessary labor in the installation of the same, S15,000. Medical, etc., services and supplies to beneficiaries.For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for war risk insurance patients and other beneficiaries of the Public Health Service, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $1,000,000.
Prevention of epidemics.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, influenza, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the *Proviso*.Detailed report required.spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $450,000: *Provided,* That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Coast Guard.coast guard. Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets and cadet engineers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary cooks and surfmen, substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $1,000,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $250,000. Allowances for death in service.Vol. 35, p. 46.*Ante*, p. 825.For carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Sendee of the United States, approved March 26, 1908, and the provisions of the Naval Appropriation Act approved June 4, 1920, in 1163so far as they relate to payments to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard, $30,000.
For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretionTraveling expenses. of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses, for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $25,000. For contingent expenses, including communication service,Contingent expenses. subsistence of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $25,000.
For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $75,000.Repairs to cutters. public buildings construction.Public buildings. Ellis Island, New York, Immigration Station: For renewingEllis Island immigrant station. hotwater system in connection with general hospital on Island Numbered 2 and in covered way, power houses, and so forth, $20,000. Cape Charles, Virginia, quarantine station: The sum ofCape Charles, Va., quarantine station.*Ante*, p. 167. $630.47 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for water supply contained in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved July 19, 1919, is reappropriated and made available for construction purposes at said station.
Hospital construction, Public Health Service: For theBroadview, Ill.Public Health Hospital. completion of hospital buildings in Cook County, Illinois, $400,000. The limitation of $210,000 for technical services, and soHospital facilities to discharged soldiers, etc.Technical services allowance increased.Vol. 40, p. 1305. forth, contained in section 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to provide hospital and sanatorium facilities for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines,” approved March 3, 1919, is increased by the sum of $11,400. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.Public buildings.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs andRepairs and preservation. preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $55,000. public buildings, operating expenses. Operating force: For such personal services asOperating force. the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $12,000.
Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting andOperating supplies. heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $27,000. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. contingent expenses. The sum of $1,650 of the appropriation “ContingentContingent expenses.Addition to building 1723 F Street NW.*Ante*, p. 660. expenses, War Department,” contained in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, is made available for the installation of urinals and an elevator in the Government-1164owned building at seventeen hundred and twenty-three F Street Northwest.
Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of Quartermaster General. Cemeterial Division.Additional allowance for personal services.*Ante*, p. 898.In addition to the sum of 3250,000 heretofore authorized, the sum of $90,000 of appropriations available during the fiscal year 1921 for the “Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees, War Department,” may be expended for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, Office of the Quartermaster General, for compiling, recording, preparing, and transmitting data incident to bringing home and disposition of remains from abroad.
Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Salvage activities.Allowance for civilian personnel on Salvage Board.*Ante*, p. 970.Salvage activities: The Ordnance Department is authorized to expend from the appropriation “Ordnance service,” contained in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, a sum not exceeding $43,000 for payment for services of tie civilian personnel employed in the District of Columbia required and used solely for the work of the Salvage Board of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year Restriction not applicable.*Ante*, p. 658.1921, and to reimburse funds heretofore used for this purpose; and the restrictive proviso in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes,” approved May 29, 1920, snail not apply to the payment and reimbursement herein authorized.
Morgan, N. J.Paying claims for losses by explosion at.Vol. 40, p. 1165.Payment to the T. A. Gillespie Loading Company: For payment of the claims for damage to and loss of private property occasioned by the explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Loading Company, at Morgan, New Jersey, which have been determined by the Secretary of War and agreed to by the claimants and in amounts not exceeding those enumerated in the letter of the Secretary of War as submitted to Congress at the present session in Senate Document Numbered 363, $285,141.41.
Engineer Department.engineer department. New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits.Harbor of New York: For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, fiscal year 1920, $1,305.85. Chickamauga and Chattanooga Park.chickamauga and chattanooga national military park. Restoring “Bond” Bridge” in.For the restoration of “Bond Bridge,” located on the Government MacLemore Cove Road, which is a highway included in the authorized roads of the park system, $8,000.
Leavenworth Bridge Company.payment to leavenworth bridge company. Payment for bridge across Republican River, Fort Riley, Kans.To pay the Leavenworth Bridge Company, of the city of Leavenworth, Kansas, the sum of $30,843.45, in settlement for extra expense in the building of the bridge across the Republican River at Fort Riley, Kansas, such extra expense being the increased cost of labor due to direct Government competition in the local labor market and overhead costs during the period subsequent to the original completion date, which extra was required because such labor as was available was incompetent. 1165 river and harbor work.River and harbor work.
For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4Collision claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.*Ante*, p. 1015. of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 25, 1910, and section 9 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 5, 1920, and certified to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 378, $1,200.11. Contracts not completed prior to April 6, 1917.Payments of amounts due under.Vol. 40, p. 1290.Readjustment of contracts: For amounts found to be due various contractors under the provisions of section 10, River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1919, on certain contracts for work on river and harbor improvements entered into but not completed prior to April 6, 1917, for work performed between April 6, 1917, and July 18, 1918, as fully set forth in House Documents Numbered 986 and 997 and Senate Document Numbered 384, reported to Congress at its present session, $362,140.98.
Payment to Roach, Stansell, Lowrance Brothers and Company:Roach, Stansell, Lowrance Brothers and Company.Payment for losses on levee contracts. Lowrance Brothm To pay the sum of $204,307.98 to Roach, Stansell, Lowrance Brothers and Company, of which $150,110.07 is for themselves, and $14,953.84 is for the use and benefit of their subcontractors, L. Lowrance and Brothers; $5,376 is for the use and benefit of the estate of their subcontractor, George F. Ramsey, and $15,822.82 is for the use and benefit of their subcontractor, Rodgers Construction Company, and $18,045.25 is for the use and benefit of their subcontractors, H.
N. Rodgers and Brother, being the aggregate losses incurred by said Roach, Stansell, Lowrance Brothers and Company and their subcontractors in the carrying out of certain contracts referred to in a Senate resolution of June 19, 1919, under which the Secretary of War was directed to report the amount of losses incurred by the contractors upon contracts mentioned in said resolution:*Proviso*.Evidence of completion, etc., required. *Provided,*That before paying said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall require satisfactory evidence that said contracts have been completed, and that there are no other subcontractors who claim loss for work in connection with said contracts.
Payment to H. B. Blanks: To pay H. B. Blanks, leveeH. B. Blanks.Payment for losses on levee contracts. contractor, the sum of $123,569.03, of which $40,720,95 is for the use and benefit of his subcontractors, Roach, Stansell, Lowrance Brothers and Company, and $82,848.08 is for the use and benefit of the estate of his subcontractor, George F. Ramsey, being the aggregate losses incurred by said subcontractors in the carrying out of certain contracts referred to in a Senate resolution of June 19, 1919, under which the Secretary of War was directed to report the amount of losses incurred by the contractors upon contract mentioned in said resolution:*Proviso*.Evidence of completion, etc., required. *Provided,*That the Secretary of the Treasury’, before paying said sums, shall require evidence satisfactory to him that said contracts have been completed, and that there are no other subcontractors who claim loss for work in connection therewith.
