Chapter 89. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 89.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. August 24, 1921. [[H. R. 8117](/us/bill/67/hr/8117).] [[Public, No. 69](/us/pl/67/69).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes, namely:
District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Courts and prisons.courts and prisons. Miscellaneous expenses, supreme court and court of appeals.Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1921, $5,500.
Sixty per cent from District revenues.Sixty per centum of the foregoing sum for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. Shipping Board.UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. Maintenance, etc., Emergency Fleet Corporation.For expenses of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation for losses due to the maintenance and operation of *Provisos.* Limit on payment of claims.ships and for administrative purposes, $48,500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of claims other than those resulting from the current maintenance and operation of Restriction on employment of attorneys.vessels: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used to by the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Snipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has Pay restriction.been approved by the Attorney General of the United States: *Provided further*, That not more than six officers or employees of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Snipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be paid an annual salary or Employment of certified public accountants, etc., limited.compensation in excess of $11,000: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of certified public accountants, their agents, or employees, except those now employed in making an audit and taking an inventory of stock, and after the completion of such audit and inventory all auditing of every nature requiring the services of outside auditors shall be furnished through Subsistence etc., allowance.the Bureau of Efficiency: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for actual expenses of subsistence exceeding $5 a day or per diem in lieu of subsistence exceeding $4 for any officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
State Department.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Conference on armament limitation. All expenses. *Ante*, p. 141.Conference on the Subject of the Limitation of Armament: To enable the United States Government suitably to participate in the Conference on the Subject of the Limitation of Armament to be held 193 in the city of Washington and for the compensation of delegates or other representatives, clerks, and employees, including personal services in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provision of any other Act, expenses of transportation, subsistence, printing in English and other languages (including publication of the proceedings), stationery and supplies, entertainment of delegates, and such other objects as the President may deem necessary, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $200,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That a report shall be made to Congress*Proviso.* Report of expenditures. not later than June 30, 1922, of the expenditures hereunder.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. division of customs.Customs Division. For expenses of the Dye and Chemical Section, Division of Customs,Dye and Chemical section. $7,000. customs service.Customs service. For all necessary expenses, as may be authorized by the SecretaryAdministration, enforcement, etc., of laws and regulations. of the Treasury, in connection with the administration and enforcement of the customs laws and regulations, including investigations by the Tariff Commission, and the consideration of pending legislation, including the employment of any necessary officers and other employees in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, $100,000.
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, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, 25 cents; For 1919, $5.91. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection, etc., of crimes. of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $564. For 1919, $728. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law books,Books for judicial officers. including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, for the fiscal years that follow:
For 1918, $9.00; For 1919, $3.00. Payment of costs taxed against the United States: For the payment Costs in Central Pacific Railway case.of the costs taxed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the defendants in the case of the Central Pacific Railway Company against Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, and Clay Tallman, Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the fiscal year 1921, $116.30. 194 United States courts.UNITED STATES COURTS. Marshals.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $72,000.
District attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $29,000. Clerks.For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with Vol. 40, p. 1182.the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, for the fiscal year 1921, $66,000.
Jurors.For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1921, $31,000. Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal *Proviso.* Texas prison commissioners. Reimbursement.year 1921, $138,000: *Provided*, That the accounting officers are authorized to reimburse from this appropriation the board of prison commissioners of the Texas State prison system in the amount of $5 paid as discharge gratuity to United States prisoner, Hattie Burr.
Miscellaneous.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the district of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $7.04; For 1919, $524.57. *Proviso.* Judd and Detweiler, payment to.For 1920, $1,618.04: *Provided*, That the General Accounting Office is authorized and directed to settle under this appropriation for the fiscal year 1920 the bill of Judd and Detweiler, amounting to $12, for furnishing fifty copies of the brief in the case of Isiah Smith against United States, and to allow in the account of Marshal, Oklahoma western district.
Account allowed.United States marshal for the western district of Oklahoma for the quarter ended September 30, 1920, items aggregating $41.11, covering authorized payments for subsistence in excess of $5 per day cab fare and war tax paid to H. C. Cowles, expert ecologist; For 1921, $42,000. Penitentiaries. Atlanta, Ga.Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,449.10;
For construction of water tank, $20,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For construction complete of new power house, $30,000; For purchase of boilers, engines, and other equipment for power house, $91,500. McNeil Island, Wash.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For construction of waterworks system, $8,200. Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Packers and Stockyards Act. Expenses. *Ante*, p. 169. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.Enforcement of Packers and Stockyards Act:
To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921, $200,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be paid from this appropriation at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum. 195 Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. House of Representatives.house of representatives. To pay the widow of Rorer A. James, late a Representative fromRorer A. James. Pay to widow. the State of Virginia, $7,500, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives.
