60TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( 2d Session. ALLOWANCE TO DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHALS. FEBRUARY 3, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. BANNON, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following. REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 16274.] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 16274) to amend section 10, chapter 252, volume 29, of Public Statutes at Large, submit the following report: The purpose of this bill, as amended by the committee, is to increase the maximum allowance to office deputies of United States marshals for necessary and actual expenses for lodging and subsistence, when necessarily absent on official business from their regular place of employment, from $2, as allowed by the act of 1896, to $3 per day. Payment of such expense accounts are thoroughly protected by a system of accounting requiring proof by affidavits and itemized receipts that such expenses were actually incurred and were necessary. The Department of Justice recommends the enactment of this bill in the following report of the Attorney-General: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, February 1, 1909. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 29th ultimo, inclosing H. R. 16274, entitled "A bill to amend section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, of Public Statutes at Large." In response to your request for my views upon this measure, the following is submitted for the consideration of yourself and the committee: The present maximum allowance to office deputy marshals on account of expenses of lodging and subsistence has been found to be inadequate in many instances. It is a matter of common information and knowledge that the necessary expenses for lodging and subsistence have been materially increased since July, 1896. It is therefore believed that the maximum allowance for such expenses should be increased from $2 to $3 per day. Doubtless this would increase the expense to the United States to a limited extent, but office deputy marshals should not be compelled to incur expense in the discharge of their official duties which could not be reimbursed to them in nearly all instances. Three dollars per day is the amount fixed by law or regulation for expenses of lodging and subsistence incurred by salaried employees of other departments and of special agents of this department, and it is believed that a maximum allowance of $3 per day would be adequate except in rare instances. Respectfully, Hon. JOHN J. JENKINS, CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, Attorney-General. Chairman Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. Your committee recommends that the bill be amended by striking out the words "and one-half," when the same appear in line 7 of page 1 and in line 8 of page 2 of the bill, and that, as so amended, the bill pass. O 1 IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION OF DUTIABLE FEBRUARY 3, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. NEEDHAM, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 24140.] The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 24140) extending the provisions of the act of June 10, 1880, concerning transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement, having had the same under consideration, report it back to the House with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment strikes out section 2 of the bill. This section provides for the fixing of salaries of deputy collectors of merchandise at certain subports (a subject now pending before Congress in another form) and has no special relevancy to the first section of the bill. The first section meets with the approval of the Treasury Department, as appears from the following letter: TREASURY Department, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, January 27, 1909. SIR: I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 27th instant, transmitting for an expression of my views thereon the bill (H. R. 24140) providing, in the first section, that the privileges of the immediate transportation act of June 10, 1880, shall be extended to the subports of Blaine and Sumas in the State of Washington, and in the second section that the deputy collectors of customs at the subports of Seattle and Tacoma shall receive such compensation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine. Referring to the first section I have to state that Blaine and Sumas are located on or near the Canadian boundary; that goods arriving there must now be entered for consumption at those subports; that the facilities there for the examination and appraisement of such merchandise are not equal to those at many of the interior ports, to which most of the merchandise would probably be sent, under the immediate transportation privileges; and that the enactment of the said section would operate to facilitate the delivery of imported merchandise to importers, and would probably entail no additional expense. * * * The passage of the bill is recommended. The CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, J. B. REYNOLDS, Acting Secretary. House of Representatives. O |