Payment to the estate of George F. Ramsey: To pay the sumGeorge F. Ramsey.Payment to estate of, for losses on levee contracts. of $15,561.23 to the estate of George F. Ramsey, levee contractor, of which $13,602.27 is for the estate of George F. Ramsey and $1,958.96 is for the use and benefit of W. H. Dennison, his subcontractor, being the aggregate losses incurred by said George F. Ramsey and his subcontractors in the carrying out of certain contracts referred to in a Senate resolution of June 19, 1919, under which the Secretary of War was directed to report the amount of losses incurred by the contractors upon contracts mentioned in*Proviso*.Evidence of completion, etc., required. said resolution: *Provided,*That before paying said sums the Secretary of the Treasury shall require satisfactory evidence that said contract has been completed and that there are no other subcontractors who claim loss for work in connection with said contract. 1166 Army.MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
Pay of the Army. Pay of the Army.For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except mileage, specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $30,000,000. Quartermaster Corps.General Appropriations.General Appropriations, Quartermaster Corps. Subsistence supplies.subsistence of the army. Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $22,000,000.
Transportation.transportation of the army and its supplies. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,932,000. Military Academy.military academy. Cadets.For pay of cadets, $124,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, and so forth, $11,960. Lights, etc.For gas, coal, oil, candles, and so forth, for operating the gas plant, $15,000.
Automatic stokers.For installation of automatic stokers, under four four hundred and forty horsepower boilers in the power plant, $10,000. Panama Canal.PANAMA CANAL. Civil government.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $24,670. McClintic-Marshall Construction Company.Payment to.Vol. 38, p. 388.For the payment to the McClintic-Marshall Construction Company as recommended in the report made to Congress under date of February 11, 1916, by the commission appointed under the Act of June 24, 1914, and approved by the Governor of the Panama Canal (House Charged to Canal construction.Document Numbered 906, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session), $714,007.39; said amount to be chargeable as part of the construction of the Panama Canal and reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the Vol. 32, p. 484.Vol. 36, p. 117.bonds authorized by section 8 of the Act approved June 28, 1902, and section 39 of the Tariff Act approved August 5, 1909.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Support, etc., of branches.For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 for the following branches and under the following heads, respectively: Dayton, Ohio.Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, $10,000; For household, $30,000; For repairs, $10,000; In all, $50,000.
Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, $5,000; For household, $30,000; For repairs, $8,000;1167 For farm, $1,000; In all, $44,000. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, $3,000;Togus, Me. For subsistence, $10,000; For household, $54,000; For hospital, $7,500; For repairs, $5,000; For farm, $3,000; In all, $82,500. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, $10,000;Hampton, Va. For subsistence, $76,500; For household, $95,000;
For hospital, $25,000; For repairs, $35,000; For farm, $1,500; In all, $243,000. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, $8,000;Leavenworth, Kans. For household, $70,000; For repairs, $7,500; In all, $85,500. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, $9,500;Santa Monica, Calif For household, $22,000; For repairs, $5,000; For farm, $1,500; In all, $38,000. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, $9,000;Danville, Ill. For subsistence, $20,000;
For household, $4,000; For hospital, $34,000; For repairs, $25,000; For farm, $3,000; In all, $95,000. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, $8,000;Hot Springs, S. Dak. For household, $10,000; For transportation of members of the home, $500; For repairs, $3,000; For farm, $600; In all, $22,100. Board of managers: For traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers andBoard of managers.Traveling expenses. employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $3,000.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $663,100.Medical, etc., services for war risk patients. So much as may be necessary of that part of the sum of $46,000,000 appropriated in theAllotments for officers’ quarters at branches.*Ante*, p. 881. Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 for Medical and Hospital Services of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance allotted to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers is made available for the erection of quarters for the medical staff at the various branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, etc., Department Buildings. State, War, and Navy Department Building: For fuel, lights,Main building.Operating supplies. repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $20,000. Walker-Johnson Building, 1734 New York Avenue: For fuel, lights, repairs, andWalker-Johnson Building.Operating supplies. miscellaneous items, $1,200. Potomac Park office buildings: For fuel, lights, repairs,Potomac Park buildings.Operating supplies. miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $30,000. 1168 Public buildings and grounds.PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
Heating offices, etc.For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $1,200, 60 per centum of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum from the Treasury of the United States. Executive Mansion.For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $2,200. Washington Monument.Washington Monument: For fuel, lights, oil, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $500.
Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. Collision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department under the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911, on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered 917 and 979 of the present session, $9,906.97. Navy.NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. general expenses.
Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous. Expenses.For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange; and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $650,000. Virginian Pilot Publishing Company, and Ledger Despatch Corporation.Advertising.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay from the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous,” for the fiscal year 1919, the sum of $57.96 to the Virginian Pilot Publishing Company, and $65.06 to the Ledger Despatch Corporation, both of Norfolk, Virginia, for their services in advertising for laborers during the week commencing December 15, 1918.
Ledger Despatch Corporation.Advertising.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay from the appropriation “Pay, Miscellaneous,” for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $20.16 to the Ledger Despatch Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia, for its services in advertising on September 27, 1919, the sale of bungalows at Saint Helena Training Station. Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,500,000.
Training stations.California.Naval training station, California: Maintenance of naval training station, Yerba Buena Island, California: For labor and material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $25,000. Rhode Island.Naval training station, Rhode Island: Maintenance of naval training station, Rhode Island: For labor and material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $25,000.
Great Lakes, Ill.Naval training station, Great Lakes: Maintenance of naval training station: For labor and material, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $88,700. 1169 bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For contingent Contingent.expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $75,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, navy yard: ForPhiladelphia, Pa.Dry dock. completion of dry dock, $400,000. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: For improvements toMare Island, Calif.Power plant. central power plant and distributing system, $23,600. Naval station, Guam: For the purchase of land, $55.Guam.Purchase of land. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Medical Department: For surgeon’s necessaries for vesselsSurgeons’ necessaries. in commission, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $500,000.
Contingent, Bureau of MedicineContingent. and Surgery: For tolls and ferriages; care, transportation, and burial of the dead, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $200,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: For pay and allowances prescribed by lawPay of the Navy. of officers on sea duty and other duty, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation *Proviso*.Chemical, etc., services for 1921, increased.*Ante*, p. 826.Acts for the fiscal year 1921, $30,000,000: *Provided,* That the limitation specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 on expenditures for pay of chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the supply and accounting departments of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices for the fiscal year 1921, under “Maintenance, Supplies and Accounts,” is increased by $750,000.
