laws. ENFORCEMENT OF ANTITRUST LAWS: For the enforcement of anti-, Enforcing antitrust trust laws, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $8,540.26. For the enforcement of antitrust laws, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven, $947.98. JUDICIAL. The disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice is authorized to pay, from the regular appropriations provided for such items, after audit in the Division of Accounts, the salaries of the following officers for the period during which duties were actually performed, notwithstanding the fact that the appointments were not confirmed by the Senate: Richard E. Sloan as United States district judge for the district of Arizona. Clinton W. Howard as United States district judge for the western district of Washington. James B. Sloan as United States district attorney for the southern district of Alabama. Lester G. Fant as United States district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi. Beverley W. Coiner as United States district attorney for the western district of Washington. Judicial. Payment to de facto judges and attorneys. Richard E. Sloan. Clinton W. Howard. James B. Sloan. Lester G. Fant. Beverley W. Cofner. Commerce Court. Salaries and ex COMMERCE COURT: For expenses of the Commerce Court during the first half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely: penses, first half of fisclerk, at the rate of $4,000 per annum; deputy clerk, at the rate of cal year. $2,500 per annum; marshal, at the rate of $3,000 per annum; deputy marshal, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; for rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and furnishing same for the Commerce Court; for books, periodicals, stationery, printing, and binding; for pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, not otherwise specifically provided for, and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $17,500; in all, $23,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Abolished after De Vol. 36, pp. 539, 1146. In district courts. The Commerce Court, created and established by the Act entitled cember 31, 1913. "An Act to create a Commerce Court and to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce,' approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes," approved June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, is abolished from and after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and the jurisdiction vested in said Commerce Court by Jurisdiction to vest said Act is transferred to and vested in the several district courts of the United States, and all Acts or parts of Acts in so far as they relate to the establishment of the Commerce Court are repealed. Nothing of present judges conherein contained shall be deemed to affect the tenure of any of the tinued. judges now acting as circuit judges by appointment under the terms of said Act, but such judges shall continue to act under assignment, as in the said Act provided, as judges of the district courts and circuit courts of appeals; and in the event of and on the death, resignation, appointed. or removal from office of any of such judges, his office is hereby abolished and no successor to him shall be appointed. Tenure and service No successors to be Venue of suits on or The venue of any suit hereafter brought to enforce, suspend, orders of Interstate Comset aside, in whole or in part, any order of the Interstate Commerce merce Commission. Commission shall be in the judicial district wherein is the residence of the party or any of the parties upon whose petition the order was made, except that where the order does not relate to transportation or is not made upon the petition of any party the venue shall be in the district where the matter complained of in the petition before the commission arises, and except that where the order does not relate Procedure in district courts. Service, etc. tions. judges, etc. Proviso. Temporary restrainirreparable loss. either to transportation or to a matter so complained of before the commission the matter covered by the order shall be deemed to arise in the district where one of the petitioners in court has either its principal office or its principal operating office. In case such transportation relates to a through shipment the term "destination" shall be construed as meaning final destination of such shipment. The procedure in the district courts in respect to cases of which jurisdiction is conferred upon them by this Act shall be the same as that heretofore prevailing in the Commerce Court. The orders, writs, and processes of the district courts may in these cases run, be served, and be returnable anywhere in the United States; and the right of appeal from the district courts in such cases shall be the same as the right of appeal heretofore prevailing under existing law Interlocutory injunc- from the Commerce Court. No interlocutory injunction suspending Applications for, to or restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of, or setting aside, in whole or in part, any order made or entered by the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be issued or granted by any district court of the United States, or by any judge thereof, or by Hearing by three any circuit judge acting as district judge, unless the application for the same shall be presented to a circuit or district judge, and shall be heard and determined by three judges, of whom at least one shall be a circuit judge, and unless a majority of said three judges shall concur in granting such application. When such application as aforesaid is presented to a judge, he shall immediately call to his assistance Notice to be given. to hear and determine the application two other judges. Said application shall not be heard or determined before at least five days' notice of the hearing has been given to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to the Attorney General of the United States, and to such other persons as may be defendants in the suit: Provided, That ing order to prevent in cases where irreparable damage would otherwise ensue to the petitioner, a majority of said three judges concurring, may, on hearing, after not less than three days' notice to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Attorney General, allow a temporary stay or suspension, in whole or in part, of the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission for not more than sixty days from the date of the order of said judges pending the application for the order or injunction, in which case the said order shall contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the judges making the order and identified by reference thereto, that such irreparable damage would result to the petitioner and specifying the nature of the damage. The said judges may, at the time of hearing such application, upon a like finding, continue the temporary stay or suspension in whole or in part until decision upon Precedence and ex- the application. The hearing upon such application for an interlocutory injunction shall be given precedence and shall be in every way expedited and be assigned for a hearing at the earliest practicable day after the expiration of the notice hereinbefore provided for. Direct appeal to Su- An appeal may be taken direct to the Supreme Court of the United States from the order granting or denying, after notice and hearing, an interlocutory injunction, in such case if such appeal be taken within thirty days after the order, in respect to which complaint is made, is granted or refused; and upon the final hearing of any suit brought to suspend or set aside, in whole or in part, any order of said commission the same requirement as to judges and the same proReview of final Judg. cedure as to expedition and appeal shall apply. A final judgment or decree of the district court may be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States if appeal to the Supreme Court be taken by an aggrieved party within sixty days after the entry of such final judgment or decree, and such appeals may be taken in like manner as appeals are taken under existing law in equity cases. And in such Finding. pediting. preme Court. Final hearings. ment by Supreme Court. Vol. 36, p. 557. cases. Authority of Com case the notice required shall be served upon