Chapter 103. Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 103.— An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, and for other purposes. March 20, 1922.[[H. R. 10267](/us/bill/67/hr/10267).][[Public, No. 171](/us/pl/67/171).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Legislative appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, namely:
Senate.SENATE. Senators.salaries and mileage of senators. Compensation.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s office.office of the vice president. Secretary, clerk, and messenger.Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; clerk, $1,600; messenger, $1,000; in all, $6,600. chaplain. Chaplain.For Chaplain, $1,200. office of the secretary.
Secretary of Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.Salaries: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; reading clerk, $4,000; financial clerk, $4,000; chief clerk, $3,250; assistant financial clerk, $3,600; minute and Journal clerk, principal clerk, librarian, enrolling clerk, and printing clerk, at $3,000 each; executive clerk, $2,750; file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, two at $2,220 each, one $2,100, one $1,750, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger in the library, $1,000; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers—three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room, $1,200; in all, $89,350.
Document Room.document room. Superintendent, etc.Salaries: Superintendent, $3,500; first assistant, $2,500; two clerks at $1,440 each; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $10,080. Committee employees.committee employees. Clerks and messengers to designated committees.Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk $2.500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk423 $1,500; Appropriations—clerk $5,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each, messenger $900;
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500; Banking and Currency—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Civil Service—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500;
Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Education and Labor—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200; Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200;
Finance—clerk $3,000, special assistant to the committee $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $2,100, assistant clerk $1,600, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each, two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each; Foreign Relations—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,500; Immigration—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500;
Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, assistant clerk $1,500; Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, assistant clerk $1,500; Library—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200;
Manufactures—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk, $1,200; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Patents—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, four assistant clerks at $1,500 each;
Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Printing—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500; Public Lands and Surveys—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200;
Rules—clerk $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction ofPreparing Senate Manual. the Committee on Rules, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Territories and Insular Possessions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500, additional clerk $1,200; in all, $263,960. clerical assistance to senators.Clerical assistance to Senators. For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of theAllowance to Senators not chairmen of committees. committees specifically provided for herein:
Seventy clerks at $2,500 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,600 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,500 each, $392,000: *Provided*, That such clerks and assistant*Proviso*.Authority as committee clerks. clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman; 424 Additional clerks.Eighty-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $100,800; in all $492,800.
Navy Yearbook, 1921.For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year 1921, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Office of Sergeant at Arms.office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistants, etc.Messengers, etc.Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; two floor assistants, at $2,500 each; messengers—five (acting as assistant doorkeepers, including one for minority) at $1,800 each, thirty-seven (including one for minority) at $1,440 each, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,800; storekeeper, $2,500; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor,Laborers. $1,200; four skilled laborers, at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $900; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief, $1,800, four at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; press gallery—superintendent $2,500; assistant superintendent $1,600; messenger for service to press correspondents $1,000;Pages. laborers—three at $800 each; thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,720; in all, $154,580.
Police, Senate Office Building.For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Post office.post office. Postmaster, etc.Salaries: Postmaster, $2,500; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,837.50. Folding room.folding room. Foreman room.Salaries: Foreman, $1,600; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080.
Contingent expenses.contingent expenses of the senate. Stationery.For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $20,000. Postage stamps.Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. Motor vehicles.For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $10,000.
Automobile, Vice President.For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $2,500. Folding.For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. 425 For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor,Fuel, etc. $2,000. For purchase of furniture, $5,000. Furniture. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.
For packing boxes, S970. Packing boxes. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800. Document warehouse.Miscellaneous items.Inquiries and investigations. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $100,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, $100,000.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable inReporting debates. equal monthly installments, $44,844. For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for SenateSenate kitchens and restaurants. kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $30,000. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. salaries and mileage of members.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses ofMileage. Resident Commissioners, $175,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Officers, clerks, etc. office of the speaker. Speaker’s office.
