Fisheries Bureau. "Albatross," repairs. Steamboat-Inspec tion Service. Contingent expenses. Department of La bor. Contingent expenses. Rent. Immigration Bureau. Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens. Vol. 39, p. 874. Proviso. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. For necessary and urgent repairs to the steamer Albatross, $10,000. STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,400. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,400. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $4,000. BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION. For additional expenses for the enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States made necessary by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," $400,000, to continue available during Government main- the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: Provided further, tenance of station priv- That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States." ileges forbidden. Vol. 39, p. 894. Ellis Island station. Children's Bureau. Child Labor Division. lishing. Ellis Island, New York, Immigration Station: For completion of repairs to the immigration station at Ellis Island, rendered necessary by explosions on July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $246,995. CHILDREN'S BUREAU. Child Labor Division: To enable the Secretary of Labor to carry Expenses of estab- into effect the provisions of the Act of September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "An Act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes," in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including a preliminary survey, for which purpose the sum of $50,000 shall be made immediately available, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year nineteen. hundred and eighteen, $150,000: Provided, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum. Proviso. Legislative. Senate Office Building. Maintenance. LEGISLATIVE. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and 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, $6,500. Joint Committee on Vol. 39, p. 387. Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: To carry common House Office Build Maintenance. Acts of present ses House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous ing. items, and for all necessary services, $3,000. Statement of appropriations: The statement of appropriations, Statement of approand so forth, for the last session of the Sixty-fourth Congress shall Congress. include the Army, general deficiency, Military Academy, river and sion to be included in. harbor, and sundry civil appropriation Acts as passed at the extraordinary session of the Sixty-fifth Congress; and all other appropriations made at the latter session shall be compiled and published with the statement to be prepared of the appropriation Acts for the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress. Maintenance. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Capitol power plant. Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000. ге For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant Fuel, oil, etc. which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional Purchases not buildings, $24,900. This and the two foregoing appropriations shall stricted to supply combe expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and mittee. Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act ap- Vol. 36, p. 531. proved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive depart ments. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Capitol power plant for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. SENATE. To pay Sallie M. Clarke, widow of Honorable James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $7,500. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,300. To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to the Committee on Pensions during the second session of the Sixtyfourth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. Vol. 34, p. 1365. Balance available. Senate. James P. Clarke. Official reporters. Dennis M. Kerr. Automobile for Vice Pages. For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice President. President, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $300. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: Sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, from April second to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000. Miscellaneous items. Assistance to Sen ators. Sam E. Conner. John F. Hayes. Grady Hays. Charles W. Hall, jr. Wilson C. Hefner. Samuel Russell. James A. Norton. James L. Wolcott. cock. Edward Albright. Joseph C. O'Maho ney. meier. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for nineteen hundred and seventeen for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others, the following clerks, assistant clerks, and messengers to Senators not chairmen of committees, to-wit: Sam E. Conner, clerk to Senator Fernald from September twelfth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; John F. Hayes, clerk to Senator Watson from November eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Grady Hays, clerk to Senator Kirby from November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Charles W. Hall, junior, clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Wilson C. Hefner, clerk to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Samuel Russell, clerk to Senator King from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James A. Norton, clerk to Senator Hale from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James L. Wolcott, clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Amos W. W. Woodcock, clerk to Senator France from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Edward Albright, clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Joseph C. O'Mahoney, clerk to Senator Kendrick from March Frederick E. Schorte fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Frederick E. Schortemeier, clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $2,000 per annum each; John H. Ericksen, assistant clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; C. B. Smith, assistant clerk to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Lorenzo Richards, assistant clerk to Senator King from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Edw. C. Wrede, assistant clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Wallace Williams, assistant clerk to Senator France from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James Coates, assistant clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Robert L. Stancill, assistant clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred Gertrude O'Connell. and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each; Gertrude O'Connell, messenger to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Walter P. Scott, messenger to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Agnes E. Locke, messenger to Senator Hale from March fourth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Margaret B. Buchanan, messenger to Senator Kendrick from March tenth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Robert J. Twyman, messenger to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each. John H. Ericksen. Lorenzo Richards. Edw. C. Wrede. Wallace Williams. Robert L. Stancill. Walter P. Scott. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. To pay the widow of Michael F. Conry, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500. To pay the widow of David E. Finley, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $7,500. To pay H. Belle Sulloway, a daughter of Cyrus Adams Sulloway, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, $7,500. To pay the widow of Samuel J. Tribble, late a Representative from the State of Georgia, $7,500. To pay the widow of Luis Munoz Rivera, late a Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, $7,500. penses. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for Contested-election exexpenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One, Two, and Three: C. William Beales, $1,055.07; Lathrop Brown, $2,000; Jeremiah Donovan, $2,000; William R. Gaylord, $2,000; In all, $15,691.07. C. William Beales. E. J. Hill. Jeremiah Donovan. Portrait of former For procurement of an oil portrait of Joseph G. Cannon, former Speaker Joseph G. CanSpeaker of the House of Representatives, to be paid on the approval non. of James L. Slayden, chairman of the Committee on the Library in the Sixty-fourth Congress, $2,000. South Trimble. Compiling concases documents. Vol. 24, p. 445. To pay South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, read- tested-election ing proof, indexing of testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervising the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election cases of the Sixty-fourth Congress (eight in number), as authorized by an Act entitled "An Act relating to contested elections," approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of $1,723.12; and an additional sum of $1,120 to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said South Trimble and in such proportions as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $2,843.12. etc. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items and expenses of et Miscellaneous items, special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. Folding materials. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk's office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen Vol. 28, p. 624. hundred and ninety-five, $1,000. Automobile for For an additional amount for driving, maintenance, and operation speaker." of automobile for the Speaker, $300. For additional compensation to the enrolling clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered Five hundred and one of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,325. Enrolling clerk. Post office messen To continue the employment of nine messengers, at $100 per month gers. each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April first to November thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,200. Committee on Dis penses. That after the passage of this Act the members of the Committee trict of Columbia. on the District of Columbia, or a subcommittee thereof appointed by Investigation exthe present chairman of said committee, be, and are hereby, authorized to continue the investigation directed by House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and twenty-nine of the Sixty-fourth Congress and to expend for the purpose and as provided in House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and fifty-six of the Sixty-fourth Congress, out of the contingent fund of the House, a sum not exceeding $7,500, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount heretofore authorized. Folding. Motor truck for folding room. Doorkeeper. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $3,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For the purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor truck for the use of the folding room, $2,000, to continue available during the fiscal Horses, etc., hire re- year nineteen hundred and eighteen; and the appropriation of $1,200 for hire of horses and wagons and repairs of same for the office of the Doorkeeper for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is repealed. pealed. Vol. 39, p. 71. Official reporters and stenographers. Reimbursement. Government Print ing Office. Holidays. Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes. Printing and binding. For Congress. War Department. Indian Service. New accounting system. Vol. 39, p. 159. Department of La bor. Panama Canal. Fortifications. National defense. At discretion of the President. To reimburse the Official Reporters of Debates $350 each, and the Official Stenographers to Committees $400 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,700. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $40,267.93. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. PRINTING AND BINDING. For public printing, public binding, and for paper for public printing and binding, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $520,937.05. For printing and binding for the War Department, $150,000. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $30,000. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, $15,000. Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $40,000. Indian Service: For printing and binding, including loose-leaf binders, necessary to test and install a new system of bookkeeping and accounting for the Indian Service prepared by the Bureau of Efficiency in accordance with section twenty-eight of the Indian appropriation Act, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $15,978. PANAMA CANAL. For the fortification of the Panama Canal as follows: For the operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, under the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, $5,000. NATIONAL DEFENSE. For the national security and defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, and to be immediately available and to remain available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000,000. |