Chapter 549. Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 549.— An Act Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes. March 4, 1925.[[H. R. 12101](/us/bill/68/hr/12101).][[Public, No, 624](/us/pl/68/624).] *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, 1926, namely:
Senate.SENATE Senators.salaries and mileage of senators Compensation.*Post*, p. 1301.Mileage.Officers, clerks, and messengers.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. For mileage of Senators, $51,000. 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 Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of reading clerk, $4,500; financial clerk, $4,500; principal clerk, $3,420; assistant financial clerk, $3,600; minute and Journal clerk, $3,600; legislative 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 $2,460,1287one $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; secondSuperintendent, 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: AgricultureClerks 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, $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; assistant clerk, $1,940; two assistant clerks, at $1,830 each. Patents—clerk, $3,300; assistant clerk, $1,940; assist1288 ant 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, $370,110. 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 at*Proviso*.Authority as committee clerks. $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 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, $106.400; messenger, $1,520; 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, $1,520; five skilledLaborers, etc. 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; messengerPages. for service to press correspondents, $1,240; laborers—three at $1,100 each, thirty-four at $1,010 each; twenty-one pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $3.30 per day each during the session, $14,275.80; in all, $202,445.80.
Police, Senate Office Building.For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,360 each; special officer, $1,520; in all, $23,280.1289 post officePost office. Salaries: Postmaster, $2,740; chief clerk, $2,150; eight mail carriersPostmaster, 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, includingStationery $7,500 for stationery for committees and office is of the Senate, $25,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant atPostage stamps. Arms, $100; in all, $300. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles forMotor 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 theAutomobile, 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 the 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.
For rent of warehouse, for storage of public documents, $2,000. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $125,000. Miscellaneous items. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations. 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, payableReporting debates. in equal monthly installments, $44,844.
For repairs, improvements, equipment and supplies for SenateSenate kitchens and restaurants. kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $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 Commissioner.*Post*, p, 1301.
Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses ofMileage. Resident Commissioners, $175,000. 1290 Officers, clerks, etc.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’sDigest 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, 1925, to June 30, 1926: 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 vehicles. $1.200; in all, $124.620.
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. 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; 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,1291 $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; the appropriation of $3,000 forContinuance of appropriation for assistants in compiling laws, etc.*Ante*, p. 583. the fiscal year 1925 for the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, is continued and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1926: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Expenditure of.
That such appropriation for the fiscal year 1925, and as continued for the fiscal year 1926, shall be expended, during the period from March 4, 1925, to the date of election of a chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws for the Sixty-ninth Congress, under the direction of the Member-elect to the Sixty-ninth Congress who was acting chairman of such committee during the second session of the Sixty-eighth Congress; 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, $241,850. Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be availableClerks 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 Committee*Proviso*.Exception. 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 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. 1292 Police, House Office Building,For police force. House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,520; nineteen privates, at $1,360 each; in all, $27,360.
Doorkeeper’s office.office of doorkeeper Doorkeeper, special employees, etc.Salaries: Doorkeeper, $5,000; special employee, $2,040; superintendentMessengers, etc of 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; attendant for the ladies’ reception room,Folding Room.Superintendent, etc. $1,200; superintendent of folding room, $2,880; foreman of folding 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, at $1,440 each; two floor managers of telephones (one for the minority), at $2,400 each; assistant messenger in charge of telephones,Pages, etc. $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, $27,871.80; press-gallery page, $1,200; superintendentDocument Room. of document room, $3,050; assistant superintendent of documentSuperintendent, etc. 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, $213,981.80.
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 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. Ways and Means Committee.Clerk for minority.For compensation at the rate of $2,880 a year from March 4, 1925, to June 30, 1926, inclusive, of a clerk for the minority membersPosition established. of the Committee on Ways and Means, $3,816. This position is hereby established at such rate of compensation as Congress may from time to time appropriate and incumbents thereof shall be appointed by and be subject to the direction of the ranking minority*Proviso*.Appointment, etc., after expiration of a Congress. member of that committee: *Provided*, That during the period between the expiration of a Congress and the election of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means at the succeeding Congress such clerk shall be appointed by and be subject to the direction of1293 that ranking minority member of the committee of the expiring Congress who is also a member elect of the succeeding Congress.
To continue the employment of messengers in the majority andCaucus rooms messengers. minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,520 each; in all, $3,040. post officePost office. Salaries: Postmaster, $4,200; assistant postmaster, $2,570; registryPostmaster, assistant, etc. 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.
For the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motorMail vehicles. vehicles for carrying the mails, $3,400. official reporters of debates Salaries: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial 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 206 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and six days from December 7, 1925, to June 30, 1926, both inclusive. clerk hire, members and delegates For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate, andClerk hire, Members, etc.*Ante*, p. 152. 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, includingFurniture. not to exceed $13,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, $28,000. For material and labor to reconstruct office cabinets, WanamakerReconstructing office cabinets, etc.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 585. type, and to convert roll-top desks into flat-top desks, according to approved plans and specifications, the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year 1925 is reappropriated for the fiscal year 1926.
