Chapter 94. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and. for other purposes
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CHAP. 94.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and. for other purposes. March 6, 1920. [[H. R. 12046](/us/bill/66/hr/12046).] [[Public, No. 155](/us/pl/66/155).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1920. 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, 1920, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
BITUMINOUS COAL COMMISSION.Bituminous Coal Commission. For expenses of United States Bituminous Coal Commission, includingSalaries and expenses. the employment of three commissioners, secretaries, chief clerk, and other expert, clerical, and other assistance; for equipment and supplies, including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; for traveling expenses, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4; and for printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office, $50,000. bureau of efficiency.Efficiency Bureau.
To enable the Bureau of Efficiency to perform the duties imposedInvestigation expenses.Vol. 40, p. 1223. upon it by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act approved March 1, 1919, $20,000. COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.Council of National Defense. For expenses of the Council of National Defense; for the employmentDirector, employees, supplies, etc. of a director, secretary, chief clerk, and other expert, clerical, and other assistance; equipment and supplies, subsistence and travel, and printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office, $45,000: *Provided, however*, That no salary shall be paid to any officer*Proviso*.Pay restriction. or employee of the council in excess of $6,000 per annum.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. public schools.Public schools. Teachers: For sixty-eight teachers from March 1 to June 30, 1920,Additional teachers. inclusive, at minimum rates of salary, as follows: Two principals of junior high schools, at $2,500 each; Group A of class six, twenty-five at $1,060 each; Class five, sixteen at $1,000 each; Class four, thirteen at $900 each; Class two, ten at $860 each; Class one, two at $860 each; In all for teachers, $23,173.33. Night schools:
For teachers and janitors of night schools, includingNight schools. teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $25,000: *Provided*, That payment is authorized*Proviso*.Services from February 16, 1920. to all employees who served in the night schools during the period from February 16, 1920, to the date of approval of this Act, both inclusive, at the rate of pay they were receiving on February 15, 1920, this payment to be in addition to the nominal sum of $1 which such employees received for the service rendered.
For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipmentEquipment, etc. and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $1,000. 504 Half from District revenues.One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational Education Board. Rehabilitation of discharged soldiers, etc.Vol. 40, pp. 617.1179.*Ante*, p. 159.Vocational rehabilitation: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, funeral and other incidental expenses (including transportation of remains) of deceased trainees of the board, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, *Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Ante*, p. 178.and periodicals, $11,000,000: *Provided*, That the salary limitation placed upon the appropriation for vocational rehabilitation by the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation herein made.
Army surplus machine tools, etc., to be transferred to Board.The Secretary of War shall have authority to transfer to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, without compensation therefor, certain surplus machine tools and other equipment belonging to the War Department and now in possession of the Federal board and being used by that board as equipment in schools for vocational education controlled by the board. Property so transferred shall be dropped from the records of the War Department on the filing with the War Department of an itemized receipt for the articles thus Itemized statement to Congress.transferred.
An itemized statement of the articles transferred hereunder and the cost price thereof shall be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. General expenses.General expenses: For all other authorized expenditures necessary 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 1920, $86,000. Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701.Valuation of property of carriers:
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved Issues of stocks, etc.February 4, 1887, and all Acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March 1, 1913, includingPer diem subsistence. per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to sectionVol. 38, p. 680. 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, $500,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including exchange of same; street car fare not exceeding $150, and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Minister to Finland.For the salary of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Finland at the rate of $10,000 per annum from March 1 to June 30, 1920, inclusive, $3,333.33. 505 For the payment of the annual quota of the United States as anInternational Rail’ way Congress.Annual quotas. adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the years ending April 15, 1918 and 1919, and for the regulation of unpaid balances in the quota of the United States for the years ending April 15, 1916 and 1917, $1,440.
To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1920, $400. For subscription of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Prison Commission. the International Prison Commission and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports for 1920, $2,550. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed inStationery. course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $200,000.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,200. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $6,000.File cases, etc. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $6,000.Freight, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grateFuel. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $6,000. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $3,000.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,Lighting. gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $3,500. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures,Miscellaneous. window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencils plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car fares not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $3,000.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same,Labor-saving machines, etc. including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $7,500. For operating expenses of the Arlington Building and annex,Operating expenses.Arlington Building. including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $10,000.
For operating expenses of the Treasury Department Annex (PennsylvaniaTreasury Department Annex. Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $1,500. 506 Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets N. W.Treasury Department Annex (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest): For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of trash, repairs, equipment, and miscellaneous expenses, $10,000. office of auditor for treasury department.Auditor for Treasury Department.
Temporary employees.For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such temporary employees (nonapportioned) as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department, $25,000. office of the coast guard.Coast Guard. Additional office employees.For additional employees from March 1 to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Topographical draftsman at $1,500; chief accountant at $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, eight of class three, fifteen of class two, nine of class one; assistant messenger at $720; in all, $21,073.33. coast guard.
General expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motor cycles to be used only for official purposes; Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men, etc.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 and substitute surfmen, and one civilian instructor, $1,000,000;
Rations.For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, petty *Proviso*.Commutation rate.officers, and other enlisted men, $245,000: *Provided*, That hereafter when rations for the Coast Guard are commuted they shall be commuted at a rate not to exceed the average cost of the ration for the preceding six months, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury; Fuel, etc.For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, $145,000; Outfits, stores, etc.For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $104,000;
Travel expenses.For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $130,000; Draft animals.For draft animals and their maintenance, $9,450; Civilian employees.For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $600; Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including communication service, 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, $35,000;
Repairs to cutters.For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $60,000. Army, etc., stores may be bought by officers and enlisted men.Officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard shall be permitted to purchase quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged the officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. In all, Coast Guard, $1,729,050. bureau of internal revenue.Internal Revenue. National Prohibition Act.Expenses enforcing.*Ante*, p. 305.Enforcement of the “National Prohibition Act”:
For the employment of additional officers, traveling and other necessary miscellaneous expenses to guard intoxicating liquors in bonded and other 507warehouses, and prevent violations of the “National Prohibition Act,” $1,000,000. To pay the estate of Charles L. Freer, deceased, late of Detroit,Charles L. Freer.Refund to estate, income tax paid on gift to Smithsonian.Vol. 40, p. 181. Michigan, the amount of income tax paid by him on profit on the sale, in 1915, of twelve thousand and ninety-five shares of Parke, Davis and Company’s stock, $1,000,000 of the proceeds from the sale of said stock having been given to the Smithsonian Institution for the erection of a building to house the art collections presented to the Nation by Mr.
Freer under deed of gift dated May 5, 1906, and the remainder having been paid by Mr. Freer for the purchase of additional objects which have been added to the collections and presented to the Nation by him, $13,252.21. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For payment to John M. Francis in accordance with the provisionsJohn M. Francis.Payment to.Private Laws, p. 6. of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of John M. Francis,” approved December 30, 1919, $181. public buildings.Public buildings.
Morgan City, Louisiana, post office: For completion (site), $1,800.Morgan City, La. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mint Building: For new roof, $20,000.Philadelphia, Pa., mint. Relief of contractors: Toward the amount necessary for the paymentContractors for public buildings.Payment of war condition losses by.*Ante*, p. 281.*Post*, p. 592. of claims of contractors, and so forth, arising under the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of contractors and subcontrators for the post offices and other buildings and work under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1919, $500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Proviso*.Partial payments.
Treasury is authorized to make partial payments of any claim payable under said Act, and to make payment of any and all loss and expenseFull payment of losses due to war conditions. (exclusive of profits) incurred by a contractor or subcontractor in fulfilling his contract or subcontract with the Treasury Department in excess of the amount which such contractor or subcontractor may receive under the terms of his contract or subcontract, if such loss and expense were, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, due to war conditions. public health service.Public Health Service.
For medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies for war-riskServices, supplies, etc., to war-risk insurance patients, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1302.*Ante*, p. 377.*Post*, pp. 591, 1024. insurance patients and other beneficiaries of the Public Health Service, including necessary personnel, regular and reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, clerical help in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, maintenance, equipment, leases, fuel, lights, water, printing, freight, transportation and travel, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicles, and reasonable burial expenses (not exceeding $100 for any patient dying in hospital), $3,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is*Proviso*.Disposal of product of patients during treatment. authorized to make regulations governing the disposal of articles produced by patients in the course of their curative treatment, either by allowing the patient to retain same or by selling the articles and depositing the money received to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased.
Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service may purchaseOfficers may purchase Army, etc., supplies. quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. Officers of the Public Health Service shall be credited with serviceLongevity credits for service m other branches. in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard in computing longevity pay. 508 Regulating viruses, serums, etc.Biologic products:
To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, and for the preparation of curative and diagnostic biologic products, including personal service, $15,000. Hygienic laboratory.Hygienic Laboratory: For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $9,000. Additional equipment, etc.For the purchase and installation of additional equipment and furniture for the new additions to the Hygienic Laboratory, $15,000. 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 spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine *Proviso*.Report to Congress.laws which may be then in force, $100,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Hospitals for discharged sick and disabled soldiers, etc.Remodeling, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1302.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue in effect the provisions of section 2 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, $500,000, to be expended at the following hospitals and in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively:
Alexandria, Louisiana, $25,000; Deming, New Mexico, $20,000; Houston, Texas, $10,000; Perryville, Maryland, $75,000; Greenville, South Carolina, $75,000’Cape May, New Jersey, $10,000; Hoboken, Pennsylvania, $10,000; Dansville, New York, $10,000; Saint Louis, Missouri, $5,000; New Haven, Connecticut, $25,000; West Roxbury, Massachusetts, $50,000; Helena, Montana, $100,000; Boise, Idaho, *Proviso*.Corpus Christi, Tex.Vol. 40, p. 1303.$75,000; East Norfolk, Massachusetts, $10,000: *Provided further*, That the sum of $20,000 of the appropriation of $150,000 contained in section 6 of the above-named Act is made available for such repair work and remodeling as may be necessary to adapt the hospital at Corpus Christi, Texas, to the needs of the Public Health Service.