That deficiencies under appropriations for the navalNaval supply account funds.Established, and unexpended balances to be transferred to. establishment for the fiscal year 1920 and prior years shall be charged to a naval supply account fund, which is hereby established and to which shall be transferred the unexpended balances of annual appropriations for the naval establishment for the fiscal years 1919 and 1920, after two years from the expiration of the fiscal year for which made, and, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,Also value of all stores in naval supply account March 31, 1921. an amount equal to the value of all stores in the naval supply account on March 31, 1921, preliminary adjustments on account of stores to be made upon the certificate of the Secretary of the Navy that stores to the value certified are on hand; and from and afterFund to be charged with stores procured, and credited with all issues. said date the naval supply account fund shall be charged with the cost of all stores procured for and credited with the value of all issues or sales made from the naval supply account, necessary adjustments being made on account of outstanding contracts or orders.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The sum ofFreight, Department and bureaus.Transfer of former Marine Corps appropriation for.Vol, 40, p. 737. $5,000,000 of the appropriation “Maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year 1919 is hereby reappropriated and made available for all freight and express charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, for the fiscal year 1921. 1170 Fuel and transportation.Fuel and transportation:
For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921,820,000,000. Naval supply account.Prices to be fixed for issues of materials from.Reductions for war purchases.Naval appropriations not to be charged.The prices at which material is to be expended from the naval- supply-account shall be fixed by the Paymaster General of the Navy, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, and materials purchased during the war shall be issued at reduced prices in all cases appropriate, such differences in values and losses to be charged to the respective funds; and hereafter no charges on this account shall be made to naval appropriations.
Marine Corps.marine corps. maintenance, quartermaster’s department, marine corps. Maintenance.Reappropriations.The sum of $3,000,000 of the appropriation “Maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year 1920 is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921 under the following subheads: *Provisions.**Ante*, p. 831.Provisions, Marine Corps: For enlisted men serving ashore, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,300,000.
Fuel.*Ante*, p. 831.Fuel, Marine Corps: For heat, light, and commutation thereof for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and other buildings and grounds pertaining to the Marine Corps and for buildings erected by authority of the Secretary of the Navy on Marine Corps reservations by welfare organizations at private cost: fuel, electricity, and oil for cooking, power, and other purposes; and sales to officers, $250,000. Transportation and recruiting.*Ante*, p. 832.Transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps:
For transportation of troops, and of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots or posts, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, $385,000. Repairs to barracks, etc.*Ante*, p. 832.Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps: Repairs and improvements to barracks, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, and including not to exceed $850 for painting the gymnasium at Quantico, Virginia, $150,000;
Forage.*Ante*, p. 832.Forage, Marine Corps: For forage in kind and stabling for public animals of the Quartermaster’s Department and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $40,000. Commutation of quarters.*Ante*, p. 832.Commutation of quarters, Marine Corps: For commutation of quarters for enlisted men on recruiting duty, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $175,000. Contingent.*Ante*, p. 832.Contingent, Marine Corps:
For freight, expressage, tolls, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $700,000. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.For stationery, including the same objects specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $25,000. 1171 public buildings.Public buildings. Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol andCapitol.Repairs, etc. for general repairs thereof, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $36,010, to continue available during the fiscal year 1922.
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of groundsImproving grounds. surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $4,000. pension office.Pension Office. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for servicesExamining surgeons’ fees. rendered within the fiscal year 1921, $400,000. patent office.Patent Office. For producing copies of weekly issues of patents, designs, andWeekly issue 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, $65,000. indian service.Indian service.
For support of Indian day, boarding, andIndian schools. industrial schools, including the same objects specified under this head in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $290,000. To pay audited claims found due by the accounting officersAudited claims. of the Treasury for the fiscal years as follows: Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $8,058.47.Supplies. Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1919, $79,584.57. Purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1920, $153,515.53.
Support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $11.51.Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin. Support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1920, $259.70. Support of Indians, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, 1918–19, $69.96.Blackfeet Agency Indians. Support of Indians, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, 1920, $15.43. Support of Indians of Colville, and so forth, Agencies, and Joseph’sColville, etc., Agencies, Indians. Band of Nez Perces, Washington, 1919, 88 cents. Support of Indians, Fort Peck Agency, Montana, 1920, $8.51.Fort Peck Indians.
Support of Kickapoos, Oklahoma, 1920, 98 cents.Kickapoos, Okla. Support of Pawnees, employees, and so forth, Oklahoma, 1919, $18.56.Pawnees, etc., Okla. Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, 1919, $12.21.Carson City School. Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, irrigation system, 1920, $348.65. Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, sewerage system, 1920, $95.78. Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, 1919, $32.04.Fort Mojave School. Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, 1919, $91.53.Genoa School.
Indian school, Greenville, California, 1919, $3.70.Greenville School. Indian school, Cherokee, North Carolina, repairs and improvements, 1920, $1,813.92.Cherokee School. Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, repairs and improvements, 1919, $104.50.Phoenix School. Indian school, Riverside, California, repairs and improvements, 1919, $10.50.Riverside School. Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, 1920, $405.26.Pipestone School. Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1919, $73.13.Wahpeton School.
Improvement, maintenance, and operation, irrigation system, FortIrrigation on reservations.Fort Hall. Hall Reservation, Idaho, reimbursable, 1920, $881.78.1172 Jemez and Zia Pueblos.Irrigation near Jemez and Zia Pueblos, New Mexico, 1920, $164.65. Wind River.Irrigation project, ceded lands, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, reimbursable, 1919, $15.09. Blackfeet.Irrigation system, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, reimbursable, 1920, $169.61. Yakima.Maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, 1920, $139.81.
Navajo.Maintenance and operation, Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, reimbursable, 1920, $101.96. San Xavier.Maintenance and operation, pumping plant, San Xavier Reservation, Arizona, reimbursable, 1920, $347.52. Papago villages.Maintenance and operation, water works, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1920, $9.79. Surveying, etc. reservations.Surveying and allotting, Indian reservations, reimbursable, 1920, $1.411.50. Navajo and Hopi water supply.Water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona, reimbursable, 1918–19, $2.94.
Water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona, reimbursable, 1920, $3,000” Papago villages.Water supply, Papago Indian villages, Arizona, 1920, $152.56. Highway, Mesa Verde Park.Highway from Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico, reimbursable, 1920, $652.68. Yakima Reservation, irrigation.Toppenish and Simcoe Creeks Irrigation System, Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable, 1920, $4,000. Supressing live stock diseases.Suppressing contagious diseases among live stock of Indians, $3,000.
