Chapter 303. Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 303.— An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 9429](/us/bill/68/hr/9429).][[Public, No. 225](/us/pl/43/225).] *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, 1925, 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.*Ante*, p. 147.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s office.office of the vice president Secretary, clerks, and messenger.Salaries: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,200; assistant clerk, $2,080; clerk, $1,940; messenger, $1,310; in all, $9,530. Chaplain.chaplain For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the secretary Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.Salaries:
Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, and of contingent fund of the 579Senate, $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; in all, $101,580. document roomDocument room.
Salaries: Superintendent, $3,500; first assistant, $2,880; second Superintendent, etc.assistant, in lieu of employee heretofore paid under Senate Resolution Numbered 90, $2,100; two clerks, at $1,770 each: skilled laborer, $1,520, in all, $13,540. committee employeesCommittee employees. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture 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 majority 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. 580$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, $2,040; 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.
Preparing Senate Manual.Rules—clerk, 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; in all, $368,170. Clerical assistance to Senators.clerical assistance to senators Allowance to Senators not chairmen of designated committees.For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein:
Seventy clerks at $3,300 each, seventy assistant clerks at $1,940 each, seventy assistant clerks *Proviso*.Authority as committee clerks.at $1,830 each, $494,900: *Provided*, That such clerks and assistant clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman; Additional clerks.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, $107,920; in all, $602,820.
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 Doorkeeper, $4,200; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $4,200; two floor assistants, at $3,600 each; messengers—five (acting as assistant door-keepers, 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 be selected by the official reporters, $2,800;
Deputy Sergeant at Arms and storekeeper, $3,600; 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, Laborers.$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; 581twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $3.30 Pages.per day each during the session, $8,385.30; in all, $196,555.30.
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,360 each; special officer, $1,520; in all, $23,280. post officePost office. Salaries: Postmaster, $2,740; chief clerk. $2,150; eight mail carriers Postmaster, etc.and one wagon master, at $1,520 each; three riding pages, at $1,220 each; in all, $22,230. folding roomFolding room. Salaries: Superintendent. $2,400; foreman, $1,940; assistant, Superintendent, etc.$1,730; clerk, $1,520; folders—seven at $1,310 each, seven at $1,140 each; in all, $24,740. contingent expenses of the senateContingent expenses.
For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including Stationery.$7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $25,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200: office of Sergeant Postage stamps.at Arms, $100; in all, $300. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor vehicles.carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $10,000. For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Automobile, Vice President.Vice President, $3,500.
For materials for folding, $1,500.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, Fuel, oil, 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, $970.Packing boxes.Document warehouse.Miscellaneous items.Inquiries and investigations.
For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $125,000. 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, $150,000. For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable Reporting debates.in equal monthly installments, $44,844.
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate Senate kitchens and restaurantskitchens 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, $35,000. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESHouse 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 582Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500.
Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc.*Ante*, p. 149.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Speaker’s office.office of the speaker Secretary, clerks, etc.Salaries: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,200; clerk to the Speaker’s Digest of the Rules.table, $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, in all, $13,700. chaplain Chaplain.For Chaplain, $1,520. office of the clerk Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.Salaries:
Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,200 each; disbursing clerk, $3,570; 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 from December 1, 1924, to March 31, 1925; substitute telephone operator when required, at $3.30 per day, $500; laborers—three at $1,200 each, nine at $1,010 each; purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicle, $1,200; in all, $123,720.
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 clerk’s, 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. Civil Service—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Claims—clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk, $2,360; janitor, $1,010. Disposition of 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; 583janitor, $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. Mood 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 Office 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; assistant clerk, $1,520; janitor, $1,010. Revision of the Laws—clerk, $3,000; employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, $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. In all, $244,850. Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be available Clerks subject to Clerk of the House at end of a Congress.for the payment of any clerk or assistant clerk to a committee who does not, after the termination of the Congress during which he was appointed, perform his duties under the direction of the Clerk of the House: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to the *Proviso*.Exception.Committee on Accounts.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, Janitors.Appointment, etc.respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers Under Doorkeeper at end of a Congress.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 armsOffice of Sergeant at Arms.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, Sergeant at Arms, deputy, cashier, etc.$2,880; 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; hire of automobile, $600: in all, $27,630. For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Police, House Office Building.Arms: Lieutenant, $1,520; nineteen privates, at $1,360 each: in all, $27,360. 584 Doorkeeper’s office.office of doorkeeper Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.Salaries:
Doorkeeper, $5,000; special employee, $2,040; superintendent of House press gallery, $2,240; assistant to the superintendent of the House press gallery, $1,520; janitor, $2,040; Messengers, etc.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 Folding room.Superintendent, etc.$1,440 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,880; foreman of folding room, $2,340: chief clerk to superintendent Pages.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, 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-one pages, during the session, including ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $3.30 per day each, $16,371.30; press-gallery page, Document Room.Superintendent, etc.$1,200; superintendent of document room, $3,050; assistant superintendent of document room, $2,460; clerk, $2,040; assistant clerk, $1,940; eight assistants, at $1,600 each; janitor, $1,220; messenger to pressroom, $1,310; maintenance and repair of folding room motor truck, $500; in all, $201,281.30.