Broadview, Ill.Immediate completion of hospital buildings, etc., directed.Vol. 40, p. 1304.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out at once the provisions of paragraphs A and B of section 7 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, the limit of cost of the acquisition of the site and uncompleted building and the completion of the construction of hospital buildings in Cook County, Cost increased.*Ante*, p. 378.Illinois, authorized by said Act, is hereby increased from $3,000,000 to $3,400,000, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts therefor within the total limit of cost hereby *Proviso*.Restriction.fixed: *Provided*, That no part of said sum so authorized shall be used to pay any profit to either the owners of the land and present uncompleted building, Edward Hines and the Shank Company, or to the contractor for the completion of the work.
Advertising restricted.Appropriations herein or hereafter made for the Public Health Service shall not be expended for advertising in newspapers, magazines, or periodicals for any purpose other than the procurement of bids for necessary services, supplies, materials, and equipment. bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau. Compensation, etc.Military and naval compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation, funeral expenses, services and supplies, as authorized by law, $55,000,000. 509 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of theRent. War Department and its bureaus and offices, fiscal year 1919, $620.42. adjutant general’s office.Adjutant General’s Office. Not exceeding $500,000 of the appropriation of $3,500,000 for theClerical assistance in furnishing information from records of demobilized army.*Ante*, p. 109. care and custody of the draft records and for the employment of clerical assistance for the purpose of furnishing to adjutants general of States statements of service of soldiers who served in the war with Germany shall be available for the employment of clerical assistance necessary for the purpose of furnishing such information from the records of the demobilized army as may be properly furnished to public officials, former soldiers, and other persons entitled to receive it: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall reallot the appropriation*Proviso*.Reallotment of temporary employees.Vol. 40, p. 1237. of $4,000,000 for temporary employees in the War Department in such manner as will provide an allotment of $174,000 for the office of The Adjutant General in addition to the allotments already made for that office for the current fiscal year for work in connection with records of the demobilized army. engineer department.Engineer Department.
Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridgeNew Aqueduct Bridge, D. C.Continuing construction.Vol. 39, p. 163. authorized in section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May 18, 1916, $150,000, one-half to be payable out of the*Post*, p. 837. Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. public buildings and grounds.Park police.
The appropriation contained in section 4 of the Act approvedIncreased pay of, payable half from District revenues.*Ante*, p. 364. December 5, 1919, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,’ approved February 28, 1901, and for other purposes,” shall be paid*Post*, p. 837. one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. river and harbor work.River and harbor work.
For payment of claims adjusted and settled under section 4 of theCollision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 676. River and Harbor Appropriation Act approved June 25, 1910, and certified to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 214, $956.63. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. signal service of the army.Signal Service. Telegraph and telephone systems: For the same purposes as specifiedTelegraph and telephone systems.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 847. under this title in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1919, the sum of $300,000 is hereby made available until June 30, 1920, from the appropriation “Signal Service of the Army” for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919: *Provided*, That not to exceed $3,000 may be expended*Proviso*.Tuition of officers at technical schools.*Ante*, p. 107. from the appropriation for “Signal Service of the Army” for the fiscal 510year ending June 30, 1920, for tuition, laboratory fees, and so forth, for Signal Corps officers detailed to civilian technical schools for the purpose of pursuing technical courses of instruction along Signal Corps lines.
Washington-Alaska cable, etc.Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system: For defraying the cost of such extensions, betterments, operations, and maintenance of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, including the same objects specified under this head in the Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 847.Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $95,000 is made available from the appropriation for the “Signal Service of the Army,” for the fiscal year 1919, to continue available during the fiscal year 1921. medical department.Medical Department.
Medical and hospital supplies.Reappropriation.Vol. 40, p. 865.For the medical and hospital department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, the sum of $1,500,000 is made available from the appropriation “Medical and Hospital Department” for the fiscal year 1919. miscellaneous. Missouri River.Bridge at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.For bridge across the Missouri River connecting the two tracts of land composing the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, *Proviso*.Maintenance.$35,000: *Provided*, That in case said bridge is thrown open for public use one-half the cost of the maintenance thereof shall be paid by local interests. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
Salvage expenses.Payment of, from receipts from sales of surplus stores, etc.Not to exceed $3,000,000 derived from the sale of surplus ordnance and ordnance stores shall be credited to the appropriation of the Ordnance Department for the fiscal year 1920 which is available for the payment of expenses incurred outside of the District of Columbia in maintaining salvage activities, including necessary protection, handling and storage charges, and other incidental expenses in connection with the preparation for sale of surplus war supplies.
