Chapter 183. To fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government
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CHAP. 183.— An Act To fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government. May 24, 1924.[[H. R. 8262](/us/bill/68/hr/8262).][[Public, No. 136](/us/pl/68/136).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Section 1. Legislative officers and employees.Positions and pay established. The following positions and annual (except where specified otherwise) rates of compensation are hereby established: 147 SENATE.Senate. office of the vice president.Vice President’s office.
Secretary to the Vice President, $4,200; clerk, $1,940; assistantSecretary, clerks, etc. clerk, $2,080; messenger, $1,310. chaplain.Chaplain. Chaplain of the Senate, $1,520. office of the secretary. Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursingSecretary of the Senate, assistant secretary, clerks, etc. officer of salaries of Senators, and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,500; reading clerk, $4,500; financial clerk, $4,500; chief clerk, $3,420; assistant financial clerk, $3,600; minute and Journal clerk, $3,600; principal clerk, $3,150; librarian, $3,000; enrolling clerk, $3,150; printing clerk, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,890; file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,880 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, $2,780 each; assistant librarian, $2,150; skilled laborer, $1,520; clerks—three at $2,880 each, two at $2,590 each, one $2,460, one $2,100, one $1,770; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,360; assistant in stationery room, $1,520; messenger in library, $1,310: special officer, $2,150; assistant messenger, $1,520; laborers—three at $1,140 each, three at $1,010 each, one in stationery room, $1,440. document room.Document room.
Superintendent, $3,500; first assistant, $2,880; two clerks, at $1,770Superintendent, assistant, etc. each; skilled laborer, $1,520. committee employees.Committee employees. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: AgricultureClerks, assistant clerks, and messengers to designated committees. and Forestry—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Appropriations—clerk, $6,000; assistant clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $3,000: three assistant clerks; at $2,700 each: two assistant clerks, at $2,100 each; messenger, $1,440.
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Banking and Currency—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Civil Service—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Claims—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,570; assistant clerk, $2,360; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Commerce—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150, assistant clerk, $1,830.
Conference Minority of the Senate— clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. District of Columbia—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,480; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Education and Labor—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk $1,520. Expenditures in the Executive Departments—clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Finance—clerk, $3,600; special assistant to the committee, $3,150; assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,460; assistant clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each; two experts (one for the majority148 and one for the minority), at $2,360 each; messenger, $1,520. Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,300: assistant clerk, $2,590; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830: additional clerk, $1,520. Immigration—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk. $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Indian Affairs—clerk. $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,570; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Interoceanic Canals—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Interstate Commerce—clerk, $3,300; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Judiciary—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk. $1,830.
Library—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Manufactures—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Military Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; additional clerk, $1,940; three assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Mines and Mining—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Naval Affairs—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,590; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each.
Patents—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk. $1,520. Pensions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; four assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,460; three assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Printing—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,150; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Privileges and Elections—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,830: additional clerk. $1,520.
Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,840; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Public Lands and Surveys—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,150; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk. $1,520. Rules—clerk,Senate Manual. $3,300, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules; two assistant clerks, at $2,150 each; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520.
Territories and Insular Possessions—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assistant clerk, $1,830; additional clerk, $1,520. Clerical assistance to Senators.clerical assistance to senators. Clerks to Senators not chairmen of specified committees.Clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein, as follows: Seventy clerks at $3,300 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,940 each, and seventy assistant clerks at $1,830 each.
Such clerks and assistant clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman. Additional.Seventy-one additional clerks at $1,520 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. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper.office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper. Sergeant at Arms, assistants, messengers, and other employees.Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500:
Assistant Doorkeeper, $4,200; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $4,200; two floor assistants, at $3,600 each; messengers—five (acting as assistant doorkeepers, including one for minority), at $2,150 each; thirty-eight (including one for minority), at $1,770 each; one, $1,310; one at card door, $1,940; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be149 selected by the official reporters, $2,800; storekeeper, $2,740; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,520; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,770; cabinetmaker, $1,520; three carpenters, at $1,390 each; janitor, $1,520; five skilled laborers, at $1,310 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $1,340; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $1,240 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $1,010 each; telephone operators—chief. $2,040, four, at $1,200 each; night operator, $1,010; telephone page, $1,010; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $950; press gallery—superintendent, $2,740; assistant superintendent, $1,840; messenger for service to press correspondents, $1,240; laborers—three, at $1,100 each; thirty-four at $1,010 each; twenty-onePages. pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $3.30 per day each, during the session.
