Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-12
4 Ne,v appropriation BIZ.

LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE house commit
tee on appropriations, after four days. consid-
Grafton of the legislative, executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill, completed that
measure to-day and authorized Representative
Cannon to report it to the house. The bill,
which was drafted by Cannon, differs from
previous Legislative bills in that it makes spe-
cifc appropriations for all employees in exec
utive departments instead OF leaving them, as
heretofore, t0be paid out Of the gross appro.
pristion. The principal features of the bill
are as follows:
increases the clerical force engaged in the
preparation OF pension cases to such an ex-
tent as to enable the commissioner to exam
inc and adjust all pending claims within three
years; it directs the secretary of war to trans.
fer all records IN the Office of the surgeon
general of the army from which evidence is
furnished for the settlement of claims for in-
valid pensions and also clerks employed upon
such records, to the Office and of the adjutant
general of the army, if in his judgment the
work of furnishing such evidence will be
facilitated or the number of clerks employed
upon such work can be materially reduced in
jutant general to use part of the state depart
ment building for offices; and this effects
now paid for rent Of offices
in other and less secure buildings; finally it
strictly prohibits the employment in other
departments of any other clerks than those
for which it specifically provides, and thus
renders impossible many abuses and irregu-
larities which characterized the old system of
clerical appointment.
Comparison of the bill with the estimates
upon which it is based, and with the expenses
for the same department in the current year,
shows the following results: Estimates for
1883, SOL ,175, $3.50; amount appropriated in the
bill, $19 69l ,047 decrease, 81, 4S4, 855; amount
appropriated for the current year, SIT, 040 $3.50.
The principal items which 60 to make up the
increase in the amount appropriated in the
bill, as compared with the amount appropri-
ated for the current year, are for 1910 addi-
tional clerks and other employees to expedite
the pension work in the Offices of the adju-
tant general, surgeon general, second comp.
troller, second auditor, third auditor, and in
the pension office, S1,51S, 4S0; contingent and
other expenses incident to this increase of
force, 1924, 900; increase in membership of the
house of representatives under the new ap.
portionment, So, 344; for f1fty-one additional
clerks in the sixth auditors Office, $64 200;
forty-eight additional clerks in the general
land Office, $50; thirty-seyen additional
clerks in the patent office, S67,950; forty one
additional clerks in the postoffice department,
S39,070; ten additional clerks in the depart
men+ of justice, SO, $50; salaries and expenses
of collectors and deputy collectors of internal
revenue, $4,000
The estimates of the deficiency in the appro-
priatlon in the present cost of service in land
office and patent Office are nearly the same as
that contemplated by the bill. The nominal
increase made by the bill in the number Of
employees in the executive department at
Washington and in the bureaus and offices
includes 1910 clerks for the pension work and
eighty clerks already employees ia the depart.
ments, but paid out of miscellaneous appro-
priations. The actual increase in the depart
ment's clerical force therefore, exclusive of
pension clerks, is 1,57S. No increase is made
by the bill in salaries, and no officer is created
above the grade of fourth-class clerkship.