Storage facilities.Use of unexpended balances of construction, etc., for.The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to expend from the unexpended balance of appropriations heretofore made under the title “Armament of fortifications” for the construction of storage facilities, including necessary appurtenances, for ammunition and components thereof, for cannon, small arms, machine guns, and trench warfare, and for other ordnance material, not exceeding $5,000,000, which amount shall remain available during the fiscal year 1921: *Provisos*.Ogden, Utah.Land for depot.*Post*, p. 894.*Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is hereby authorized to expend such part, not exceeding $98,000, of the amount herein authorized as may be necessary for the purchase of land in the vicinity of Ogden, Utah, to be used as a site for an ammunition storage Cost-plus construction forbidden.depot: *Provided further*, That no part of the construction work hereunder shall be done on a cost-plus percentage basis: *Provided further*, Use for Sparta, Wis., prohibited.That no part of the appropriations herein made or made available shall be used for the construction of permanent high explosive storage facilitiesContract requirements. at or near Sparta, Wisconsin: *Provided further*, That the construction work hereunder shall be done by contract, let to the lowest responsible bidder, and no bid shall be accepted for any building to cost in excess of $2.45 per square foot for an unlined building or $2.90 for a lined building.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. office of naval records and library.Naval Records and Library. Records of War in Europe.Purchases allowed from funds for.Vol. 40, p. 1242.Naval records of war with Central Powers of Europe: The appropriation for the collection or copying and classification, with a view to publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, and so forth, made in the Legislative, Executive, and 511Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, is made available for the purchase of books, periodicals, photographs, maps, and other publications, documents, and pictorial records.
Naval Records of the Rebellion: Not exceeding $15,500 of the unexpendedNaval Records of the Rebellion.Continuing publication. balance of the appropriation for the continuation for the fiscal years 1913 and 1914 of the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the official records of the Union and Confederate Navies, in the War of the Rebellion, which were continued and made available until June 30, 1918, by the Act approved September 8, 1916,Vol. 39, p. 814. are further continued and made available until June 30, 1921.
Damage claims: To pay the claims adjusted and determined byNaval collision claims.Vol. 36, p. 607. 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 Document Numbered 580 of the present session, $7,212.84. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For general maintenanceMaintenance. of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $800,000. The limitation specified in the Naval Appropriation Act for theAdditional allowance for classified employees.*Ante*, p. 143. fiscal year 1920 on expenditures for pay of classified employees from the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” is increased by the sum of $400,000.
The limitation specified in the Legislative, Executive, and JudicialAdditional allowance for technical services.Vol. 40, p. 1245. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920 on expenditures for pay of skilled draftsmen and other technical services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks from appropriations and allotments under said bureau is increased by the sum of $123,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yard: For dry dock and accessories,Norfolk, Va. exclusive of any profit to the contractor, $451,047.30.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, naval station: For dry dock, to complete,Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. $163,914.89. For expenditures incident to the construction of the Pearl Harbor*Post*, p. 591. Dry Dock, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 210, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session, $128,260.60. Port Royal, South Carolina, marine recruiting station: For additionalPort Royal, S. C.Parris Island purchase.Vol. 40, p. 724. compensation for property taken over under the authority contained in the Naval Appropriation Act approved July 1, 1918, $117,940, or so much thereof as may be necessary. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of the Navy: The appropriation “Pay of the Navy, 1918,”Allowance of quarters for officers’ families, 1918.Vol. 39, p. 1181.Vol. 40, p. 530. is made available to pay claims of officers of the United States Navy accruing prior to July 1, 1918, which have been or may be presented pursuant to the Act of April 16, 1918, allowing the payment of commutation for quarters, heat, and fight to officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps on duty in the field or without the territorial jurisdiction*Ante*, p. 140. of the United States, who maintain a place of abode for a wife, child, or dependent parent. 512 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $8,000. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. Operating expenses, Department Building.For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building for Interior Department offices, $15,000. geological survey.Geological Survey.
Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $75,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1921. national park service.National Park Service. Glacier, Mont.Fighting forest fires.Glacier National Park, Montana: For reimbursement of the appropriation for the park for the fiscal year 1920 on account of expenditures for fighting forest fires in the park, $19,849.12. Yellowstone, Wyo.Fighting forest fires.Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:
For reimbursement of the appropriation for the park for the fiscal year 1920 on account of expenditures for fighting forest fires in the park and purchasing hay for feeding of elk, $35,026.64. Hay for elk herd.For the purchase of such additional quantities of hay as may be Protection of bridge.necessary to insure preservation of the northern herd of elk, $8,000. For the construction of a log crib dam necessary for the protection of bridge over the Elk Fork of the Shoshone River on the Cody approach road to Yellowstone National Park, $3,000. patent office.Patent Office.
Additional employees.For additional employees from March 1 to June 30, 1920, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Examiners—one principal at $2,700, two first assistants at $2,400 each, two second assistants at $2,100 each, two third assistants at $1,800 each, two fourth assistants at $1,500 each; examiners of trade-marks and designs—one second assistant at $2,100, two third assistants at $1,800 each, two fourth assistants at $1,500 each; clerks—one of class four (versed in business administration), four of class four, eight of class three, ten of class two; draftsmen—one at $1,600, one at $1,400; translator of languages, $1,600; in all, $22,466.67.