Police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice, Senate Office Building. Arms: Sixteen privates, $1,360 each: special officer, $1,520. post office.Post office. Postmaster, $2,740; chief clerk, $2,150; eight mail carriers andPostmaster and other employees. one wagon master, at $1,520 each; three riding pages, at $1,220 each. folding room.Folding room. Superintendent, $1,940; foreman. $1,940; assistant, $1,730; clerk,Superintendent and other employees. $1,520; folders—seven at $1,310 each, seven at $1,140 each.
CAPITOL POLICE.Capitol police. Captain, $2,150; three lieutenants, at $1,520 each: two specialCaptain, lieutenants, etc. officers, at $1,520 each; three sergeants, at $1,410 each; forty-four privates, at $1,360 each. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.Joint Committee on Printing. Clerk, $4,000: inspector, $2,490; stenographer, $1,740.Clerk, etc. OFFICE OF ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.Architect of the Capitol’s office. Architect of the Capitol, $G,000; chief clerk and accountant,Architect, chief clerk, and other employees. $3,150; civil engineer, $2,770; construction draftsman, $2,360; two clerks, at $1,520 each; laborers—two at $1,010 each, two at $950 each; forewoman of charwomen, $760; twenty-one charwomen, at $410 each; forty-eight elevator conductors, at $1,520 each.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. office of the speaker.Speaker’s office Secretary to the Speaker, $4,200; clerk to the Speaker’s table.Secretary, clerk to the Speaker’s, table, etc.Digest of the Rules. $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to the Speaker, $1,940; messenger to the Speaker’s table, $1,520; messenger to the Speaker, $1,440. chaplain. Chaplain of the House of Representatives, $1,520. Chaplain. office of the clerk.
Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensationClerk of the House, Journal clerk, and other employees. as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,200 each; disbursing clerk, $3,570;150 tally clerk, $3,470; file clerk, $3,420; enrolling clerk, $3,200 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; property custodian and superintendent of furniture and repair shop, who shall be a skilled cabinetmaker or upholsterer and experienced in the construction and purchase of furniture, $3,600; two assistant custodians at $3,000 each; chief bill clerk, $3,150; assistant enrolling clerk, $2,880; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,780; stationery clerk, $2,570; librarian, $2,460; assistant librarian, $2,240; assistant file clerk, $2,250; assistant librarian, and assistant journal clerk, at $2,150 each; clerks—one $2,150, three at $2,020 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,940 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,830 each; stenographer to the Clerk, $1,730; locksmith and typewriter repairer, $1,620; messenger and clock repairer, $1,520; assistant in stationery room, $1,520; three messengers, at $1,410 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,310; nine telephone operators, at $1,200 each; three session telephone operators, at $100 per month each; substitute telephone operator, when required, at $3.30 per day; laborers—three at $1,200 each, nine at $1,010 each.
Committee employees.committee employees. Clerks and janitors to designated committees.Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Agriculture—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Appropriations—clerk, $5,000, and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, $4,000; six assistant clerks, at $3,000 each; assistant clerk, $2,440; janitor, $1,440.
Banking and Currency—clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Census—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Claims—clerk, $2,880; assistantclerk,$1,520; janitor,$1,010. Coinage. Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Disposition or Useless Executive Papers—clerk, $2,360. District of Columbia— clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk. $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Education— clerk, $2,360. Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk, $2,360.
Elections Numbered 1—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 2—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Elections Numbered 3—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Enrolled Bills—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Flood Control—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Foreign Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Immigration and Naturalization—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Indian Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,010. Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010.
Insular Affairs—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk, $2,880; additional clerk, $2,360; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Irrigation and Reclamation—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Invalid Pensions—clerk, $2,880; stenographer, $2,560; assistant clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,240. Judiciary—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,240. Labor—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Library—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010.
