Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-25
AMOUNT I(INCREASED
Senate Changes Items in Legislative
Appropriation Bill.
MANY ARBl DEL LOCAL INTEREST
Clerical Force Of Several Depart
ments Enlarged.
A ADDITION TO RE S

Among changes made by the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations In the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation bill
are the following increases:
Senate document room-One skilled labor
er, 81 900. ~ 4t...c
Capitol poiice-Twenty-five instead of sew
en- privates. at $500 each
Stenographers to committees of Congress
Two, at 5000, instead of $4,000 each.
Library of Congress-One assistant Tin
charge OF Smithsonian 'deposiD, $1,000;
three, instead of four, assistants at 81, 800
EACH chief clerk, who shall also be SUPER
intendent of the art gallery, 81, 800, instead
or s2,2oo; superintendent of periodical de-
partment 5000, instead of $500; one as
slstant IN music department. at $1,000, in
stead OF $500; contingent expenses, $1,000
| instead of 81 800
More Help for the President,
Offices of the President-Four clerks in
stead of one clerk Of class 4: two instead of
i've clerks. class 3; one doorkeeper and
messenger to the secretary of the president
sI'4oo, and three instead of four doorkeep-
ers, at $1,000
state Department-Twenty instead of
sixteen clerks of class L; for books and
maps ana books for the library, 5000 in
Treasury Department division of loans
ana currency, two instead of one assistant
messenger, and six instead of five laborers
aiScelianeous division, clerk, $500 Office
o as oig clerks, two instead of one clerk
OF CLASS and reduction of one clerk of
Grass g. OHice Of controller of the treas
ury, TOUR instead of two expert account
anus at $1,000 each; four instead of
.iiIee Jerks OF class four; typewriter and
copylst, sl,ooo Auditor for treasury, three
instead OF one clerk at $500 each. Auditor
lot war department, five instead of two
clerks at S9oO each. Auditor for NAVY De-
par.ment, hye instead of two clerks at $500
each. - WV
Interior and War Departments.
interior Department-Seven, instead of
three, CLERKS at $3.50 each. Auditor for
rost once Observation-Disclosures instead
VI ninety clerks of class one; seventy
instead OF sixty-eight clerks at $1,000 each:
t"eHv-three instead of twenty-five money
order assorters at S72O each Office of the
treasurer-Sfxteen instead of fourteen
clerks class two. Commissioner internal
c1arhn MT instead of forty
tion-Clerk, class one
war DepartmehtlFive instead of four
clerks OF class four. Office of the adjutant
general clerk totadjstant general, s1.S9O.
Navy Department1I-ibrary one clerk
sicV; bureau of equipment. one clerk of
class four; for the construction from gov
eminent surveys of "a series of engraved
nautical charts of the coasts and harbors
OF the Philippine Islands, $4,000 Bureau
or steam engir eering. craftsman 81 O0O
Bureau of medicine and surgery stenog-
rapher and typewriter, $1,000.
Board Of Pension Appeals.
Interior Department-Three additional
members of board of pension appeals, to be
appointed by the, Secretary of the Interior
and TO be selected from the force of the
pension office, $2,9aO each.
Additional employees for The General Post
Office building, to be'ieccupied by the De-
partment of the Interior, to be available
when said building shall be occupied by Of
fices of the Interior Department. namely
one engineer, 81 400 per annum: one assist
ant engineer, $1,000; four firemen at s72O
each three watchmen, acting as lieuten-
SI20 each; fourteen laborers at $500 each:
ten laborers, at $3.50 each.
General land offce-Sixty-three instead of
| sixty-one clerks of class L. fifty-one instead
of forty-nine clerks at 81 900; fifty-seven in
stead of ffty-five copyists; twenty-one in
stead of eighteen laborers
Indian office-Fourteen instead of fifteen
clerks, class 3; twelve instead of ten class
=; twenty-five instead of twenty-three, class
l; sixteen instead of thirteen, 81 600; stenog-
rapher to superintendent of Indian schools
81 900.
Additional Post Office Force.
Post Office Department-Second assistant
postmaster general: Chief contract division,
80 600. chief i,c