Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-16
GOVERN MENT SALARIES
Legislative, Judicial and Executive Ap-
preparation Bill Reported.
Changes In the Observation-Disclosures Re-
Pay Half of Jail Expenses.

The legislative. judicial and executive ap-
preparation bill was reported to the House
late yesterday afternoon, brief mention OF
which was made in The Star. This is the
bill which provides the salaries of all gov
eminent employees for the next fiscal year.
The bill carries a total of 81, 101 .S23. o.
being a reduction under the estimates of
81, DOS, 6S7.O4 and a reduction under the cur
rent appropriation of s76G. 1882. Under this
bill there are 55S salaries less than the
number provided for in the current year
The principal reductions in employees &C.
cur in the departments at Washington.
There is net reduction of 1876 employees
in the various bureaus of the Treasury De-
partment. resulting from the Dockery COM
missions reorganization; reduction Of nine
teen session clerks to committees in the
House; increase of one laborer In Library
of Congress; increase of four clerks in
civil service commission.
In the War Department there are sweep
ing changes There is reduction of 800
clerks in the record and pension division
reduction of thirteen in the Secretary's
Office: reduction of thirty in the adjutant
generals office; reduction of one in the
inspector generals office; one in the judge
advocates office; fourteen in the quarter
master generals office; nineteen In the
surgeon generals office; three in the pay
master generals office; three in the Office
of the chief of ordnance. The naval OBJ
servatory gets an increase of an elevator
man. There is one reduction In the geolog-
ical survey, and a reduction OF eleven
clerks in the money order division of the
Post Office Department There is an in
crease of seven clerks in the Attorney Gen.
erals office; two additional employees for
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tional messenger and crier for the Court
OF Appeals. Also an additional clerk for
the Court of Claims.
New Requirements.
The following requirements are embodied
In the bill:
For the temporary employment of clerks
within the classified service to complete
the accounts in the offices Of first and sec
ond controllers and commissioner of Gus
toms. on hand July 1, 1894, $4,000, or so
much thereof as may be necessary.
To bring up the work transferred from
office OF Sc ,ond auditor to Indian division Of
office of auditor for Interior Department.
namely. six clerks of class three and six
clerks of class two. -
For additional force for bringing up work
OF asserting and checking money orders,
two years In arrears, and for increased
business. namely. for five clerks of class
of class two, five clerks of class one FIVE
clerks at $1,000 each and five clerks at 500
each.
The clerical force now detailed to the civil
service commission from the several cxecu-
tive departments shall hereafter be under
the direction and control of the said COM
mission as fully IL they were appropri-
ated for hereunder, and the appropriations
for their compensation made in this act
shall be transferred to and disbursed under
the commission; and for the fiscal year 1896
estimates for the salaries of said clerical
force shall be submitted under the civil
service commission and omitted from the
estimates OF the several departments on
whose rolls they are now carried.
That the Secretary of the Treasury shall
detail captain or first lieutenant of the
revenue cutter service who shall be chief
of the division of revenue cutter service.
and chief engineer who shall be engineer
in-chlet OF said service. but no additional
pay or emoluments shall be allowed on ac-
count of such detail
The law clerks provided for In the Offices
of the controller of the treasury and of the
several auditors Of the treasury shall be
skilled In the law. and shall be appointed in
the same manner as chiefs of divisions are
now appointed by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
That the chief signal officer of the army
shall be provided with office room in the
State, War and Navy building, and that the
medical dispensary shall be removed to the
medical museum. building. e
In connection with the appropriation r,er
diem OF special examiners Of the pension
Office, the following: =
That whenever ii shall be necessary for
the chief or assistant chief to travel on
official business outside of the District Of Co.
lumbia, by direction of the commissioner,
they shall receive the same allowances I'm
lieu of subsistence and for transportation
as is herein provided for special examiners
ana detailed clerks engaged in field service.
Half by the District.
In connection with the appropriation for
the force for the care and protection of the
court house in Washington, the following:
That hereafter one-half OF the salaries of
| lis force and of the salary of the warden
of the Jail of the District of Columbia shall
be paid out of the revenues of the District
| of Columbia. and estimates for such ex-
penses shall each year hereafter be sub
mitted in the annual estimates for the ex-
penses of the government Of the District of
Columbia.
In connection with the appropriation for
notwithstanding for the patent office. the
| following:
Said photolithographing or otherwise pro-
ducing plates and copies referred to in this
and the preceding paragraph to be dore
urder the supervision of the commissioner
| Of patents, and in the city of Washington,
| or within such a reasonable distance there
] from as the Secretary of the Interior and
the commissioner of patents may consider
| to be not Instantaneous to the depart
ment.
The Secretary of the Interior may here
after authorize enc of the biologists TO
| sigr such letters, papers and documents,
and to perform such other duties in con-
| nection with the geological survey as he
may direct. and to act director of the
| geological survey in the absence of that
officer or in case Of a vacancy in said office.
| The bin also provides for reduction of
81, 600 per year in the salary of the director
! of the geological survey, of $50 in the sal
airy of the chief clerk, and the adjustment
of the office of executive officer of that bu-
! reau at 5000. The salary OF the first as
sistant secretary of state is Increased 81, 900,
the salary of the assistant commissioner of
! navigation increased 500, and twelve in
| spectors of the sugar bounty division are
dropped.
The Art of Taxidermy.