To pay to the widow of William E. Mason, late a Representative William E. Mason. Pay to widow.from the State of Illinois, $7,500, to be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. For payment to Harry B. Hawes for expenses incurred as contesteeHarry B. Hawes. Contested election expenses. in the contested election case of Bogy versus Hawes, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts.
For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofPayment of. Vol. 24, p. 505. 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 Senate Document Numbered 61, and which have not been appealed, namely: Under the War Department, $8,385.15.War Department. Under the Navy Department, $7,233.50.Navy Department.
In all, $15,618.65, together with such additional sum as may beInterest. 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. For payment of the judgment rendered against the United StatesMaryland district court. VoL 41, p. 1523. by the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, sitting in Admiralty, and certified to Congress by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered 62 of the present session, under the Navy Department, $1,848.70.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CIAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and Payment of.reported to Congress during the present session in Senate Document Numbered 63, namely:Classification. Under the Treasury Department, $166,523.02; Under the War Department, except the judgment in favor of theBroadbent Portable Laundry Corporation, excepted. Broadbent Portable Laundry Corporation, $19,012.71; In all, $185,535.73.*Post*, p. 340. None of the judgments contained herein shall be paid until the rightRight of appeal. of appeal shall 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, and 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, andVol. 18, p. 110. under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1919 and prior years, unless otherwise stated,Vol. 23, p.254. and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 64, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 196 Treasury Department.For salaries and expenses, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $120.12.
For national security and defense, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $2.25. For collecting the revenue from customs, $12.24. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 1920, $464.44. For quarantine service, $48.30. For interstate quarantine service, 1921, $469.95. For field investigations of public health, $18. For maintenance of marine hospitals, Public Health Service, $80.70. For collecting the war revenue, $554.75. For collecting the income tax, $304.50.
For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $471. For refunding internal revenue collections, $1,595.63. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $1,537.26. For redemption of stamps, $9.13. For allowance or drawback (internal revenue), $201.44. For materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $26.40. For Coast Guard, $15,543.94. For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, 1920, $1,000. For contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $65.76.
For operating supplies for public buildings, $27.53. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $31.79. For repairs and preservation of public buildings. $8.55. For mechanical equipment of public buildings, $29.15. For general expenses of public buildings, $3.15. For judgments, Court or Claims, Treasury Department, $437.62. War Department.For contingent expenses, War Department, $27.05. For increase of compensation, War, Miscellaneous, Civil, 25 cents. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $8,645.64.
For contingencies of the Army, $9.20. For registration and selection for military service, $1,576.29. For contingencies, Military Intelligence Division, General Staff Corps, 1920, $2,435.55. For Signal Service of the Army, $7,545.37. For increase for aviation, Signal Corps, $2,063.54. For Air Service, military, $270.90. For Air Service, production, $393.99. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $3,276.85. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $768.16. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $54.89.
For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $93,017.18. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $122.39. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $7.72. For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers, $149.97. For inland and port storage and shipping facilities, $42. For medical and hospital department, $4,099.02. For artificial limbs, $41.67. For engineer operations in the field. $2,220. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $178,956.33.
For barracks and quarters, $5,702.32. For ordnance service, $543.66. For ordnance stores and supplies, $133.90. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $28.16. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $128.88. For armament of fortifications, $14,856.87. For electrical and sound ranging equipment. $94.50.197 For proving ground facilities, $175.05. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $83.81. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $20.50. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $51.24.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch, $2.50. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office,Navy Department. $5.85. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $5. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $16.88. For pay, miscellaneous, $705.38. For aviation, Navy, $2,065.79. For pay, Marine Corps, $3,603.95. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $3,262.35. For contingent, Marine Corps, $2,263.30. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,886.30.
For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $424.44. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $86.55. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $25. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $899.24. For pay of the Navy, $19,963.42. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $414.23 For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $96,355.90. For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $54. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $1,383.08.