Deposit of fees, etc.Hereafter all patent fees shall be paid to the Commissioner of Patents, who shall deposit the same in the Treasury of the United States in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, Refund of excess.and said commissioner is authorized to pay back any sum or sums of money paid to him by any person by mistake or in excess of the fee required by law. Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; 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, $25,000. public land service.Public lands.
Timber depredations, etc.Vehicle allowance increased.Depredations on public timber, and so forth: The amount which may be expended from the appropriation “Depredations on public 513timber, and so forth, fiscal year 1920,” for the purchase of motor-propelled*Ante*, p. 194, amended. passenger-carrying vehicles and for the purchase of motor cycles for the use of agents and others employed m the field service and for the operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor boat, is increased from $15,000 to $20,000.
For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California RailroadOregon - California Railroad lands.Protection. lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against andVol. 39, p. 218. check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands known as the Coos Bay WagonCoos Bay Wagon Road lands.Vol. 40, p. 1179.
Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered 2711, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), $14,110. public buildings.Public buildings. Old Land Office Building: For labor and material required in theOld Land Office Building, D. C.Repairs. installation of a new ash tank and for a vacuum cleaner for water-tube boilers in the power plant located in the Old Land Office Building, Seventh and E Streets, northwest, $8,000.
Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art, flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase and maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $24,000. saint elizabeths hospital.Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedGeorge W. Kreis.Credit in accounts. to credit in the accounts of George W. Kreis, special disbursing agent for Saint Elizabeths Hospital, sums aggregating $185.66, covering items disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury in his accounts for the period ending September 21, 1919. Hereafter the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorizedReadjustment of salaries.Credits authorized of payments by special disbursing agent in. to credit the accounts of the special disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital with such amounts as he has or may hereafter pay in carrying out the provision of the Sundry Civil Act of July 19, 1919, relating to the readjustment of salaries at the hospital, and*Ante*, p. 205. the schedule of salaries and allowances for maintenance, where the latter is not provided by the hospital, approved by the Secretary of the Interior August 1 and November 25, 1919, respectively, or as may be modified hereafter by him, nothwitstandmg the Act ofVol. 38, p. 335.
April 6, 1914, or section 4839, Revised Statutes, United States, as[R. S., sec. 4839, p. 938](/us/rs/s4839/p938). amended. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make regulationsDisposal of articles produced by patients. governing the disposal of articles produced by patients of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the course of their curative treatment, either by allowing the patient to retain same or by selling the articles and depositing the money received to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified underMiscellaneous items. this head in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 514Act for the fiscal year 1920, $15,000, of which sum not $6,500 may be expended for telephone service and not $150 may be expended for street car fares. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. out of the postal revenues.From postal revenues. office of the postmaster general.Postmaster General.
Equipment shops.For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery, United States Post Office Department equipment shops building, $1,000. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. Assistant postmasters.For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class offices, $350,000. Clerks, etc., first and second class offices.For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class post offices, $500,000.
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, $2,000,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $125,000. Car fare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, $50,000. office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General.
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, $500,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $25,000. Stationery.For stationery for the Postal Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $100,000. audited settlements.Audited settlements.
Special delivery fees.For fees to special-delivery messengers for the following fiscal years: For 1918, $700.11; For 1919, $303,911.25. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, 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, $5,000.
Stationery.For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $5,000. Furniture.For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $2,500. 515 detection and prosecution of crime.Detection and prosecution of crime. Appropriations under the Department of Justice for the fiscalAdvances permitted from fund for. year 1920 for detection and prosecution of crimes shall be available tor advances made by the disbursing clerk of said department, when authorized and approved by the Attorney General, the provisions[R.
S. sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).*Proviso*.Additional allowance in the District. of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided*, That the sum of $75,000, in addition to that now provided by law, shall be available for the compensation of necessary employees serving at the seat of government. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. The appropriation contained in the Legislative, Executive, andDistrict judges.Application of appropriation.Vol. 40, p. 1264.
Judicial Appropriation Act of March 1, 1919, for salaries of district judges, shall be available for the salaries of all United States district judges lawfully entitled thereto for the fiscal year 1920, or any portion thereof. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. bureau of crop estimates.Crop Estimates Bureau. For additional amount required for the fiscal year 1918 to meet theEnvelopes, 1918. increased cost of envelopes, m accordance with the adjustment made by the Postmaster General under section 4 of the Post Office AppropriationVol. 40, p. 753.