Special and minority employees.special and minority employees Joel Grayson.For the employment of Joel Grayson in the document room, $2,740. Minority employees.For six minority employees at $2,150 each, authorized and named in the resolution of December 5, 1923, $12,900. Special designated employees.To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, $1,737.40. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $1,140.
To continue employment of the 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 the resolution of February 13, 1923, $2,740. Appointment of successors.Successors to any of the employees provided for in the five preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Majority floor leader.Office of majority floor leader: Legislative clerk, $3,600; clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310; in all, $9,620.
Conference minority.Conference Minority: Clerk, $2,880; assistant clerk, $1,830; janitor, $1,310; in all, $6,020. The foregoing employees to be appointed by the minority leader. 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 $1,520 each; in all, $3,040. Post office.post office Postmaster, assistant, etc.Salaries: 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; for the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees at the rate of not to exceed $125 per month each, $1,000; laborer, $1,010; in all, $62,290. 585 For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor Mail vehicles.vehicles for carrying the mails, $3,400. official reporters of debates Salaries:
Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of Official reporters.the House, at $6,000 each; assistant, $3,000; six expert transcribers, at $1,520 each; janitor, $1,220; in all, $49,340. committee stenographers Salaries: Four stenographers to committees, at $6,000 each; Stenographers to committees.janitor, $1,220; in all. $25,220. Wherever the words “during the session ” occur in the foregoing “During the session ” to mean 121 days.paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and twenty-one days from December 1, 1924, to March 31, 1925, both inclusive. clerk hire, members, delegates, and resident commissioners For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate, Clerk hire, Members, etc.*Ante*, p. 152.and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to fix the compensation of officers and employees of the Legislative Branch of the Government,” approved May 24, 1924, $1,760,000. contingent expenses of the houseContingent expenses.
For materials for folding. $5,000.Folding materials. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including Furniture.not to exceed $13,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shop, $28,000. The General Supply Committee is authorized, during the fiscal Transfer of chairs, etc., by Supply Committee for use of House Office Building.year 1925, to transfer, without payment, to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, such number of revolving chairs, typewriter stands, and tables as the Clerk may request for use in the House Office Building.
For material and labor to reconstruct office cabinets, Wanamaker Reconstructing cabinets, etc.*Post*, p. 1293.type, and to convert roll-top desks into flat-top desks, according to approved plans and specifications, $20,000. For furniture and repair of furniture for the House Office Building, Furniture, House Office Building.including floor coverings and bookcases, $7,500. For packing boxes, $4,500.Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items, etc.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, $190,000.
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 at Postage stamps.Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile Automobile, Speaker.for the Speaker. $3,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding Folding.$1 per thousand, $20,000.
For assistance rendered during the calendar years 1923 and 1924 Clerical, etc., assistance to Clerk of the House.in compiling list of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion 586of the Official Register; preparing and indexing the statistical reports of the Clerk of the House; compiling the telephone and Members’ directories; preparing and indexing the daily Calendars of Business; preparing the official statement of Members’ voting records; preparing and indexing questions of order printed in the appendix to the Journal pursuant to House Ride III; and for recording and filing statements of political committees and candidates for nomination and election to the House of Representatives pursuant to the campaign contribution laws, $5,000.
Capitol police.capitol police Pay.*Ante*, p. 149.Salaries: Captain, $2,150; three lieutenants, at $1,520 each; two special officers, at $1,520 each; three sergeants, at $1,410 each; forty-four privates, at $1,360 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, $73,820. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $200. Uniforms.For purchasing and supplying uniforms to Capitol police, $3,000.
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 Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.For clerk, $4,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $2,490; assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,100; Congressional Directory.*Ante*, p. 149.for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory. $1,600; in all. $10,190, 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 Counsel.OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Salaries, etc.For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the office of Vol. 40, p. 1141.Legislative Counsel, as authorized by section 1303 of the Revenue Act of *Ante*, p. 353.1918 as amended by the Revenue Act of 1924, $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. Statement of appropriations.STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For preparing, first session, Sixty-eighth Congress.For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the first session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular Vol. 25, p. 587.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: *Proviso*.Data modified.*Provided*, That in lieu of the data relating to offices created and omitted and salaries increased and reduced, the statement shall hereafter contain such additional information concerning estimates and appropriations as the committees may deem necessary.
