Chapter 429. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 429.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. September 22, 1922.[[H. R. 12704](/us/bill/67/hr/12704).][[Public, No. 364](/us/67/pl/364).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,First Deficiency Act, 1923.Deficiency appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate.senate. William E. Crow.Pay to widow.To pay Adelaide Curry Crow, widow of Honorable William E. Crow, late a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, $7,500. 1049 To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters.Reimbursement. of the Senate for expenses incurred during the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, $4,484. To pay Alexander K. Meek for extra and expert services renderedAlexander K. Meek.Services. to the Committee on Pensions during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-seventh Congress as an assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. house of representatives.Rouse of Representatives.
To pay to the widow of Lemuel P. Padgett, late a RepresentativeLemuel P. Padgett. Pay to widow. from the State of Tennessee, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Anns of the House, $7,500. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and selectMiscellaneous items. committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year 1922, $28,289.47. EXECUTIVE.Executive. white house police.White House police. For the following employees from October 1, 1922, to June 30,Salaries.*Ante*, p. 841. 1923, both dates inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
First sergeant, $2,140; two sergeants, at $1,800 each; thirty privates, at $1,660 each; in all, $41,655. For uniforming and equipping the White House police, includingUniforms, etc. the purchase and issue of revolvers and ammunition, fiscal year 1923, $9,900. FEDERAL FUEL DISTRIBUTION. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act toExpenses of Fuel Distributor.*Ante*, p. 1025. declare a national emergency to exist in the production, transportation, and distribution of coal and other fuel, granting additional powers to the Interstate Commerce Commission, providing for the appointment of a Federal Fuel Distributor, providing for the declaration of car-service priorities during the present emergency, and to prevent the sale of fuel at unjust and unreasonably high prices,” including the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere and all expenses incident to organizing the work of the Federal fuel distribution, $150,000, to be available until expended and to be expended by the Federal Fuel Distributor under the authority and direction of the President: *Provided*, That $50,000 of*Proviso*.Fuel distribution committee expenses. such sum shall be available for reimbursement and payment upon specific approval of the President of expenses incurred since May 15, 1922, m connection with the work of the President’s fuel distribution committee organized for the purpose of helping to meet the emergency existing in the matter of fuel.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the executionExpenses. of laws to regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Executive Office and Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $100,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Executive Office and Independent Offices Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1923, $66,150. 1050 United States Coal Commission.UNITED STATES COAL COMMISSION.
All expenses.*Ante*, p. 1023.To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a commission to be known as the United States Coal Commission for the purpose of securing information in connection with questions relative to interstate commerce in coal, and for other purposes,” including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and rent if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that *Proviso*.Pay restriction.commission, fiscal year 1923, $200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of compensation of any person in excess of $7,500 per annum.
Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Grain Futures Act.Appropriation available.*Ante*, pp. 539, 998.The appropriation of $103,600 made for the fiscal year 1923 for the enforcement of the Future Trading Act, approved August 24, 1921, shall be available for carrying into effect the provisions of the Grain Futures Act, approved September 21, 1922. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
China Trade Act.Expenses executing.*Ante*, p. 849.China Trade Act: To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “China Trade Act, 1922,” including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere from October 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923, as follows: Registrar at $7,500 per annum, assistant registrar at $5,000 per annum, two clerks at $2,500 per annum each, clerk at $2,000 per annum, two clerks at $1,500 per annum each, and two clerks at $1,000 per annum each; rent outside the District of Columbia, travel and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, purchase of necessary furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, fiscal year 1923, $29,375.
Interior Department.INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Public lands.general land office. Oregon California lands.Protection.Vol. 31, p. 208.Oregon and California Railroad 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 and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the act approved June 9, 1916, and the lands Coos Bay wagon-road lands.Vol. 40, p. 1179.known as the Coos Bay wagon-road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company against United States (numbered twenty-seven hundred and eleven, in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit), fiscal year 1922, $10,169.57.