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. 1294 Postage stamps.For postage stamps:
Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. Automobile, Speaker.For driving;, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $3,000. Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000. Clerical, etc., assistance to Clerk of the House.For assistance rendered during the calendar years 1924 and 1925 in compiling list of reports to be made to Congress by public officials; compiling copy and revising proofs for the House portion of 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 Rule 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.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 or the House; in all, $73,820. 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. 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 LegislativeVol. 40, p. 1141.
Counsel, as authorized by section 1303 of the Revenue Act of*Ante*, p. 353. 1918 as amended by the Revenue Act of 1924, $45,000, of which $25,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $20,000 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Statement of appropriations.STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For preparing, second session, Sixty-eight Congress.For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-eighth Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriationVol. 26, p. 587. bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do the work. 1295 ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOLArchitect of the Capitol. office of architect of the capitol Salaries:
Architect of the Capitol, $6,000; chief clerk and accountant,Architect, chief clerk, etc. $3,150; civil engineer, $2,770; two clerks, at $1,840 each; compensation 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 $412.80 each; in all, $31,048.80. For forty-eight elevator conductors, including fourteen for theElevator 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 repairsGeneral 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 of the first-floorRestoring corridor decorations, in Senate wing. 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 surroundingImproving, 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 surgical treatment of trees on the Capitol grounds, $5,000. Surgical treatment of trees.Repairs to garages, etc. For repairs and improvements to Senate and House garages and Maltby Building, including personal services, $1,500.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items andSenate 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 extension and changing of electric wiring of the attic floorExtensions, etc. to provide necessary electric lighting for the storage rooms, $1,000; for concrete floor for the attic story, $15,750; for new revolving door for ground floor, south west corner, Senate Office Building, $1,750; in all, $18,500.
For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor andFurniture. 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 miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $98,965. To enable the Architect of the Capitol, subject to the directionPlans to be submitted for addition to, etc. and supervision of the commission in control of the House Office Building, to prepare and submit to Congress, on the first day of the first regular session of the Sixty-ninth Congress, plans, specifications, and estimates for the erection of an addition or extension to the House Office Building sufficient to provide two rooms for each Member, including any recommendations as to the acquisition of anAcquisition of additional site. additional site for the erection of an additional office building for Members, $2,500.
Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for theCapitol power plant.Maintenance. Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Coast and Geo1296 detic Survey, the Union Station group of temporary housing, Botanic Garden, Senate garage, House garage, 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, $237,361.
Operating supplies.For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings and other buildings specified in the foregoing paragraph, $155,000. Purchases independent of Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.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.
Reimbursement for current, etc., to other Government buildings.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 1926, 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, $1,750. Repairs.For repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, and all incidental expenses in connection with the mechanical and structural maintenance of said building, including repairs to sky-lights, gutters, roof, and down spouts; pointing-up open joints in stone walk around the octagon and dome; partitions and grille work to inclose workshops; repairs and replacements to plumbing in west main lavatories and for ventilation of east south curtain, second story (card division), $15,500.
Furniture, shelving, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $12,000. Painting, etc.For miscellaneous and necessary painting throughout the Library Building, $5,000. Steel trays.For additional steel trays for storage of catalogue cards in card division stack, $6,000. New bookstacks.Toward the construction of new bookstacks in the northeast court*Proviso*.Cost limited. of the Library of Congress, $345,000: *Provided*, That the total cost of such stacks shall not exceed $745,000 and authority is hereby given to enter into a contract or contracts or otherwise incur obligations not in excess of this sum.
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,” $75,754; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. 1297 Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools,Repairs, improvements, etc. purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies, including rubber boots and aprons when required for use by employees in connection with their work; 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 footwalks 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, $36,625.
The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by the BotanicMinor purchases.Vol. 36, p. 631. Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington. To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to carry out thePlans for new conservatories, etc.*Ante*, p. 729. provisions of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the procurement of a design for the use of grounds in the vicinity of the Mall by the United States Botanic Garden,” approved January 7, 1925, $5,000, to be available immediately.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESSLibrary of Congress. salaries For the Librarian, chief assistant librarian, and other personal servicesLibrarian, and personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488. in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $484,780. copyright officeCopyright Office. For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and otherRegister, and personnel.Vol. 42, p. 1488. personal services in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $159,800. legislative reference serviceLegislative Reference Service.
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent personsPersonnel for 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, including not to exceed 5,700 for employees engaged on piecework and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $58,660. distribution of card indexesCard indexes.
For the distribution of card indexes and other publications ofDistribution service. the Library, including personal services, freight charges (not exceeding $500), expressage, postage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, and including not to exceed $15,000 for employees engaged on piece-work and work by the day or hour at rates to be fixed by the Librarian; in all, $95,414.
Temporary services: For special and temporary service, includingTemporary services. extra special services of regular employees, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $3,000. 1298 Sunday opening.sunday opening Expenses.To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference 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, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $13,125.