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, $3,150; civil engineer, $2,770; two clerks, at $1,840 each; com-587pensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; laborers—one at $1,100, two at $1,010 each, two at $950 each; forewoman of charwomen, $760; twenty-one charwomen, at $410 each; in all, $30,990. For forty-eight elevator conductors, including fourteen for the Elevator conductors.Senate Office Building and fourteen for the House Office Building, at $1,520 each, $72,960. capitol buildings and groundsCapitol buildings and grounds.
Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs General repairs to Building, etc.thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art; flags, flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase or exchange, 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; $70,990. For continuing the work of restoring the decoration on the walls Restoring corridor decorations, in Senate wing.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.
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding Improving, etc., grounds.the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, care of trees, plantings, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $62,368. For the installation and change in the fire line by installing two Fire protection.six-inch Siamese steamer connections, one for the Senate wing of the Capitol and one for the House wing, $4,000. For repairs and improvements to Senate and House stables and Repairs to stables, etc.Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,500.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building.Maintenance.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, $81,368. For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and Furniture.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: For maintenance, including miscellaneous House Office Building.items, and for all necessary services, $98,965. Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol power plant.Maintenance.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, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate, Government Printing Office, and Washington City post office; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,940 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters 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, $274,361.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power Operating supplies.plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings and other buildings specified in the foregoing paragraph, $200,000. For a new thirty-six inch main. 4,250 feet, extending from the New water main.pumping station at the foot of First Street, southeast, to the Capitol power plant, $112,000. 588 Purchases independent of Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.Reimbursement for current, etc., to other Government buildings.The foregoing appropriations under the Architect of the Capitol 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, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, the Government Printing Office, and the Washington City post office shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for heat, light, and power furnished during the fiscal year 1925, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein. Library Building and grounds.library building and grounds Operating force.Salaries:
Chief engineer, $2,000; electrician, $2,000; decorator, $1,800; painter, $1,500; assistant engineers—three at $1,500 each, one $1,400; machinists—one $1,500, one $1,400; two wiremen, at $1,500 each; two carpenters, at $1,500 each; plumber, $1,400; skilled laborers—four at $1,080 each, three at $1,020 each; in all, $30,880. Trees, plants, etc.For trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of Library of Congress, $1,000. Sunday opening.For extra services of employees under the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $1,100.
Repairs.For repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, and all incidental expenses in connection with the mechanical and structural maintenance of said building, $9,000. Furniture, shelving, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $12,000. For completion of steel shelving in cellar for storage of library material to replace old wooden shelving, $5,000. Painting.For miscellaneous and necessary painting throughout the Library Building, $5,000.
Replacing elevators.For replacement of the hydraulic elevators of the Library of Congress with electric elevators, and for all material, equipment, and labor connected therewith, $50,000, to be available immediately. Botanic Garden.BOTANIC GARDEN Director, and personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.Salaries: For the director and other personal services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $68,754; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Repairs, improvements, etc.Repairs and improvements:
For procuring manure, soil, tools, 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 vehicles; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, greenhouses, 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; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $37,075, of which $10,000 shall be immediately available for repair of greenhouses.
Minor purchases.Vol. 36, p. 531.The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 5891910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington. LIBRARY OF CONGRESSLibrary of Congress. salaries For the Librarian, chief assistant librarian, and other personal Librarian, and personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $457,020. copyright officeCopyright office.
For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other personal Register, and personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $147,320. legislative reference serviceLegislative Reference Service. To enable the. Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons Personnel tor designated work.to gather, classify, and make available, in translation, 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, $56,000. distribution of card indexesCard Indexes.
For the distribution of card indexes and other publications of Distribution service.the Library, including personal services, freight charges (not exceeding $500), 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, $85,634. Temporary services: For special and temporary service, including Temporary services.extra special services of regular employees, at the discretion of the Librarian, $3,000. sunday openingSunday opening.
To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference Expenses.use on Sundays and on holidays within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian. $13,125. increase of the libraryIncrease of the Library. For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance Purchase 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 1926, $90,000;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, Law books, etc.under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, Books for Supreme Court.to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,500; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000; Periodicals.In all, $100,500. printing and binding For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including Printing and binding.Copyright entries.the Copyright Office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title 590Entries of the Copyright Office, binding, rebinding, and repair of library books, and for the Library Building, $250,000. 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 Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $10,000.
Library Building.library building Administrative assistant, etc.Vol. 42, p. 1488.Salaries: For the administrative assistant and disbursing officer, and other personal services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $101,138. Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Librarian to provide for the opening of the Library Building on Sundays and on legal holidays, $2,000. Temporary services.For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of the Library Building, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian. $500.
