Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-26

MI. Holman Reports the Appropriasions
for the Departments.


A REDUCTION BELOW THE CURRENT APPRoPRrA-
HOURS OF LABOR EVERY DAY FROM DEPART
MENr EMrLoYEs-THE PROPOSED TRANSFER
OF THE MALrBY HOUSE.
The legislative, executive and Judicial appro-
priation bill was reported to the House TODAY.
1t carries an appropriation Of S2l.677, e9s 50.
which is SOS, 13L15 less than current appro-
priations.
Changes in the number or grade Of officers
or employees of the government and their rate
of compensation, as compared with the current
law, are recommended in the bill as follows:
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The thirty-seyen clerks to Senators who are
not chairmen'of committees, at SC per dav
during the session, for whom s26. 500 was ap-
propriated for the current year and ga 500
estimated for the ensuing year, are omitted.
The amount Of compensation Of members of
the House is increased CSC, 900, SO as to provide
for the additional members authorized under
the last apportionment act.
A reduction is made of one clerk. to con-
tlnue digest Of claims at 81, 0OO and of the as
sistant clerk to the committee on war claims at
81. 200.
Otherwise the bill appropriates for the off.
GERS, clerks and other employees in the service
OF the Senate and House the same terms as the
law for the current year provides except that
Tor session employees the usual increase Is made
in their aggregate compensation, growing out
OF the longer period Of time that they will be
employed during the ensuing session as COM
pared with the present session of Congress-.
IN THE DEPARTMENTS.
In the Department of State the salaries Of one
assistant secretary and the chief clerks are re-
duced from $4,000 and 81, $50 to IS, 500 and
81, 500 respectively.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
In the division of mails and files the salary Of
one mail messenger is increased from 81, 900 to
81 200. In the second auditors Office reduc-
ton is made of five clerks of class /, at 81 200
each. and five clerks at 5000 are given in their
stead.
War Department-The salary of the chief
clerk is reduced from S2.750 TO 81. 500 In the
record and pension Office one clerk of class 3,
900, one clerk of class 2, 81. 400 one clerk of
class i, ri ,2OO, and one messenger at $40 are
transferred to the Office of the inspector gen.
eral.
Department of the Interior-One special land
inspector at 80, 500 and one census clerk at
: 800 are omitted.
In the general land Office a reduction is
made of two clerks OF class 4, at 81, SEQ each;
six clerks of class 3. at 81 GOO each: fourteen
clerks OF class 2. at 81, 400 each; twenty clerks
VI GLASS; i. at ,ZUU eacn; sixteen clerks AT
$1,000 each and ten copyists at $500 each. sixty
eight in all. with salaries aggresating SS1, 800.
A reduction is also made in the salary Of the
chief clerk from 80, 500 to S2.250.
In the pension Office the salaries Of $50 spe-
cial examiners, at 81 400 each, are reduced to
81. 300 each.
In the bureau of education the salaries Of two
laborers, reduced by an error in enrolment to
S420 each for the current year, are restored to
$3.50 each.
In the Office of the commissioner Of railroads
the salaries Of the engineer at 81, 500 and one
l, 81 200 is provided in lieu Of clerk of class
8 at 81 800
The salary Of the solicitor of the treasury is
reduced from a, 500 to 1000.
THE MALTBY HOUSE.
The bill provides that the Maltby building,
on and after May 81, 1893, be transferred to
the Department of the Interior, to be used and
occupied by the bureau of education. the Indian
office, and for such portion Of the general land
office as cannot be Accommodated in the patent
Office building.
The following provision is also made: That
hereafter the official register Of the United
by departments or offices the number
OF officers and employees in the sew
eraI executive departments, the department of
labor, the government printing Office and the
government OF the District of Columbia, ap-
pointed from each state and territory and the
District Of Columbia and the aggregate amount
OF their salaries or compensation.
EIGHT HOURS DAY FOR DEPARTMENT cLRRKs
The following regulation Of leaves of absence
in the departments is provides:
That hereafter it shall be tbs duty of the
heads of the several executive departments. in
the interest of the public service to require of
all clerks and other employees, of whatever
grade or class, in their respective DEPART
ments. not less than eight hours of labor each
Gay, except Sundays and days declared public
holidays by law or executive order: Provided.
That the heads of the departments may. by
special order, stating the reason, further
extend or limit the hours of sery-
ice of any clerk or emplove in
their departments, respectively. but in case of
an extension it shall be without additional COM
pe.sation: And provided further. That the Sec
rotary of any department may grant thirty days
annual and thirty days sick leave, With pay in
any one year to each clerk or employee the sick
leave to be allowed in cases of personal illness
only, or where some member Of the immediate
family is afflicted with contagious disease and
requires the care and attendance of such en-
ploye, or where his or her presence in the depart
men. would jeopardize the health of fellow clerks:
And be 1T further provided. That in excep-
tional and meritorious cases, where to limit
such sick leave would work peculiar hardship.
it may be extended in the discretion of the
Secretary, with pay, not exceeding sixty days in
any one case or in any one calendar year.
This section shall not be construed to mean
that so long as clerk or employee is borne upon
the rolls Of the department in excess Of the
time herein provided for or granted he
or she shall be entitled to pay during the period
of such excessive absence, but that the pay shall
stop upon the expiration of the granted leave.