Military Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Mines and Mining—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Naval Affairs—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310. Patents—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Pensions—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,940; janitor, $1,010. Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,730; janitor, $1,310. Printing—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,310. Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010.
Public Lands—clerk, $2,360; assistant151 clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Civil Service—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,000; janitor, $1,010. Rivers and Harbors—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150; janitor, $1,310. Roads—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Rules—clerk, $2,360, assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,010. Territories—clerk. $2,360; janitor, $1,010. War Claims—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Ways and Means—clerk, $3,600; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,360; assistant clerk, $2,250; janitors—one $1,310, one $1,010.
World War Veterans’ Legislation—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $2,150. office of sergeant at arms. Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $2,880;Sergeant at Arms, deputy, and other employees. cashier $4,000; two bookkeepers, at $2,640 each; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in charge of pairs, $2,150; pair clerk and messenger, $2,150; messenger, $1,730; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; skilled laborer, $1,140. Police Force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms:Police, House Office Building.
Lieutenant, $1,520; nineteen privates, at $1,360 each. office of the doorkeeper. Doorkeeper, $5,000; special employee, $2,040; superintendent ofDoorkeeper, special employees, messengers, and other employees. House press gallery, $2,240; assistant to the superintendent of the House press gallery, $1,520; janitor, $2,040; messengers—seventeen at $1,500 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,520 each; laborers—seventeen at $1,010 each, two known as cloakroom men at $1,140 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one at $1,010, and seven at $890 each; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,440 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,880; foreman of foldingFolding room employees. room, $2,340; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $2,150; three clerks at $1,940 each; janitor, $1,010; laborer, $1,010: thirty-one folders, at $1,200 each; shipping clerk, $1,520; two drivers, at $1,140 each; two chief pages at $1,740 each; two telephone pages,Pages, etc. at $1,440 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,400 each; assistant messenger in charge of telephones, $1,830; forty-two pages during the session at $3,30 per day each; laborer, $1,100; superintendent of document room, $3,050; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,460; clerk, $2,040;Document room employees. assistant clerk, $1,940; eight assistants, at $1,600 each; janitor, $1,220; messenger to pressroom, $1,310. special and minority employees.Special and minority employees.
Special employee (Joel Grayson) in the document room, $2,740. Joel Grayson. Six minority employees at $2,150 each, authorized and named inMinority employees. the resolution of December 5, 1923. Assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in theAssistant in folding room. resolution of September 30, 1913, at $4.76 per day. Laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of April 28, 1914,Laborers. $1,140. Laborer, authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $1,140.
Clerk, under the direction of the Clerk of the House, named in theClerk under Clerk of the House. resolution of February 13, 1923, $2,740. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the fiveAppointment of successors. preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. 152 Majority Floor Leader.Clerks, etc.Conference Minority.Clerks, etc.Office of Majority Floor Leader: Legislative clerk, $3,600; clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310.
Conference Minority: Clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,740; janitor, $1,310. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. Messengers, caucus rooms.Two messengers, one in the majority caucus room, and one in the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,520 each. Post office.post office. Postmaster, assistant, and other employees.Postmaster, $4,200; assistant postmaster, $2,570; registry and money-order clerk, $1,830; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,520 each; substitute messengers and extra services of regular employees, when required, at the rate of not to exceed $105 per month each; laborer, $1,010. official reporters of debates.
Official reporters of debates, etc.Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $6,000 each: assistant, $3,000; six expert transcribers, at $1,520 each; janitor, $1,220. committee stenographers. Stenographers to committees.Four stenographers to committees, at $6,000 each; janitor, $1,220. clerk hire, members, delegates, and resident commissioners. Clerk hire, Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.Rates.Vol. 42, p. 1217.The clerk hire for each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner shall be at the rate of $4,000 per annum and shall be paid in accordance with the Act of January 25, 1923 (Forty-second*Proviso*.Salary limit.
Statutes, chapter 43, page 1217): *Provided*, That no person shall receive a salary from such clerk hire at a rate in excess of $3,300 per annum. Sec. 2. Act effective July 1, 1924. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1924. Approved, May 24, 1924.