Mail, incidental supplies, etc.For mail, delivery, and telephone services, stationery, miscellaneous supplies, and all other incidental expenses in connection with the custody and maintenance of the Library Building, $7,000. Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Public Printer’s Office.office of public printer Public Printer and office personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488.Salaries: Public Printer, $6,000; Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; for personal services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $147,380; in all $157,880.
Public printing and binding.public printing and binding Working capital provided.To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following 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 Salaries, wages, etc.*Post*, p. 658.Government: For salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for Superintendent of printing, etc.(including the compensation of the superintendent of printing who shall perform the duties provided by law for the foreman of printing, the superintendent of binding who shall perform the duties provided by law for the foreman of binding, the superintendent of presswork, and the superintendent of platemaking, at $3,000 Holidays.each); to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and Executive orders granting holidays Leaves of absence.and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Contingent expenses.Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay; rents, fuel, gas, heat, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, motor-propelled vehicles 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 purchase, exchange, operation, repair, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writ-591ing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $4,000); freight, expressage, telegraph and 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 Machinery, equipment, etc.$200,000); equipment, and for repairs 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: for expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Inspection expenses.Committee on Printing for the inspection of printing and binding equipment, material, and supplies and Government printing plants in the District of Columbia or elsewhere (not exceeding $1,000); for salaries and expenses of preparing the semimonthly and session Indexing Congressional Record.indexes of the Congressional Record under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing (chief indexer at $3,150, one cataloguer at $2,880, and two cataloguers at $2,150 each); and for all Paper, materials, etc.the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $2,000,000, to which shall be charged the printing and binding authorized to be Charged to Congress.done for Congress, the printing and binding for use of the Government Printing Office, and printing and binding (not exceeding For Architect of Capitol.$1,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol when authorized by the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an amount not exceeding this sum.
Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing Authority for Congressional work.appropriation, 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 1925 any executive department or independent Payment for work ordered by 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 estimated 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 or certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts.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 pe agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishment concerned.
All sums paid to the Public Printer for work Money paid for work to be credited to working capital.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. All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1926 for printing Estimates for departments, etc., to be incorporated in single items.and binding for any department or 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 Details to be given if part of other estimates.as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following 592*Proviso*.Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted.the general estimate for printing and binding: *Provided*, That the foregoing requirements 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, and personnel.For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $339,960. 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; traveling expenses (not to exceed $200); 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, $74,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for supplying books to depository libraries, $75,000; in *Provisos*.Supplying depository libraries.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: *Provided*, That hereafter the Special distribution.distribution of geological publications and the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office to libraries designated as special depositories of such publications shall be discontinued.
Blank forms to be printed for sale.The Public Printer is authorized to print for sale by the Superintendent of Public Documents to the public, upon prepayment, additional copies of approved Government blank forms. Reports of departments.Printing of, may be discontinued.In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1925 within or under the appropriations for such fiscal year, the heads of the various executive departments and independent establishments are authorized to discontinue the printing of annual *Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection.or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: *Provided*, That where the printing of such reports is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the offices of the heads of the respective departments or independent establishments for public inspection.
Purchases.Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriations under Vol. 28, p. 601.the “Government Printing Office,” as provided for in the Printing Vol. 36, p. 531.Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments. Paper and envelopes in use by two or more departments to be procured from Public Printer on requisition.The Public Printer is hereby authorized to procure, under direction of the Joint Committee on Printing as provided for in the Act approved January 12, 1895, and furnish on requisition paper and envelopes (not including envelopes printed in the course of manufacture) in common use by two or more departments, establishments, or services of the Government in the District of Columbia, and reimbursement therefor shall be made to the Public Printer Any other manner forbidden.from appropriations or funds available for such purpose; paper and envelopes so furnished by the Public Printer shall not be procured in any other manner thereafter.
Jackson Alley closed and transferred to Government Printing Office.The Public Printer is hereby authorized to close Jackson Alley in square 624 between G and H Streets Northwest in the District of Columbia to the extent that said alley is abutted on both sides 593by the property of the Government Printing Office, and upon the closing thereof the land so embraced shall be transferred to the Public Printer for the use of the Government Printing Office. Sec. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used Congressional stationery rooms.Purchases prohibited by.for the purpose of purchasing by or through the stationery rooms articles other than stationery and office supplies essential to and necessary for the conduct of public business; nor shall any part of such funds be expended for the maintenance or care of private vehicles.
Sec. 3. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, Restriction on exceeding average salaries, in offices designated.Vol. 42, p. 1488.contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade or class thereof in the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, or the Government Printing Office, shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply *Proviso*.Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction required.Vol. 42, p. 1490.(1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation is fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or
(3)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the Higher salary rates allowed.grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923 and is specifically authorized by other law. Approved, June 7, 1924.