Act, approved July 2, 1918, $1,382.56. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. bureau of the census.Census Office. For salaries and necessary expenses for taking, compiling, and publishingExpenses of taking Fourteenth Census.Vol. 40, p. 1291. the Fourteenth Census of the United States; for rent of office quarters outside the District of Columbia; and for carrying on during the decennial census period all other work authorized and directed by law, including purchase, rental, construction, and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery; experimental work in developing, improving, and constructing an integrating counter for use in statistical work; repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances; technical and mechanical services in connection therewith, and purchase, rental, construction, repair, and exchange of equipment and mechanical appliances; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field,Available for two years. $2,550,000, to continue available until June 30, 1922. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofExpenses. the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, including extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service while observing tides or currents, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads:
Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the AtlanticAtlantic and Gulf coasts. and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, $37,000; 516 Pacific coasts.For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $57,000; Magnetic observations, etc.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic building ; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; establishing lines of exact levels in Alaska; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse, for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the interior of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; for continuing gravity observations; and including the employment in the field and office of such magnetic observers, at salaries not exceeding $2,200 per annum, as may be necessary, $47,100;
In all, field expenses, $141,100. Vessels.Repairs, etc.Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $22,370. Officers and crews.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $68,000.
Altering vessels.For making alterations to vessels transferred from the Navy Department, $20,500, to continue available during the fiscal year 1921. Office expenses.Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $22,900. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau. Food fishes inquiry.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decreases of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigation and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $500. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.
Allotment tor branch offices increased.Vol. 40, p. 1256.*Ante*, p. 213.The amount which may be expended during the fiscal year 1920 for expenses of branch offices from the appropriation “to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States,” is increased from $60,000 to $62,000. lighthouse establishment.Lighthouses Bureau. Depot, sixteenth district.Depot for Sixteenth Lighthouse District: For completion of the lighthouse depot for the sixteenth lighthouse district, $12,000.
Seventh and eighth districts.Aids to navigation.Seventh and Eighth Lighthouse Districts: For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing such aids to navigation and structures connected therewith as were damaged or destroyed by the hurricane of September, 1919, $125,000. lighthouse service. General expenses.General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, 517including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beaconsOil and carbide houses. and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil*Proviso*.Limit for buildings. or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoringRestoring stations, etc. light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided*, That such restoration shall be limited to the original purposeLimit. of the structures; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses,Rations, etc. working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties m the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fogPurchase o f sites, etc. signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; traveling and subsistence expenses of teachers while actually employed by States or private persons to instruct the children of keepers of lighthouses; all otherContingent expenses. contingent expenses of district offices and depots, $500,000.
Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews ofLighthouse vessels. light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $300,000. Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged inRetired pay. the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $20,000. Damage claims: For payment to the Metropolitan Coal Company,Metropolitan Coal Company.Payment to.
Boston, Massachusetts, for damage to wharf belonging to that company at Chelsea, Massachusetts, by collision of light vessel numbered sixty-six on April 10, 1917, $150. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Depart meat of Labor. commissioners of conciliation.Commissioners of conciliation. To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vestedExpenses.Vol. 37, p. 738. in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $1,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $25,000.
War Labor Administration: To enable the Secretary of Labor toWar Labor Administration.Mediation in labor disputes, etc. carry on the work of mediation and conciliation in labor disputes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $39,912. 518 immigration service.Immigration Bureau. Enforcing immigration laws.For expenses of regulating immigration, including the same objects specified under this head under the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $150,000.
Alien anarchists.Expenses, excluding, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1012.Enforcement of laws against alien anarchists: For the enforcement of the Act entitled “An Act to exclude and expel from the United States aliens who are members of the anarchistic and similar classes,” approved October 16, 1918, and Acts amendatory thereof, including salaries and expenses of officers, clerks, and employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence, supplies, rentals, deportation expenses, and all other expenses incident to the enforcement of said laws, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $750,000.
Deportation of aliens.Expenses.Vol. 39, pp. 874–898.Deportation of aliens under the laws regulating immigration: For the expenses of deporting to the countries whence they came, as specified in the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, of alien public charges and others ordered deported under the laws regulating immigration since July 31, 1914, including conveyance to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, transportation charges when payable by the United States under the terms of existing law, including maintenance expenses, expenses of attendance and per diem in lieu of subsistence, and all incidental expenses in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $100,000. bureau of labor statistics.Labor Statistics Bureau.
Expenses, special agents, experts, etc.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, special agents, and employees, and for their transportation; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins Association for Labor Legislation.of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for subvention to “ International Association for Labor Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $12,250. naturalization service.Naturalization Bureau.
Pay of examiners, interpreters, clerks, etc.Vol. 34, p. 596.Vol. 37, p. 737; Vol. 40, pp. 542–548.For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large, volume 37, page 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volume 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $35,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia from February 1, 1920, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization m Washington while absent on official duty outside of the district of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600;
Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830; Vol. 40, p. 171.outside of the District of Columbia; carrying into effect section 13 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 765), and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regula-519tions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $100,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Use for citizenship training of aliens restricted.
That no part of this sum shall be expended for or in connection with the training or education of aliens for citizenship until the arrearage of work connected with the granting of citizenship to aliens shall have been disposed of. first industrial conference.First Industrial Conference. For salaries and expenses of the First Industrial Conference calledSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 279. by the President of the United States, including printing, personal services in the District of Columbia, payment to Pan American Union for use of its building, including light, telephone service, and all other necessary expenses, $9,147.57.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $19,505.20. Capitol power plant: For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertisingCapitol power plant.Fuel, etc. for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, for the fiscal years that follow: 1918, $10,000; 1919, $45,784. senate.Senate. To pay Lucy Day Martin and Thomas Staples Martin, junior, heirsThomas S.
