2d Session.

1 No. 1793.

LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION BILL.

DECEMBER 10, 1908.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. BINGHAM, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 23464.]

In presenting the bill making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, the Committee on Appropriations submit the following in explanation thereof:

The estimates on which the bill is based will be found on pages 9-88 and 137-151 of the Book of Estimates for 1910, and aggregate $32,484,979.75, of which amount there is recommended in the bill $31,667,820, a reduction of $816,259.75 under said estimates.

The appropriations for the same purposes, exclusive of any sums for the Census Office and for inspection of mines, for the current fiscal year, including $108,320 in the sundry civil and other acts of the last session, aggregated $31,632,943.50, being $34,876.50 less than is recommended in the accompanying bill for the service of the fiscal year 1910.

The whole number of salaries specifically provided for in this bill is 14,441, or 186 less than the number estimated for, and 159 more than the number provided for in the law for the current year.

Pending the final enactment of legislation governing the taking of the Thirteenth Census, no appropriations are recommended in this bill

for the Census Office. The estimates for this service will receive consideration by the committee in its preparation of the sundry civil bill, which will be prepared and reported later in the session.

Appropriations for mine inspectors and for investigations as to causes of mine explosions, carried in the legislative, etc., appropriation act for the current year, are also omitted from this bill for the ensuing year with a view to their consideration in connection with the sundry civil bill.

The appropriations for both of the foregoing branches of the public service for 1909 are not considered in the comparisons which are instituted in this report as to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1909 or the estimates submitted for 1910.

The specific changes in the number or grade of officers or employees of the Government and their rate of compensation, as compared with the current law and without reference to transfers from one bureau to another, recommended in the bill are as follows:

SENATE.

The bill appropriates for officers, clerks, and other employees in the service of the Senate in the same terms as the law for the current year, except that for session employees the usual increase is made, growing out of the longer term of their employment during the ensuing session, as compared with the present short session of Congress, and a reduction is made, in accordance with the estimates, of ten clerks, at $1,800 each, to Senators who are not chairmen of committees.

The appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, including personal services for the Senate, is reduced from $150,000 to $75,000, being the same amount as is recommended for like expenses of the House.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The salaries of all officers and employees of the House which were increased at the last session of Congress by resolution are continued for the next fiscal year at the rate of compensation thus fixed.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

For the Library proper an increase is recommended of two stenographers and typewriters at $1,200 and $720, respectively, instead of two at a salary of $1,000 each; one messenger boy at $360; two attendants at $480 each for the reading room.

For the copyright office an increase is recommended of one clerk at $1,800, two clerks at $1,600 each, two clerks at $1,000 each, two clerks at $600 each, and one messenger boy at $360.

For the carrier service in connection with the House Office Building, two messengers at $40 per month each during the next session of Congress is recommended.

For the work on indexes, digests, and compilations of law, a chief assistant at $3,000, instead of $1,800, and an additional assistant at $2,400 are provided for.

The salaries of the chief of the division of music and one assistant are increased from $2,000 to $3,000 and from $1,400 to $1,500, respectively.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

One additional clerk at $1,600; two additional clerks at $1,400 each; four additional clerks at $1,200 each; one additional clerk at $1,000, and three clerks at $900 each are recommended.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

Office of the chief clerk.-A messenger at $840 is provided for in lieu of a laborer at $660.

Division of customs.-Two additional law clerks at $2,000 each are recommended.

Division of loans and currency.-Two additional money counters at $720 each and one laborer at $660 are recommended, and one laborer at $550 is omitted.

Office of the Auditor for the Treasury Department.-One additional clerk at $1,200 is recommended.

Office of Auditor for Fost-Office Department.-An expert accountant at $2.250 is provided for, in lieu of a deputy auditor at $2,500; two additional clerks at $1,800 each, and ten money-order assorters at $840 each, are recommended.

Office of the Treasurer.-One additional clerk at $1,600 and one charwoman at $240 are recommended; and in the force employed in redeeming the national currency an increase is recommended of one clerk at $1,800, two clerks at $1,600 each, two clerks at $1,400 each, twenty-six expert counters at $1,000 each, four expert counters at $900 each, two messengers at $840 each, and one charwoman at $240.

Office of the Register of Treasury.-An increase is recommended of one clerk at $1,200, and five counters at $720 each; and one clerk at $900 is omitted.

Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.-A reduction of one laborer at $660 is recommended.

Bureau of Engraving and Printing.-An increase is recommended of one chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; a chief clerk at $2,500 instead of an accountant at the same salary; one clerk at $1,800; two clerks at $1,600 each; two clerks at $840 each; and six clerks at $780 each.