Salaries: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s table,Secretary, clerks, etc.Digest of the Rules. $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,200; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1 200; in all, $12,600. chaplain.Chaplain For Chaplain, $1,200. For compensation of Henry N. Couden, chaplain emeritus of theHenry N. Couden.Chaplain emeritus. House of Representatives, in accordance with the resolution adopted January 6, 1921, $1,500. office of the clerk.Clerk’s office.
Salaries: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensationClerk of the House, clerks, etc. as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; Chief Clerk, $4,500; Journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to Chief, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each: assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; assistant librarian, messenger and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in dis426 bursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger and typewriter repairer in Chief Clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,000; nine telephone operators, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December 1, 1922, to March 31, 1923; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; laborers—three at $900 each, nine at $720 each; allowance to Chief Clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $104,370.
Committee employees.committee employees. Clerks and janitors to designated committees.Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk $4,000, five assistant clerks at $3,000 each, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000;
Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Education—clerk $2,000; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
Elections Number Three—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000;
Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $1,000; Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000;
Patents—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000; Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Reform in the Civil Service—clerk $2,000; Revision of the Laws—clerk $3,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000;
Roads—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $197,570. Clerks subject to Clerk of the House at end of Congress.Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be available for the payment of any clerk or assistant clerk to a committee who does not, after the termination of the Congress during which he was427 appointed, perform his duties under the direction of the Clerk of the House: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee*Proviso*.Exception. on Accounts.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen,Janitors.Appointment, etc.Under Doorkeeper at end of Congress. respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. office of sergeant at arms.Office of Sergeant at Arms.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; deputy sergeant at arms,Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc. $2,500; cashier, $4,000; two bookkeepers, at $2,400 each; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; pair clerk and messenger, $1,800; messenger, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of automobile, $600; in all, $25,140. For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant atPolice, House Office Building. Arms: Lieutenant, $1,200; nineteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $21,150. office of doorkeeper.Doorkeeper’s office.
Salaries: Doorkeeper, $5,000; maintenance and repair of foldingDoorkeeper, special employee, etc. room motor truck, $500; special employee, $1,800; superintendent of House press gallery, $2,000; assistant to the superintendent of the House press gallery, $1,200; janitor, $1,500; messengers—seventeenMessengers, laborers, etc. at $1,180 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—seventeen at $720 each, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one $600 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and seven at $600 each; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $2,100; chief clerkFolding room.Superintendent, etc. to superintendent of folding room, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-one folders, at $900 each; shipping clerk, $1,200; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages,Pages, etc. at $1,500 each; two telephone pages, at $1,200 each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,160 each; assistant messenger in charge of telephones, $1,500; forty-two pages, during the session, including a press-gallery page and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $12,390; laborer, $800; superintendent of document room, $2,900;Document room.Superintendent, etc. assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; eight assistants, at $1,280 each; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $157,590. special and minority employees.Special and minority employees.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in the document room,Joel Grayson. $2,500. For six minority employees at $1,800 each, authorized and namedMinority employees. in the resolution of April 11, 1921, $10,800. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the foldingSpecial designated employees. room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $840.
To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $840. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the five precedingAppointment of successors. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. 428 Majority floor leader.Office of majority floor leader: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,500; janitor, $1,000; in all, $5,000. Conference minority.Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,500; janitor, $1,000; in all, $5,000; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority.
Caucus rooms messengers.To continue the employment of messengers in the majority and minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400. Post office.post office. Postmaster, assist, ant, etc.Salaries: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster, $2,200; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,200 each; for the employment of substitute messengers at the rate of not to exceed $100 per month each, $1,000; laborer, $720; in all, $50,220.
Mail vehicles.For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks for carrying the mails, $3,S00. official reporters of debates. Official reporters.Salaries: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $6,000 each; assistant, $3,000; six expert transcribers, at $1,200 each; janitor, $980; in all, $47,180. committee stenographers. Stenographers to committees.Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $6,000 each; janitor, $980; in all, $24,980.