For equipment and operation, building for Interior DepartmentInterior Department. offices, $12.50. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $3.45. For scientific library, Patent Office, $22.05. For medical relief in Alaska, $833.33. For contingent expenses of land offices, $72.05. For salaries, offices of surveyors general, $272.48. For contingent expenses, offices of surveyors general, $10. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $21.77. For surveying the public lands, $776.57.
For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $3.66. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, 62 cents. For investigating mine accidents, $22.17. For Geological Survey, $1.93. For Army pensions, $96. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseasesIndian service. among Indians, $47.90. For industrial work and care of timber, $27.50. For Indian school and agency buildings, $12.75. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $265.03. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $6.71.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1920, $34.62. For inspectors, Indian Service, $12.85. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, $17.82. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, $114.29. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, $44.55. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, 1920, $10.60. For support of Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, 1920, $122.80. For education, Sioux Nation, South Dakota, 10 cents. For support of Indians in Utah, $41.14. For support of Indians of Colville and other agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, 91 cents.198 For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, $14.19.
For irrigation project, ceded lands, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), 1920, $628.23. For irrigation project, ceded lands, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), 1921, $427.36. Public printing.For public printing and binding, $57.58. Executive.For salaries and expenses, Committee on Public Information, $3.38. For national security and defense, Executive, $415.02. For national security and defense, Committee on Public Information, $114.97. For salaries and expenses.
War Trade Board, $146.48. For national security and defense, Executive, $92.92. Department of State.For national security and defense, Department of State, $31,457.27. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $989.94. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1920, $1,739.98. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1921, $1,581.55. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $108,678.08. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, 1920, $16,913.62.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, $400. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $4,986.20. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish Dominion, $132.80. For representation of interests of foreign Governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, and so forth, $18,777.97. For relief of American citizens and prisoners of war in Germany, $240. For exposition, city of Panama, 75 cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, $478.79. For relief and protection of American seamen, 1920, $5,485.29.
State, etc., Department buildings.For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department buildings, $78.51. National Museum.For preservation of collections, National Museum, $4.53. Interstate Commerce Commission.For interstate Commerce Commission, $45.86. Food and Fuel Administrations.For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $868.52. For salaries and expenses, United States Fuel Administration, $17.19. For national security and defense, Food and Fuel Administrations, educational, $57.15.
For national security and defense, United States Fuel Administration, $1.89. Shipping Board.For salaries and expenses, United States Shipping Board, $160.81. Supreme court, D.C.For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, 1921, $1,300.52. Department of Agriculture.For library, Department of Agriculture, $7.62. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $3.08. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $161.89. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $57.16.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $115.36. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $16.72. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $1.10. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1.03. For general expenses, States Relations Service, $8.57. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, $5.11. For general expenses, Bureau of Markets, $15.16. For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, $1.18.199 For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, $2.17.Department of Commerce.
For national security and defense, Department of Commerce, 26 cents. For commercial attachés, Department of Commerce, $16.16. For promoting commerce, Department of Commerce, $12.43. For gauge standardization, Bureau of Standards, $38. For military research, Bureau of Standards, $7.56. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 82 cents. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $40,920.46. For miscellaneous expenses. Bureau of Fisheries, $1.87. For national security and defense, Department of Labor, $190.60.Department of Labor.
For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $4.97. For salaries and expenses, commissioners of conciliation, $1.01. For expenses of regulating immigration, $37.12. For expenses of interned aliens, $45.42. For enforcement of the child labor law, 20 cents. For investigation of child welfare, Children’s Bureau, $42.13. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $45.41.Department of Justice. For national security and defense, Department of Justice, $43.55. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $287.52.United States courts.
For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $1.53. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $232.10. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1920, $709.82. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $25.20. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $742. For railroad transportation, $58,106.83.Postal service. For compensation to postmasters, $21.58. For city delivery carriers, 1920, $664.94. For city delivery carriers, 1916–17, $2,569.96.
For indemnity, international mail, $322.05. For indemnities, domestic mail, $5.18. For Star Route Service, $471.76. For electric and cable car service, $103.83. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, 45 cents. For rent, light, and fuel, $275. For Rural Delivery Service, $215.10. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $13.73. For clerics, first and second-class post offices, $49.52. For electric power, light, and so forth, $137.10. Total audited claims, section 2, $790,994.43.
Approved, August 24, 1921.