INDEPENDENT TREASURY.

A reduction is recommended of one clerk at $1,000 in the office of the assistant treasurer at Boston.

MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.

The salary of the assistant melter and refiner in the assay office at New York is reduced from $2,500 to $2,000.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Office of the Solicitor.-One law clerk at $2,250 is recommended. Bureau of Navigation.-An increase is recommended of two clerks at $1,200 each, and one clerk at $1,000.

Bureau of Equipment.-An increase is recommended of one expert in wireless telegraphy at $3,000, and two draftsmen at $1,600 each. Nautical Almanac Office.-For pay of computors on piecework, the appropriation is increased from $6,000 to $7,000.

Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.-An increase is recommended of 1 clerk at $1,400, 2 clerks at $1,100 each, and 1 clerk at $900.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

Office of the Secretary.-Transfers are provided for as follows: 6 inspectors at $2,500 each from the Indian Department, 3 laborers at $660 each, and 4 charwomen at $240 each from the Indian Office.

General Land Office.-The three inspectors for surveyors-general and district land offices at $2,000 are omitted; law reviewers and law examiners are provided for instead of certain law clerks and clerks without increase in number or rate of compensation.

Indian Office.-An assistant chief of division at $2,000 instead of a chief of division at the same salary is provided for, and a net increase of force is recommended as follows: 3 clerks at $1,800 each and a principal bookkeeper at $1,800 is omitted; 2 clerks at $1,600 each; and 3 messenger boys at $360 each.

Pension Office.-A reduction is made of one chief of division at $2,000, two assistant chiefs of division at $1.800 each, twenty clerks at $1,000 each, twenty-eight copyists at $900 each, and twenty special examiners at $1,300 each.

Patent Office.-A First Assistant Commissioner at $4,500 and an examiner of classification at $3,600 are provided for, and an increase is recommended of ten fourth assistant examiners at $1,500 each; one translator of languages at $1,800, two clerks at $1,400 each, five clerks at $1,200 each, five clerks at $1,000 each, one messenger at $840, twenty-seven laborers at $480 each, and one messenger boy at $360. Bureau of Education. The salary of the Commissioner of Education is increased from $4,500 to $5,000, and an editor at $2,000 is recommended.

Offices of surveyors-general.--The office of the surveyor-general for Louisiana, with salaries amounting to $8,600, is omitted from the bill. For clerks in the office of the surveyor-general of Wyoming the amount is reduced from $10,000 to $9,000.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General.-An increase is recommended of two clerks at $900 each, and one page at $480.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

One assistant attorney at $3,500, and one clerk at $900, now paid from the appropriation "enforcement of the antitrust laws," are provided for, and the salaries of attorneys and others paid from certain general appropriations, as indicated in the law for the present fiscal year, are consolidated with the general force of the department, as recommended by the Attorney-General, no increase in their number or compensation being made.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.

Office of the Secretary.-A chief watchman at $900 instead of a captain of the watch at $1,200 is provided for.

Bureau of Corporations. An increase is recommended of one clerk at $1,400; one clerk at $1,200; two clerks at $1,000 each; and two copyists at $900 each.

Bureau of Manufactures.-The salary of the assistant chief of the bureau is increased from $2,500 to $3,000, and an increase is recommended of one clerk at $1,000, and one clerk at $900.

Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.-The salary of the Commissioner-General is increased from $4,000 to $5,000 in lieu of $1.000 additional now being paid from the appropriation for the "Enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act;" and the salary of the Assistant Commissioner-General is increased from $3,000 to $3,500.

Bureau of Standards.-An increase is recommended of three assistant chemists-one at $2,200, one at $1,600, and one at $1,400; five associate physicists-one at $2,200, one at $2,000, one at $1,600, and two at $1,400 each; three laboratory assistants-two at $1,200, and one at $1,000; two laboratory helpers at $720 each; one clerk at $1,200; one mechanician at $1,500; one glass blower at $1,200; one electrician at $1,200.

JUDICIARY.

The salary of one district judge at $6,000 is omitted, as recommended in the estimates, and an additional messenger at $720 for the court of appeals for the District of Columbia is provided for.

LIMITATIONS.

Limitations with respect to the appropriations made in the bill and not heretofore imposed are recommended as follows:

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The Librarian of Congress may from time to time transfer to other governmental libraries within the District of Columbia, including the Public Library, books and material in the possession of the Library of Congress in his judgment no longer necessary to its uses, but in the judgment of the custodians of such other collections likely to be useful to them, and may dispose of or destroy such material as has become useless.