In all, $258,585.21. Pawnees, Okla.Final payment for lands purchased from.To pay the Pawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma in full and final settlement for the purchase by the United States of one hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-eight and two one-hundredths acres of surplus land belonging to said Vol. 27, p. 644.Pawnee Tribe, under the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1893 (Twenty-seventh Statutes, pages 612–644), the sum of $312,811.27, with interest thereon from September 3, 1920, at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, as provided in said Act of Congress of March 3, 1893, and in pursuance of the findings of the Court of Claims of December 6, 1920, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 311, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session.
Education Bureau.bureau of education. Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $3,000. Alaska.territory of alaska. Alaska Engineering Commission.Supplies, etc., to natives during epidemic.Alaskan Engineering Commission: For reimbursement of the appropriation for construction and operation of railroads in Alaska for the value of supplies and services furnished by the Alaskan Engineering Commission in the care of sick and indigent natives of Alaska during an epidemic of influenza in the vicinity of Nenana, Alaska, during April and May, 1920, $5,869.84, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Mines Bureau.bureau of mines. Leasing coal, oil, etc., deposits.Enforcing regulations, etc.For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphates, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain,” approved February 25, 1920, and of the rules and *Ante*, p. 437.regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of such Act, and for every other expense incident 1173thereto, including supplies, equipment, printing, expenses of travel and subsistence, purchase, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $60,000: *Provided,* That*Proviso*.Limit for services in District. not to exceed 8 per centum of this amount may be used for personal services in the District of Columbia. national parks.National parks.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For reimbursement of Glacier.Fighting forest fires etc.the appropriation for Glacier National Park on account of expenditures for fighting forest fires in the park, $10,920.10; for completion of two ranger stations which were destroyed by fire during the summer of 1919, $1,643.99; in all, $12,564.09. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For completion of theHot Springs Reservation.Completing bathhouses. Government free bathhouse building, $60,000, and in addition thereto $25,000 is authorized to be expended therefor from the revenues received from such reservation.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For emergency roadYellowstone.Road repairs. repairs necessary on account of slide on main highway system near the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, $8,000. Yosemite National Park, California: To reimburse theYosemite.Reimbursement, rock slide. appropriation for Yosemite National Park, 1921, for cost of rebuilding section of wood-stave pipe and trestle leading to power plant destroyed by rock slide January 18, 1921, $3,000. Zion National Park, Utah:
For reimbursement of theZion.Reimbursement, floods. appropriation for Zion National Park on account of expenses incident to the damage done to road and bridge by flood washout, $1,585.07. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf. For support of the institution, including salariesMaintenance. and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $5,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, includingRepairs. plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $3,500. freedmen’s hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital.
For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding,Contingent expenses. forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $10,000. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For stationeryContingent expenses. Stationery, etc. and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $5,000.
For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horsesVehicles. and horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $900. For miscellaneous items, including the same objectsMiscellaneous items. specified under this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, of which sum not to exceed $500 may be expended for telephone service and not to exceed $90 may be expended for street car fare, $14,500. 1174 Postal service.POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues.
Postmaster General.office of the postmaster general. Equipment shops.For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $1,500. Inspectors.Traveling, etc., expenses.For traveling expenses of inspectors, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $800. Miscellaneous.For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, fiscal year 1920, $350.
First Assistant Postmaster General.office of the first assistant postmaster general. Temporary, auxiliary and substitute clerk hire.For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire 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, $7,000,000. Vehicles.For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, 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, $4,000,000.
Messenger service.For mail-messenger service, $1,900,000. Special delivery fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers for the fiscal years that follow: For 1919, $144.08; For 1920, $1,305,454.31. Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of the second assistant postmaster general. Railroad routes.For inland transportation by railroad routes, $34,850,000. Electric cars, etc.For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, $94,700. Railroad Administration.For the payment of the obligations of the Post Office Department to the United States Railroad Administration for the transportation of the mails Transporting mails during Federal control.during the twenty-six months of Federal control of railroads from January 1, 1918, to and including February 29, 1920, $65,575,832.03.
Railroad routes, 1920.For transportation of mail by railroad routes, fiscal year 1920, $1,900,000. Foreign mails.For transportation of foreign mails, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $99,500. Third Assistant Postmaster General.office of the third assistant postmaster general. Stamped envelopes, etc.For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, $3,387,000. Postal cards.For manufacture of postal cards, $327,000.
Indemnity, lost domestic mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal *Proviso.*Temporary clerks to expedite settlements.year 1920, $1,250,000: *Provided,* That the Postmaster General is authorized to expend not exceeding $15,000 of this sum for the purpose of employing temporary clerks at not exceeding $1,240 each per annum, including bonus, for such periods as may be necessary to expedite the payment of indemnity claims bearing on the fiscal year 1920. 1175 office of the fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service inStar routes, except Alaska. Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, $1,363,000. For stationery for the Postal Service, and so forth, includingStationery. the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $800,000. For miscellaneous equipment and supplies, including theMiscellaneous equipment, etc. same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $350,000.
For wrapping twine and tying devices, S85,000.Twine. For the purchase, manufacture, and repair of mail bags,Mail bags, etc. and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $1,410,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $2,500. For stationery for department and its several bureaus,Stationery. $10,000.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing,Miscellaneous. fuel, 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, $7,500. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For theDetection and prosecution of crimes. detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of theProtection of the President.
United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed oy the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, including not to exceed $25,000 in addition to the amountPerdiem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.Additional employees in Washington. heretofore authorized for necessary employees at the seat of government, $250,000.
For the payment to Woolsey W. Hall for reporting andWoolsey W. Hall.Payment to. transcribing proceedings in the matter of certain meetings held in Washington, District of Columbia, on July 24 and September 24, 25, and 26, 1920, $48. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Court of Claims: For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs toCourt of Claims.Contingent expenses. bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $1,800. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United StatesMarshals. marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $140,000. 1176 District attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $130,000.
Assistants in special cases.For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and including Foreign counsel.not to exceed $30,000 for clerical help for such assistants, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to [R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).take oath of office in accordance with section 366, Revised Statutes of the United States), to be available for expenditure in the District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1919, $925; For 1920, $75,650; For 1921, $400,000. Clerks.Salaries.For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with Vol. 40, p. 1182.the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1920, $5,203.27; For 1921, $56,000. Commissioners.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes oi the United States, $100,000.
Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, and in courts other than Federal courts, $50,000. Supplies.For supplies, including the exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,000.
Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1920, $3,541.87; For 1921, $1,000. For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1920, $25,149.82; For 1921, $20,000. Atlanta, Ga.Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $9,749.39. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $5,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $7,908.30.
McNeil Island, Wash.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $4,222.28. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $4,634.03. 1177 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. forest service.Forest Service. Fighting and preventing forest fires:
For fightingFighting forest fires. and preventing forest fires endangering the national forests, $725,000. Olympic National Forest: For emergency expendituresOlympic National Forest.Emergency fire protection expenses, etc. incident to the disposal of wind-thrown and intermingled or adjoining timber on the Olympic National Forest and for emergency measures necessary to protect from fire the timber on the Olympic National Forest, including the repair and construction of roads, fire lines, trails, telephone lines, or other means of communication, through or along the boundaries of the area or areas of blown-down timber on the north and west sides of said national forest, and for the employment of extra guards and patrolmen as may be found necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture, $100,000. bureau of entomology.Entomology Bureau.