Indian Affairs.indian affairs. Rapid City, B. Dak.Rebuilding school dormitory.Rapid City Indian School, Rapid City, South Dakota: For rebuilding and refurnishing the boys’ dormitory at the Rapid City Indian School, Rapid City, South Dakota, which dormitory was recently destroyed by fire, fiscal year 1923, $50,000. Tomah, Wis.Rebuilding, etc.; school.*Ante*, p. 830.Tomah Indian School, Tomah, Wisconsin: For rebuilding and refurnishing the school building at the Tomah Indian School, Tomah, Wisconsin, recently destroyed by fire, in accordance with the pro-1051visions of the Act of August 24, 1922 (Public, Numbered two hundred and eighty-nine, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session), fiscal year 1923, $50,000.
Spillway and drainage ditch, Lake Andes, South Dakota: For theLake Andes, 8. DakConstructing spillway, etc.*Ante*, p, 990. construction of a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act providing for the construction of a spillway and drainage ditch to lower and maintain the level of Lake Andes, South Dakota,” approved September 21, 1922, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be made immediately available.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. office of the secretary. Second Assistant Secretary, from July 11, 1922, to June 30, 1923,Second Assistant Secretary, etc.*Ante*, p. 766. $4,861.11; private secretary to the Second Assistant Secretary, from October 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923, $1,575; in all, fiscal year 1923, $6,436.11. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Relief of American citizens and their relatives: For relief ofAmerican citizens in Smyrna.Relief, etc., of. American citizens and their relatives who have been victims of the recent march on Smyrna and the burning of that city, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of State, to be immediately available, $200,000.
Diplomatic and Consular Service.Diplomatic and Consular Service. ambassadors and ministers. For an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary toAlbania, and Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.Ministers to. Albania and for an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, at $10,000 each per annum, from October 1, 1922, to June 30, 1923, $15,000. secretaries in the diplomatic service. For salaries of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service, as provided inDiplomatic secretaries.Vol. 38, p. 805;
Vol. 39, p. 252; Vol. 41, p. 740. the Act of February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” as amended by the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, approved July 1, 1916, and the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920, fiscal year 1923, $7,312.50. mixed claims commission, united states and germany.
For the expenses of determining the amounts of claims againstUnited States and Germany Mixed Claims Commission.All expenses.*Post*, p. 2200. Germany by the mixed commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, including the expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, are chargeable in part to the United States: and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and1052their assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, contingent and traveling expenses, and such other expenses in the United States or elsewhere as the President may deem proper, $180,000.
Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Census Bureau.bureau of the census. Binding schedules.Not exceeding $30,000 of the appropriation for collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census, for the fiscal year 1923, may be used for binding the schedules containing the names and census data for the individuals enumerated at the census of 1920 and prior censuses. Army.Private property damages claims.Claims for damages to and loss of private property: For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, $93,163.47: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall *Provisos*.Settlement, etc.*Repealed*.*Post*, p. 1162.have been made by the General Accounting Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property Restrictions.in full satisfaction of such damages: *Provided further*, That this amount shall be available exclusively for the payment of claims in excess of $500 which have been approved and recommended by the Secretary of War.
Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Payment of.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Vol. 24, p. 505.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 in Senate Document Numbered 255, and which nave not been appealed, namely: War Department.Under the War Department, $9,786.96, 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.
New Jersey district court.Vol. 41, p. 1553.For payment of the judgment rendered against the United States by the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, sitting in Admiralty, and certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered 258 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $2,787.65. Virginia eastern district court.Vol. 39, p. 1261.For payment of the judgment rendered against the United States by the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting in Admiralty, and certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered 258 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $7,402.45.
Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 256, namely: Classification.Under the Treasury Department, $1,410.23; Under the War Department, $619.41; Under the Navy Department, $119,226.71; Under the Post Office Department, $16,584.82; Under the United States Shipping Board, $146,193.54; In all, $284,034.71. 1053 None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay to RobertRobert L. Owens and associates.Mississippi Choctaw Indians fund. L. Owen and associates, who are plaintiffs in the case of Wirt K. Winton, administrator of Charles F. Winton, deceased, and others against Jack Amos, and others, in case Numbered 29821, the sum of $175,000 out of any funds now or hereafter due the Mississippi Choctaws under the judgment of the Court of Claims rendered on June 12, 1922, in favor of the above-cited plaintiffs against the Mississippi Choctaws; meeting the deficiency out of the reserve for unpaid Choctaw per capita funds and reimbursing the same out of the funds hereafter due said Mississippi Choctaws per capita.
AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toPayment of, certified by General Accounting Office.*Ante*, p. 23. be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1920 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act ofVol. 23, p. 254.
July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 254, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: independent offices. For salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information, $8.36.Independent offices. For United States Tariff Commission, $3.20. For preservation and collections, National Museum, $22.51. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Buildings, $173.47. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $228.46.
For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $16.24. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $14.60. department of agriculture. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Agriculture, $83.41.Department of Agriculture. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $89.72. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $2.40. For general expenses, Forest Service, $757.72. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $3.22. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $34.29.
For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $8.98. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $557.80. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $4.75. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $61.02. department of commerce. For commercial attachés, Department of Commerce, $62.77.Department of Commerce. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 84 cents. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $1,129.22. For repairs of vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $27.
For motor-driven vessels and launches, Coast Survey, $46.50. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $57.59. For equipment of laboratory, Bureau of Standards, $954.51. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $4,803.76. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $233.47. 1054 interior department. Interior Department.For scientific library, Patent Office, $16.35. For expenses of special inspectors, Department of the Interior, $34.16. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $47.63.
For surveying the public lands, $61.46. For Geological Survey, $35.44. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, $26.61. For mineral mining investigations, Bureau of Mines, $292.92. For operating mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, $309.76. For increase of compensation, Indian Service, $216.49. For Indian schools, support, $35.31. For Indian school and agency buildings, $505.18. For Indian school transportation, $5.33. For industrial work and care of timber, $20.73. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $5,794.30.
For pay of Indian police, $26.36. For general expenses, Indian Service, $27.36. For industry among Indians, $41.11. For suppressing contagious diseases among live stock of Indians, $151. For water supply for stock and increasing grazing range on unallotted Indian lands, $3,336.30. For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, $300. For Indian school, Greenville, California, $41.10. For support of Indians, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, $584.14. For highway from Mesa Verde National Park to Gallup, New Mexico, $330.51.
For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, $119.13. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, $22.18. department of justice. Department of Justice.For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, stationery, $3.35. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $3,719.06. For inspection of prisons and prisoners, 22 cents. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, $2. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $371.54. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $1,678.13.
For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $89.17. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $15. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $6. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $898.47. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $97.85. department of labor. Department of Labor.For increase of compensation, Department of Labor, $12.67. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $124.47. For payment of judgments against collectors of customs (Immigration Service), $379.50.
For advanced transportation, United States Employment Service, $12.50. For War Emergency Employment Service, $4.80. For national security ana defense, Department of Labor, $37.97. For Employment Service, Department of Labor, $15.73. For expenses of regulating immigration, $87.19. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $4.24. 1055 navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $929.55.Navy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $296.18. For aviation, Navy, $3,690.59.
For pay, Marine Corps, $3,468.18. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $1,469.18. For contingent, Marine Corps, $49. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $12,091.92. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $935.96. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $167. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $35.84. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $2.33. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $207.50.
For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, $430.80. For pay of the Navy, $46,840.61. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,115.44. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $269.83. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $31,888.29. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $6,700.65. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $410.83. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $2,674.49. department of state.
For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, $961.11.State Department. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $8.85. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $9,193.35. For clerks at embassies and legations, $95.83. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $1,606.30. For salaries, Consular Service, $1,251.09. For post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers, $3,339.34. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $1,259.24. For salaries, interpreters to consulates, $3,019.10.