“During the session.”To mean 118 days.Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighteen days from December 4, 1922, to March 31, 1923, both inclusive. clerk hire, members and delegates. Clerk hire, Members, Delegates, etc.For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $3,200 per annum, in monthly installments, $1,408,000:*Proviso*.Application of amounts.Vol. 41, p. 162. *Provided*, That the joint resolution approved July 11, 1919, shall apply to this appropriation in the same manner as it applied to the appropriation tor clerk hire for Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners for the fiscal year 1922.
Contingent expenses.contingent expenses of the house. 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, $10,000.
Furniture.For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $12,000 for labor, tools and machinery for furniture repair shop, $30,000. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $4,500. 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, and including reimbursement to the official stenographers to committees for the amounts actually and necessarily paid out by them for transcribing hearings, $150,000. 429 For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners,Stationery. including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000.
For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant atPostage stamps. Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobileAutomobile, Speaker. for the Speaker, $2,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1Folding. per thousand, $16,000. CAPITOL POLICE.Capitol police. For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two specialPay. officers, at $1,200 each; thirty-three privates, at $1,050 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $42,450.
For contingent expenses, $200. Contingent expenses.Uniforms.Additional, for protecting Capitol, etc. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to Capitol police, $2,000. Protection of the Capitol: For an additional uniformed police force for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Capitol power plant, and for emergencies, and each and every item incident thereto, $15,000: *Provided* That the appointments to the positions herein provided shall*Proviso*.Appointments. be made by the Sergeants at Arms of the two Houses and the Architect of the Capitol, and shall be made solely on account of efficiency and special qualifications.
Division of disbursements. One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol Police” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.Joint Committee on Printing. For clerk, $4,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approvedClerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603. January 12, 1895, $2,250; stenographer, $1,500; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600;Congressional Directory. in all, $9,350, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING SERVICE.Legislative Drafting Service. For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Legislative DraftingSalaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 1141. Service, as authorized by section 1303 of the Revenue Act of 1918, $40,000, one-half of such amount to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. PUBLIC BUILDINGS COMMISSION.Public Buildings Commission For salaries and expenses of the Public Buildings CommissionSalaries, etc. authorized in the Act making appropriations for the legislative,Vol. 40, p. 1259. executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes, approved March 1, 1919, to be immediately available, $3,500.
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS.Statement of appropriations. For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on AppropriationsFor preparing, second session Sixty-seventh Congress. of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations,430Vol. 25, p. 687. and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do the work.
Architect of the Capitol.ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL. office of architect of the capitol. Architect, chief clerk, etc.Salaries: Architect of the Capitol, $6,000; chief clerk and accountant, $3,000; civil engineer, $2,400; construction draftsman, $2,000; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; laborer in charge of toilets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; laborer for cleaning rotunda, corridors, dome, and old library portion of Capitol, $660; two laborers in charge of public toilets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; forewoman of charwomen, $480; twenty-one charwomen at $240 each; in all, $25,080.
Elevator conductors.For forty-eight elevator conductors, including fourteen for the Senate Office Building and fourteen for the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, $57,600. Capitol buildings and grounds.capitol buildings and grounds. General repairs to buildings, etc.Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs 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, $129,500.
Restoring corridor decorations. Senate wing.For continuing the work of restoring the decoration on the walls of the first-floor corridors in the Senate wing of the Capitol, to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. Improving, etc., grounds.Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $40,750.
Trees, plants, etc.For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and Senate and House Office Buildings, $4,000. Repairs to stables, etc.For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate and House stables, and Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,500. Senate Office Buildings.Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $55,654.
Furniture.For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, name plates for doors and committee tables, electric fans, and so forth, $7,500. House Office Building.Maintenance.House Office Building.Maintenance.House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $98,360. Capitol power plant.Maintenance.*Post*, p. 767.Capitol power plant:
For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building and the grounds about the same, Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters431 of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant and substations connected therewith, $177,080.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plantOperating supplies. which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings and other buildings specified in the foregoing paragraph, $200,000. The foregoing appropriations under the Architect of the CapitolPurchases, etc.Vol. 36, p. 531. may be expended without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. The Department of the Interior, the Public Health Service, theReimbursement for current supplied to other buildings.