Preventing spread of moths: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet thePreventing spread of moths. emergency caused by the continued spread of the gypsy moth in New England and the discovery of a large colony in the State of New Jersey and smaller colonies in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, and to provide means for the control and prevention of spread of this insect in the States concerned or elsewhere in the United States, in cooperation with the States concerned, including the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, $225,000. bureau of markets.Markets Bureau.
Completion of wool work: To enable the Bureau of Markets toWool clip of 1918.Completing work on, etc. complete the work of the domestic wool section of the War Industries Board and to enforce the Government regulations for handling the wool clip of 1918 as established by the Wool Division of said board, pursuant to the Executive order dated December 31, 1918, transferring such work to the said bureau, $8,000. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Eradication of pink bollworm: For an additionalPink bollworm of cotton.Additional emergency expenses for eradicating. amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the existence of the pink bollworm in Texas and Louisiana, to conduct surveys and inspections in these or in any other State to detect any infestation,*Proviso*.No pay for destroyed crops, etc. and to conduct such control measures, including the establishment of cotton-free areas, in cooperation with the State or States concerned as may be necessary to stamp out such infestation, $85,000: *Provided,* That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of crops or other property injured or destroyed.
For an additional amount required to meet the increasedFuel for Department powerplant. cost of fuel for the central power plant of the Department of Agriculture, $10,000. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau. Testing Government materials: For theMiscellaneous testing. specification, testing, and inspection of materials and equipment purchased by the Government departments to determine suitability for the specific uses involved, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 1178Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 1259.the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1920 is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year 1921.
Standardization of equipment.Cooperation with other departments, engineers, etc., in.Standardization of equipment: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Government departments, engineers, and manufacturers in the establishment of standards, methods of testing, and inspection of instruments, equipment, tools, and electrical and mechanical devices used in the industries and by the Government, including the practical specifications for quality and performance of such devices, and the formulation of methods of inspection, laboratory, and service tests, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. Alaska seal fisheries.Protection, etc.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $3,750. Lighthouses Bureau.bureau of lighthouses. Superintendent of naval construction.For additional compensation of the superintendent of naval construction, $1,000. lighthouse establishment. Conneaut Harbor, Ohio.Aids to navigation in.For completing the establishment of aids to navigation in Conneaut Harbor, Ohio, $7,000.
Lighthouse Service.lighthouse service. General expenses.General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $400,000. Lighthouse vessels.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $70,000. Retired pay.For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $1,000.
Collision damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 537.Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Commissioner of Lighthouses under the terms of section 4 of the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 537), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the Lighthouse Service and for which said vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 912 and Senate Document Numbered 387 of the present session, $436.12.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.coast and geodetic survey. Office expenses.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments (except surveying instruments), and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $25,000. Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Immigrant station.immigration stations. Ellis Island, N. Y.Ellis Island, New York: For repairs to coal hoist and coal runway and for improvement and extension of coal-hoisting apparatus, including footing and derrick, $7,000.
Ferryboat repairs.For extraordinary and emergent repairs to the ferryboat, $40,000. 1179 naturalization service.Naturalization Service. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary ofPay to examiners, interpreters, etc. Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $9,500.
Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the SecretaryCommissioners of conciliation.Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 738. 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, 840,000. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Labor Statistics Bureau. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents, and employees, and forPer diem special agents, etc. their transportation; and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, $5,000. united states housing corporation.Housing Corporation.
Salaries: For officers, clerks, and other employeesSalaries in District of Columbia. in the District of Columbia necessary to collect and account for the receipts from the sale of properties of the United States Housing Corporation, the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, property commandeered by the United States through tne Department of Labor, and to collect the amounts advanced to transportation facilities and others, $35,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be*Proviso*.Pay restriction. employed here under at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum and only one person may be employed at that rate;
Collections: For the collection of money due from the saleCollections.*Ante*, p. 224. of real estate under the provision of the Act approved July 19, 1919, $15,500; Washington, District of Columbia, Government hotel forHotel for Government workers.Maintenance. Government workers: For maintenance, operation, and management of the hotel and restaurant therein, including personal services, $45,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed*Proviso.*Pay restriction. hereunder at a rate of pay restrietion. compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum, and only one person may be employed at that rate;
Operation of projects: To manage, maintain, rent, leaseOperation of unsold projects.Vol. 40, pp. 550,595. lands, houses, buildings, and improvements, and other general community utilities, which remain unsold, and which are owned by the United States Housing Corporation, or commandeered by the United States as provided by the Acts of May 16, 1918, and June 4, 1918, $10,000; In all, $105,500: *Provided,* That no part*Proviso.*Use of former appropriations restricted. of the appropriations use heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. House Office Building: For waterproofing theHouse Office Building. main approach, including the necessary labor and materials connected therewith, $14,000. For awnings, including the necessary labor and materials connected therewith, $2,700. senate.Senate. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to payMark L. Black.Services. from the appropriation for 1921 for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others, to Mark L. Black for services rendered as clerk to Honorable J.
Thomas Heflin, Senator from the State of Alabama, from Novem-1180ber 3, 1920, to December 5, 1920, at the rate of $2,500 per annum and additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum. Official reporters.Additional pay, fiscal year 1922.For additional expenses of reporting and transcribing the debates and proceedings of the Senate and to equalize more nearly the amounts paid by the Senate and House of Representatives for reporting their respective proceedings from July 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, payable in equal monthly installments, $4,844.
Robert W. Farrar.Services.To pay to Robert W. Farrar for extra and expert services rendered to the Committee on Pensions during the sessions of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $1,200. Charles A. Webb.Services.To pay Charles A. Webb for extra services rendered as clerk of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, $200. House of Representatives.house of representatives. Fred L. Blackmon.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Fred L. Blackmon, late a Representative from the State of Alabama, $7,500.
Charles F. Booher.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Charles F. Booher, late a Representative from the State of Missouri, $7,500. Mahlon M. Garland.Pay to daughter.To pay Grace W. Gilkison, daughter of Malilon M. Garland, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, $7,500. Dick T. Morgan.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Dick T. Morgan, late a Representative from the State of Oklahoma, $7,500. Henry M. Couden.Pay as chaplain emeritus.For compensation of Henry N. Couden, Chaplain Emeritus of the House of Representatives, from March 1 to June 30, 1921, inclusive, in accordance with the resolution adopted January 6, 1921, $500.