For relief and protection of American seamen, $2,814.39. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $2,791.60. For representation of interests of foreign governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, $1,183.58. For national security and defense, Department of State, $948.80. treasury department. For increase of compensation, Treasury Department, $39.34.Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $5.49. For expenses of loans, Act September 24, 1917, as amended, $38,292.97.
For contingent expenses, Treasury Department; stationery, $128.76. For collecting the revenue from customs, $29.91. For salaries and expenses of collectors, and so forth, of internal revenue, $2.89. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $16,972.25. For collecting the war revenue, $68.61. For enforcement of National Prohibition Act, internal revenue, $421.09. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal Revenue Service, $152.07. 1056 For refunding internal revenue collections, $98.53.
For Coast Guard, $2,313.78. For pay of acting assistant surgeons, Public Health Service, $75. For fuel, light, and water, Public Health Service, $180.68. For books, Public Health Service, $15.04. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $1,285.64. For field investigations of public health, 24 cents. For expenses, Division of Venereal Diseases, Public Health Service, 54 cents. For general expenses of public buildings, $8.88. For operating force for public buildings, $42.82.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $171.37. For operating supplies for public buildings, $326.98. war department. War Department.For contingent expenses, War Department, 25 cents. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $6,599.56. For civilian military training camps, $52.98. For registration and selection for military service, $1,889.70. For Signal Service of the Army, $13,879.79. For Air Service, military, $718.62. For Air Service, production, $341.57.
For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $794.51. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $751.52. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $490.95. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $302,484.67. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $6.50. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $41.18. For barracks and quarters, $105.20. For roads, walks, wharfs, and drainage, $23. For construction and repair of hospitals, $1,346. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $273,275.17.
For medical and hospital department, $4,799.91. For engineer, operations in the field, $393.33. For ordnance service, $415.82. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $1,839.25. For manufacture of arms, $288.26. For ordnance stores and supplies, $583.88. For automatic rifles, $3,516.68. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $1,037.72. For electrical and sound-ranging equipment, and so forth, $168.10. For gun and mortar batteries, $156.56. For fire control at fortifications, $249.65.
For armament of fortifications, $39,316.88. For proving grounds, Army, $4.68. For proving ground facilities, $23.25. For fortifications in insular possessions, $75. For replacing medical supphes, $27. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $59.24. For engineer equipment of troops, $5,389.94. For Air Service, Army, $10,206.75. For repairs of arsenals, $237.74. For library, Surgeon General’s Office, $7.39. For military post exchanges, $6.40. For quartermaster supplies, equipment, and so forth, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $219.18.
For maintenance, and so forth, firecontrol installations at sea-coast defenses, insular possessions, Signal Service, $7. 1057 For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees, $672.22. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $34.43. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $15.37. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $1,323.07. For testing machines, $18.63. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $48.55. post office department—postal service.
For clerks, first and second class post offices, $446.89.Postal service. For railroad transportation, $11,043.70. For Star Route Service, $165.10. For telegraphing, $1.33. For indemnities domestic mail, $239.79. For Railway Mail Service (salaries), $19.90. For Railway Mail Service (miscellaneous expenses), 61 cents. For rewards, $100. For compensation to postmasters, $283.37. For indemnities, international registered mail, $132.57. For balances due foreign countries, $10,333.11.
For foreign mail transportation, $2,904.19. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $338.72. For Mail Messenger Service, $438.87. For Rural Delivery Service, $63.69. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $115. For vehicle service, $498. For temporary city delivery carriers, $805.50. For city delivery carriers, $393.56. For special delivery fees, $381.84. For post office equipment and supplies, $4.50 For Village Delivery Service, $3.75. For rent, light, and fuel, $225.
For clerics, third-class post offices, $75. For temporary clerk hire, $22.40. For Power Boat and Aeroplane Service, $7.27. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $123.35. For railroad transportation, $4.04. For shipment of supplies, $6.41. Total, audited claims, section 2, $935,226.67. Sec. 3. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “FirstTitle of Act. Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1923.” Approved, September 22, 1922.