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Union Station group of temporary housing shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for current supplied during the fiscal year 1923, and the amounts so reimbursed be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. Salaries: For director, $3,000; assistant director, $1,800; clerk,Director, assistant, etc. $1,600; greenhouse foreman, $1,250; head gardener, $1,200; gardener in charge of greenhouses, $1,180; four gardeners at $1,100 each; outside foreman, $1,000; two clerks at $1,150 each; two shipping clerks at $1,000 each; general mechanic, $1,500; carpenters—one $1,404, one $1,170; nine skilled laborers at $864 each; painter, $936; skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the director, $16,000; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $48,516.
Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools,Repairs, improvements, etc. fuel; purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $300; street car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicles; purchase of botanical books and periodicals not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, packing sheds, storerooms, and stables; painting, glazing; repairs to foot-walks and roadways; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; reconstruction of greenhouses; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $21,500.
The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by the BotanicMinor purchases. Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17,Vol. 36, p. 531. 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington. For constructing conduits and installing all mains, cables, apparatus,Heat and light from Capitol power plant. and so forth, including personal services, necessary to provide the Botanic Garden with heat and light from the Capitol power plant; the work to be done under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $20,000.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. salaries.Salaries. General administration: Librarian, $7,500; chief assistant librarian,Librarian, chief assistant, etc. $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; assistant chief clerk, $1,600; assistant in charge of supplies, $1,400;432 clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one to chief assistant librarian $1,200, one $1,200, one, $900; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $600; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $28,260.
Mail and delivery.Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge $1,600, chief $1,200, one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. Order and accession.Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $13,580. Catalogue, classification, and shelf.Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief classifier, $2,000; chief shelf-listing section, $1,500; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $93,520.
Binding.Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,880. Bibliography.Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,640. Reading rooms.Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), three at $1,000 each, two at charging desk at $1,080 each, five at $960 each (including one for Toner library and one for Washington library), one in room for the blind $900, thirty at $840 each, seven at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room, one $960, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator $720; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; in all, $65,580.
Periodical.Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—chief, $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420. Documents.Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; two translators, at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,120. Manuscript.Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts.Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7 680. Music.Music: Chief of division, S3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at S840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, S7,600. Prints.Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposit.Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.
Congressional Reference Library.Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $2,000; assistants—one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,840. Law Library.Law Library: Law librarian, $3,000; stenographer and typewriter, $960; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service), $1,500; in all, $10,360. Semitic, Slavic, and Oriental Literature.Semitic, Slavic, and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,500 each, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,320. 433 Temporary services:
For special and temporary service, includingTemporary services. extra special services of regular employees, at the discretion of the Librarian, $3,000. Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate andCarrier service. House Office Buildings, $960. copyright office.Copyright Office. Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000; clerks—four at $2,000Register, assistants, etc. each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each: four junior messengers, at $420 each.
Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $104,740. legislative reference service.legislative Reference Service. To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent personsDesignation of work. to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $35,000: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Pay restriction. to exceed one person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum. distribution of card indexes.Card indexes.
For service in connection with distribution of card indexes andDistribution service. other publications of the Library: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $24,000, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, postage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian; in all, $53,900. sunday opening.Sunday opening.
To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference useExpenses. from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays, and on legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000. increase of the library.Increase of the Library. For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advancePurchase of books, etc. for subscription books, and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1924, $90,000;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, underLaw books, etc. the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, toBooks for Supreme Court. be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000; Periodicals, etc. In all, $100,000. 434 printing and binding.
Printing and bindingCopyright entries.For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, $212,250. contingent expenses of the library. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $9,000.