the defendants in the case and upon the attorney general of the State. All cases pending Transfer of pending in the Commerce Court at the date of the passage of this Act shall be deemed pending in and be transferred forthwith to said district courts except cases which may previously have been submitted to that court for final decree and the latter to be transferred to the district courts if not decided by the Commerce Court before December first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and all cases wherein injunctions or other orders or decrees, mandatory or otherwise, have been directed or entered prior to the abolition of the said court shall be transferred forthwith to said district courts, which shall have jurisdiction to proceed therewith and to enforce said injunctions, orders, Transfer of records, or decrees. Each of said cases and all the records, papers, and etc." proceedings shall be transferred to the district court wherein it might have been filed at the time it was filed in the Commerce Court if this Act had then been in effect; and if it might have been filed in any one of two or more district courts it shall be transferred to that one of said district courts which may be designated by the petitioner or petitioners in said case, or, upon failure of said petitioners to act in the premises within thirty days after the passage of this Act, to such one of said district courts as may be designated by the judges of the Commerce Court. The judges of the Commerce Court shall merce Court to make have authority, and are hereby directed, to make any and all orders transfers, etc. and to take any other action necessary to transfer as aforesaid the cases and all the records, papers, and proceedings then pending in the Commerce Court to said district courts. All administrative Books, dockets, etc. books, dockets, files, and all papers of the Commerce Court not transferred as part of the record of any particular case shall be lodged in the Department of Justice. All furniture, carpets, and other property of the Commerce Court is turned over to the Department of Justice and the Attorney General is authorized to supply such portion thereof as in his judgment may be proper and necessary tion. to the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation. Any case hereafter remanded from the Supreme Court which, Venue of cases rebut manded from Supreme for the passage of this Act, would have been remanded to the Com- Court. merce Court, shall be remanded to a district court, designated by the Supreme Court, wherein it might have been instituted at the time it was instituted in the Commerce Court if this Act had then been in effect, and thereafter such district court shall take all necessary and proper proceedings in such case in accordance with law and such mandate, order, or decree therein as may be made by said Supreme Court. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing provisions Inconsistent laws rerelating to the Commerce Court, are repealed. UNITED STATES COURTS. Furniture, etc. use by Board of Me diation and Concilia pealed. Vol. 36, pp. 11461151. United States courts. Marshals. Connecticut district. Payments to Selah G. Blakeman and For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska; to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, and including services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so especially directed by the Attorney General, $4,500. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to allow in the accounts of the United States marshal for the district of Connecticut amounts paid by him from the appropriation pay of Timothy E. Hawley bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, to Selah G. Blakeman, $192, and from the appropriation pay of bailiffs, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to Selah G. Blakeman, $363, and to Timothy E. Hawley, $513, notwithstanding the fact that said payees also served and received compensation as field deputy United States marshals. allowed. For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20,000. For fees of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $57.05. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; for the expense of care and medical treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $12.50. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, provided that in so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney General this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and nine, $548.85. For nineteen hundred and ten, $294.25. For the support of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $4,492.10. For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $998.89. For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twentyfourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $8,004.01. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The bequest of the late C. F. Macdonald of $2,000 to the Secretary of the Treasury for the service of the Post Office Department, to be used by the Postmaster General for the improvement of the postal money-order system of the United States, is accepted, and an appropriation of said amount is hereby made, to be expended under the authority and direction of a commission of three persons, who shall be appointed by the Postmaster General and serve without compensation. POSTAL SERVICE. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES. For payment of limited indemnity for lost insured mail for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $65,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $750,000 made by the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding $15,000, for the Parcel Post Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen except for such purposes as the appropriations under the Supervising Architect may be available. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter into a contract for the rental of a water-cooling plant in the building in course of erection at the northeast corner of Nineteenth and H streets northwest, for the period covered by the department's lease of that building, and to pay for the same out of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department. BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE. Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actual necessary expenses, including field investigations at home and abroad, compensation of special agents, clerk hire, and rental of quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, purchase of books of reference and manuscripts, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce to ascertain at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. Exception. Department of Com merce. Water-cooling plant. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Investigating cost of production. Fisheries Bureau, Alaska fur-seal fish eries. Travel,etc.,expenses Ante, p. 64. There may be paid during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, from the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries (Alaska fur-seal fisheries), the traveling and subsistence allowed. expenses to and from the islands, and subsistence while on the islands, not to exceed $5,000 per annum, of the naturalist, school-teachers, physicians, and other persons detailed to the fur-seal islands by law, or by direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and traveling and subsistence expenses, hire of boats, and employment of temporary labor in connection with the work of the fur wardens in Alaska under the Vol. 36, p. 326. Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, not to exceed $6,000. STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE. Steamboat-Inspection Service. Los Angeles Cal. For two local inspectors, clerk hire, and contingent expenses of the local board of steamboat inspectors, Los Angeles, California, authorized to be established by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, all expenditures to be made in accordance with existing law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,000. Hereafter inspectors and other employees in the Steamboat-Inspec- Travel expenses retion Service shall be allowed, in lieu of mileage, only their actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business assigned them by competent authority. stricted. |