Martin.Pay to heirs of. at law of Honorable Thomas S. Martin, late a Senator from the State of Virginia, $7,500. For the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle forVehicle for Secretary’s office. the official use of the office of the Secretary of the Senate, $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles forMotor vehicles. carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor,Fuel, oil, etc. $1,000. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, equipment, andSenate kitchens and restaurants. supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year 1919, $4,966.79. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
To pay the widow of Walter A. Watson, late a RepresentativeWalter A. Watson.Pay to widow. from the State of Virginia, $7,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not to exceed $1 perFolding. thousand, $8,000. For payment to Peter F. Tague, contestant in the contested-electionContested election expenses.Peter F. Tague. case of Tague versus Fitzgerald, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Two, $2,000. 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:
Victor L. Berger, $2,000.Victor L. Berger. Joseph P. Carney, $2,000.Joseph P. Carney. For reimbursement to the official stenographers to committeesStenographers to committees.Reimbursement. for amounts actually and necessarily expended by them during the first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $700 each, $2,800. 520 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:
For 1920, $142,000; For 1919, $6,000. Folding materials.For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, Vol. 28, p. 624.under provisions of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $7,500. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $607.50.
Stationery.For stationery for officers and committees of the House on account of the first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $6,387.95. Appropriations Committee.Assistant clerk.For an assistant clerk to the Committee on Appropriations at the rate of $3,000 per annum, from February 16 to June 30, 1920, inclusive, $1,125. 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, $70,108.81.
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, $70,391.26. Printing, binding, etc.For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing and binding, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1920, $800,000. Enrollment of bills on parchment or paper.Hereafter enrolled bills and resolutions of either House of Congress shall be printed on parchment or paper of suitable quality as shall be determined by the Joint Committee on Printing.
Superintendent of Documents.Distribution expenses.Office of Superintendent of Documents: For equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $20,000. Civil Service Commission.For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, $7,500. Interior Department.For printing and binding for the Interior Department, $25,000. Department of Labor.For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $50,000. Post Office Department.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $150,000.
Treasury Department.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, $25,000. 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 DocumentClassification.
Numbered 602, and which have not been appealed, namely: Interest.Under the Treasury Department, $8,992.25; Under the War Department, $1,217.05; Under the Department of the Interior, $220.50; Under the Department of Commerce, $1,883.65; In all, $12,313.45, 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. 521 JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims.
For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of ClaimsPayment of. and reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered 601 and Senate Document Numbered 219, namely:Classification. Under the Treasury Department, $1,623; Under the War Department, $3,082.63; Under the Navy Department, $451.24; In all, $5,156.87. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until theAppeals. right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgment, Indian depredation claim.
For payment of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims inPayment of. an Indian depredation case, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered 220, of the present session, $1,115; said judgment to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisionsDeduction.Vol. 28, p. 853. of section 6 of the Act approved March 3, 1891, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursedReimbursement. to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That the said judgment shall not be paid*Proviso*.Certificate from Attorney General. until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
The above judgment shall not be paid until the right of appeal shallRight of appeal. have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to bePayment of, certified by accounting officers. 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 5 of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 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 forth in HouseVol. 23, p. 254.
Document Numbered 606, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $1.10.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $3.99. For Interstate Quarantine Service, $2.27. For field investigation of public health, $84.98. For maintenance, hygienic laboratory, $30.06. For collecting the income tax, $2.81.
For refunding internal-revenue collections, $10. For redemption of stamps, $10,248.60. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, exceptException.Miller and Lux. the claim of Miller and Lux (Incorporated), $20,917.51. 522 For allowance or drawback, $1,787.12. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $357,389.74. For the Coast Guard, $9,667.35. For wages of workmen, Mint at Carson, 1919, $16.50. For operating supplies for public buildings, $28.79. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $506.15.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $26.15. For general expenses of public buildings, $3.12. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,021.19. For Signal Service of the Army, $21.70. For extra duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,447.50. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $7,663.23.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $2,523.85. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $11.67. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $125.16. For barracks and quarters, $925.12. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $253.03. For medical and hospital department, $612.82. For arming, equipping, and training, National Guard, $127.77. For arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, for field service, National Guard, $16,046.45. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $99.22.
For civilian military training camps, $684.65. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $6.99. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $90. For improvement of Crater Lake, National Park, $306.98. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Southern Branch, $13. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay, miscellaneous, $53.35. For aeronautics, Navy, $1,000. For pay, Marine Corps, $635.23.
For contingent, Marine Corps, $2,788.80. For maintenance, quartermaster department, Marine Corps, $18,318.85. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $25. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $4.03. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $3,669.02. For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia, $427.75. For pay of the Navy, $4,424.68. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $10. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $36.52.