Contested election expenses.For allowance to the following contestant and contestee for expenses incurred by them in the contested-election case audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One: John R. Farr.John R. Farr, contestant, $2,000. Patrick McLane.Patrick McLane, contestee, $2,000. James D. Salts.For payment to James D. Salts for expenses incurred as contestant in the contested-election case of Salts versus Major, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000.
George B. Grigsby.For payment to George B. Grigsby for expenses incurred as contestee in the contested-election case of James Wickersham versus Charles A. Sulzer, deceased, and George B. Grigsby, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Three, $2,000. Henry H. Bodenstab.For payment to Henry H. Bodenstab for expenses incurred as contestant in the contested-election case of Bodenstab versus Berger, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000.
Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, for the following fiscal years, respectively: For 1919, $423.94; For 1920, $39,325.76; For 1921, $75,000. Speaker’s automobile.For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $300. Stenographers to committees.Reimbursement.For reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily expended by them during the third session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $500 each, $2,000.
Ways and Means Committee.Expenses authorized for, until 1st session of 67th Congress.After March 4, 1921, those members of the Committee on Ways and Means who are Members elect of the House to the Sixty-seventh Congress, or a majority of them, until the meeting of the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, are authorized to employ such expert, clerical, and stenographic services, and to gather such information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to them may seem fit 1181in the preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the present tariff law and internal revenue laws; and they are authorized to have such printing and binding done and to incur such other expenses as may be deemed necessary; all the expenses hereunder, except for printing and binding, not exceeding $1,000 shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the usual vouchers approved as now provided by law.
Parliamentary precedents: There shall be printed andParliamentary precedents.Publication of Hinds’ Precedents of the House of Representatives. bound two thousand five hundred copies of Hinds’ Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States, with reference to such cases of procedure in the United States Senate as may be useful in connection therewith, and also with reference to such laws of Congress as may relate to the House of Representatives and its membership,Supplement to date authorized.Style, etc. with a supplement thereto bringing such precedents down to date.
Such compilation shall be of the typographical style, size of page, and of the style of indexing used in House Document Numbered 576, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, known as “Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States,” and shall be divided into volumes each approximately of the size of the said House Document Numbered 576. The sets of volumes shallDistribution. be distributed as follows: One set to each Representative, Delegate, and Senator in the Sixty-sixth Congress and one set to each Representative, Delegate, and Senator in the Sixty-seventh Congress who is not a Member of the Sixty-sixth Congress; one set to each committee room of the House and Senate; one set each to the Senate and the House branches of the legislative drafting service; ten sets to the Library of Congress; ten sets each to the House and Senate libraries: five hundred copies for distribution to the State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories as in the case of documents printed under section 54 of the Act approved January 12, 1895Vol. 28, p. 608.
(Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 608), and when such precedents are prepared the Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office shall notify each of the State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories that such precedents are available for distribution to them, if requested within ninety days after the receipt of such notice, and any sets remaining at the end of such period shall be delivered by the Superintendent of Documents to the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives for disposal as provided for herein; and the residue to the folding room of the House, to be distributed by the Doorkeeper, commencing with the Sixty-eighth Congress, one set to each Representative, Delegate, or Senator who has not previously received one.
The supplement shall be prepared by ClarencePreparation of supplement. A. Cannon, who shall also prepare a complete index digest of the work and supervise the printing thereof without compensation. The plates used in printing the work shall be the property of the Government and shall be preserved for such future use as may be hereafter authorized. The cost of printing and binding suchCharge for printing, etc. precedents shall be charged to the allotments for printing and binding for Congress current at the time of the performance of the work.
To enable the Clerk of the House of Representatives to payClerk of the House.Payment for clerical, etc., assistance to. to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by him and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered during the Sixty-sixth Congress in compiling the list of reports to be made to Congress by public officials, compiling copy and revising proof for the House portion of the Official Register for 1919 and 1921; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling vest pocket, telephone, and Members’ directories ami “Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties, 1856–1920”; preparing and indexing the Daily Calendars of Business: *Provided,* *Proviso*.Index to Calendar.That hereafter the index to the daily calendar shall be printed only on Mon-1182day of each week; preparing Official Statements of Members’ Voting Records; and for recording and filing statements of political committees and candidates for nomination and election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the campaign contribution laws, $8,660.
Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $19,000. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $75,000.
Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen.Superintendent of Documents.Contingent expenses.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes, and Charles C. Allen, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, for extra services, $700 each, $2,800. Office of superintendent of documents: For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $10,000.
Binding, etc.For binding reserve remainders and for supplying books to depository libraries, $40,000. Public printing and binding.public printing and binding. Department of Commerce.For printing and binding for the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and exclusive of the Bureau of the Census, $40,000. Department of Labor.For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $50,000. Civil Service Commission.For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, $10,000.
Post Office Department.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $100,000. Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Payment of.Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered 958 and Senate Document Numbered 388, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Classification.Under the War Department, $7,029.58; Under the Navy Department, $2,962.50; Under the Department of Justice, $537.43; Interest.In all $10,529.51, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 956 and Senate Document Numbered 398, namely:
Classification.Under the Treasury Department, $155,324.99; Under the War Department, $93,898.26; Under the Navy Department, $637,304.51; Under the Interior Department, $122,885.31;1183 Under the Post Office Department, $570.27; Under the Department of Justice, $6,135; In all, $1,016,118.34. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid untilRight of appeal. the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims,Payment of, certified by accounting officers. certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhaustedVol. 18, p. 110. or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1918 and prior years, unless otherwiseVol. 23, p. 254. stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 955, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $18.07.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For salaries and expenses, Federal Farm Loan Board, $10.80. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Newspaper clippings and books, $7.50. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, $9.52. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Fuel, and so forth, $328.43. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Stationery, $2,761.75.
For Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, $4.53. For collecting the revenue from customs, $1,322.95. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $1.77. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $1.07. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $556.45. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 1919, $581.88. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $498.10. For quarantine service, $23.51.
For interstate quarantine service, $2.46. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, 64 cents. For field investigations of public health, $15.80. For field investigations of public health, 1919, $505.73. For studies of rural sanitation, Public Health Service, 71 cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of Internal Revenue, $61.43. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $1,006.23. For collecting the cotton futures tax, $2.50.
For collecting excess-profits tax, and so forth, $54.49. For collecting the war revenues, $3,563.91. For collecting the tax on estates, munitions, and so forth, $50.33. For restricting the sale of opium, and so forth, 32 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $457.36. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, 1919, $3,075.71. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $332.50. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $58.63. 1184 For redemption of stamps, $38,122.27.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $1,917.75. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $5,680.55. For compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $23.20. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $794.47. For Coast Guard, $116,113.28. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $23.30. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $638.70. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $110.22.
For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $27.10. For operating supplies for public buildings, $24.51. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $145.08. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $8.93. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $690.76. For general expenses of public buildings, $36.30. For refunding taxes illegally collected, 1918 and prior years, $2,061,163.65. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. claims allowed by the auditor of the war department.