Building and grounds.library building and grounds. Superintendent, etc.Salaries: Superintendent, $3,600; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,600,*Post*, p. 715. one $1,400, one $1,000; property clerk, $900; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; three telephone switchboard operators, at $720 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $1,000 each; twenty-two watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; decorator, $1,400; painter, $900; foreman of laborers, $900; sixteen laborers, at $660 each; book cleaner, $720; laundress, $660; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen, at $240 each; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at S900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinist—one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $92,985.
Trees, plants, etc.For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress, $1,000. Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building, from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays, and on legal holidays, $3,000. Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and ail incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, $16,000.
Repository for Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.For providing a safe, permanent repository of appropriate design, within the Library of Congress Building, for the originals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, $12,000, to be immediately available. Furniture, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $12,000. For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the Card Division, $6,000.
Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Office of Public Printer.office of public printer. Public Printer, Deputy, clerks, etc.Salaries: Public Printer, $6,000; Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,750; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at Capitol, $3,000; private secretary, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800435 each, six at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, seven at $1,000 each, one $840; captain of the watch, $1,200; twoWatchmen. lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; fifty-seven watchmen, at $720 each; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeeper—chief $1,200, one $1,200, three assistants at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switch-board operator, $720, three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; three messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $130,880. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding.
To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the followingWorking capital, etc. purposes for the execution of printing, binding, lithographing, mapping, engraving, and other authorized work of the Government Printing Office for the various branches of the Government: ForSalaries, wages etc. salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for (including the compensation of the foreman of binding, the foreman of printing, and the foreman of press work, at $3,000 each); to enable the Public Printer toHolidays. comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to employees; to enableLeaves of absence. the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehiclesVehicles. for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph andContingent expenses. telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses; stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference (not exceeding $500); adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $200,000); equipment, and for repairsMachinery, equipment, etc. to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary paper, materials,Paper, materials, etc. and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailingCharged to Congress. of the work, $2,000,000, to which shall be charged the printing andFor Architect of the Capitol. binding authorized to be done for Congress in an amount not exceeding this sum, and the Public Printer is hereby authorized to furnish, upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate, such printing and binding as may be necessary for the official use of the Architect of the Capitol, to cost not exceeding $250.
Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing appropriation,Authority for Congressional work. when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. During the fiscal year 1923 any executive department or independentPayment of work for departments, etc. establishment of the Government ordering printing and binding from the Government Printing Office shall pay promptly by check to the Public Printer upon his written request, either in advance or upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated436 or actual cost thereof, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer in accordance herewith shall not be subject to audit*Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts. or certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishmentMoneys paid for work to be credited to working capital. concerned.
All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office, for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. Estimates for departments, etc., to be incorporated in single items.All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1924 for printing and binding for any department orDetail to be given if part of other estimates. establishment, so far as the Bureau of the Budget may deem practicable, shall be incorporated in a single item for printing and binding for such department or establishment and be eliminated as a part of any estimate for any other purpose.
And if any amounts for printing and binding are included as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following*Proviso*.Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted. the general estimate for printing and binding: *Provided*, That the foregoing requirement shall not apply to work to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Restriction on paying detailed employees.No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law.
Office of Superintendent of Documents.office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, assistant, etc.Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, eleven at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, twenty-four at $840 each; cataloguers—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, seven at $1,200 each, one $1,100, eight at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,600; assistant foreman, $1,200; labor necessary in making distribution of Government publications, $116,033.20; in all, $218,993.20.
Congressional Record Index.Expenses of preparing.Congressional Record Index: For salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session indexes of the Congressional Record, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, as follows: Chief indexer, $3,000; cataloguer, $2,500; two cataloguers, at $1,800 each: in all, $9,100. Contingent expenses.For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car fares, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $39,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for supplying books to depository libraries, $75,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution*Proviso*.Depository libraries. of public documents, $35,000; in all, $165,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries.
Reports of departments, etc.In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1923 within or under the appropriations for such437 fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments andPrinting may be discontinued. independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions:*Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection. *Provided*, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file m the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection.
Approved, March 20, 1922.