The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-14
MANY Items INCREASED
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation Bill.
A. Reported to the SENATE 1t Carries
S265, SO4.65 More Than the One
Reduction In the Amounts Allow
ed to Some of the Departments.

The Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation bill for the fiscal year end
ing June so. 1901. was reported to the Sen
ate yesterday by the Committee on Appro-
priations. The amount appropriated is
| S24 l55. 500.
The net increase recommended by the
Senate over the amount appropriated by
the House bill is S2G5, SC4.65, which includes
| the following items:
Senate, s4l 500.
House = Representatives. $2Oco.
Library of Congress. $40 1925,
Executive. $4,000.
Civil Service Commission, $3.50.
Department Of State s. 600.
Treasury OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Office.
s.. 500; Treasurer's Office. Sg9s 40: Regis
ter's office 81 200, Commissioner Of Inter-
nal Revenues Office $500 Life Saving Serv-
ice. 81. SOC: Bureau of Statistics. S2.5O0; Dl-
rector Of the Mint. 5000; Assistant Treas
urer at St Louis. $500. assay office at Sc
attic. Wash. 81 500, Territory Of Alaska.
s2.5Oo: Territory OF Arizona. $500; Terri
tory Of New Mexico 81 200; Territory of
Oklahoma, $500.
War -Secretsry's Office, 5000;
Signal Office, S2C0; Quartermaster Generals
office. S2O0
Navy Department-Secreta office. 81
COO; Judge Advocate Generals Office. 81
500; Bureau Of Equipment. s., 400; Hydro
graphic Office, So, us; Naval Observatory,
s. 0tO.
Interior Department General Land Of
fee 81, $50; Indian Office. 500; Patent Of
fee $3.50: Bureau Of Education 81 600;
Architect Of the Capitols Office $3.50 sta
uonery, etc. $500; surveyors general and
clerks, 81 .0G0.
Postofice Department-First Assistant
Postmaster Generals Office s4.150; Second
Assistant Postmaster Generals office. ST.
500; Third Assistant Postmaster Generals
Office $50; Fourth Assistant Postmaster
Generals office, SlC0; contingent expenses,
$685.; official postal guide S50c0.
Department Of Justice. $4,000; Depart
ment Of Labor. $500; Court OF Private
Land Claims, s41 500 Commissioner in
Yellowstone Park $500; Court Of Claims,
5000.
Library OF Congress-For Librarian.
81, 600, instead of $1,000; one clerk to Libra
rian. 81 200, instead Of $500; two assistants
10 the chief of division OF the order depart
ment, at SIZE each instead Of one an $500;
two additional assistants. a. $500. one ad-
diJional assistant at $500; one additional
assistant at 81 200. Chief Of division. cata-
logue and shelf five instead of four as
sistants. at 81 800 each six instead Of FIVE
assistants. at 81 200 each: eleven instead OF
nine assistants at $500 each; four instead
Of three assistants. at 1920 each one ad-
ditional assistant. $500 and ten instead OF
FIVE assistants. at $40 each.
Under the chief OF division. photography
for chief of division, $500 instead OF
s. 900: two assistants, at 5000 each instead
Of one assistant at that salary.
Reading rooms. including evening serv-
ice-One assistant. reading room for the
blind. 81 0G0 Instead OF $500
Division OF periodicals additional
chief assistant 81 500, for arrears Of ss
sorting and coliatinE and to enable period |
ical reading room 70 be open in the even
ing two assistants. at 1920 each
Documents-Fur chief Of division, $4,000; !
one assistant, $1,000; one assistant 1920,
one messenger. 1850.
Manuscript-Ch Of division. So 900 in /
stead Of 81 500. one assistant al 81 200. one 1
assistant al 5000. instead Of two assistants ,
al 1920.
Maps and charts-Chief OF division, |
s. 25O instead Of s.. 600. one assistant. 500 |
Music-One assistant $1,000.
Prinis-Chief Of division. s. 600 instead /
Of g 600: one assistant, 81 200; two instead |
Of three assistants at 5000; one messenger, !
$500
Smithsonian Deposit One messenger !
$500
For special temporary and miscellaneous !
service. at the discretion Of the Librarian, /
to be Immediately available. s. 900.
Increase Of library, for purchase Of books. I
for the library and Tor freight, commits /
sions and travelling expenses. incidental TO .
the acquisition Of books by purchase. gift. !
or exchange $4,000 instead Of $3J 600 for /
purchase Of books. For purchase Of books I
for the library under the direction Of the |
Chief Justice. 50 600 instead Of 81 500. For |
purchase OF periodicals. serials. and news /
papers $1,000 instead OF g. 500 For mis-
ceIlaneous and contingent expenses $500 /
instead of 81 600
Custody. care. and maintenance Of library
building aud grounds. chief clerk 3 200 in
stead Of 81 900.
To enable the superintendent to employ
during the last quarter Of the fiscal year
1900 such additional employees as are pro-
vided for the custody. care. and mainte-
nance Of the library building and grounds
FOR the fiscal year 1901 at the rates Of com
pensation prescribed Ss03.25 For furui-
'ure S45 600 instead Of 100000.
An Increase OF three messengers is al
lowed the Civil Service Commission.
propriated. To enable the Secretary Of
state TO purchase for the library OF the
Department Of State books and manu-
scripts bearing upon the history Of the
War Of the Revolution. formerly in the
library Of Gen Sir Henry Clinton. COM
mander-in-chief OF the British forces IN
America during that period the same hay
Ing been richly annotated in his hand.
Under the miscellaneous division Of the
Treasury Department there is reduction
Of one clerk Of class l. and under he Di-
vision OF Stationery reduction Of one
clerk Of class and an additional assistant
chief of division Al $1,000. In the office
OF the disbursing clerk. Treasury depart
ment. two instead Of one clerk of class 1
are allowed. and one clerk OF class Is
dropped Two additional clerks Of class I
are allowed. In the office of the auditor
for the Treasury Department four clerks
Of class ] are dropped. In the Office Of The
Treasurer the salaries Of four pressmen
are increased from s. 200 to 81 400. and the
salary Of one compositor IS fixed al 81 200
year instead Of 1920 a day In the Office
OF the Register OF the Treasury seven in
stead Of three clerks Of class ] and twenty
instead Of twenty-four clerks at $500
are provided for. In the Office Of the
Comm ssiuner Of Internal Revenue the
salary Of the additional deputy commits
sioner is fixed at 50 500 instead of $1,000
and he is TO be appointed by the Secretary
Of the Treasury. In the same office TWEEN
ty-two instead OF thirteen clerks at
81 0GG are allowed and thirty instead Of
forty clerks al $500 each are provided for
In the Office Of the Life Saving Service
four instead Of three clerks Of class 4 are
provided for. The salary OF the officer in
charge Of the Bureau Of Statistics is in
....,,-,g iron, gNN t0 500 and an