For contingent expenses, War Department, $475.55. For national defense, War Department, $596. For national security and defense, War Department, $645.12. For registration and selection for military service, $17,814.53. For Army War College, $2.88. For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, $593.59. For Signal Service of the Army, $15,651.47. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $785.08. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $503,726.85. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $330.55.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,828.20. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $319.29. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps. $192.50. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $256,837.18. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $3,045.02. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $230. For barracks and quarters, $13,859. For military post exchanges, $6,793.46.
For shooting galleries and ranges, $1,036.80. For Medical and Hospital Department, $9,230.68. For trusses for disabled soldiers, $3. For engineer equipment of troops, $1.50. For engineer operations in the field, $2,827,642.90. For Ordnance Service, $111.78. For automatic rifles, $79,756.95. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $581.92. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $9.72. For civilian military training camps, $7,374.70. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $14.
For arming and equipping the Militia, $15.20. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $21.60. For repairs of arsenals, $36. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $21.81. 1185 For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $104.04. For military post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, $4,747.11. For Vicksburg National Military Park, $2,148. For National Home for Disaoled Volunteer Soldiers, Danville Branch, $7. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, $76.26.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch, $1.50. For State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors, $892.09. For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, $624.60. For payment of claims for loss of firearms, and so forth, taken by United States troops during labor strikes in 1914 in Colorado, $151,55. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, 74 cents.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, $7. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $236.62. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $24.81. For pay, miscellaneous, $1,918.16. For aviation, Navy, $11,434.70. For pay, Marine Corps, $5,507.52. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $18,997.72. For contingent, Marine Corps, $16,989.85. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $372.38. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $835.19.
For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $23.75. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $57.16. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $75.60. For Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $1.74. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $7,413.34. For contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $342.26. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $132.50. For pay of the Navy, $65,652.63. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,895.43.
For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $603.62. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $6,898.15. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $371.87. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $9. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $1,045.06. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $16.77. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For National Security and Defense, Department of the Interior, $5.48.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For expenses, special inspectors, Department of the Interior, 60 cents. For traveling expenses of inspectors, Department of the Interior, $1.77. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $1,130.10. For scientific library, Patent Office, $159.04. For Capitol power plant, $6,739.15. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, $12.01. 1186 For education of natives of Alaska, $97.39. For medical relief in Alaska, $20. For Glacier National Park, $6.24. For contingent expenses of land offices, $4.89.
For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $6.09. For surveying the public lands, $1,692.30. For geological survey, $520.94. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $1.10. For investigating mine accidents, $80.68. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $2.63. For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, $5.64. For expenses, mining experiment stations, Bureau of Mines, $60.99. For operating mine-rescue cars. Bureau of Mines, $46.80. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $262.78.
For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $110.49. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, $130.98. For Indian schools, support, $1,125.42. For Indian school and agency buildings, $551.06. For industrial work and care of timber, $11.61. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $4,363.66. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $1.44. For pay of Indian police, $419.53. For general expenses, Indian Service, 26 cents.
For industry among Indians, $198.04. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $50.33. For support of Indians in California, $25. For Indian school, Riverside, California, $72.29. For Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, 20 cents. For support of Indians in Nevada, 25 cents. For Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, $137.06. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $12.07. For oil and gas inspectors, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $45. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, $5.10.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, employees, and so forth, South Dakota, $2.30. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civiliza-tion, South Dakota, $249.69. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, $1.50. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, repairs and improve-ments, $2.96. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, $49.27. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, $10. For support of Shoshones in Wyoming, 42 cents. For Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, 33 cents.
For payment to Indians of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, $50. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For public printing and binding, $201.64. For contingent expenses, Executive Office, $4. For national security and defense, Executive, $8,626.51. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Efficiency, 65 cents. For United States Tariff Commission, $3.47. For contingent expenses, Department of State, 1920, $428.35.
For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $1,385.37. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $483.71. 1187 For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $4,040.13. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $97.89. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1919, $1,917.46. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1920, $28,534.19. For clerks at embassies and legations, $156. For salaries, Consular Service, $703.67. For salaries, Consular Service, 1919, $4,103.67.
For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $2,621.83. For salaries, consular assistants, $193.65. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $1,338.53. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $562.21. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1919, $5,816.93. For transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants, 1919, $170.34. For relief and protection of American seamen, $2,032.24. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1920, $55,399.43.
For boundary line, Alaska and Canada and United States and Canada, $1.61. For exposition, city of Panama, 32 cents. For books, National Museum, $3.02. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $15.84. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $1,764.26. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $5.31. For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $3.75. For national security and defense, United States Shipping Board, $3,877.47. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $2,401.95.
For national security and defense, United States Food and Fuel Administrations (educational), $2,272.20. For national security and defense, United States Food Administration (foreign service), $525. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1920, $888.08. For support of convicts, District of Columbia, 1920, $41,797.18. For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $12.22. For increase of compensation, Department of Agriculture, $1.22. For library, Department of Agriculture, $169.07.
For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $415.24. For general expenses, Office of Farm Management, 49 cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $134.38. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $329.93. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $92.64. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $710.76. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $142.96. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $1,542.03.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $168.87. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $306.23. For enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, $108.10. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $228.31. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $12.34. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $32.45. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $3.45. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $64.61. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, $105.44. 1188 For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, S40.63.
For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $45.37. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, $8.08. For suppressing spread of pink bollworm of cotton, $1.24. For eradicating citrus canker, $2. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, S66.63. For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, $10,012. For commercial attaches, Department of Commerce, $5.71. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $50.72. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $106.51.
For enforcement of wireless communication laws, $2.09. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $10.86. For equipping chemical laboratory building, Bureau of Standards, $12. For gauge standardization, Bureau of Standards, $30.72. For military research, Bureau of Standards, $11.11. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $82.75. For testing railroad scales, and so forth, Bureau of Standards, $6,078.95. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $168.92. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $41.24.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $7,857.57. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, S2,417.04. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $132.40. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $828.27. For salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $4.79. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $19.41. For expenses of regulating immigration, $33,539.73. For expenses of interned aliens, $121.24. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 23 cents.
For enforcement of the child-labor law, 71 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 43 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 1919, $2.57. For defending suits in claims against the United States, $5.20. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $1,383.67. For protecting interests of United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads, $20.60. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $462.34.
For books for judicial officers, $11.50. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, 1919, $1,708.34. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1919, $20.77. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $347.73. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $758.65. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $1,121.70. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1920, $26,560.99. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $21.18.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $989.48. For supplies for United States courts, $10.98. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $6,386.31. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1919, $2,492.15. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, additional land, 1920, $478.11. For salaries, judges, marshals, and so forth, Territory of Alaska, $155.56. 1189 claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For national security and defense, Post Office Department, 41 cents.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.