Increase of the Library.increase of the library Purchase of books, etc.For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance 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 1927, $90,000; Law books, etc.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000;
Books for Supreme Court.For purchase of new books of reference for the 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; Periodicals.For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000; In all, $100,500. printing and binding Printing and binding.Copyright entries.For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for the Library Building, $300,000. 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,” $104,398. Sunday, etc., 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, at rates to be fixed by the Librarian, $3,550. 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, at rates to be fixed by 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 Buildings, $7,000. Authorization for piecework, etc., payments.Payments for piecework and work by the day or hour from the appropriations for the fiscal year 1925 for the Legislative Reference and Card Index Services, Sunday and holiday opening, and special and temporary services, are authorized from July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1925, at rates fixed by the Librarian. 1299 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEGovernment Printing Office. office of public printerPublic Printer’s Office.
Salaries: Public Printer, $6,000; Deputy Public Printer, $4,500;Public Printer, Deputy, and office personnel. for personal service in accordance with “The Classification Act of 1923,” $144,980; in all, $155,480. public printing and bindingPublic printing and binding. To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for theWorking capital provided. 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 Government:
For salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary officersSalaries, wages, etc. and employees additional to those herein appropriated for; to enableHolidays. the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of law granting holidays and Executive orders granting holidays and half holidays with pay to employees; to enable the Public Printer to comply withLeaves of absence. the provisions of law granting thirty days’ annual leave to employees with pay, rents, fuel, gas, neat, electric current, gas and electricContingent expenses. 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 tor official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing 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 $200,000); equipment, and forMachinery, equipment, etc. repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alternations 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 inInspection expenses. writing by the Joint 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 semi-monthlyIndexing Congressional Record. and session 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 the necessary labor, paper, materials, and equipmentPaper, materials, etc. needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $2,400,000, to which shall bo charged the printing and binding authorized to be done for Congress, the printing and binding for useCharged to Congress. of the Government Printing Office, and printing and binding (not exceeding $1,000) for official use of the Architect of the Capitol whenFor Architect of the Capitol. authorized by the Secretary of the Senate, in all to an amount not exceeding this sum.
Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoingAuthority 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. 1300 Payment for work ordered by Departments, etc.During the fiscal year 1926 any executive department or independent 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*Proviso*.Adjustment of accounts. certification in advance of payment: *Provided*, That proper adjustments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed upon by the Public Printer and the department or establishmentMoney paid for work to be credited to working capital. concerned.
All sums paid to the Public Printer for work that he is authorized by law to do shall be deposited to the credit, on the books of the Treasury Department, of the appropriation made for the working capital of the Government Printing Office, for the year in which the work is done, and be subject to requisition by the Public Printer. Estimates for departments, etc., to be incorporated in single items.All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1927 for printing 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 otherDetails to he given if part of other estimates. purpose.
And if any amounts for printing and binding are included as a part of any estimates for any other purposes, such amounts shall be set forth in detail in a note immediately following the general*Proviso*.Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted. 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 Document.office of superintendent of documents Superintendent, and personnel.For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with “The Classification*Proviso*.Compensation allowed for night work, etc. Act of 1923,” $362,720: *Provided*, That employees in the Office of the Superintendent of Documents may be paid compensation for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work at rates not in excess of the rates of additional compensation for such work allowed to other employees of the Government Printing Office under the provisionsPublic Laws, 1st sess., p. 658. of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office, approved June 7, 1924.
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, $85,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $18,400; for supplying books to depository libraries, $85,000; in all,*Proviso*.Supplying depository libraries restricted. $188.400: *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. 1301 In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for theReports of Departments.Printing of, may be discontinued. fiscal year 1926 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 or special reports under their respective jurisdictions: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Originals to be kept for public inspection.
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 may be made from the foregoing appropriations underPurchases.Vol. 28, p. 601. the “Government Printing Office,” as provided for in the Printing Act approved January 12, 1895, and without reference to section 4 ofVol. 36, p. 531. the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments.
Sec. 2. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be used forCongressional stationery rooms.Purchases prohibited by. 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 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salaryIf only one position in a grade. of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation*Provisos*.Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No fixed salary reduced.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction. rates for the grade: *Provided*, That this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service,
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary underHigher salary rates allowed. any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by “The Classification Act of 1923,” and is specifically authorized by other law. Sec. 4. That section 4 of the Legislative, Executive, and JudicialSalaries established.Vol. 34, p. 993, amended. Appropriation Act, approved February 26, 1907, as amended, is amended to read as follows: " “That on and after March 4, 1925, the compensation of theCompensation of the Speaker, Vice President, and Cabinet Members. Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Vice President of the United States, and the heads of Executive Departments who are members of the President’s Cabinet shall be at the rate of $15,000 per annum each, and the compensation of Senators, RepresentativesSenators, Representatives, Delegates, etc. in Congress, Delegates from Territories, Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and Resident Commissioners from the Philippine*Post*, p. 1313. Islands shall be at the rate of $10,000 per annum each.” " Approved, March 4, 1925.