For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $1,096.88. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For contingent expenses, Department of Interior, 1918, $634.89. For scientific library, Patent Office, $39.28. For investigation of rural and industrial education, Bureau of Education, 1919, $47.36. For investigation of city school administration and education, Bureau of Education, 1919, $33.08. 523 For distributing documents, Bureau of Education, $5.
For repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, 1919, $57.37. For Capitol Power Plant, 1918, $184.31. For Saint Elizabeths Hospital, 1919, $1,359.48. For contingent expenses of land offices, $2.52. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $3.06. For surveying the public lands, $9.49. For geological survey, $13.73. For geological survey, 1918-1919, $1,852.60. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, 23 cents. For investigating mine accidents, $22.88. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $1.05.
For investigations, petroleum and natural gas, Bureau of Mines, 85 cents. For enforcement of the Act to regulate explosives, Bureau of Mines, 1919, $7,960.72. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $46.24. For Indian schools, support, 1 cent. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $104.17. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1918, $8,557.12. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1919, $83,468.95.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian service, 1918, $32.55. For court costs, and so forth, in suits involving lands allotted to Indians, $82.50. For pay of Indian police, $5.82. For industry among Indians, $22.85. For water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona (reimbursable), 1918 and 1919, $297.10. For Indian school, Greenville, California, 1919, $191.10. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, 22 cents. For support of Indians in Nevada, $1.03. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1919, 20 cents.
For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, 1919, $2.97. For support of Pawnees, schools, Oklahoma, 1919, $15.40. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, 1919, $68.72. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $3.88. claims allowed by the auditor for state and other departments. For public printing and binding, $790.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For contingent expenses, Department of State, 1919, $562.56. For stationery, furniture, and so forth, Department of State, 1918, $94.09.
For stationery, furniture, and so forth, Department of State, 1919, $561.35. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, $1,409.73. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $54.54. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1918, $771.85. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1919, $5,732.87. For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, $1,883.34. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $61.12. For clerks at embassies and legations, $129.17.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $1,588.15. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1918, $32,467.42. 524 For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1919, $164,309.01. For salaries, Consular Service, $3,962.74. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $248.89. For salaries, consular assistants, $1,383.15. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $1,725.55. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish dominions, and so forth, $3,621.98. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $4,502.30.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1918, $5,457.19. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1919, $130,948.09. For expenses of prisons for American convicts, $439.63. For International Radiotelegraphic Convention, 1918–19, $275.24. For representation of interests of foreign governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, $87.23. For American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $3.03. For books, National Museum, $118.85. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $486.90.
For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $99.10. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1919, $3,302.62. For library, Department of Agriculture, $189.59. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $13.02. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $237.11. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $83.42. For general expenses, Forest Service, $623.59. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $1,498.62. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $20.
For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology, $55.44. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $45.20. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, $1.50. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $183.85. For general expenses, office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $8.64. For general expenses, office of Markets and Rural Organization, $67.07. For enforcement of the United States Cotton Futures Act, $11.39. For enforcement of the United States Grain Standards Act, $5.54.
For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $87.22. For International Dry Land Congress, Tulsa, Oklahoma, $9.18. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $5.43. For commercial attaches, Department of Commerce, $15. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $8.69. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $3.92. For enforcement of wireless communication laws, $6.59. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $144.08. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $2.40.
For equipping chemical laboratory building, Bureau of Standards, $48.48. For investigation of fire-resisting properties, Bureau of Standards, $15.48. For investigation of railway materials, Bureau of Standards, $11.40. For radio research, Bureau of Standards, $6.50. For testing machines, Bureau of Standards, $29.68. For testing railroad scales, etc., Bureau of Standards, $38.24. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $487.41. For repairs of vessels, Coast Survey, $13.71.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2,175.33. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $2.48. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, 29 cents. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $83.80. For books for judicial officers, $7.50. 525 For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $38.67. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $40.98. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1918, $31.82. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1919, $39,138.52.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $32. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1918, $708.65. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1919, $3,717.20. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $3.30. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $364. For supplies for United States courts, 1918, $6.17. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For railroad transportation, $7,361.01.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.
For indemnities, international mail, $752.31. For shipment of supplies, $37.14. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $25.48. For vehicle service, $180.70. For unusual conditions at post offices, $147.77. For equipment, City Delivery Service, $2. For special-delivery fees, $1.28. For rent, light, and fuel, $110.63. For mail-messenger service, $246. For compensation to postmasters, $1,470.98. For clerks, third-class post offices, $30. For clerks, first and second-class post offices, $756.62.
For balances due foreign countries, $49.62. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $123.97. For city-delivery carriers, $36.67. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $162.82. For Rural Delivery Service, $418.89. For Star Route Service, $275.91. For indemnities, domestic mail, registered, $25. Total audited claims, section 2, $999,946. Sec. 3. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “SecondTitle designated. Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920.” Approved, March 6, 1920.