For railroad transportation, $9,377,321.93. For City Delivery Service, $67,651.03. For Rural Delivery Service, $2,071.21. For compensation to postmasters, S4,189.95. For indemnities, international mail, $414.49. For payment of rewards, $100. For unusual conditions at post offices, $1,000. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $2,057.06. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $7.06. For mail messenger service, $462.97. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $286.
For special-delivery fees, $48.56. For rent, light, and fuel, $627.09. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $192.39. For village delivery service, $165. For Railway Mail Service, travel allowance, $3.01. For city delivery, incidental expenses, 50 cents. For city delivery, horse hire, $180.56. For equipment, City Delivery Service, $27. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post office services, 28 cents. For electric power, light, and so forth, $400.50. For balances due foreign countries, $27,014.45.
For power-boat service, $1,624.30. For indemnities, domestic mail, $62.50. For star route service, $4,239.24. For shipment of supplies, $496.11. Total audited claims, section 2, $15,930,757.96. AUDITED CLAIMS.Additional audited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5Vol. 18, p. 110. of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1918 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forthVol. 23, p. 254. in Senate Document Numbered 386, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For labor saving machines, Treasury Department, 56 cents.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For freight, transporation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $12.66. For freight, transporation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 1919, $80.64. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $6.66. For Quarantine Service, 89 cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $1,194.54. For collecting the war revenue, $103.39.
For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $3,191.22. For refunding internal revenue collections, $40. For redemption of stamps, $3,338.70.1190 For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers. $80,728.90. For allowance of drawback, $1,529.60. For Coast Guard, $678.40. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $4.67. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $1.79. For operating supplies for public buildings, $20. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Deparment.For contingent expenses, War Department, $41.52. For national security and defense, War Department, $97.05. For registration and selection for military service, $2,808.02. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $18,736.77. For extra duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $154.50. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth. $235.93. For incidental expenses, Quartemaster Corps, $56. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $28,322.24.
For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, $299.94. For shooting galleries and ranges, $397.75. For Medical and Hospital Department, $33.48. For engineer operations in the field, $98,118.32. For Ordnance Service, $10.68. For civilian military training camps, $29.05. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $240.27. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $64.27. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $236.91. For sodium nitrate storage, $7,961.86.
For quarters for hospital stewards, $1,634.36. For commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts, 1920, $648.33. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $45.08. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $214.74. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $119.44. For payment of claims for loss of fire arms, and so forth, taken by Unitea States troops during labor strikes in 1914 in Colorado, $4.95.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $6.73. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $2,863.66. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $15.57. For pay, miscellaneous, $69.11. For contingent, Navy, $24. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,846.02. For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, $186.25. For contingent, Marine Corps, $56.70. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $21.86.
For gunnery and engineering exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $10. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $79.24. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $248. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $110. For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $1.15. For pay of the Navy, $13,536.35. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $178.1191 For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 36.50. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1920, 3623,283.23.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1919, 3173,586. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 33,476.80. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1919, 318,022.27. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $8.25. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department For maps of the United States, 1919, $4.79.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For international protection of industrial property, Patent Office, $5.05. For international protection of industrial property, Patent Office, 1919, $26.54.
For investigation of city school administration and education, Bureau of Education, 1919, $1. For Capitol power plant, 1920, $2,000. For Crater Lake National Park, 1919, $527.28. For Glacier National Park, 1919, $1,707.08. For Glacier National Park, 1920, $3,626.66. For Grand Canyon National Park, 1920, $63.78. For Mount Rainier National Park, 1919, $516.39. For Sequoia National Park, 1919, $666. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, 24 cents. For expenses of hearings in land entries, $104.76.
For surveying the public lands, 1920, $1,099.20. For Geological Survey, $202.92. For general expenses. Bureau of Mines, $1.19. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $144.46. For Indian schools, support, $11.03. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,334.78. For determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees, 78 cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, 38 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments.
For public printing and binding, $10,630.38.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc. Departments. For national security and defense, Executive, $12.62. For salaries and expenses. Bureau of Efficiency, $1.45. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $427.48. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $407.82. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1920, $432.97. For salaries, Consular Service, $196.54. For salaries. Consular Service, 1919, $745. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, 31,000.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $77.64. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1919, $95.14. For expenses of consular inspectors, $203.02. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1919, $27.74. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1920, $7,038.08. For salaries, office of Superintendent of State, War, and Navy Department buildings, $174.79. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $99.05. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, 77 cents.
For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $188.71.1192 For national security and defense, Food and Fuel Administrations, building, $11.59. For national security and defense, Food and Fuel Administrations, educational, $303.05. For library, Department of Agriculture, $92.89. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $2,244.91. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, 34.60. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $124.92. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1.67.
For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $225.99. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $180.62. For general expenses, Forest Service, $168.46. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $10.87. For enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, $14.80. For general expenses, Office of Markets and Rural Organization, 75 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, $54.39. For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $3.28. For general expenses, Federal Horticultural Board, $27.77.
For suppressing spread of pink boll worm of cotton, 8 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $1.62. For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, $69.65. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, 40 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 21 cents. For investigation of public utility standards, Bureau of Standards, $12.22. For military research, Bureau of Standards, $75.55. For testing railroad scales, and so forth, Bureau of Standards, $15.60.
For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $64.22. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,040.22. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $1.33. For salaries and expenses, Commissioners of Conciliation, $92.61. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 38 cents. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $25.99. For expenses of regulating immigration, $34.51. For enforcement of the child labor law, $1.26. For investigation of child welfare, Children’s Bureau, 63 cents.
For detection and prosecution of crimes, $268.98. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $72.20. For books for judicial officers, $7.50. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $2.95. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $322.35. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $1,741.55. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1920, $8,242.23. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $26.50. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, 1920, $1,950.10.
For supplies for United States courts, $1.39. For support of prisoners, United States courts, 1919, $1,716.30. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.For railroad transportation, $1,107,136.56. For balances due foreign countries, $339,274.34. For compensation to postmasters, $2,613.39. For indemnities, international mails, $683.50. For Star Route Service, $2,767.33.1193 For City Delivery Service, $4,201.13.
For special-delivery fees, $1.52. For Rural Delivery Service, $623.77. For rent, light, and fuel, $178.70. For city delivery carriers, substitute, auxiliary, and temporary, $19.95. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $27.14. For shipment of supplies, $58.23. For city delivery carriers, $302.36. For payment of rewards, $325. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $24.56. For temporary and auxiliary clerks, $18. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $2.42.
For clerks, first and second class post offices, $1,097.85. For watchmen, messengers, and laborers, $1.94. For temporary clerk hire, $1,211.32. For city delivery, horse hire, $1,289.76. For Mail Messenger Service, $363.55. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $20.64. Total audited claims, section 3, $2,613,385.33. Sec. 4. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as theTitle of Act. “First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1921.” Approved, March 1, 1921.